Sampson

You make it sound like that’s a good thing. “Disputed territories” is a euphemism. It’s a war of aggression, we shouldn’t be happy that one nation has just declared war on another then we settle for a peace where that nation takes territory off another. It shows Putin can just get away with it, NATO don’t really care enough and likely leaves other nations on the border of him on edge and no reason he wouldn’t just invade Ukraine again in the future anyway.

Usually like kurgzegagt for their science videos, this one is more of a didactic short story, but the animation is absolutely beautiful

Where did you see that? Frightening for the guy if his photo is being falsely shared

Ok that’s fair. I’ll change my post. I guess more will come out in the coming days

Shooter been named on sky news as Thomas Matthew Crooks.

Why should we? I care about watching decent football and seeing Leicester do well, couldn’t give a flying feck about which set of imaginary lines our managers or players’ parents happened to **** between tbh, no one chooses their nationality. Why should anyone care why English grassroots football is prioritised over French, Gambian or Brazilian grassroots football? If it helps human beings find an outlet why should we care which set of human beings it is?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxw2k9dnjmno Orban pining to Russia. This democratic backsliding in Europe and the US does scare me.

Hope he get start to get his life and career back on track now although I doubt he’ll ever recover mentally from knowing he accidentally killed someone and having to face the horrendous anxiety of trail knowing the state deliberately withheld evidence against you.

Just been reading about Project 2025 on bbc and Wikipedia. Surely hope that is a conspiracy and the checks and balances that hold up democracy would work to stop it. https://bbc.com/news/articles/c977njnvq2do

I agree with most of your post but will also add that according to yougov, immigration was only a huge issue at the election amongst older voters, especially pensioners, it was actually the issue with the most notable age gap in terms of importance and wasn’t really a big issue amongst under 50s. It was comfortably behind climate change and not much more than issues like the relationship with the EU and education amongst the under 50s, all of which got very little airtime during the election.

I agree with what you’re saying but I think you overestimate why the average British person goes on holiday tbh. Most just go to party, get some sun/beach weather.

Yeah, it’s a weird argument US is basically as big as the EU. I would imagine most UK citizens have only ever been to the UK and EU too and if UK had adopted national ID cards like the rest of the EU when it was a member I imagine an awful lot of UK citizens would never have had reason to get a passport before Brexit either. You have no reason to travel outside the US if you live there, going to Greece or Spain on holiday as someone living in the UK is only like going to Florida to someone living in Oregon or something. I agree I much prefer the values and work/life balance and general values in Europe but I think the travel thing is a bit unfair

I struggle to get my head round the free will debate tbh. Maybe I’m wrong but as far as I can see, we’re all just bags of meat driven by our dna and inputs in our life throughout our life. It seems very unlikely to me we aren’t just slaves to how the neurons in our brain fire and the way they fire is governed by our dna and previous experiences. And that absolutely all of us would do immoral things if put in certain situations, with certain life backgrounds and a certain amount of social pressure was applied. I remember a YouTube video with Neil DeGrasse Tyson where they said it will probably take 100s of years for the prison system to governed by “compassionate determinism”. Society absolutely needs to protect the rest of us from people who are a genuine danger for others, but I’ve never really understood the “prison as punishment” argument tbh, it feels like a very outdated way of how humans function.

Not being funny, Harry Winks was good for us in the Championship last season, but he shouldn’t be playing for England.

Yeh I’m of the same opinion. It’s one of those things where even if he is convinced by the technical letter of the law, it seems immoral to convict someone of that. 18 months in prison seems crazy to me. I’m sure it’s ruined his life enough having to live with the knowledge he accidentally killed someone.

I suppose it depends on what you mean by as part of a conspiracy? I think that indicates there’s higher powers at play than the Conservative Party like some kind of deep state which I don’t think is a mainstream opinion at all. It is a mainstream opinion that they are intentionally trying to sew division to hold power, especially with regards to “the culture wars”. But that’s just political “divide and conquer tactics”. I dunno if many would say it is part of a conspiracy.

You should listen to Caroline Lucas’ interview on the podcast with Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell where she talks a bit about the frustration of being a leader of a very small party in terms of seats parliament. One of her point was when she put something on the agenda to the speaker, the reality is so many put things on there and there is not time for everything and the speaker has to choose what to talk about and that’s naturally going to be the stuff the major parties want to talk about If you’re the leader of the SNP or LibDems when they have 50+ seats you might be able to get some airtime, but reality is with parties of less than 10 seats you can’t really make any difference on or get much time to talk about policy.

You don’t need lived experience of it to know that “mutilation” is clearly inflammatory language designed to whip up hate and division though which is the point of this discussion. To the original point - yes, Suella Braveman is a cruel, nasty woman trying to create division in society to feed off it, it’s what the right of the Tory party do, sadly the moderate wing had their party taken over by these looney rightists after the 2016 referendum.

She’s clearly setting herself up for leadership. Vile woman but one who is clearly to the very right of the Tory party and unelectable so probably good for Labour.

What are you even talking about? When did anyone say anything about your opinions being wrong? People are questioning your opinions and you’re allowed to question that questioning, that’s how debating should work. You can’t just expect to put things out there and get defensive whenever anything you say is questioned though.

Huh? Where did anyone say you weren’t entitled to your opinion? Huh? You’re the one making your political leanings other people’s business by constantly and openly posting political commentary on a public forum. It just makes you saying you don’t vote and aren’t leaning towards right wing politics hard to take your posts seriously when you clearly do.

For someone who often claims they don’t vote and aren’t party political, you sure as hell are posting criticisms a minor things way way more often now Labour are in power compared to the Tories @David Hankey At least admit your political leanings like the rest of us do.

I can’t see the point of complaining about a name change when there are far more important things to do. Who cares? Seriously?

Post-2016 referendum continues to show a country hugely divided by age. Actually wonder if Lab-LibDem-Greens created a voting block as happens in many mainland European countries whether you’d ever be able to get them out of power for generations.