Edward Cornwell

Washington Post? The one owned by the Trump fellator?

Are you taking part in an alternative history RPG?

In this week's episode of pandering to fascists we learn how to pull up the drawbridge.

Time to reshare this piece on the pitfalls of following the road Denmark has taken on immigration: ukandeu.ac.uk/denmarks-mig...

Greens’ ‘undeliverable’ promises will let voters down, says Labour minister Exclusive: Darren Jones says Labour has to convince young people it is ‘modern party of the future’

There's a great way to convince people that you're a 'modern party of the future' and that's to BE a modern party of the future, the trouble with Labour is that it is so in thrall to big money and chasing the far-right vote it can't genuinely do that.

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It can do it, probably better than most lawyers, but not without help. Anyone who got caught probably just prompted poorly and then didn't bother to check the output.

If you use AI like a colleague with an encyclopaedic memory then you will save a lot of time and produce better arguments.

Don't we also share 50% of our genes with lettuce?

Not defending Trump, but I think you might be suffering with a case of rose-tinted spectacles. Obama summarily killed an awful lot of people with drones, just because he didn't do it to Americans doesn't make it OK.

Reform councils set to raise taxes for nearly 5 million people despite promising cuts | LBC It comes after Nigel Farage walked back on his party’s plan to cut taxes if they win the next General Election.

Reform councils set to raise taxes for nearly 5 million people despite promising cuts

And no, I don't (just) mean elect a Democrat.

I agree with every word you've said about Cheney, but it surprises me how few people join the dots: the reason people like Cheney exist is because the SYSTEM is faulty. If it weren't for a bad system, he wouldn't have been able to do what he did.

Want to stop future Cheneys? Change the system.

State official has to explain why polls are closed in Kentucky After getting calls about polls being closed in Kentucky, Secretary of State Michael Adams just took to X to explain why. "They are closed because we do not have elections today," Adams writes, external. "Kentucky votes next year. You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City or the Governor of Virginia. Sorry."

As a former resident of Kentucky, this from the BBC feels about right

Hang on, I'll get my violin.

Call me whatever you want, it makes not one iota of difference to me.

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So that's a yes then.

It's a bit naive to suppose that they'd do it for the good of their countries, don't you think?

Because Farage getting in would be even more beneficial for them

Doubtful, at least I don't live in an imaginary world.

You said something stupid and got called on it, take your lumps and move on

I don't really care whether you do or not. People who call others arrogant are usually embarrassed about having said something stupid.

No, it can't, it still has to be voted on but the CEU, do you think maybe Orban or Meloni might decide to veto our application as a favour to Farage?

I despair sometimes

Because they can control taxes, they can't control an EC vote

They can't "agree to the customs union", the country has to be admitted by the EU member states, some of whom would like nothing more than to give Starmer a bloody nose and ensure Farage gets in, so how do you think that is going to go?

So that's a yes.

The government has started a conversation, do pay attention.

Easy to say when you're in opposition. This is the least convincing thing Polanski has said so far IMO

Nige is no longer laughing at himself as he ‘performs’ yet another big speech | John Crace Reform leader is trying to make it as a mainstream politician – which involves contradicting himself and gaslighting voters

“His main theme was that the country was fucked. Largely because of Brexit. Weirdly, he has no memory of being the main architect behind the Brexit vote. He seems to think it happened in a world in which he played no part.”

Farage - the foghorn of failure.

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It's baked right in to the creation of your country: "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, ... "

I'm not "Labour", but even I can see that we can't just "rejoin". For a start we have to ask all 27 member states to let us back in.

If Starmer asked, do you maybe think that someone might not do Farage a favour and veto? Do you think the current Italian government might not like Farage for PM?