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Nice news from the UK
Local government elections in the UK are a very imperfect measure of the national political temperature. The May 2 elections only covered some councils (all in England) and the nature of them means local issues and local party dynamics have a greater influence than they would on a general election. Having said all that, by…
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Straw Puppy’s POTUS Polls – 2024
For your sins we are once again trapped in the purgatory of a US Presidential Election year. It only feels like four years since the last one! To kick things off, former-President Donald Trump won the Iowa caucuses by a large margin, with Florida governor Ron DeSantis a distant second and ex-UN Ambassador Nikki Haley…
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Shocking anti-democratic decision about Presidential ballots
In a shocking move, several states will not allow US Presidential hopeful Timothy the Talking Cat to be listed on US Presidential Primary ballots. This move is doubly shocking as he has not been convicted of the alleged crime (“being a cat”) in any criminal court. Timothy’s lawyer (Timothy the Talking Cat But Wearing a…
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Update on my last post
So I still don’t know what is going on in Russia but I do now know what Vox “not a neo-Nazi” Day thinks about it. It appears the delay was due to waiting to see if Putin managed to stay in control and now that (apparently) some kind of deal has been struck, Day has…
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I don’t know what is going on in Russia but…
Yesterday (Australia time), the head of Russia’s quasi-mercenary Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin posted videos critical of the heads of Russia’s military, packed up his sizeable forces in Ukraine and headed back into Russia. From there things get hazy. As well as military operations, the Wagner Group also deals in disinformation (and catering* – good to…
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Trump Indicted, Johnson Resigns
The world may be on fire but worth noting that some notable political figures are finally discovering the consequences of their actions: “Boris Johnson has sensationally announced he is quitting as an MP claiming he is the victim of a Partygate and Brexit witch-hunt. The former Prime Minister’s decision came as he faced a damning…
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“Woke” Beethoven
I hadn’t wandered into the fields of milquetoast fascism that what was once called “the intellectual dark web” for some time. One of blandest organs of reactionary apologetics Quillette is apparently still operating and it had a classic example of a species of essay that you can find across the spectrum of the modern right.…
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Victorians as aliens
Here is an interesting idea from a source not famed for interesting ideas: “I have said this elsewhere: it would be a moment of significant horror for Western progressives if, upon being visited by an advanced alien civilization, the aliens were discovered to be not only believers in a single, divine deity, but their general…
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Ugly Connections: 3
It has reached a point where saying “recent mass shooting” isn’t enough to be clear about what news event is being discussed. Last Saturday (May 6, 2023) there was a mass shooting outside a shopping outlet in Allen, Texas. Nine people, including children, were murdered and others were injured. The killer was shot by a…
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