Badenoch bad mouthing English degrees - I know they are niche nowadays, but not that long ago they were one of the largest schools, and turned out lots and lots of (potential) Tory voters. Now older, now Tory vote core …

As a recent immigrant to Birmingham, I find it the most relaxed, easy going and (for most part) effectively integrated city (or town, for that matter) that I’ve ever lived or worked in.

Great piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social

Quite so!

Worth noting that the political neutrality convention wasn’t actually that old, either - appointments before WW2 could be pretty partisan, apparently.

I have an ideological aversion to “things ain’t what they used to be“, but it is struggling against the raw fact that defeated oppositions (and indeed new governments) were measurably smarter than what we have at the moment.

“ANY” community? So he’d feel uncomfortable walking around a village in Shropshire if he saw no black or brown faces? Little shit.

This would be a quite astonishing, I think unprecedented, attack on the judiciary if he were to do it. I hope there would be a very strong response, both politically and from the judicial leadership.

I live in Birmingham and I’d complain if I saw Jenrick’s face anywhere in the city.

Yeah, but who’d win, Texas v California? Presumably Arizona and New Mexico would be the battleground.

Did I just hear that Labour’s attack line against the (ludicrous)Tory claims that they’d make enormous savings by cutting benefits was that it was implausible because the Torys weren’t good enough at cutting benefits?

Hope it turns out the best that it can. Horrible for you.

*gasp*

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Stephen miller is actively calling for a civil war right now on Twitter.

I really do not think Americans are taking in the reality that the federal government is openly admitting to waging war against democratically held cities and states and what comes now that this is being openly said.

They also make a satisfying click on the pavement when you walk with one, furled.

This is true of little folding umbrellas. Proper umbrellas work perfectly well.

Nearly. He says nearly 250. So not quite.

I can’t help thinking that it’s unlikely that the American army had parachuting airborne troops in 1917/18.

I’m old enough to remember the SDP/Liberal Alliance polling over 50%, but getting twenty-something seats at the next election. It may be a bit of a comfort.

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Does this apply to, say, parachute jumps?

Might it not be the case that the strong reaction against the ill-tempered nature of the referendum is receding over time? I suspect it is.

Why would it “split”? People may have different reasons for a conclusion, but ultimately don’t care too much what motivates their allies.

Not me, for a start. But the point in contention is your assertion that there is no point in a political party that doesn’t represent the people they were set up to represent 125 years ago. (Who, also, it didn’t represent then, btw).

Labour should die of embarrassment because it’s more popular with a big group of voters than it is with a small group of voters?

But the working class is small, the middle class big.

(And at the last GE, Labour had about the same % of the vote of every social class).

I’m not sure a political party should be “embarrassed” by gaining votes from a large section of the voting population while losing some from a small section.

Ethnicity isnt anything to do with DNA, except to people who use it as a stand-in for “race”.

But why do you say - if you do - that non-white people who identify as English are not part of the English ethnic group? Ethnicity is a social invention, not something biologically marked.