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Unfortunately I am very much reliant on the ‘woke nonsense’ brigade for protecting my own freedoms, Really? Are you man who believes they are a woman? We don't need woke attacks on reality in order protect any freedoms which are worth having. Well, as I said, I find this view incomprehensibly cruel...

What Brexit actually did was give back control over immigration to Westminster. Brexit did not compel the Tories to shit the bed on immigration. It gave back control over legal migration from the EU, but it lost control over illegal migration via the ‘small boats’. In leaving the EU we lost the rig...

I am well aware of what I am wishing for. I want a leader of the opposition who talks about overpopulation and dismisses woke nonsense without fear. Farage is so effective at tearing into Tory incompetence it’s actually a delight to watch. Unfortunately I am very much reliant on the ‘woke nonsense’...

I now live in the Rutherglen constituency that went back to Labour from the SNP in the by-election last year. Polls have Labour on about 47%, SNP on 32%, Tories on 7% and Reform around 2%. I'd vote Scottish Green but no candidate here, so I think I'll be voting SNP because they're at least willing t...

mr brightside wrote: ↑21 May 2024, 12:29 The ego mind loves righteous quests.

Doesn't it just!

Mark H Burton (who appears to be the main author of the degrowthuk website) wrote an article back in the heady days of Corbynite Labour in 2019 arguing that the Labour Party might be moving towards degrowth ideas as policy. How long ago that now feels. https://renewal.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/...

I'm very much onboard with your perspective on this UE. Maybe it's just a feature of getting older, but I keep seeing the eco-movement in general getting lost in idealisms and ideology that they still expect everyone to fall in line with because 'it's so obviously correct'. Not so many years ago, le...

It seems like the last roll of the dice for Ukraine might be if they can obtain F16s to counter the entrenched Russian defences. Otherwise it all depends on both side's manpower and shell capacity if they want to grind on, or the possibility of a Russian coup. It occurs to me from time to time that ...

I wasn't expecting you to say that, for sure. Your church can't be much like the one I was dragged to every Sunday as a child. ... I agree, but can't seem to find many Christians who agree with you. But then maybe that is a reflection of the people I interact with. If your experience of church/Chri...

I find these ideas absolutely fascinating, not least because Crossan's idea of who Jesus actually was -- what he was actually trying to do in Galilee in the 20s CE and why the Roman authorities ended up killing him -- is the most convincing I have ever come across: J.D. Crossan 2000 UNI lecture on ...

I'll watch the videos and get back to you

Personally I don't think the other lot will do any better if elected but hopefully they would be less sociopathic. It's a bit sad that all we're able to hope for from Labour is roughly the same policies but without the sociopathy. Every announcement from Starmer at the moment seems to be "No w...

John Major tried this in the last year of his premiership. Didn't work that time either.

I still occasionally come back to PS to see what the current topic of conversation is, and it would be sad to see it die. Back in the beginning I joined because I was just starting out as an oil market analyst in 2004 and had access to individual oil field production data and forecasts and I was fas...

I happen to agree with his sentiment that govt rhetoric on immigration (actually the unwanted sort of immigration but they don't clearly differentiate) is appalling, cruel and immoral. I don't understand this at all. All I can see is statements of fact. What exactly do you think is apalling, cruel ...