The key point is that Labour are the primary enemy to be defeated.
Nobody the left hates more than other folks on the left who only mildly disagree with them.

It's not yet public what Mandleson's response was to the vetting question of why he had continued to have contact with Epstein after his conviction.From what the gov have said, the answer given in vetting was materially different to what came out in Sept and he was fired. I don't know what they knew

Mandleson is a known associate of Epstein, but there was never (and still isn't) any suspicion of his involvement in trafficking, said it was a "risky" appointment, consensus was it was a risk worth taking, until corruption and longer associations became public. Doyle was surprise.
Both fired.

Labour are nowhere close to as bad as being made out. They've made lots of missteps, but have generally fixed their mistakes, in many cases, before it was implemented, e.g. welfare cuts. That's better than shouting "no u-turns" and bulling on regardless IMO.
There is an awful lot to fix.

It's nice of them to show they're going to pull the exact same playbook as Trump, if we don't like you, we're going to kill you by pulling your funding.

Is there a reason you don't put these as normal youtube clips with monetisation? You really should, it's good stuff and shorts pay very little...

My frustration was how many times he took a pass from JGP standing still, way behind the gain line, then either started off or took one step, looked around, then shipped it. The defence is not good though, there's a reason he had the most attempted tackles because France targeted him and got results

9% extra tax for 30 years just because you went to university is insane.

Great analysis, very thorough. Especially appreciated the background on McMillan and how that maps to where Munster currently are. I'd quibble some of the depth charts, e.g. it's way too early to stick Sean Edogbo in at #4 over JOD, Hodnett, Kendellen and Quinn.

Plus time and investment, Europe lacks intel, command and control today takes time to build.
The other question is, against whom?
Russia can barely handle Ukraine. It has enough nukes to level Europe, France and Britain have nukes to make all decent sized cities in Russia uninhabitable for a while

It results in a romanticism of the empire which those people subject to it find repellant. There was an awful lot of horrendous poverty in England at the time but outsiders only see a unitary British empire (and English=British to outsiders).
Same is broadly true for US today

I think saying the US didn't have a fair election is too far, may have been shenanigans but evidence for large scale rigging is weak.
Ireland was a colony in the 17th century.Irish people still blame English people for the Famine. It's not fair but England has never come to terms with it's history.

It's barely a minority, the GOP got 49.7% of the house vote, dems 49.4%. Trump got a majority of the vote. Margin v tight, but too many people bought the propaganda. How do you solve it without fixing that?
If you don't, US will repeat the cycle and those of us outside can't do a thing about it.

I say that because the message has gone in, he has digested it and is now acting it out. The source doesn't matter as much any more, the host has been infected...

It's almost impressive what they've done to take over the supreme court,with ALEC and Heritage Foundation.
The left has been outplayed in the US, built on a basis of negative liberty, Adam Curtis has some amazing documentaries on it, Hypernormailsation, The Trap and Oh Dearism.

It has happened in the UK too, it's (partly) why Kier Starmer can't scratch without getting a hammering.
Propaganda needs fertile soil to develop. the Overton window has been shifting for decades and even a decade ago, the centre in the US was way further to the right of Europe.

I'm not waving away the plan to break NATO, at this point, it's impossible and only marginally relevant to identify who's holding the leash.
NATO is broken, it's not dead but it's definitely on life support.
As for propoganda, absolutely, they're trying to establish hard control over it.

Oh we're mad at him too.
But Russia isn't the whole story on why Reform and Brexit got so popular. I was pretty sure Brexit was going to win before the vote due to the fact that I was literally the only pro-EU person I knew, everyone else was either ambivalent or anti.

Maybe there was election cheating, maybe there wasn't. But Trump should have been nowhere close to power again after last time.
It does impact us, I'm going to delete these posts shortly as they have my name associated with them and they could be used as ammo against me professionally...

Not blaming individuals for it, it's not as if this is part of your personal ambitions... But it is what the US voted for.
And sorry, but people do hold the US population accountable for it. I'm Irish, and we still give British people hassle for <history>, it's not fair but it is what it is...

I understand the gerrymandering, probably more than is healthy for someone living in the UK. The UK suffers much more from minority rule, both could learn from PR systems. Republicans have agency here, they are fundamentally responsible, the US people as a collective have responsibility too.

*polls

It's like a 10x version of Brexit, a terrible decision that did immense damage to Britain but one the British people did, in the end, actually vote for.
Hard to accept, still dealing with the consequences and somehow Reform are way ahead in the poles promising more of the same nonsense

I'll concede there's some data that looks odd, you cannot rule out it actually just being odd.

Republicans have the senate and house too, either the rigging is extremely widespread or there is support for what they're selling.
Trump wouldn't be able to do what he's doing without Congress support

There's no clear evidence the election was rigged, it's possible but pretty unlikely.
He may not have majority support now, when you combine the votes for Congress and the Presidency, there was a plurality of support among the US populace for Trump's agenda at the election...

Sorry Jamie, love your podcast but the American people need to have some responsibility for this...

Individuals, no. But he was voted in by the American public, as were both Houses of Congress that are enabling him.

I thought they mixed the very good with the very poor. They were the better team for long stretches, it was poor lapses in defense that lost it. There's enough there to keep me optimistic about the future. If the worst bits can be mitigated, they'll be competitive

It's probably too late, he has managed to mortally wound NATO anyway, the damage is done.

Replaced by whom? Vance? Mike Johnson?

There's dozens, if not hundreds of justifications for impeachment, the republicans in both houses are facilitating the sort of behaviour that would have destroyed most prior presidents on a daily basis.

Immersionem inactivavisti might be a more appropriate motto

A dull grey would be a suitable colour too, but the hot pink does add a certain something.
I'd salute it.