Amrk

Tbf that is weird even without how nuclear command works now. It was an insanely expensive whole of government project and he was invested enough to be informed how the tests were going, and it was expected to end the war. You’d think he’d be supervising personally

Having met him, Ben Coleman, Leftist Rebel is genuinely the weirdest subplot of this government. He joined the PIP rebellion too. A year ago he made all the CLP volunteers say “Keir!” instead of “cheese!” when taking a photo!

Not that I think it’ll be remotely successful enough for this arise but “Nick Clegg’s wife is in coalition with Vox” would really sum up the world since 2008

Just gonna state for the record that this is appalling, and the tell it's rooted in bigotry rather than women's safety is that it risks preventing trans men - a group assigned female at birth - from accessing using toilets. It's an unworkable bloody mess, and those pushing it should be ashamed.

*Ulf Kristersson, he hasn’t changed his name he’s not THAT committed to NATO

But the sentiment “I want Magdalena Andersson as PM over Ukraine Kristersson but also am angry about the anti immigrant stuff can absolutely be expressed by voting for the Left Party

I maintain the best way to actually achieve this is Scandi bloc based PR. No weird surprise government constellations never suggested before polling day like you get in the Netherlands, you can name the PM from the exit poll because everyone stays in their alliance

If this happened at the scale you seem to think it will (which I don’t think it would) it wouldn’t be *slightly* cheaper. House prices would be cut more than in half and you could buy where you live for less than your current rent

I mean the answer isn’t difficult

Step 1) pass German style laws that when you sell a rental property the tenants come with it
Step 2) Take any measures available to encourage non-professional landlords to sell up

Tenants get new, professional, landlords, landlords cash out, everyone’s happier

And in any case if every pensioner with a BTL got out of the game tomorrow those houses would still exist so they’d either be rented by someone or sold off en masse, making housing much cheaper

Literally everyone would be better off if the private rental sector was left to big property companies employing hundreds of staff to manage hundreds or thousands of properties each, is the thing

*so you have

Basically half the crypto industry is downstream of bitcoin being such a nightmare to deal with it’s only worth it if you’re putting through multimillion transactions, you 8 billion middleware companies consolidate everyone’s transactions for them. It’s… really dumb

Bitcoin itself is a fucking nightmare, multi hour transaction times and processing fees running into hundreds of USD per transaction on a bad day. This of course is why it’s *not* a good investment

Except instead of everyone with connections to India going “oh 😬 I get the Muslim ethnic enemies thing” everyone with connections to Nigeria just goes “what??”

It’s very funny how much her descriptions of Nigeria sound like a deranged, partisan BJP, ultra Brahmin describing India under a Licensing Raj era Congress government

Incredible

Maybe Nigerian schools are stricter? Maybe as an adult undergrad she stood up, pointed to a student cheating and said “that’s him!”. Or maybe this never happened.

Even her story about snitching at school is made up incredibly weird or both bsky.app/profile/amrk...

Sorry who gets expelled from school - school for children school - for looking over someone’s shoulder in a test? Did this happen at *university*?

I’d actually argue the right is now *defined as* people whose only concerns are weird bullshit. Macron is engaged in an agenda of free market economic liberalisation and welfare state cuts, but because that is at least an attempt to solve a problem France has in the real world, he’s a liberal

Oh fair. Is Josh Babarinde’s factional position particularly clear?

Although I do think if Layla Moran, who is literally Palestinian, was leading the Lib Dems, there’s a good chance the Lib Dems eat a lot of Corbyn/Polanski vote for good or ill

Especially since Starmer and Davey have (relatively) clear successors - Davey less so only bc Moran is much more left wing and Daveyism is obviously very successful for them

Then no one’s going to actually stop you (in fact they’ll coach you to get in) but before they do that you try to turn away people who came to the lunchtime extra class on the MCAT because they think they should or just want to make a lot of money

The two messages teachers whose students’ parents actually are all very ambitious middle class suburbanites are a) The Russell Group is made up marketing bullshit that doesn’t matter b) only do medicine if you really really want to

I went to a hothouse-y sixth form in a very leafy bit of SW London that tried to act like a private school (it wasn’t one) and had banners about the country’s best exam results. Everyone is warned to think twice about med! Everyone’s parents want them to do it but it’s oversubscribed and really hard

Tbh my assumption is she got older, married someone outside the community and slowly stopped going and then started calling herself an atheist like a white Brit who doesn’t believe would, which is what my dad did and why I’ve never called myself a Sikh or regularly gone to gurdwara

I’m an atheist and have never practised Sikhism or believed in god , but as Dara O Briain once said “I could join the taliban, I would merely be considered a bad catholic”

Also I know Christianity is not Sikhism but she IS from an immigrant community and “atheist who goes to religious services socially” is absolutely a thing, it’s most of my extended family