Jack Saundrs

Another great reason to end first past the post - so MPs can't play off their awful actual politics against their record as a sort of OK Citizens Advice Bureau

Nighttime thoughts - when Just Stop Oil protesters threw some soup at a painting or whatnot, we were very sternly told that this was counter-productive and made people less likely to support them. Has anyone revised their opinion on this now that it's very clear ...

a different kind of depravedness to tell a people subject to genocide that hope is a thing in the distance. This isn't like the Holocaust where there is a continent and giant army in the way to free the camps. The UK is an ally and accomplice of Israel and can exert a lot of pressure immediately.

Marion Main - Extremist accord...•19h g g... The fact he personally stepped in to halt the SNP ceasefire vote, and now this shows he is conflicted or compromised. He has to resign or at least disclose the emails so others can determine what went on. N The National & @ScotNational • 22h NEW: Lindsay Hoyle has intervened to block the release of emails he sent to Israeli politicians 'The Speaker of the House of Commons ... has formed the reasonable opinion that disclosure of the information would be likely to prejudice the effective conduct of public affairs'

The fun part is: all the pundits agreed his authority was shot to hell *At the time*, and there was lots of chat about his time as speaker probably being over. But in Britain, if something is very awkward to important people, we just stop talking about it and continue regardless.

It always comes back to this. Whatever pretensions we may have about the political system under which we live, Palestine is the issue on which every contradiction unravels, each hypocrisy is laid bare, and all values are rendered contingent and expendable—with our leaders' willing participation.

Can't wait for the actual football, sick of the bloody window #itfc

Good shout, that texture got to be an acquired taste!

A pie? With Jamaican flavour profiles? I bet that's brilliant!

Nope.

Foods that are disappointing, relative to your broader expectations of the national cuisine they come from:

The Jamaican Patty

Cool, then I'm not exactly sure why we should be so precious about any damage being done to our "grim" government then?

Wait, every time Starmer and his pals do an op-ed in a right-wing newspaper we're all told how important and pragmatic it is, wonder why that doesn't apply here for some reason?

I don't think her allotment would make her angry

This is my 3rd summer, there's a few things I've got down but many more that I'm like "how does anyone successfully grow this?!"

Shot of my allotment, visible a sprawling courgette, some bushy tomato plants, what I think might be an artichoke? Loads of weeds grass etc., an aubergine plant, all overlapping each other

Same chaos, now with view of leeks, parsnips, spinach, lemon balm and pepper plants

Every summer I sort of hope to end up with this neat, orderly allotment with everything in rows.

But instead I just get this chaos

You even have the arrest records from last year to throw in their faces!

And "why are the opposition cheering on violent skinheads as they attack passers by, security guards, delivery workers, threaten to burn down buildings with people in them? It's obscene!" is right there lads!

Yeah, like they just can't imagine there are any downstream effects of shaping discourse in any particular way. "If we agree to debate this question like this, is that terrain favourable to us?" just doesn't appear to be a thing

There is no world where you establish "we must protect women and girls from the inherent violence of foreign men" as just this general political common sense, in which the Angela Eagles of this world aren't (at best) obliterated politically or (at worst) violently repressed

Honestly, I know the media/political class are amoral and entirely self-interested but it still bewildering that they're so keen to actively build a political consensus that can *only* end in their destruction

I think the big argument against let it rip planning reform is that most of the private developers want to build absolute arse. If all you want to do is have big number for report, then yeah, cardboard box semis in a swamp with no school or bus stop will do that for you. But it's shit.

You can sense Yvette Cooper's proscribin' finger getting itchy

a man and woman are looking at each other and the woman says i love dogs i 've always loved Alt: Scene from the film Jupiter Ascending: Mila Kunis' main protagonist tells her love interest "I love dogs. I've always loved dogs."

Same with this line from Jupiter Ascending

DESTROY THE PARASITIC PRIVATE RENTAL SECTOR

Also reckon that destroying the private rental sector alleviates that crisis too, tbf.

The crisis you are addressing is homelessness and outright housing poverty.

Requisition empty homes
Requisition second homes
Requisition land with unbuilt homes with planning permission
Requisition buy to lets
Nationalise the developers and building firms.

Build/acquire social housing.

The whole thing is just broadly a problem with a lack of state intervention.

"Let private developers build whatever they want to increase supply for market effects" just strikes me as trick shot social policy. Bouncing off 6 cushions to pot a straight ball.

Like, it's not that the YIMBY argument that if you build more houses prices will drop (slightly) is wrong, it's just that the people with a 5-figure deposit to chuck at a starter home aren't really where the housing crisis is?

Always struck me that the argument against "let it rip" planning rules is that the most acute need is moving people from the private rental sector to social housing and every house you build for sale is taking up a space you could otherwise use for that.

it's not bad considering I'm quite a chaotic gardener with a 14-month old!

Potatoes pathetic this year, not enough rain in spring