The gap between the rhetoric and reality of western politicians on Gaza. PINNEDBiden's SOTU address really brought home how much the western governments are doing to prevent genocide of the Palestinians but it's missing the things that need to happen. The Biden administration is critical of Israel. It is asking Netanyahu to...See More »
Expel all Palestinians from Gaza, recommends Israeli gov’t ministry PINNEDA leaked paper shows that an Israeli govt ministry recommended this days after the Hamas attack. This does not prove that it is official government policy, but it does prove that this has been at least considered at a high level. (Quote)...See More »
On Misapplied Truisms PINNEDOnce you notice this in debate, you can never unnotice it again and it's unfortunately become a very common tactic in political discourse. A misapplied truism is when someone says something completely self-evidently true that appears to be a...See More »
Are our government's complicit in a coming genocide? PINNEDI really want to be wrong but I fear that I am not. I started off predicting that tens of thousands would die in Gaza. I really hate to say that but think it will be in the hundreds of thousands. All the signs are that Israel is trying to make Gaza...See More »
UK Conservatives lose popularity after pre-election tax bribe.The Tories reputation is so far in the gutter that 37% of people surveyed think that their taxes have gone up with the latest budget. This is factually untrue because taxes have been cut. However, the British public is so sick of this party that they...See More »
6 nations this SaturdayThis was a fantastic and dramatic day of rugby with two great games and upsets. Firstly, well done to Italy, so often the whipping boys but they have really improved. A draw with France (that they should have won) now backed up with dramatically...See More »
Chaos in the UK Parliament.It almost fills me with Nostalgia about the Brexit era but this time it's about Gaza. The SNP (Scottish National Party) to the left of Keir Starmer's labour and had a motion (bill) calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Because some labour MP's...See More »
I'm not into politics much but...I said. Then my therapist stopped me and put her head in her hands saying: "F###ing hell."
When your political heroes take a crazy turn...Glenn Greenwals has done so much excellent journalism and is an icon for the left but he's morphed into a Trump apologist. I've just seen a liong debate he had with Destiny on the January the 6th and Greenwald was adamantly defending the idea that...See More »
My mum is in intensive care.She's been in this state for a few days and it's not looking good. It's a lung infection and she has COPD. She's being kept alive by drugs and breathing machines in an induced coma. Reading between the lines if what the doctor says, it's not...See More »
Epic Double standardsAnyone who chants "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," is apparently in denial about their antisemitism because the 'free' bit is taken to mean being in favour of genociding other people rather than wanting to be free from oppression....See More »
Best podcast episode I've seen in ages. I am really into politics. Much into politics. 😊 I'm a leftist but I don't want to just stick to that and Aaron Bastani's guest here is a heterodox centre-right economist who has some fascinating insight into current geopolitics. They have a...See More »
You know that you are getting old when...The young staff at work look like teenagers but then you find out that they are twenty-two.
Zack Snyder is divisive but his visuals are excellent and he has done some really good movies.*Watches Rebel Moon* OMFG, this is truly awful. A channel five z movie from the 90s with a 200 million dollar budget.
"Advertisers, go f*** yourself and don't advertise!" says Elon Musk. They duly obligeIn the next sentence, he predicts that these advertisers (having "gone f***ed themselves) will kill the company. This is the one prediction that Lord Tech-bro has got right since he bought the damn thing. "The Earth will judge them," says Elon....See More »