Kate

She's married to the divinely appointed head of the church, so that's theology now.

I guess if you buy presents as if they're for "a 25 year old woman" rather than your cousin Kirsty who is 25?

I'd be interested to know if Farage has been there before in a private capacity or whether he would only go if he got a front row slot.

Could an entire three tweet thread mentioning Yvette Cooper happen without getting into who she's married to? Let's really extend ourselves to see if a woman is a whole person.

Pretty sure they think all those people are communists who warm themselves on fires made entirely of bank notes.

You literally only need to read a couple of hundred characters of the post you are replying to to find the answer.

Right. I think it didn't do that.

89 years ago today Mosley attempted to march his blackshirts through the East End of London. The Jewish press counselled calm. East End Jews - backed primarily by Irish & Communists - beat them back with fists, pipes, clubs. Old women poured hot water on them from above.

So it was intended to show "these ones are bad and that one isn't bad"? I think that's a terrible idea, but it means *something* I guess.

So, why vote to abstain then, if that isn't what they believed was right?

That it didn't matter, so fuck it? Or would the decision has been different if it had mattered in terms of the result?

I'm trying to establish what the principles behind the decision to abstain were.

Just trying to work out where you'd draw the line. One violent fascist group and fifty peaceful ones? What about if your MPs *did* have the swing vote?

Obviously I wrote an entire book about this, but it remains incredibly interesting how certain individuals want a "scientific" way of explaining why they think someone is hot, when in fact this is a social phenomenon. Medieval Europeans would never accept an hour glass figure and tiny hips as hot.

So if the third group had been, say, CND, should lib dem MPs have abstained?

No. But voting for what you believe in might be... something to consider?

Yes, I know. Which is why I'm not the one saying that we can only act in Parliament through performative gestures.

Performative gestures such as not voting against things you oppose?

(But also: "it makes no difference how we voted but it's important that we voted this way because of the real threat of the other groups" is not really joined up argument.)

Maybe piss off out of parliament if that's your view? Because there are people there (some of them LDs which is weird for you) doing actual work in the non ideal situation.

So having elected members of parliament means nothing? People who could actually have voted against this might as well not have existed because all you can do is "condemn"?

Fucking huge but far away

The same as the chilling effect of people not walking or cycling because of perceived risk - no pedestrians run over on that corner? That's because everyone takes the long way round/ uses the other shops/ stays home.

She was chief nursing officer of England, by the way, just to complete the "shit reporting" set.

Brilliant musician and activist Carsie Blanton has been detained while with the Global Sumud Flotilla - this is her message. Power to the activists; more power, more love, to the people of Gaza.

It heartens me that at this moment of existential crisis for the Tory party, they've truly got the leader they deserve.

really hate the adoption of "trans activists" even by sympathetic voices. what makes you a "trans activist" is being trans and going "hey, what if I also had rights?"

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean- neither more nor less."

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Weaponising the common visceral "ew gross" reaction to menstruating bodies against other women whose bodies you dislike? Feminism. Sheer feminism.