At the risk of whataboutery of my own, less widely reported is that most of the group went into the pub to apologise for the damage by what they called a small group of trouble makers. They helped clear up and agreed to compensate the damage. The pub has now banned the man who was beaten up, for provoking the attack and issued a statement praising community leaders.
This won't protect any of the group from prosecution but perhaps there's a difference in degree from the violent battle against the police happening at the same time in Plymouth or the man beaten up and in critical condition in Belfast, which people for some reason don't think was important enough to mention unlike the disturbance in Birmingham.
Watching Walz, I was reminded of how British politicians in their prime like William Hague and Boris Johnson could use humour to demolish opponents. Coach Walz has that in spades.
Yes a bit of humour can be devastating. Walz seems like a nice guy but the attacks we are already seeing is that he is another progressive making this slate the most left wing in America's history. It has taken Trump an extraordinarily long time to refocus his guns that were set to attack Biden but that is the direction that they seem to be moving to.
Will this work? Americans have a very different idea of what is left wing than we do. I think personality matters more these days and Walz seems to have plenty. Still concerned that she didn't go for Shapiro though. That would have broadened the ticket. Lots of Trump outriders expressing relief that she didn't.
I think the Trump outriders are grubbing around for crumbs of comfort!
At the risk of whataboutery of my own, less widely reported is that most of the group went into the pub to apologise for the damage by what they called a small group of trouble makers. They helped clear up and agreed to compensate the damage. The pub has now banned the man who was beaten up for provoking the attack and issued a statement praising community leaders.
Watching Walz, I was reminded of how British politicians in their prime like William Hague and Boris Johnson could use humour to demolish opponents. Coach Walz has that in spades.
Yes a bit of humour can be devastating. Walz seems like a nice guy but the attacks we are already seeing is that he is another progressive making this slate the most left wing in America's history. It has taken Trump an extraordinarily long time to refocus his guns that were set to attack Biden but that is the direction that they seem to be moving to.
Will this work? Americans have a very different idea of what is left wing than we do. I think personality matters more these days and Walz seems to have plenty. Still concerned that she didn't go for Shapiro though. That would have broadened the ticket. Lots of Trump outriders expressing relief that she didn't.
The MAGA were always going to depict Harris as far left (by US standards), so not sure there are many votes there.
Key for the Dems is to enthuse the base and GOTV especially women, the young and minorities. We saw in our election how critical that is. The Ed Davey style is the way to go, positive and fun.
I agree with the first point but that is why there were advantages in having someone more moderate (like Biden was) on the ticket for balance. She has left herself open and it remains to be seen whether this finds any traction or not.
I am concerned that there is an assumption that this is over because we would want it to be so. Trump is still ahead and this election is still to be won or lost. Harris has had 3 very good weeks but that has got her back to near parity, it has not given her a decisive lead.
I don’t know enough about Walz or Dem politics to comment on his merits, but I agree on your essential point: all I can see is GOP people expressing relief she didn’t pick Shapiro
I’d still have Harris as fave, but maybe a bit less fave, now
Vance is someone who came from socioeconomic deprivation and made a success of his life.
Perhaps that's why he's resented by so many from more affluent backgrounds.
Or perhaps people don’t like him because he’s made some awful comments about women . Coming from a poor background and making a success doesn’t give you a free pass to be an arsehole .
Then attack Vance for his views.
Instead of spouting crap about furniture.
You clearly haven't noticed the huge number of Democratic ads attacking Vance for his views. You should get about more.
As for the couch thing.
GOP lies: Dems tried to kill Trump, crashed the economy, abort live babies, and are pedophiles.
Watching Walz, I was reminded of how British politicians in their prime like William Hague and Boris Johnson could use humour to demolish opponents. Coach Walz has that in spades.
Yes a bit of humour can be devastating. Walz seems like a nice guy but the attacks we are already seeing is that he is another progressive making this slate the most left wing in America's history. It has taken Trump an extraordinarily long time to refocus his guns that were set to attack Biden but that is the direction that they seem to be moving to.
Will this work? Americans have a very different idea of what is left wing than we do. I think personality matters more these days and Walz seems to have plenty. Still concerned that she didn't go for Shapiro though. That would have broadened the ticket. Lots of Trump outriders expressing relief that she didn't.
Shapiro not being picked revealed that the number of Jew haters among the Dems is at a level capable of affecting elections.
Does it ? The vast majority of Jewish representation in Congress is Democratic, of course. And Shapiro himself is a very popular Democratic governor.
The Dems have the support of both Jews and Jew haters.
Its an interesting source of friction.
What we have seen in the western world during recent generations has been Jews trending politically to the right and Jew hatred moving politically to the left.
The USA has seen the second element but, not yet, much of the first.
Because Jews in Golders Green never voted for Mrs Thatcher to be their MP? This is nuts.
As for the Dems, Josh Shapiro was in the running until the day before the announcement. They probably already knew he is Jewish by that point. It's not as if he was hiding it. To conclude antisemitism cost Shapiro the VP nominee slot is bizarre.
Watching Walz, I was reminded of how British politicians in their prime like William Hague and Boris Johnson could use humour to demolish opponents. Coach Walz has that in spades.
Yes a bit of humour can be devastating. Walz seems like a nice guy but the attacks we are already seeing is that he is another progressive making this slate the most left wing in America's history. It has taken Trump an extraordinarily long time to refocus his guns that were set to attack Biden but that is the direction that they seem to be moving to.
Will this work? Americans have a very different idea of what is left wing than we do. I think personality matters more these days and Walz seems to have plenty. Still concerned that she didn't go for Shapiro though. That would have broadened the ticket. Lots of Trump outriders expressing relief that she didn't.
Shapiro not being picked revealed that the number of Jew haters among the Dems is at a level capable of affecting elections.
Does it ? The vast majority of Jewish representation in Congress is Democratic, of course. And Shapiro himself is a very popular Democratic governor.
The Dems have the support of both Jews and Jew haters.
Its an interesting source of friction.
What we have seen in the western world during recent generations has been Jews trending politically to the right and Jew hatred moving politically to the left.
The USA has seen the second element but, not yet, much of the first.
Because Jews in Golders Green never voted for Mrs Thatcher to be their MP? This is nuts.
As for the Dems, Josh Shapiro was in the running until the day before the announcement. They probably already knew he is Jewish by that point. It's not as if he was hiding it. To conclude antisemitism cost Shapiro the VP nominee slot is bizarre.
With a name like Shapiro, he was keeping that Jewish heritage closely under wraps...
At the risk of whataboutery of my own, less widely reported is that most of the group went into the pub to apologise for the damage by what they called a small group of trouble makers. They helped clear up and agreed to compensate the damage. The pub has now banned the man who was beaten up for provoking the attack and issued a statement praising community leaders.
Your interpretation of this is incredibly naive.
Probably a far, far, less naive interpretation than those taking Nigel Farage tweets and retweets at face value.
Watching Walz, I was reminded of how British politicians in their prime like William Hague and Boris Johnson could use humour to demolish opponents. Coach Walz has that in spades.
Yes a bit of humour can be devastating. Walz seems like a nice guy but the attacks we are already seeing is that he is another progressive making this slate the most left wing in America's history. It has taken Trump an extraordinarily long time to refocus his guns that were set to attack Biden but that is the direction that they seem to be moving to.
Will this work? Americans have a very different idea of what is left wing than we do. I think personality matters more these days and Walz seems to have plenty. Still concerned that she didn't go for Shapiro though. That would have broadened the ticket. Lots of Trump outriders expressing relief that she didn't.
Shapiro not being picked revealed that the number of Jew haters among the Dems is at a level capable of affecting elections.
Does it ? The vast majority of Jewish representation in Congress is Democratic, of course. And Shapiro himself is a very popular Democratic governor.
The Dems have the support of both Jews and Jew haters.
Its an interesting source of friction.
What we have seen in the western world during recent generations has been Jews trending politically to the right and Jew hatred moving politically to the left.
The USA has seen the second element but, not yet, much of the first.
Because Jews in Golders Green never voted for Mrs Thatcher to be their MP? This is nuts.
As for the Dems, Josh Shapiro was in the running until the day before the announcement. They probably already knew he is Jewish by that point. It's not as if he was hiding it. To conclude antisemitism cost Shapiro the VP nominee slot is bizarre.
With a name like Shapiro, he was keeping that Jewish heritage closely under wraps...
Does anyone if he was related to Robert Shapiro, who was one of O.J. Simpson’s dream team of lawyers.
In short, the US Treasury has overridden the independence of the Fed and actively counteracted restrictive monetary policy by biasing debt issuance to short term bills rather than long term bonds. “ATI” - Activist Treasury Issuance.
This has the same impact as stealth quantitative easing, worth a 100bps rate cut in their central estimate but as high as 160bps. Thus far worth $800bn of injected liquidity, forecast to hit $2tr in the coming quarters.
This political intervention into monetary policy is on top of initiatives such as the 2023 Bank Term Funding Programme, which peaked at $165bn, socialising losses of the banking sector through inflation.
As I’ve said many times, the Biden “jobs miracle” is a total charade and this White House has managed the economy in a grotesquely irresponsible way. Feels a lot like a powder keg ready to blow, things are only being kept going by expansionary monetary and fiscal policy - 7.5% deficit in 2023 at a time of “full employment”. 2025 might be very choppy indeed.
Anyway, go back to talking about JD Vance and a sofa.
It is notable that the Harris-Walz attacks have been focussed squarely at Trump and Vance, and not their supporters (the Hillary mistake).
I struggle to see how independents in America will choose Trump/Vance over them. Particularly as we have a motivated and unified left driving turnout.
I'm going to go as far as predict it won't be close in electoral college votes on the day.
Independents in the US are not left though, they are generally fiscally conservative and socially moderate.
Even the UK left seem more enthusiastic about Harris and Walz on twitter than they are about Starmer. Yet it was Starmer who won a general election not their hero Corbyn even if he united the left behind him and increased turnout amongst the young
Watching Walz, I was reminded of how British politicians in their prime like William Hague and Boris Johnson could use humour to demolish opponents. Coach Walz has that in spades.
Yes a bit of humour can be devastating. Walz seems like a nice guy but the attacks we are already seeing is that he is another progressive making this slate the most left wing in America's history. It has taken Trump an extraordinarily long time to refocus his guns that were set to attack Biden but that is the direction that they seem to be moving to.
Will this work? Americans have a very different idea of what is left wing than we do. I think personality matters more these days and Walz seems to have plenty. Still concerned that she didn't go for Shapiro though. That would have broadened the ticket. Lots of Trump outriders expressing relief that she didn't.
Shapiro not being picked revealed that the number of Jew haters among the Dems is at a level capable of affecting elections.
Does it ? The vast majority of Jewish representation in Congress is Democratic, of course. And Shapiro himself is a very popular Democratic governor.
The Dems have the support of both Jews and Jew haters.
Its an interesting source of friction.
What we have seen in the western world during recent generations has been Jews trending politically to the right and Jew hatred moving politically to the left.
The USA has seen the second element but, not yet, much of the first.
Because Jews in Golders Green never voted for Mrs Thatcher to be their MP? This is nuts.
As for the Dems, Josh Shapiro was in the running until the day before the announcement. They probably already knew he is Jewish by that point. It's not as if he was hiding it. To conclude antisemitism cost Shapiro the VP nominee slot is bizarre.
It was a factor - 'progressives' didn't like Shapiro:
The strongest argument against picking Shapiro is rooted in his hardline stance against both the Gaza protests on Pennsylvania university campuses—some of which he compared to white supremacist encampments—and the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement seeking to reverse Israel’s brutal human-rights record in the Occupied Territories. In The New Republic, writer David Klion made the case that Shapiro’s elevation to the ticket would kill off much of the movement energy now marshaled behind Harris’s run.
I did warn you the VP market was unpredictable. Although I missed the chance to short Shapiro, I was green on both of them.
I missed too.
I really do think that the Americans need to revise their over protracted Primary system, which seems to consume vast amounts of time and money, and create division within parties. Our parties might want to ponder this too.
The last fortnight has come up with a better pairing through a much shorter process and unified the party.
One of the Harris/Walz advantages is to be new and fresh, generating interest and attention at exactly the right time and 3 months to go.
And most important, generating money.
I suspect there will be another big uptick in donations after the addition of Walz to the ticket. perhaps even from some big corporate names. Wisconsin under Governor Walz has been very good at attracting inward investment. Corporate USA doesn't seem too worried by the "left wing" tag. Because it is nonsense.
In that respect, Shapiro and Walz are pretty similar. And both have a pretty good record on cutting red tape - "permitting reform" in US parlance" - to enable development.
If by 'left wing' they mean pro right to choose; public education; public healthcare, then sure. But those are all popular positions.
As Waltz puts it: "I'm the monster who introduce free school meals".
So yesterday I posted how Elon Musk is fine with virulent antisemitism on his platform but today he restricts criticism of the GOP.
#TwoTierElon
I think that makes X / Twitter a publisher which opens up a whole extra set of responsibilities.
Elon really isn't very bright..
Indeed, he’s fine with tweets telling a Jew that Dirty Jews are the next ones that should be targeted by the rioters but criticism of the GOP is a no no.
He’s basically come out as a Trump supporter. And he’s slanting the site that way. Previously, it was slanted very much the other way
As far as I know, in American law, he has no duty to offer balance or neutrality, so he can do what he likes. But maybe we have some American legal experts who can finesse this?
The answer, surely, is for all the people that dislike this to head off to Threads or Bluesky or that Mastothingy
Vance is someone who came from socioeconomic deprivation and made a success of his life.
Perhaps that's why he's resented by so many from more affluent backgrounds.
Or perhaps people don’t like him because he’s made some awful comments about women . Coming from a poor background and making a success doesn’t give you a free pass to be an arsehole .
Then attack Vance for his views.
Instead of spouting crap about furniture.
You clearly haven't noticed the huge number of Democratic ads attacking Vance for his views. You should get about more.
As for the couch thing.
GOP lies: Dems tried to kill Trump, crashed the economy, abort live babies, and are pedophiles.
I don't spend my time looking at political ads in a foreign country.
In other worlds I DO GET ABOUT MORE. Literally.
Fair enough. But don't then critique the Democrats for not doing something they're spending a lot of time doing. If you're going to comment on US politics, then you can't have it both ways.
I did warn you the VP market was unpredictable. Although I missed the chance to short Shapiro, I was green on both of them.
I missed too.
I really do think that the Americans need to revise their over protracted Primary system, which seems to consume vast amounts of time and money, and create division within parties. Our parties might want to ponder this too.
The last fortnight has come up with a better pairing through a much shorter process and unified the party.
One of the Harris/Walz advantages is to be new and fresh, generating interest and attention at exactly the right time and 3 months to go.
And most important, generating money.
I suspect there will be another big uptick in donations after the addition of Walz to the ticket. perhaps even from some big corporate names. Wisconsin under Governor Walz has been very good at attracting inward investment. Corporate USA doesn't seem too worried by the "left wing" tag. Because it is nonsense.
In that respect, Shapiro and Walz are pretty similar. And both have a pretty good record on cutting red tape - "permitting reform" in US parlance" - to enable development.
If by 'left wing' they mean pro right to choose; public education; public healthcare, then sure. But those are all popular positions.
As Waltz puts it: "I'm the monster who introduce free school meals".
He’s also the monster who introduced 40-week abortions and porn in primary schools, in his own state.
"In 1993, he asked his sophomores where they thought the next genocide might happen, based on the geographic data. They pinpointed Rwanda. The following year, the Rwandan Genocide occurred. The New York Times interviewed some of the students involved in the project in 2008, when Walz was a U.S. congressman."
Where does he stand on the Peters Projection vs Mercator debate?
All right thinking people are on Team Peters.
The Mercator projection is at least useful for navigation. The Peters projection is one of the worst. There are far better equal-area projections that don't distort shape so much.
We have satellites and GPS to handle the navigation, we don't need sextants now.
'Two Tier Keir' is a devastating nickname. It's catchy, quite clever, and like all damaging nicknames, contains an element of truth. It is going to dog SKS in every hypocritical decision that he makes and special interest group that he favours for the remainder of his (hopefully brief) spell in Government.
"Two Tier Keir" seems clever and to have an element of truth to those that support the riots to some extent and also think Keir Starmer responsible for them, which is about 30% of the population, including most Reform supporters and half of Tories.
This is way too many people but even so the bulk of the population who want nothing to with any of it aren't going to go "what about?" They just want the perpetrators punished.
It has nothing to do with 'supporting the riots' - most people (quite rightly) want to see disorder and crime punished harshly whichever community it emanates from. Hence why the two tier nickname is damaging.
Given the far right inspired the riots, if you are hard right yourself you will think the riots have some basis and that the participants need some kind of understanding. That these people have this belief is in the survey I linked.
Those are the people who think "Two tier Keir" is clever and has an element of truth. They are the ones going "what about?" No-one else does.
If you get five years for planning a peaceful protest, what's the second tier for planning violent disorder including burning people out of their homes and businesses because of their religious beliefs or skin colour?
It's a legitimate question and one that raised its head with judges and magistrates a year after the 2011 riots and they were still banging up participants on exemplary sentences.
Not an issue bothering most people right now. They want the disorder stopped and the participants locked up.
Plus - “In exceptional cases within category 1A, sentences of above 8 years may be appropriate”
And this, remember, is just for arson. There plenty of other things they can be charged with.
Something that is misunderstood about the sentencing in 2011. Very little was overturned on appeal. The courts took the “aggravating circumstance and actions” of the riots into account.
To compare with this - an idiot teenager who sets fire to some rubbish on a derelict site won’t get 8 years+ , he/she might get a community order.
What surprised some, in 2011, was that the courts didn’t ignore the aggravating factors and give out the usual sentences. So a bunch of people found out about box 1A.
Watching Walz, I was reminded of how British politicians in their prime like William Hague and Boris Johnson could use humour to demolish opponents. Coach Walz has that in spades.
Yes a bit of humour can be devastating. Walz seems like a nice guy but the attacks we are already seeing is that he is another progressive making this slate the most left wing in America's history. It has taken Trump an extraordinarily long time to refocus his guns that were set to attack Biden but that is the direction that they seem to be moving to.
Will this work? Americans have a very different idea of what is left wing than we do. I think personality matters more these days and Walz seems to have plenty. Still concerned that she didn't go for Shapiro though. That would have broadened the ticket. Lots of Trump outriders expressing relief that she didn't.
The MAGA were always going to depict Harris as far left (by US standards), so not sure there are many votes there.
Key for the Dems is to enthuse the base and GOTV especially women, the young and minorities. We saw in our election how critical that is. The Ed Davey style is the way to go, positive and fun.
I agree with the first point but that is why there were advantages in having someone more moderate (like Biden was) on the ticket for balance. She has left herself open and it remains to be seen whether this finds any traction or not.
I am concerned that there is an assumption that this is over because we would want it to be so. Trump is still ahead and this election is still to be won or lost. Harris has had 3 very good weeks but that has got her back to near parity, it has not given her a decisive lead.
I don’t know enough about Walz or Dem politics to comment on his merits, but I agree on your essential point: all I can see is GOP people expressing relief she didn’t pick Shapiro
I’d still have Harris as fave, but maybe a bit less fave, now
I think that's probably taking GOP spin too much at face value. The GOP were literally handing out leaflets with their attack lines on Shapiro before hastily recalling them. They would still have attacked the Harris ticket for being left wing whilst pumping out all of the stuff in Shapiro's background which would have alienated progressive voters. The only reason that the GOP would be relieved that Shapiro wasn't picked is if you truly believe in the home state advantage he would have. Personally I don't think there is any evidence at all that having a VP from a particular state makes much of a difference to the result there .
Watching Walz, I was reminded of how British politicians in their prime like William Hague and Boris Johnson could use humour to demolish opponents. Coach Walz has that in spades.
Yes a bit of humour can be devastating. Walz seems like a nice guy but the attacks we are already seeing is that he is another progressive making this slate the most left wing in America's history. It has taken Trump an extraordinarily long time to refocus his guns that were set to attack Biden but that is the direction that they seem to be moving to.
Will this work? Americans have a very different idea of what is left wing than we do. I think personality matters more these days and Walz seems to have plenty. Still concerned that she didn't go for Shapiro though. That would have broadened the ticket. Lots of Trump outriders expressing relief that she didn't.
Shapiro not being picked revealed that the number of Jew haters among the Dems is at a level capable of affecting elections.
Does it ? The vast majority of Jewish representation in Congress is Democratic, of course. And Shapiro himself is a very popular Democratic governor.
The Dems have the support of both Jews and Jew haters.
Its an interesting source of friction.
What we have seen in the western world during recent generations has been Jews trending politically to the right and Jew hatred moving politically to the left.
The USA has seen the second element but, not yet, much of the first.
Because Jews in Golders Green never voted for Mrs Thatcher to be their MP? This is nuts.
As for the Dems, Josh Shapiro was in the running until the day before the announcement. They probably already knew he is Jewish by that point. It's not as if he was hiding it. To conclude antisemitism cost Shapiro the VP nominee slot is bizarre.
His whole post is pretty bizarre if you think about it! A lot of Dems support the plight of the Gazans and Shapiro is known to be more solidly behind Netanyahu than many others particularly the young.
Watching Walz, I was reminded of how British politicians in their prime like William Hague and Boris Johnson could use humour to demolish opponents. Coach Walz has that in spades.
Yes a bit of humour can be devastating. Walz seems like a nice guy but the attacks we are already seeing is that he is another progressive making this slate the most left wing in America's history. It has taken Trump an extraordinarily long time to refocus his guns that were set to attack Biden but that is the direction that they seem to be moving to.
Will this work? Americans have a very different idea of what is left wing than we do. I think personality matters more these days and Walz seems to have plenty. Still concerned that she didn't go for Shapiro though. That would have broadened the ticket. Lots of Trump outriders expressing relief that she didn't.
Shapiro not being picked revealed that the number of Jew haters among the Dems is at a level capable of affecting elections.
Does it ? The vast majority of Jewish representation in Congress is Democratic, of course. And Shapiro himself is a very popular Democratic governor.
The Dems have the support of both Jews and Jew haters.
Its an interesting source of friction.
What we have seen in the western world during recent generations has been Jews trending politically to the right and Jew hatred moving politically to the left.
The USA has seen the second element but, not yet, much of the first.
Because Jews in Golders Green never voted for Mrs Thatcher to be their MP? This is nuts.
As for the Dems, Josh Shapiro was in the running until the day before the announcement. They probably already knew he is Jewish by that point. It's not as if he was hiding it. To conclude antisemitism cost Shapiro the VP nominee slot is bizarre.
It was a factor - 'progressives' didn't like Shapiro:
The strongest argument against picking Shapiro is rooted in his hardline stance against both the Gaza protests on Pennsylvania university campuses—some of which he compared to white supremacist encampments—and the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement seeking to reverse Israel’s brutal human-rights record in the Occupied Territories. In The New Republic, writer David Klion made the case that Shapiro’s elevation to the ticket would kill off much of the movement energy now marshaled behind Harris’s run.
So yesterday I posted how Elon Musk is fine with virulent antisemitism on his platform but today he restricts criticism of the GOP.
#TwoTierElon
I think that makes X / Twitter a publisher which opens up a whole extra set of responsibilities.
Elon really isn't very bright..
Indeed, he’s fine with tweets telling a Jew that Dirty Jews are the next ones that should be targeted by the rioters but criticism of the GOP is a no no.
He’s basically come out as a Trump supporter. And he’s slanting the site that way. Previously, it was slanted very much the other way
As far as I know, in American law, he has no duty to offer balance or neutrality, so he can do what he likes. But maybe we have some American legal experts who can finesse this?
The answer, surely, is for all the people that dislike this to head off to Threads or Bluesky or that Mastothingy
People who dislike it can also take their advertising spend elsewhere too, which as the Supreme Court has ruled is constitutionally protected under the First Amendment.
I did warn you the VP market was unpredictable. Although I missed the chance to short Shapiro, I was green on both of them.
I missed too.
I really do think that the Americans need to revise their over protracted Primary system, which seems to consume vast amounts of time and money, and create division within parties. Our parties might want to ponder this too.
The last fortnight has come up with a better pairing through a much shorter process and unified the party.
One of the Harris/Walz advantages is to be new and fresh, generating interest and attention at exactly the right time and 3 months to go.
And most important, generating money.
I suspect there will be another big uptick in donations after the addition of Walz to the ticket. perhaps even from some big corporate names. Wisconsin under Governor Walz has been very good at attracting inward investment. Corporate USA doesn't seem too worried by the "left wing" tag. Because it is nonsense.
In that respect, Shapiro and Walz are pretty similar. And both have a pretty good record on cutting red tape - "permitting reform" in US parlance" - to enable development.
If by 'left wing' they mean pro right to choose; public education; public healthcare, then sure. But those are all popular positions.
As Waltz puts it: "I'm the monster who introduce free school meals".
He’s also the monster who introduced 40-week abortions and porn in primary schools, in his own state.
"porn in primary schools" - I doubt it. Some interesting spin no doubt.
At the risk of whataboutery of my own, less widely reported is that most of the group went into the pub to apologise for the damage by what they called a small group of trouble makers. They helped clear up and agreed to compensate the damage. The pub has now banned the man who was beaten up for provoking the attack and issued a statement praising community leaders.
Your interpretation of this is incredibly naive.
Erm exactly how does a man sitting in a pub having a drink provoke a mob to go down and attack him?
So yesterday I posted how Elon Musk is fine with virulent antisemitism on his platform but today he restricts criticism of the GOP.
#TwoTierElon
I think that makes X / Twitter a publisher which opens up a whole extra set of responsibilities.
Elon really isn't very bright..
Indeed, he’s fine with tweets telling a Jew that Dirty Jews are the next ones that should be targeted by the rioters but criticism of the GOP is a no no.
He’s basically come out as a Trump supporter. And he’s slanting the site that way. Previously, it was slanted very much the other way
As far as I know, in American law, he has no duty to offer balance or neutrality, so he can do what he likes. But maybe we have some American legal experts who can finesse this?
The answer, surely, is for all the people that dislike this to head off to Threads or Bluesky or that Mastothingy
People who dislike it can also take their advertising spend elsewhere too, which as the Supreme Court has ruled is constitutionally protected under the First Amendment.
So yesterday I posted how Elon Musk is fine with virulent antisemitism on his platform but today he restricts criticism of the GOP.
#TwoTierElon
I think that makes X / Twitter a publisher which opens up a whole extra set of responsibilities.
Elon really isn't very bright..
Indeed, he’s fine with tweets telling a Jew that Dirty Jews are the next ones that should be targeted by the rioters but criticism of the GOP is a no no.
He’s basically come out as a Trump supporter. And he’s slanting the site that way. Previously, it was slanted very much the other way
As far as I know, in American law, he has no duty to offer balance or neutrality, so he can do what he likes. But maybe we have some American legal experts who can finesse this?
The answer, surely, is for all the people that dislike this to head off to Threads or Bluesky or that Mastothingy
People who dislike it can also take their advertising spend elsewhere too, which as the Supreme Court has ruled is constitutionally protected under the First Amendment.
At the risk of whataboutery of my own, less widely reported is that most of the group went into the pub to apologise for the damage by what they called a small group of trouble makers. They helped clear up and agreed to compensate the damage. The pub has now banned the man who was beaten up for provoking the attack and issued a statement praising community leaders.
Your interpretation of this is incredibly naive.
Erm exactly how does a man sitting in a pub having a drink provoke a mob to go down and attack him?
Shouting racist abuse at people who are walking past the pub.
Far from the first time something like that has happened in a pub and the manager of the pub is well within their ights to bar someone engaging in such unpleasant behaviour from their premises.
The money-spinning Elizabeth line will not be nationalised under Government’s plan to bring the UK’s railways back under public control, it has been confirmed.
Both the “Lizzie line” and the London Overground will continue to operate as “concessions” run by private rail firms under contract to Transport for London, TfL and the Department for Transport told the Evening Standard.
This means that TfL will press ahead with the re-tendering of a new £3bn seven-year contract to run the Elizabeth line. Four bidders have been shortlisted and the winner is due to be announced early next year.
No. The police officer is clear that, faced with a different context, they took a different approach. That’s what the police should do. The police are stretched by these protests. They can’t be everywhere at once.
Partnering with armed self-policing communities?
In every single riot I can remember, there have been complaints that the police didn’t arrest everyone, then and there.
2011 in particular. But also some of the Snackbarist demos.
If police start dragging people off in the middle of a riot, that reduces the number of police policing the riot. Also there is a risk of creating a fighting focal point.
So they arrest the immediate most egregious examples to hand. The rest they identify through CCTV, the police photographers etc etc.
They scoop the up scum when it’s all died down and the offenders are on their own and not surrounded by hyped up friends. This creates less further violence and massively reduces the risk of harm to people - police or otherwise.
So yesterday I posted how Elon Musk is fine with virulent antisemitism on his platform but today he restricts criticism of the GOP.
#TwoTierElon
I think that makes X / Twitter a publisher which opens up a whole extra set of responsibilities.
Elon really isn't very bright..
Indeed, he’s fine with tweets telling a Jew that Dirty Jews are the next ones that should be targeted by the rioters but criticism of the GOP is a no no.
He’s basically come out as a Trump supporter. And he’s slanting the site that way. Previously, it was slanted very much the other way
As far as I know, in American law, he has no duty to offer balance or neutrality, so he can do what he likes. But maybe we have some American legal experts who can finesse this?
The answer, surely, is for all the people that dislike this to head off to Threads or Bluesky or that Mastothingy
I think that's fine but what I find objectionable is Musk's constant banging on about restoring free speech to X. If you want to run your site in a partisan way then go ahead but at least have the honesty to admit that's what your doing. No-one expects Truth Social to be even handed.
So yesterday I posted how Elon Musk is fine with virulent antisemitism on his platform but today he restricts criticism of the GOP.
#TwoTierElon
I think that makes X / Twitter a publisher which opens up a whole extra set of responsibilities.
Elon really isn't very bright..
Indeed, he’s fine with tweets telling a Jew that Dirty Jews are the next ones that should be targeted by the rioters but criticism of the GOP is a no no.
He’s basically come out as a Trump supporter. And he’s slanting the site that way. Previously, it was slanted very much the other way
As far as I know, in American law, he has no duty to offer balance or neutrality, so he can do what he likes. But maybe we have some American legal experts who can finesse this?
The answer, surely, is for all the people that dislike this to head off to Threads or Bluesky or that Mastothingy
People who dislike it can also take their advertising spend elsewhere too, which as the Supreme Court has ruled is constitutionally protected under the First Amendment.
Not complaining about your sentiment, but the case has only just begun - no mention of the SC in the report?
"As a general rule, a politically motivated boycott is not an antitrust violation. It is protected speech under our First Amendment," he said.
Professor Rebecca Haw Allensworth, of Vanderbilt University, said the boycott "was really trying to make a statement about X's policies and about their brands".
"That's protected by the First Amendment," she said.
The Supreme Court has made multiple rulings about the First Amendment and political speech when it comes to money.
So yesterday I posted how Elon Musk is fine with virulent antisemitism on his platform but today he restricts criticism of the GOP.
#TwoTierElon
I think that makes X / Twitter a publisher which opens up a whole extra set of responsibilities.
Elon really isn't very bright..
Indeed, he’s fine with tweets telling a Jew that Dirty Jews are the next ones that should be targeted by the rioters but criticism of the GOP is a no no.
He’s basically come out as a Trump supporter. And he’s slanting the site that way. Previously, it was slanted very much the other way
As far as I know, in American law, he has no duty to offer balance or neutrality, so he can do what he likes. But maybe we have some American legal experts who can finesse this?
The answer, surely, is for all the people that dislike this to head off to Threads or Bluesky or that Mastothingy
Perhaps not. But if he's controlling the political speech on his platform, it raises the question of whether he's a publisher under UK law. At which point he and/or the platform potentially becomes legally liable for hate speech published there - particularly if he uses his own account to amplify it.
Watching Walz, I was reminded of how British politicians in their prime like William Hague and Boris Johnson could use humour to demolish opponents. Coach Walz has that in spades.
Yes a bit of humour can be devastating. Walz seems like a nice guy but the attacks we are already seeing is that he is another progressive making this slate the most left wing in America's history. It has taken Trump an extraordinarily long time to refocus his guns that were set to attack Biden but that is the direction that they seem to be moving to.
Will this work? Americans have a very different idea of what is left wing than we do. I think personality matters more these days and Walz seems to have plenty. Still concerned that she didn't go for Shapiro though. That would have broadened the ticket. Lots of Trump outriders expressing relief that she didn't.
Shapiro not being picked revealed that the number of Jew haters among the Dems is at a level capable of affecting elections.
Does it ? The vast majority of Jewish representation in Congress is Democratic, of course. And Shapiro himself is a very popular Democratic governor.
The Dems have the support of both Jews and Jew haters.
Its an interesting source of friction.
What we have seen in the western world during recent generations has been Jews trending politically to the right and Jew hatred moving politically to the left.
The USA has seen the second element but, not yet, much of the first.
Because Jews in Golders Green never voted for Mrs Thatcher to be their MP? This is nuts.
As for the Dems, Josh Shapiro was in the running until the day before the announcement. They probably already knew he is Jewish by that point. It's not as if he was hiding it. To conclude antisemitism cost Shapiro the VP nominee slot is bizarre.
His whole post is pretty bizarre if you think about it! A lot of Dems support the plight of the Gazans and Shapiro is known to be more solidly behind Netanyahu than many others particularly the young.
Whereas Waltz had an even handed approach.
It was noticeable that both pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel groups praised the pick.
So yesterday I posted how Elon Musk is fine with virulent antisemitism on his platform but today he restricts criticism of the GOP.
#TwoTierElon
I think that makes X / Twitter a publisher which opens up a whole extra set of responsibilities.
Elon really isn't very bright..
Indeed, he’s fine with tweets telling a Jew that Dirty Jews are the next ones that should be targeted by the rioters but criticism of the GOP is a no no.
He’s basically come out as a Trump supporter. And he’s slanting the site that way. Previously, it was slanted very much the other way
As far as I know, in American law, he has no duty to offer balance or neutrality, so he can do what he likes. But maybe we have some American legal experts who can finesse this?
The answer, surely, is for all the people that dislike this to head off to Threads or Bluesky or that Mastothingy
People who dislike it can also take their advertising spend elsewhere too, which as the Supreme Court has ruled is constitutionally protected under the First Amendment.
Not complaining about your sentiment, but the case has only just begun - no mention of the SC in the report?
"As a general rule, a politically motivated boycott is not an antitrust violation. It is protected speech under our First Amendment," he said.
Professor Rebecca Haw Allensworth, of Vanderbilt University, said the boycott "was really trying to make a statement about X's policies and about their brands".
"That's protected by the First Amendment," she said.
The Supreme Court has made multiple rulings about the First Amendment and political speech when it comes to money.
So Musk's lawyers need to persuade them this is some kind of attack on Trump for it to succeed?
So yesterday I posted how Elon Musk is fine with virulent antisemitism on his platform but today he restricts criticism of the GOP.
#TwoTierElon
I think that makes X / Twitter a publisher which opens up a whole extra set of responsibilities.
Elon really isn't very bright..
Indeed, he’s fine with tweets telling a Jew that Dirty Jews are the next ones that should be targeted by the rioters but criticism of the GOP is a no no.
He’s basically come out as a Trump supporter. And he’s slanting the site that way. Previously, it was slanted very much the other way
As far as I know, in American law, he has no duty to offer balance or neutrality, so he can do what he likes. But maybe we have some American legal experts who can finesse this?
The answer, surely, is for all the people that dislike this to head off to Threads or Bluesky or that Mastothingy
People who dislike it can also take their advertising spend elsewhere too, which as the Supreme Court has ruled is constitutionally protected under the First Amendment.
So yesterday I posted how Elon Musk is fine with virulent antisemitism on his platform but today he restricts criticism of the GOP.
#TwoTierElon
I think that makes X / Twitter a publisher which opens up a whole extra set of responsibilities.
Elon really isn't very bright..
Indeed, he’s fine with tweets telling a Jew that Dirty Jews are the next ones that should be targeted by the rioters but criticism of the GOP is a no no.
He’s basically come out as a Trump supporter. And he’s slanting the site that way. Previously, it was slanted very much the other way
As far as I know, in American law, he has no duty to offer balance or neutrality, so he can do what he likes. But maybe we have some American legal experts who can finesse this?
The answer, surely, is for all the people that dislike this to head off to Threads or Bluesky or that Mastothingy
People who dislike it can also take their advertising spend elsewhere too, which as the Supreme Court has ruled is constitutionally protected under the First Amendment.
Watching Walz, I was reminded of how British politicians in their prime like William Hague and Boris Johnson could use humour to demolish opponents. Coach Walz has that in spades.
Yes a bit of humour can be devastating. Walz seems like a nice guy but the attacks we are already seeing is that he is another progressive making this slate the most left wing in America's history. It has taken Trump an extraordinarily long time to refocus his guns that were set to attack Biden but that is the direction that they seem to be moving to.
Will this work? Americans have a very different idea of what is left wing than we do. I think personality matters more these days and Walz seems to have plenty. Still concerned that she didn't go for Shapiro though. That would have broadened the ticket. Lots of Trump outriders expressing relief that she didn't.
The MAGA were always going to depict Harris as far left (by US standards), so not sure there are many votes there.
Key for the Dems is to enthuse the base and GOTV especially women, the young and minorities. We saw in our election how critical that is. The Ed Davey style is the way to go, positive and fun.
I agree with the first point but that is why there were advantages in having someone more moderate (like Biden was) on the ticket for balance. She has left herself open and it remains to be seen whether this finds any traction or not.
I am concerned that there is an assumption that this is over because we would want it to be so. Trump is still ahead and this election is still to be won or lost. Harris has had 3 very good weeks but that has got her back to near parity, it has not given her a decisive lead.
Quite: Harris's accession, the Vance VP pick, and the general organization of the Democrats have turned this into a genuinely competitive Presidential election.
But let us not forget that in the US - as in pretty much the entire developed world - prices have risen faster than wages over the last four years. Voters don't like getting poorer, and generally punish the party in power.
The only reason that this election is competitive is because Trump is such a divisive candidate, and because Republicans (other than Trump) have engaged in a politically unpopular campaign to criminalize abortion.
I would make Trump still the narrow favorite, but it could easily go either way - and a landslide victory for either candidate is not impossible.
So yesterday I posted how Elon Musk is fine with virulent antisemitism on his platform but today he restricts criticism of the GOP.
#TwoTierElon
I think that makes X / Twitter a publisher which opens up a whole extra set of responsibilities.
Elon really isn't very bright..
Indeed, he’s fine with tweets telling a Jew that Dirty Jews are the next ones that should be targeted by the rioters but criticism of the GOP is a no no.
He’s basically come out as a Trump supporter. And he’s slanting the site that way. Previously, it was slanted very much the other way
As far as I know, in American law, he has no duty to offer balance or neutrality, so he can do what he likes. But maybe we have some American legal experts who can finesse this?
The answer, surely, is for all the people that dislike this to head off to Threads or Bluesky or that Mastothingy
People who dislike it can also take their advertising spend elsewhere too, which as the Supreme Court has ruled is constitutionally protected under the First Amendment.
So yesterday I posted how Elon Musk is fine with virulent antisemitism on his platform but today he restricts criticism of the GOP.
#TwoTierElon
I think that makes X / Twitter a publisher which opens up a whole extra set of responsibilities.
Elon really isn't very bright..
Indeed, he’s fine with tweets telling a Jew that Dirty Jews are the next ones that should be targeted by the rioters but criticism of the GOP is a no no.
He’s basically come out as a Trump supporter. And he’s slanting the site that way. Previously, it was slanted very much the other way
As far as I know, in American law, he has no duty to offer balance or neutrality, so he can do what he likes. But maybe we have some American legal experts who can finesse this?
The answer, surely, is for all the people that dislike this to head off to Threads or Bluesky or that Mastothingy
The post in question would have been auto reviewed. It was manually reinstated by X yesterday.
So yesterday I posted how Elon Musk is fine with virulent antisemitism on his platform but today he restricts criticism of the GOP.
#TwoTierElon
I think that makes X / Twitter a publisher which opens up a whole extra set of responsibilities.
Elon really isn't very bright..
Indeed, he’s fine with tweets telling a Jew that Dirty Jews are the next ones that should be targeted by the rioters but criticism of the GOP is a no no.
He’s basically come out as a Trump supporter. And he’s slanting the site that way. Previously, it was slanted very much the other way
As far as I know, in American law, he has no duty to offer balance or neutrality, so he can do what he likes. But maybe we have some American legal experts who can finesse this?
The answer, surely, is for all the people that dislike this to head off to Threads or Bluesky or that Mastothingy
People who dislike it can also take their advertising spend elsewhere too, which as the Supreme Court has ruled is constitutionally protected under the First Amendment.
Watching Walz, I was reminded of how British politicians in their prime like William Hague and Boris Johnson could use humour to demolish opponents. Coach Walz has that in spades.
Yes a bit of humour can be devastating. Walz seems like a nice guy but the attacks we are already seeing is that he is another progressive making this slate the most left wing in America's history. It has taken Trump an extraordinarily long time to refocus his guns that were set to attack Biden but that is the direction that they seem to be moving to.
Will this work? Americans have a very different idea of what is left wing than we do. I think personality matters more these days and Walz seems to have plenty. Still concerned that she didn't go for Shapiro though. That would have broadened the ticket. Lots of Trump outriders expressing relief that she didn't.
The MAGA were always going to depict Harris as far left (by US standards), so not sure there are many votes there.
Key for the Dems is to enthuse the base and GOTV especially women, the young and minorities. We saw in our election how critical that is. The Ed Davey style is the way to go, positive and fun.
I agree with the first point but that is why there were advantages in having someone more moderate (like Biden was) on the ticket for balance. She has left herself open and it remains to be seen whether this finds any traction or not.
I am concerned that there is an assumption that this is over because we would want it to be so. Trump is still ahead and this election is still to be won or lost. Harris has had 3 very good weeks but that has got her back to near parity, it has not given her a decisive lead.
Quite: Harris's accession, the Vance VP pick, and the general organization of the Democrats have turned this into a genuinely competitive Presidential election.
But let us not forget that in the US - as in pretty much the entire developed world - prices have risen faster than wages over the last four years. Voters don't like getting poorer, and generally punish the party in power.
The only reason that this election is competitive is because Trump is such a divisive candidate, and because Republicans (other than Trump) have engaged in a politically unpopular campaign to criminalize abortion.
I would make Trump still the narrow favorite, but it could easily go either way - and a landslide victory for either candidate is not impossible.
Some Leon level forecasting there. Literally anything can happen, and that prediction will be correct.
So yesterday I posted how Elon Musk is fine with virulent antisemitism on his platform but today he restricts criticism of the GOP.
#TwoTierElon
I think that makes X / Twitter a publisher which opens up a whole extra set of responsibilities.
Elon really isn't very bright..
Indeed, he’s fine with tweets telling a Jew that Dirty Jews are the next ones that should be targeted by the rioters but criticism of the GOP is a no no.
He’s basically come out as a Trump supporter. And he’s slanting the site that way. Previously, it was slanted very much the other way
As far as I know, in American law, he has no duty to offer balance or neutrality, so he can do what he likes. But maybe we have some American legal experts who can finesse this?
The answer, surely, is for all the people that dislike this to head off to Threads or Bluesky or that Mastothingy
People who dislike it can also take their advertising spend elsewhere too, which as the Supreme Court has ruled is constitutionally protected under the First Amendment.
At the risk of whataboutery of my own, less widely reported is that most of the group went into the pub to apologise for the damage by what they called a small group of trouble makers. They helped clear up and agreed to compensate the damage. The pub has now banned the man who was beaten up for provoking the attack and issued a statement praising community leaders.
Your interpretation of this is incredibly naive.
Erm exactly how does a man sitting in a pub having a drink provoke a mob to go down and attack him?
Shouting racist abuse at people who are walking past the pub.
Far from the first time something like that has happened in a pub and the manager of the pub is well within their ights to bar someone engaging in such unpleasant behaviour from their premises.
Do you have a link for that or is that just your assumption? The story yesterday was someone tweeted there were edl supporters drinking there and a mob formed to go attack them. I have not seen any story contradicting that as yet though not saying there isn't one
Vance is someone who came from socioeconomic deprivation and made a success of his life.
Perhaps that's why he's resented by so many from more affluent backgrounds.
Most people - whether on the Left or the Right - liked the Hillbilly Elegy Vance. Many liked Vance when he was a never Trumper Republican.
It was, in fact, only when Vance decided to stick his toungue up Trump's rectum, particularly as regards not certifying the 2020 election, that people decided that Vance might actually be an amoral chancer.
On domestic matters, I fear we have a very tense and potentially unpleasant night ahead. For the first time, it's likely that the far-right 'protests' planned will be met with opposition from anti-fascist groups who have got wind of potential locations and are organising counter-protests, rather than the ad hoc opposition we've seen so far. The police may struggle to keep the two sides apart. Where I live, totally unaffected so far, quite a lot of shops have chosen to close early. Let's all hope it comes to nothing and fizzles out as people choose to stay at home.
"In 1993, he asked his sophomores where they thought the next genocide might happen, based on the geographic data. They pinpointed Rwanda. The following year, the Rwandan Genocide occurred. The New York Times interviewed some of the students involved in the project in 2008, when Walz was a U.S. congressman."
Where does he stand on the Peters Projection vs Mercator debate?
All right thinking people are on Team Peters.
HERESY!!!!
(IMO there is no one *good* map projection; they all have advantages and disadvantages.
The globe one works quite well?
Google Earth makes it sort of portable.
Although looking at Google Earth depicting a globe on a flat screen is effectively a projection, of course!
Watching Walz, I was reminded of how British politicians in their prime like William Hague and Boris Johnson could use humour to demolish opponents. Coach Walz has that in spades.
Yes a bit of humour can be devastating. Walz seems like a nice guy but the attacks we are already seeing is that he is another progressive making this slate the most left wing in America's history. It has taken Trump an extraordinarily long time to refocus his guns that were set to attack Biden but that is the direction that they seem to be moving to.
Will this work? Americans have a very different idea of what is left wing than we do. I think personality matters more these days and Walz seems to have plenty. Still concerned that she didn't go for Shapiro though. That would have broadened the ticket. Lots of Trump outriders expressing relief that she didn't.
Shapiro not being picked revealed that the number of Jew haters among the Dems is at a level capable of affecting elections.
Does it ? The vast majority of Jewish representation in Congress is Democratic, of course. And Shapiro himself is a very popular Democratic governor.
The Dems have the support of both Jews and Jew haters.
Its an interesting source of friction.
What we have seen in the western world during recent generations has been Jews trending politically to the right and Jew hatred moving politically to the left.
The USA has seen the second element but, not yet, much of the first.
Because Jews in Golders Green never voted for Mrs Thatcher to be their MP? This is nuts.
As for the Dems, Josh Shapiro was in the running until the day before the announcement. They probably already knew he is Jewish by that point. It's not as if he was hiding it. To conclude antisemitism cost Shapiro the VP nominee slot is bizarre.
It was a factor - 'progressives' didn't like Shapiro:
The strongest argument against picking Shapiro is rooted in his hardline stance against both the Gaza protests on Pennsylvania university campuses—some of which he compared to white supremacist encampments—and the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement seeking to reverse Israel’s brutal human-rights record in the Occupied Territories. In The New Republic, writer David Klion made the case that Shapiro’s elevation to the ticket would kill off much of the movement energy now marshaled behind Harris’s run.
At the risk of whataboutery of my own, less widely reported is that most of the group went into the pub to apologise for the damage by what they called a small group of trouble makers. They helped clear up and agreed to compensate the damage. The pub has now banned the man who was beaten up for provoking the attack and issued a statement praising community leaders.
Your interpretation of this is incredibly naive.
Erm exactly how does a man sitting in a pub having a drink provoke a mob to go down and attack him?
Shouting racist abuse at people who are walking past the pub.
Far from the first time something like that has happened in a pub and the manager of the pub is well within their ights to bar someone engaging in such unpleasant behaviour from their premises.
Do you have a link for that or is that just your assumption? The story yesterday was someone tweeted there were edl supporters drinking there and a mob formed to go attack them. I have not seen any story contradicting that as yet though not saying there isn't one
At the risk of whataboutery of my own, less widely reported is that most of the group went into the pub to apologise for the damage by what they called a small group of trouble makers. They helped clear up and agreed to compensate the damage. The pub has now banned the man who was beaten up for provoking the attack and issued a statement praising community leaders.
Your interpretation of this is incredibly naive.
Erm exactly how does a man sitting in a pub having a drink provoke a mob to go down and attack him?
Shouting racist abuse at people who are walking past the pub.
Far from the first time something like that has happened in a pub and the manager of the pub is well within their ights to bar someone engaging in such unpleasant behaviour from their premises.
Do you have a link for that or is that just your assumption? The story yesterday was someone tweeted there were edl supporters drinking there and a mob formed to go attack them. I have not seen any story contradicting that as yet though not saying there isn't one
So yesterday I posted how Elon Musk is fine with virulent antisemitism on his platform but today he restricts criticism of the GOP.
#TwoTierElon
I think that makes X / Twitter a publisher which opens up a whole extra set of responsibilities.
Elon really isn't very bright..
Indeed, he’s fine with tweets telling a Jew that Dirty Jews are the next ones that should be targeted by the rioters but criticism of the GOP is a no no.
He’s basically come out as a Trump supporter. And he’s slanting the site that way. Previously, it was slanted very much the other way
As far as I know, in American law, he has no duty to offer balance or neutrality, so he can do what he likes. But maybe we have some American legal experts who can finesse this?
The answer, surely, is for all the people that dislike this to head off to Threads or Bluesky or that Mastothingy
Perhaps not. But if he's controlling the political speech on his platform, it raises the question of whether he's a publisher under UK law. At which point he and/or the platform potentially becomes legally liable for hate speech published there - particularly if he uses his own account to amplify it.
Which he did yesterday. The poster he linked to, if in the UK, would be banged up for the stuff he/she was posting (and @moonshine thinks is ok for him to link to such accounts).
On domestic matters, I fear we have a very tense and potentially unpleasant night ahead. For the first time, it's likely that the far-right 'protests' planned will be met with opposition from anti-fascist groups who have got wind of potential locations and are organising counter-protests, rather than the ad hoc opposition we've seen so far. The police may struggle to keep the two sides apart. Where I live, totally unaffected so far, quite a lot of shops have chosen to close early. Let's all hope it comes to nothing and fizzles out as people choose to stay at home.
Though the police anticipated it well in Leicester last Saturday, with the anti-EDL counter protesters occupying the meeting point before the EDL arrived. It was very well policed, and I felt perfectly safe wandering through. The Saturday afternoon shoppers looked more bemused than intimidated. It helped that the counter-protestors outnumbered the EDL by 10 to 1.
The UK economy grew by more than expected during 2022, as revised official data showed the economy did better in the face of soaring inflation and post-pandemic recovery than previously thought.
The estimate for gross domestic product (GDP) rose from 4.3% to 4.8% in 2022, a larger than usual upgrade, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
This was primarily driven by stronger growth in the transport, professional and business support services industries during the year.
At the risk of whataboutery of my own, less widely reported is that most of the group went into the pub to apologise for the damage by what they called a small group of trouble makers. They helped clear up and agreed to compensate the damage. The pub has now banned the man who was beaten up for provoking the attack and issued a statement praising community leaders.
Your interpretation of this is incredibly naive.
Erm exactly how does a man sitting in a pub having a drink provoke a mob to go down and attack him?
Shouting racist abuse at people who are walking past the pub.
Far from the first time something like that has happened in a pub and the manager of the pub is well within their ights to bar someone engaging in such unpleasant behaviour from their premises.
Do you have a link for that or is that just your assumption? The story yesterday was someone tweeted there were edl supporters drinking there and a mob formed to go attack them. I have not seen any story contradicting that as yet though not saying there isn't one
Watching Walz, I was reminded of how British politicians in their prime like William Hague and Boris Johnson could use humour to demolish opponents. Coach Walz has that in spades.
Yes a bit of humour can be devastating. Walz seems like a nice guy but the attacks we are already seeing is that he is another progressive making this slate the most left wing in America's history. It has taken Trump an extraordinarily long time to refocus his guns that were set to attack Biden but that is the direction that they seem to be moving to.
Will this work? Americans have a very different idea of what is left wing than we do. I think personality matters more these days and Walz seems to have plenty. Still concerned that she didn't go for Shapiro though. That would have broadened the ticket. Lots of Trump outriders expressing relief that she didn't.
Shapiro not being picked revealed that the number of Jew haters among the Dems is at a level capable of affecting elections.
Does it ? The vast majority of Jewish representation in Congress is Democratic, of course. And Shapiro himself is a very popular Democratic governor.
The Dems have the support of both Jews and Jew haters.
Its an interesting source of friction.
What we have seen in the western world during recent generations has been Jews trending politically to the right and Jew hatred moving politically to the left.
The USA has seen the second element but, not yet, much of the first.
Because Jews in Golders Green never voted for Mrs Thatcher to be their MP? This is nuts.
As for the Dems, Josh Shapiro was in the running until the day before the announcement. They probably already knew he is Jewish by that point. It's not as if he was hiding it. To conclude antisemitism cost Shapiro the VP nominee slot is bizarre.
It was a factor - 'progressives' didn't like Shapiro:
The strongest argument against picking Shapiro is rooted in his hardline stance against both the Gaza protests on Pennsylvania university campuses—some of which he compared to white supremacist encampments—and the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement seeking to reverse Israel’s brutal human-rights record in the Occupied Territories. In The New Republic, writer David Klion made the case that Shapiro’s elevation to the ticket would kill off much of the movement energy now marshaled behind Harris’s run.
Harris is no political fool and capable of seeing the advantages and disadvantages each potential VP candidate brought.
To accept this thesis demands Kamala and her team not notice Shapiro is Jewish until the last moment, literally the day before the announcement, else he'd have been ruled out weeks ago, or never ruled in.
On domestic matters, I fear we have a very tense and potentially unpleasant night ahead. For the first time, it's likely that the far-right 'protests' planned will be met with opposition from anti-fascist groups who have got wind of potential locations and are organising counter-protests, rather than the ad hoc opposition we've seen so far. The police may struggle to keep the two sides apart. Where I live, totally unaffected so far, quite a lot of shops have chosen to close early. Let's all hope it comes to nothing and fizzles out as people choose to stay at home.
Though the police anticipated it well in Leicester last Saturday, with the anti-EDL counter protesters occupying the meeting point before the EDL arrived. It was very well policed, and I felt perfectly safe wandering through. The Saturday afternoon shoppers looked more bemused than intimidated. It helped that the counter-protestors outnumbered the EDL by 10 to 1.
Yeah - I was bit worried about the counter protests but the sheer scale of them has acted as an effective deterrent in some places.
It's important that there are white people joining in so it isolates the far-right as the racist arseholes rather than the Musk perception of Muslims v England.
The UK economy grew by more than expected during 2022, as revised official data showed the economy did better in the face of soaring inflation and post-pandemic recovery than previously thought.
The estimate for gross domestic product (GDP) rose from 4.3% to 4.8% in 2022, a larger than usual upgrade, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
This was primarily driven by stronger growth in the transport, professional and business support services industries during the year.
I’ve got a suspicion these planned “30 attacks” on lawyers etc won’t actually materialise and we will see basically nothing. Maybe a few kids. Its probably the coppers (understandably) jumping at ghosts and bots on Telegram, who are deliberately trying to spook them
Indeed I think the riots, for now, are largely done
Watching Walz, I was reminded of how British politicians in their prime like William Hague and Boris Johnson could use humour to demolish opponents. Coach Walz has that in spades.
Yes a bit of humour can be devastating. Walz seems like a nice guy but the attacks we are already seeing is that he is another progressive making this slate the most left wing in America's history. It has taken Trump an extraordinarily long time to refocus his guns that were set to attack Biden but that is the direction that they seem to be moving to.
Will this work? Americans have a very different idea of what is left wing than we do. I think personality matters more these days and Walz seems to have plenty. Still concerned that she didn't go for Shapiro though. That would have broadened the ticket. Lots of Trump outriders expressing relief that she didn't.
The MAGA were always going to depict Harris as far left (by US standards), so not sure there are many votes there.
Key for the Dems is to enthuse the base and GOTV especially women, the young and minorities. We saw in our election how critical that is. The Ed Davey style is the way to go, positive and fun.
I agree with the first point but that is why there were advantages in having someone more moderate (like Biden was) on the ticket for balance. She has left herself open and it remains to be seen whether this finds any traction or not.
I am concerned that there is an assumption that this is over because we would want it to be so. Trump is still ahead and this election is still to be won or lost. Harris has had 3 very good weeks but that has got her back to near parity, it has not given her a decisive lead.
Quite: Harris's accession, the Vance VP pick, and the general organization of the Democrats have turned this into a genuinely competitive Presidential election.
But let us not forget that in the US - as in pretty much the entire developed world - prices have risen faster than wages over the last four years. Voters don't like getting poorer, and generally punish the party in power.
The only reason that this election is competitive is because Trump is such a divisive candidate, and because Republicans (other than Trump) have engaged in a politically unpopular campaign to criminalize abortion.
I would make Trump still the narrow favorite, but it could easily go either way - and a landslide victory for either candidate is not impossible.
Some Leon level forecasting there. Literally anything can happen, and that prediction will be correct.
I will revise the forecast as we get nearer the election.
But here's my order of likelihood outcomes:
1. Very narrow Republican victory, with the Sunbelt coming through for Trump, but the rust belt remaining blue.
2. Very narrow Democrat victory, with at least one of the Sunbelt states holding solid.
3. Solid Democrat victory, with the Sunbelt staying blue, and a couple of competitive states -like Iowa or Florida - flipping blue.
4. Solid Republican victory, with all of Trump's 2016 wins, plus Virginia and Nevada.
Looking at that clip and his easy folksy manner with the crowd: perhaps it should be Walz/Harris?
He has a touch of Ronnie Reagan.
All of the proposed veep candidates seemed like a better bet for the actual job than Kamala. In all the noise of election fun, many seem to have lost sight that when it’s over, she actually has to govern, in what is arguably the least stable geopol climate in generations and with an economy that might easily resemble the smoking wreck of early 2009.
On domestic matters, I fear we have a very tense and potentially unpleasant night ahead. For the first time, it's likely that the far-right 'protests' planned will be met with opposition from anti-fascist groups who have got wind of potential locations and are organising counter-protests, rather than the ad hoc opposition we've seen so far. The police may struggle to keep the two sides apart. Where I live, totally unaffected so far, quite a lot of shops have chosen to close early. Let's all hope it comes to nothing and fizzles out as people choose to stay at home.
Though the police anticipated it well in Leicester last Saturday, with the anti-EDL counter protesters occupying the meeting point before the EDL arrived. It was very well policed, and I felt perfectly safe wandering through. The Saturday afternoon shoppers looked more bemused than intimidated. It helped that the counter-protestors outnumbered the EDL by 10 to 1.
Yeah - I was bit worried about the counter protests but the sheer scale of them has acted as an effective deterrent in some places.
It was a completely peaceful and multi racial counter protest too. It's important to show solidarity with threatened communities, and be clear that the EDL do not speak for us all.
I have supported several of my migrant colleagues at work too who felt threatened by the atmosphere nationally.
Watching Walz, I was reminded of how British politicians in their prime like William Hague and Boris Johnson could use humour to demolish opponents. Coach Walz has that in spades.
Yes a bit of humour can be devastating. Walz seems like a nice guy but the attacks we are already seeing is that he is another progressive making this slate the most left wing in America's history. It has taken Trump an extraordinarily long time to refocus his guns that were set to attack Biden but that is the direction that they seem to be moving to.
Will this work? Americans have a very different idea of what is left wing than we do. I think personality matters more these days and Walz seems to have plenty. Still concerned that she didn't go for Shapiro though. That would have broadened the ticket. Lots of Trump outriders expressing relief that she didn't.
Shapiro not being picked revealed that the number of Jew haters among the Dems is at a level capable of affecting elections.
Does it ? The vast majority of Jewish representation in Congress is Democratic, of course. And Shapiro himself is a very popular Democratic governor.
The Dems have the support of both Jews and Jew haters.
Its an interesting source of friction.
What we have seen in the western world during recent generations has been Jews trending politically to the right and Jew hatred moving politically to the left.
The USA has seen the second element but, not yet, much of the first.
Because Jews in Golders Green never voted for Mrs Thatcher to be their MP? This is nuts.
As for the Dems, Josh Shapiro was in the running until the day before the announcement. They probably already knew he is Jewish by that point. It's not as if he was hiding it. To conclude antisemitism cost Shapiro the VP nominee slot is bizarre.
It was a factor - 'progressives' didn't like Shapiro:
The strongest argument against picking Shapiro is rooted in his hardline stance against both the Gaza protests on Pennsylvania university campuses—some of which he compared to white supremacist encampments—and the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement seeking to reverse Israel’s brutal human-rights record in the Occupied Territories. In The New Republic, writer David Klion made the case that Shapiro’s elevation to the ticket would kill off much of the movement energy now marshaled behind Harris’s run.
Harris is no political fool and capable of seeing the advantages and disadvantages each potential VP candidate brought.
To accept this thesis demands Kamala and her team not notice Shapiro is Jewish until the last moment, literally the day before the announcement, else he'd have been ruled out weeks ago, or never ruled in.
No, it merely requires Harris to have considered the relative advantages and disadvantages of each candidate.
Even with the hostility towards him from 'progressives' Shapiro was a strong candidate.
That Betfair graph shows that if a week is a long time in politics, the past month has been its own geological epoch.
On 15th July, Trump was registering a 71% likelihood of being President again. Harris was on just 6%. Three weeks on, it's 50-47. Trump down 21%, Harris up 41%.
In three weeks.
And with the Democratic Convention wrapping up on the 22nd August, who can predict what those numbers be in another three weeks...?
“I am self-declaring as a “community leader” for white English people.
From now on, if the police want to manage protests, I demand they speak to me and any other self identified community leaders.
I will tell the police what style will be suitable for our protests.
I’m guessing everyone is okay with this. I’m assuming I don’t need to be elected either?
If it’s acceptable for Birmingham, then it’s acceptable for the rest of us. Equality means equality.”
I can’t believe this cop hasn’t resigned already this morning
Why should he do that, when you see the weight of pb thinks this perfectly normal and acceptable, no doubt entirely representative of the view of his westminster paymasters (of all political colours).
Watching Walz, I was reminded of how British politicians in their prime like William Hague and Boris Johnson could use humour to demolish opponents. Coach Walz has that in spades.
Yes a bit of humour can be devastating. Walz seems like a nice guy but the attacks we are already seeing is that he is another progressive making this slate the most left wing in America's history. It has taken Trump an extraordinarily long time to refocus his guns that were set to attack Biden but that is the direction that they seem to be moving to.
Will this work? Americans have a very different idea of what is left wing than we do. I think personality matters more these days and Walz seems to have plenty. Still concerned that she didn't go for Shapiro though. That would have broadened the ticket. Lots of Trump outriders expressing relief that she didn't.
Shapiro not being picked revealed that the number of Jew haters among the Dems is at a level capable of affecting elections.
Does it ? The vast majority of Jewish representation in Congress is Democratic, of course. And Shapiro himself is a very popular Democratic governor.
The Dems have the support of both Jews and Jew haters.
Its an interesting source of friction.
What we have seen in the western world during recent generations has been Jews trending politically to the right and Jew hatred moving politically to the left.
The USA has seen the second element but, not yet, much of the first.
For those who don’t know - NASA contracted with SpaceX and Boeing to provide human access to the International Space Station under the Commercial Crew program.
SpaceX’s Dragon, launched on Falcon 9 has been up and running for years.
Boeing is running so late that some thought they might miss the end of the Space Station - due to be decommissioned at the end of this decade.
Faults, mistakes, failed test flights. It’s been a mess.
The final checkout flight, with two astronauts, has turned into another mess. The thrusters for the space craft are acting up (among other things). Without thrusters, in space you are dead.
So the return of the astronauts on the Boeing Starliner has been delayed and now delayed again.
Further - the reason that the NASA administrator is saying that he will make the final decision is a sign. Within NASA, there is a process, by which an engineer who isn’t happy with a decision can formally kick it upstairs. So there is division in NASA about what to do.
One option is to return the astronauts on the next SpaceX Dragon. But it turns out that that Boeing deleted the option from Starliner to do an automated, unmanned return. If Starliner can’t leave ISS that’s another disaster - it bock one of the docking ports
Why politics?
1) The astronauts abandoning Starliner and going home in Dragon will nearly certainly end the Starliner program. A public humiliation for Boeing. 2) Boeing has a vast army of political supporters - the decision is political 3) if the astronauts return in Starliner and there is an accident. It will be a massive thing - hearings in Congress for a start. There would be accusations of political interference. 4) the NASA admin - Bill Nelson - is a political appointee and former Dem politician.
This is touching the White House and, potentially, November.
That Betfair graph shows that if a week is a long time in politics, the past month has been its own geological epoch.
On 15th July, Trump was registering a 71% likelihood of being President again. Harris was on just 6%. Three weeks on, it's 50-47. Trump down 21%, Harris up 41%.
In three weeks.
And with the Democratic Convention wrapping up on the 22nd August, who can predict what those numbers be in another three weeks...?
Big events can have big effects.
Biden's replacement by Harris was a big event with a big effect.
If we get more big events then there might be more big effects.
Watching Walz, I was reminded of how British politicians in their prime like William Hague and Boris Johnson could use humour to demolish opponents. Coach Walz has that in spades.
Yes a bit of humour can be devastating. Walz seems like a nice guy but the attacks we are already seeing is that he is another progressive making this slate the most left wing in America's history. It has taken Trump an extraordinarily long time to refocus his guns that were set to attack Biden but that is the direction that they seem to be moving to.
Will this work? Americans have a very different idea of what is left wing than we do. I think personality matters more these days and Walz seems to have plenty. Still concerned that she didn't go for Shapiro though. That would have broadened the ticket. Lots of Trump outriders expressing relief that she didn't.
Shapiro not being picked revealed that the number of Jew haters among the Dems is at a level capable of affecting elections.
Does it ? The vast majority of Jewish representation in Congress is Democratic, of course. And Shapiro himself is a very popular Democratic governor.
The Dems have the support of both Jews and Jew haters.
Its an interesting source of friction.
What we have seen in the western world during recent generations has been Jews trending politically to the right and Jew hatred moving politically to the left.
The USA has seen the second element but, not yet, much of the first.
Because Jews in Golders Green never voted for Mrs Thatcher to be their MP? This is nuts.
As for the Dems, Josh Shapiro was in the running until the day before the announcement. They probably already knew he is Jewish by that point. It's not as if he was hiding it. To conclude antisemitism cost Shapiro the VP nominee slot is bizarre.
It was a factor - 'progressives' didn't like Shapiro:
The strongest argument against picking Shapiro is rooted in his hardline stance against both the Gaza protests on Pennsylvania university campuses—some of which he compared to white supremacist encampments—and the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement seeking to reverse Israel’s brutal human-rights record in the Occupied Territories. In The New Republic, writer David Klion made the case that Shapiro’s elevation to the ticket would kill off much of the movement energy now marshaled behind Harris’s run.
Harris is no political fool and capable of seeing the advantages and disadvantages each potential VP candidate brought.
To accept this thesis demands Kamala and her team not notice Shapiro is Jewish until the last moment, literally the day before the announcement, else he'd have been ruled out weeks ago, or never ruled in.
No, it merely requires Harris to have considered the relative advantages and disadvantages of each candidate.
Even with the hostility towards him from 'progressives' Shapiro was a strong candidate.
Harris is married to a conservative Jewish lawyer. If he's willing to stump for her (which I presume he is), that neutralizes the benefits of Shapiro somewhat.
I’ve got a suspicion these planned “30 attacks” on lawyers etc won’t actually materialise and we will see basically nothing. Maybe a few kids. Its probably the coppers (understandably) jumping at ghosts and bots on Telegram, who are deliberately trying to spook them
Indeed I think the riots, for now, are largely done
Pray that I’m right!
Hope you're right. If you are, no doubt you'll be singing Starmer's praises for dealing with it all so well.
“I am self-declaring as a “community leader” for white English people.
From now on, if the police want to manage protests, I demand they speak to me and any other self identified community leaders.
I will tell the police what style will be suitable for our protests.
I’m guessing everyone is okay with this. I’m assuming I don’t need to be elected either?
If it’s acceptable for Birmingham, then it’s acceptable for the rest of us. Equality means equality.”
I can’t believe this cop hasn’t resigned already this morning
Why should he do that, when you see the weight of pb thinks this perfectly normal and acceptable, no doubt entirely representative of the view of his westminster paymasters (of all political colours).
Just as Twitter is not the world, neither is PB. In some ways that’s sad, we’d probably do a better job of governing than the last 8 or so UK governments
Anyone normal can see this is a frankly outrageous remark by a senior policeman
That Betfair graph shows that if a week is a long time in politics, the past month has been its own geological epoch.
On 15th July, Trump was registering a 71% likelihood of being President again. Harris was on just 6%. Three weeks on, it's 50-47. Trump down 21%, Harris up 41%.
In three weeks.
And with the Democratic Convention wrapping up on the 22nd August, who can predict what those numbers be in another three weeks...?
US elections are like a good test match aren't they. Favourite swinging back and forth. Trump is currently bowling on a flat pitch to a ton partnership. The Yorker isn’t working. He’s getting hot and bothered. Does he have a Simon Jones evening session slow bowl inswinger in him?
I did warn you the VP market was unpredictable. Although I missed the chance to short Shapiro, I was green on both of them.
I missed too.
I really do think that the Americans need to revise their over protracted Primary system, which seems to consume vast amounts of time and money, and create division within parties. Our parties might want to ponder this too.
The last fortnight has come up with a better pairing through a much shorter process and unified the party.
One of the Harris/Walz advantages is to be new and fresh, generating interest and attention at exactly the right time and 3 months to go.
And most important, generating money.
I suspect there will be another big uptick in donations after the addition of Walz to the ticket. perhaps even from some big corporate names. Wisconsin under Governor Walz has been very good at attracting inward investment. Corporate USA doesn't seem too worried by the "left wing" tag. Because it is nonsense.
In that respect, Shapiro and Walz are pretty similar. And both have a pretty good record on cutting red tape - "permitting reform" in US parlance" - to enable development.
If by 'left wing' they mean pro right to choose; public education; public healthcare, then sure. But those are all popular positions.
As Waltz puts it: "I'm the monster who introduce free school meals".
He’s also the monster who introduced 40-week abortions and porn in primary schools, in his own state.
I’ve got a suspicion these planned “30 attacks” on lawyers etc won’t actually materialise and we will see basically nothing. Maybe a few kids. Its probably the coppers (understandably) jumping at ghosts and bots on Telegram, who are deliberately trying to spook them
Indeed I think the riots, for now, are largely done
Pray that I’m right!
Hope you're right. If you are, no doubt you'll be singing Starmer's praises for dealing with it all so well.
Ah, nope
I believe riots have a life cycle, a natural term of birth and flourishing and decline. About a week?
Watching Walz, I was reminded of how British politicians in their prime like William Hague and Boris Johnson could use humour to demolish opponents. Coach Walz has that in spades.
Yes a bit of humour can be devastating. Walz seems like a nice guy but the attacks we are already seeing is that he is another progressive making this slate the most left wing in America's history. It has taken Trump an extraordinarily long time to refocus his guns that were set to attack Biden but that is the direction that they seem to be moving to.
Will this work? Americans have a very different idea of what is left wing than we do. I think personality matters more these days and Walz seems to have plenty. Still concerned that she didn't go for Shapiro though. That would have broadened the ticket. Lots of Trump outriders expressing relief that she didn't.
Shapiro not being picked revealed that the number of Jew haters among the Dems is at a level capable of affecting elections.
Does it ? The vast majority of Jewish representation in Congress is Democratic, of course. And Shapiro himself is a very popular Democratic governor.
The Dems have the support of both Jews and Jew haters.
Its an interesting source of friction.
What we have seen in the western world during recent generations has been Jews trending politically to the right and Jew hatred moving politically to the left.
The USA has seen the second element but, not yet, much of the first.
Because Jews in Golders Green never voted for Mrs Thatcher to be their MP? This is nuts.
As for the Dems, Josh Shapiro was in the running until the day before the announcement. They probably already knew he is Jewish by that point. It's not as if he was hiding it. To conclude antisemitism cost Shapiro the VP nominee slot is bizarre.
It was a factor - 'progressives' didn't like Shapiro:
The strongest argument against picking Shapiro is rooted in his hardline stance against both the Gaza protests on Pennsylvania university campuses—some of which he compared to white supremacist encampments—and the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement seeking to reverse Israel’s brutal human-rights record in the Occupied Territories. In The New Republic, writer David Klion made the case that Shapiro’s elevation to the ticket would kill off much of the movement energy now marshaled behind Harris’s run.
Harris is no political fool and capable of seeing the advantages and disadvantages each potential VP candidate brought.
To accept this thesis demands Kamala and her team not notice Shapiro is Jewish until the last moment, literally the day before the announcement, else he'd have been ruled out weeks ago, or never ruled in.
No, it merely requires Harris to have considered the relative advantages and disadvantages of each candidate.
Even with the hostility towards him from 'progressives' Shapiro was a strong candidate.
Harris is married to a conservative Jewish lawyer. If he's willing to stump for her (which I presume he is), that neutralizes the benefits of Shapiro somewhat.
The main advantage Shapiro brought was a Pennsylvania boost - I don't see how Harris's husband helps there.
I do wonder if Harris would have been more likely to pick Shapiro if her own husband had not been Jewish.
I did warn you the VP market was unpredictable. Although I missed the chance to short Shapiro, I was green on both of them.
I missed too.
I really do think that the Americans need to revise their over protracted Primary system, which seems to consume vast amounts of time and money, and create division within parties. Our parties might want to ponder this too.
The last fortnight has come up with a better pairing through a much shorter process and unified the party.
One of the Harris/Walz advantages is to be new and fresh, generating interest and attention at exactly the right time and 3 months to go.
And most important, generating money.
I suspect there will be another big uptick in donations after the addition of Walz to the ticket. perhaps even from some big corporate names. Wisconsin under Governor Walz has been very good at attracting inward investment. Corporate USA doesn't seem too worried by the "left wing" tag. Because it is nonsense.
In that respect, Shapiro and Walz are pretty similar. And both have a pretty good record on cutting red tape - "permitting reform" in US parlance" - to enable development.
If by 'left wing' they mean pro right to choose; public education; public healthcare, then sure. But those are all popular positions.
As Waltz puts it: "I'm the monster who introduce free school meals".
He’s also the monster who introduced 40-week abortions and porn in primary schools, in his own state.
“I am self-declaring as a “community leader” for white English people.
From now on, if the police want to manage protests, I demand they speak to me and any other self identified community leaders.
I will tell the police what style will be suitable for our protests.
I’m guessing everyone is okay with this. I’m assuming I don’t need to be elected either?
If it’s acceptable for Birmingham, then it’s acceptable for the rest of us. Equality means equality.”
I can’t believe this cop hasn’t resigned already this morning
Why should he do that, when you see the weight of pb thinks this perfectly normal and acceptable, no doubt entirely representative of the view of his westminster paymasters (of all political colours).
Just as Twitter is not the world, neither is PB. In some ways that’s sad, we’d probably do a better job of governing than the last 8 or so UK governments
Anyone normal can see this is a frankly outrageous remark by a senior policeman
Oh I agree. But why do you think 2TK would expect his resignation? And given guidance has unlikely changed since 4th July, would would Sunak demand it either?
Seems to me that policing of potentially combustible events in some of these combative Muslim groups is done quietly by Thames House secondees. And for all I know, that is the right course. But it would rather indicate that our country has a bigger problem with secretarianism than is being let on.
On domestic matters, I fear we have a very tense and potentially unpleasant night ahead. For the first time, it's likely that the far-right 'protests' planned will be met with opposition from anti-fascist groups who have got wind of potential locations and are organising counter-protests, rather than the ad hoc opposition we've seen so far. The police may struggle to keep the two sides apart. Where I live, totally unaffected so far, quite a lot of shops have chosen to close early. Let's all hope it comes to nothing and fizzles out as people choose to stay at home.
Though the police anticipated it well in Leicester last Saturday, with the anti-EDL counter protesters occupying the meeting point before the EDL arrived. It was very well policed, and I felt perfectly safe wandering through. The Saturday afternoon shoppers looked more bemused than intimidated. It helped that the counter-protestors outnumbered the EDL by 10 to 1.
Yeah - I was bit worried about the counter protests but the sheer scale of them has acted as an effective deterrent in some places.
It was a completely peaceful and multi racial counter protest too. It's important to show solidarity with threatened communities, and be clear that the EDL do not speak for us all.
I have supported several of my migrant colleagues at work too who felt threatened by the atmosphere nationally.
There's quite a lot of fear out there. It took me a bit by surprise as I'd been shrugging it off as mindless hooliganism in a few limited locations, but I was forgetting that the attacks aren't targeted at people who look like me. And of course social media has the effect both of galvanising the rioters themselves and making the country look much more scary than it is in reality. Here's an extract from an official message that went round our firm last night:
"Good Evening,
As you will all be aware, the UK has been gripped by civil unrest, demonstrations and violence against ethnic and religious minorities over the last week and there are plans for additional demonstrations over the next few days at least. We share the concerns many of you have expressed about the threats posed by some of these flashpoints across the country, and as such want to add our voices to those of firm leadership encouraging you to prioritise your safety and wellbeing at this time. If you are concerned about travelling to offices or client site, please discuss with your engagement leaders and performance leaders as soon as possible, and avail yourself of the resources here."
This is the really challenging problem with on the one hand addressing the obviously widely held concerns of parts of the population, and on the other hand protecting a significant part of our population from, at minimum, the sense of being second class citizens. The target of the protests is not government policy, it's actual people and the places they live or worship.
That Betfair graph shows that if a week is a long time in politics, the past month has been its own geological epoch.
On 15th July, Trump was registering a 71% likelihood of being President again. Harris was on just 6%. Three weeks on, it's 50-47. Trump down 21%, Harris up 41%.
In three weeks.
And with the Democratic Convention wrapping up on the 22nd August, who can predict what those numbers be in another three weeks...?
US elections are like a good test match aren't they. Favourite swinging back and forth. Trump is currently bowling on a flat pitch to a ton partnership. The Yorker isn’t working. He’s getting hot and bothered. Does he have a Simon Jones evening session slow bowl inswinger in him?
For those who don’t know - NASA contracted with SpaceX and Boeing to provide human access to the International Space Station under the Commercial Crew program.
SpaceX’s Dragon, launched on Falcon 9 has been up and running for years.
Boeing is running so late that some thought they might miss the end of the Space Station - due to be decommissioned at the end of this decade.
Faults, mistakes, failed test flights. It’s been a mess.
The final checkout flight, with two astronauts, has turned into another mess. The thrusters for the space craft are acting up (among other things). Without thrusters, in space you are dead.
So the return of the astronauts on the Boeing Starliner has been delayed and now delayed again.
Further - the reason that the NASA administrator is saying that he will make the final decision is a sign. Within NASA, there is a process, by which an engineer who isn’t happy with a decision can formally kick it upstairs. So there is division in NASA about what to do.
One option is to return the astronauts on the next SpaceX Dragon. But it turns out that that Boeing deleted the option from Starliner to do an automated, unmanned return. If Starliner can’t leave ISS that’s another disaster - it bock one of the docking ports
Why politics?
1) The astronauts abandoning Starliner and going home in Dragon will nearly certainly end the Starliner program. A public humiliation for Boeing. 2) Boeing has a vast army of political supporters - the decision is political 3) if the astronauts return in Starliner and there is an accident. It will be a massive thing - hearings in Congress for a start. There would be accusations of political interference. 4) the NASA admin - Bill Nelson - is a political appointee and former Dem politician.
This is touching the White House and, potentially, November.
Not sure the astronauts want to come back on Starliner - would you, in their position?
If they have what I’ll euphemistically call an adverse event on re-entry, that will sure as hell affect politics in the run up to the election.
The sensible thing to do is send them back on Dragon, which has its own political implications, but is a lot less likely to end up with two dead explorers.
Then they need to either work out how to get Starliner back uncrewed, or instead send it off into space somewhere. If it’s stuck attached to the ISS in an unserviceable state, then everyone has several years of looking at it parked there, as a constant reminder of just how badly Boeing screwed the pooch on this one.
I did warn you the VP market was unpredictable. Although I missed the chance to short Shapiro, I was green on both of them.
I missed too.
I really do think that the Americans need to revise their over protracted Primary system, which seems to consume vast amounts of time and money, and create division within parties. Our parties might want to ponder this too.
The last fortnight has come up with a better pairing through a much shorter process and unified the party.
One of the Harris/Walz advantages is to be new and fresh, generating interest and attention at exactly the right time and 3 months to go.
And most important, generating money.
I suspect there will be another big uptick in donations after the addition of Walz to the ticket. perhaps even from some big corporate names. Wisconsin under Governor Walz has been very good at attracting inward investment. Corporate USA doesn't seem too worried by the "left wing" tag. Because it is nonsense.
In that respect, Shapiro and Walz are pretty similar. And both have a pretty good record on cutting red tape - "permitting reform" in US parlance" - to enable development.
If by 'left wing' they mean pro right to choose; public education; public healthcare, then sure. But those are all popular positions.
As Waltz puts it: "I'm the monster who introduce free school meals".
He’s also the monster who introduced 40-week abortions and porn in primary schools, in his own state.
The Republicans are really worried about this guy, aren't they?
I think the Tories have got a real case against the ONS, from saying that the UK was the outlier in not having recovered from COVID setting a terrible narrative for them on the economy to now suggesting that not only did we recover very quickly but we were among the first to do so and saw growth faster than everywhere except the US. I also think with the correct GDP data upfront the BoE would have felt more confident in raising interest rates earlier heading off inflation much faster.
Given the changes for 2022 and methodology update I also wouldn't be surprised if in September when the 2023 figures are updated there was no recession at the end of last year and in fact we saw growth all the way through the second half of 2023 which I think would have set a completely different narrative to the election and seen the Tories hold on to a lot more seats in the South East, East and South ending up on ~200 rather than ~130. If I was Rishi right now I'd be absolutely seething and Jeremy Hunt needs to call for an independent audit of ONS procedures because they keep getting it wrong, systematically there seems to be an approach that prefers to undershoot and revise upwards.
Watching Walz, I was reminded of how British politicians in their prime like William Hague and Boris Johnson could use humour to demolish opponents. Coach Walz has that in spades.
Yes a bit of humour can be devastating. Walz seems like a nice guy but the attacks we are already seeing is that he is another progressive making this slate the most left wing in America's history. It has taken Trump an extraordinarily long time to refocus his guns that were set to attack Biden but that is the direction that they seem to be moving to.
Will this work? Americans have a very different idea of what is left wing than we do. I think personality matters more these days and Walz seems to have plenty. Still concerned that she didn't go for Shapiro though. That would have broadened the ticket. Lots of Trump outriders expressing relief that she didn't.
Shapiro not being picked revealed that the number of Jew haters among the Dems is at a level capable of affecting elections.
Does it ? The vast majority of Jewish representation in Congress is Democratic, of course. And Shapiro himself is a very popular Democratic governor.
The Dems have the support of both Jews and Jew haters.
Its an interesting source of friction.
What we have seen in the western world during recent generations has been Jews trending politically to the right and Jew hatred moving politically to the left.
The USA has seen the second element but, not yet, much of the first.
I’ve got a suspicion these planned “30 attacks” on lawyers etc won’t actually materialise and we will see basically nothing. Maybe a few kids. Its probably the coppers (understandably) jumping at ghosts and bots on Telegram, who are deliberately trying to spook them
Indeed I think the riots, for now, are largely done
Pray that I’m right!
Hope you're right. If you are, no doubt you'll be singing Starmer's praises for dealing with it all so well.
Ah, nope
I believe riots have a life cycle, a natural term of birth and flourishing and decline. About a week?
It’s been about a week now
It hasn’t rained, though. To stop rioting heavy rain is needed.
Watching Walz, I was reminded of how British politicians in their prime like William Hague and Boris Johnson could use humour to demolish opponents. Coach Walz has that in spades.
Yes a bit of humour can be devastating. Walz seems like a nice guy but the attacks we are already seeing is that he is another progressive making this slate the most left wing in America's history. It has taken Trump an extraordinarily long time to refocus his guns that were set to attack Biden but that is the direction that they seem to be moving to.
Will this work? Americans have a very different idea of what is left wing than we do. I think personality matters more these days and Walz seems to have plenty. Still concerned that she didn't go for Shapiro though. That would have broadened the ticket. Lots of Trump outriders expressing relief that she didn't.
Shapiro not being picked revealed that the number of Jew haters among the Dems is at a level capable of affecting elections.
Does it ? The vast majority of Jewish representation in Congress is Democratic, of course. And Shapiro himself is a very popular Democratic governor.
The Dems have the support of both Jews and Jew haters.
Its an interesting source of friction.
What we have seen in the western world during recent generations has been Jews trending politically to the right and Jew hatred moving politically to the left.
The USA has seen the second element but, not yet, much of the first.
I did warn you the VP market was unpredictable. Although I missed the chance to short Shapiro, I was green on both of them.
I missed too.
I really do think that the Americans need to revise their over protracted Primary system, which seems to consume vast amounts of time and money, and create division within parties. Our parties might want to ponder this too.
The last fortnight has come up with a better pairing through a much shorter process and unified the party.
One of the Harris/Walz advantages is to be new and fresh, generating interest and attention at exactly the right time and 3 months to go.
And most important, generating money.
I suspect there will be another big uptick in donations after the addition of Walz to the ticket. perhaps even from some big corporate names. Wisconsin under Governor Walz has been very good at attracting inward investment. Corporate USA doesn't seem too worried by the "left wing" tag. Because it is nonsense.
In that respect, Shapiro and Walz are pretty similar. And both have a pretty good record on cutting red tape - "permitting reform" in US parlance" - to enable development.
If by 'left wing' they mean pro right to choose; public education; public healthcare, then sure. But those are all popular positions.
As Waltz puts it: "I'm the monster who introduce free school meals".
He’s also the monster who introduced 40-week abortions and porn in primary schools, in his own state.
If you've got primary school kids needing abortions I say give them the porn, hopefully it'll keep them occupied.
That said, you may have fallen victim to an algorithm.
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This won't protect any of the group from prosecution but perhaps there's a difference in degree from the violent battle against the police happening at the same time in Plymouth or the man beaten up and in critical condition in Belfast, which people for some reason don't think was important enough to mention unlike the disturbance in Birmingham.
I’d still have Harris as fave, but maybe a bit less fave, now
In other worlds I DO GET ABOUT MORE. Literally.
White Man who was attacked in Birmingham is barred
As for the Dems, Josh Shapiro was in the running until the day before the announcement. They probably already knew he is Jewish by that point. It's not as if he was hiding it. To conclude antisemitism cost Shapiro the VP nominee slot is bizarre.
Rounini et al…
In short, the US Treasury has overridden the independence of the Fed and actively counteracted restrictive monetary policy by biasing debt issuance to short term bills rather than long term bonds. “ATI” - Activist Treasury Issuance.
This has the same impact as stealth quantitative easing, worth a 100bps rate cut in their central estimate but as high as 160bps. Thus far worth $800bn of injected liquidity, forecast to hit $2tr in the coming quarters.
This political intervention into monetary policy is on top of initiatives such as the 2023 Bank Term Funding Programme, which peaked at $165bn, socialising losses of the banking sector through inflation.
As I’ve said many times, the Biden “jobs miracle” is a total charade and this White House has managed the economy in a grotesquely irresponsible way. Feels a lot like a powder keg ready to blow, things are only being kept going by expansionary monetary and fiscal policy - 7.5% deficit in 2023 at a time of “full employment”. 2025 might be very choppy indeed.
Anyway, go back to talking about JD Vance and a sofa.
Even the UK left seem more enthusiastic about Harris and Walz on twitter than they are about Starmer. Yet it was Starmer who won a general election not their hero Corbyn even if he united the left behind him and increased turnout amongst the young
The strongest argument against picking Shapiro is rooted in his hardline stance against both the Gaza protests on Pennsylvania university campuses—some of which he compared to white supremacist encampments—and the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement seeking to reverse Israel’s brutal human-rights record in the Occupied Territories. In The New Republic, writer David Klion made the case that Shapiro’s elevation to the ticket would kill off much of the movement energy now marshaled behind Harris’s run.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/josh-shapiro-vp-kamala-harris-wrong/
Harris is no political fool and capable of seeing the advantages and disadvantages each potential VP candidate brought.
And both have a pretty good record on cutting red tape - "permitting reform" in US parlance" - to enable development.
If by 'left wing' they mean pro right to choose; public education; public healthcare, then sure. But those are all popular positions.
As Waltz puts it: "I'm the monster who introduce free school meals".
Biden's removal happened in a timescale which has worked perfectly for her.
As far as I know, in American law, he has no duty to offer balance or neutrality, so he can do what he likes. But maybe we have some American legal experts who can finesse this?
The answer, surely, is for all the people that dislike this to head off to Threads or Bluesky or that Mastothingy
But don't then critique the Democrats for not doing something they're spending a lot of time doing. If you're going to comment on US politics, then you can't have it both ways.
So that’s 2-8 years.
Plus - “In exceptional cases within category 1A, sentences of above 8 years may be appropriate”
And this, remember, is just for arson. There plenty of other things they can be charged with.
Something that is misunderstood about the sentencing in 2011. Very little was overturned on appeal. The courts took the “aggravating circumstance and actions” of the riots into account.
To compare with this - an idiot teenager who sets fire to some rubbish on a derelict site won’t get 8 years+ , he/she might get a community order.
What surprised some, in 2011, was that the courts didn’t ignore the aggravating factors and give out the usual sentences. So a bunch of people found out about box 1A.
But you called it "Jew haters".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn47798gxx4o
Far from the first time something like that has happened in a pub and the manager of the pub is well within their ights to bar someone engaging in such unpleasant behaviour from their premises.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/elizabeth-line-government-plan-renationalise-uk-railway-tfl-b1174924.html
The money-spinning Elizabeth line will not be nationalised under Government’s plan to bring the UK’s railways back under public control, it has been confirmed.
Both the “Lizzie line” and the London Overground will continue to operate as “concessions” run by private rail firms under contract to Transport for London, TfL and the Department for Transport told the Evening Standard.
This means that TfL will press ahead with the re-tendering of a new £3bn seven-year contract to run the Elizabeth line. Four bidders have been shortlisted and the winner is due to be announced early next year.
2011 in particular. But also some of the Snackbarist demos.
If police start dragging people off in the middle of a riot, that reduces the number of police policing the riot. Also there is a risk of creating a fighting focal point.
So they arrest the immediate most egregious examples to hand. The rest they identify through CCTV, the police photographers etc etc.
They scoop the up scum when it’s all died down and the offenders are on their own and not surrounded by hyped up friends. This creates less further violence and massively reduces the risk of harm to people - police or otherwise.
Or perhaps more like Thatcher - her replacement of Heath was a masterclass of making use of opportunities.
Professor Rebecca Haw Allensworth, of Vanderbilt University, said the boycott "was really trying to make a statement about X's policies and about their brands".
"That's protected by the First Amendment," she said.
The Supreme Court has made multiple rulings about the First Amendment and political speech when it comes to money.
But if he's controlling the political speech on his platform, it raises the question of whether he's a publisher under UK law. At which point he and/or the platform potentially becomes legally liable for hate speech published there - particularly if he uses his own account to amplify it.
It was entertaining observing the Lib Dems suddenly discovering an enthusiasm for rubber bullets.
It was noticeable that both pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel groups praised the pick.
But let us not forget that in the US - as in pretty much the entire developed world - prices have risen faster than wages over the last four years. Voters don't like getting poorer, and generally punish the party in power.
The only reason that this election is competitive is because Trump is such a divisive candidate, and because Republicans (other than Trump) have engaged in a politically unpopular campaign to criminalize abortion.
I would make Trump still the narrow favorite, but it could easily go either way - and a landslide victory for either candidate is not impossible.
When I just linked to that and that is precisely the point I was making?
No, I wasn't aware, that was completely new information to me.
Literally anything can happen, and that prediction will be correct.
It was, in fact, only when Vance decided to stick his toungue up Trump's rectum, particularly as regards not certifying the 2020 election, that people decided that Vance might actually be an amoral chancer.
Let's all hope it comes to nothing and fizzles out as people choose to stay at home.
Or some people that don't like Jews enough that they wouldn't vote for a Jew ?
Or that there aren't some people who believe in 'Jewish conspiracies' ?
On the last see Boy Kennedy's comments about covid being 'ethnically targeted'.
https://x.com/alexharmstrong/status/1820973805755367458?s=46&t=Vp6NqNN4ktoNY0DO98xlGA
“I am self-declaring as a “community leader” for white English people.
From now on, if the police want to manage protests, I demand they speak to me and any other self identified community leaders.
I will tell the police what style will be suitable for our protests.
I’m guessing everyone is okay with this. I’m assuming I don’t need to be elected either?
If it’s acceptable for Birmingham, then it’s acceptable for the rest of us. Equality means equality.”
The UK economy grew by more than expected during 2022, as revised official data showed the economy did better in the face of soaring inflation and post-pandemic recovery than previously thought.
The estimate for gross domestic product (GDP) rose from 4.3% to 4.8% in 2022, a larger than usual upgrade, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
This was primarily driven by stronger growth in the transport, professional and business support services industries during the year.
https://www.independent.co.uk/business/uk-economy-fared-better-in-2022-than-previously-thought-new-figures-show-b2592433.html
The irony is that the Truss project was never needed economically - things were going pretty well.
He has a touch of Ronnie Reagan.
It's important that there are white people joining in so it isolates the far-right as the racist arseholes rather than the Musk perception of Muslims v England.
Indeed I think the riots, for now, are largely done
Pray that I’m right!
But here's my order of likelihood outcomes:
1. Very narrow Republican victory, with the Sunbelt coming through for Trump, but the rust belt remaining blue.
2. Very narrow Democrat victory, with at least one of the Sunbelt states holding solid.
3. Solid Democrat victory, with the Sunbelt staying blue, and a couple of competitive states -like Iowa or Florida - flipping blue.
4. Solid Republican victory, with all of Trump's 2016 wins, plus Virginia and Nevada.
govern, in what is arguably the least stable geopol climate in generations and with an economy that might easily resemble the smoking wreck of early 2009.
I have supported several of my migrant colleagues at work too who felt threatened by the atmosphere nationally.
Even with the hostility towards him from 'progressives' Shapiro was a strong candidate.
On 15th July, Trump was registering a 71% likelihood of being President again. Harris was on just 6%. Three weeks on, it's 50-47. Trump down 21%, Harris up 41%.
In three weeks.
And with the Democratic Convention wrapping up on the 22nd August, who can predict what those numbers be in another three weeks...?
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/nasa-confirms-slip-of-crew-9-launch-to-late-september-for-flexibility/
For those who don’t know - NASA contracted with SpaceX and Boeing to provide human access to the International Space Station under the Commercial Crew program.
SpaceX’s Dragon, launched on Falcon 9 has been up and running for years.
Boeing is running so late that some thought they might miss the end of the Space Station - due to be decommissioned at the end of this decade.
Faults, mistakes, failed test flights. It’s been a mess.
The final checkout flight, with two astronauts, has turned into another mess. The thrusters for the space craft are acting up (among other things). Without thrusters, in space you are dead.
So the return of the astronauts on the Boeing Starliner has been delayed and now delayed again.
Further - the reason that the NASA administrator is saying that he will make the final decision is a sign. Within NASA, there is a process, by which an engineer who isn’t happy with a decision can formally kick it upstairs. So there is division in NASA about what to do.
One option is to return the astronauts on the next SpaceX Dragon. But it turns out that that Boeing deleted the option from Starliner to do an automated, unmanned return. If Starliner can’t leave ISS that’s another disaster - it bock one of the docking ports
Why politics?
1) The astronauts abandoning Starliner and going home in Dragon will nearly certainly end the Starliner program. A public humiliation for Boeing.
2) Boeing has a vast army of political supporters - the decision is political
3) if the astronauts return in Starliner and there is an accident. It will be a massive thing - hearings in Congress for a start. There would be accusations of political interference.
4) the NASA admin - Bill Nelson - is a political appointee and former Dem politician.
This is touching the White House and, potentially, November.
Biden's replacement by Harris was a big event with a big effect.
If we get more big events then there might be more big effects.
Otherwise not.
If you are, no doubt you'll be singing Starmer's praises for dealing with it all so well.
Anyone normal can see this is a frankly outrageous remark by a senior policeman
I believe riots have a life cycle, a natural term of birth and flourishing and decline. About a week?
It’s been about a week now
I do wonder if Harris would have been more likely to pick Shapiro if her own husband had not been Jewish.
Seems to me that policing of potentially combustible events in some of these combative Muslim groups is done quietly by Thames House secondees. And for all I know, that is the right course. But it would rather indicate that our country has a bigger problem with secretarianism than is being let on.
"Good Evening,
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This is the really challenging problem with on the one hand addressing the obviously widely held concerns of parts of the population, and on the other hand protecting a significant part of our population from, at minimum, the sense of being second class citizens. The target of the protests is not government policy, it's actual people and the places they live or worship.
If they have what I’ll euphemistically call an adverse event on re-entry, that will sure as hell affect politics in the run up to the election.
The sensible thing to do is send them back on Dragon, which has its own political implications, but is a lot less likely to end up with two dead explorers.
Then they need to either work out how to get Starliner back uncrewed, or instead send it off into space somewhere. If it’s stuck attached to the ISS in an unserviceable state, then everyone has several years of looking at it parked there, as a constant reminder of just how badly Boeing screwed the pooch on this one.
Given the changes for 2022 and methodology update I also wouldn't be surprised if in September when the 2023 figures are updated there was no recession at the end of last year and in fact we saw growth all the way through the second half of 2023 which I think would have set a completely different narrative to the election and seen the Tories hold on to a lot more seats in the South East, East and South ending up on ~200 rather than ~130. If I was Rishi right now I'd be absolutely seething and Jeremy Hunt needs to call for an independent audit of ONS procedures because they keep getting it wrong, systematically there seems to be an approach that prefers to undershoot and revise upwards.
And I suspect that the 'backstabber' rhetoric used against Miliband in 2015 had a tinge of antisemitism.
But the prominent politicians who have been caught up in antisemitism allegations have been leftists - Corbyn, Livingstone, Abbott among them.
The far-right might overtake Islamic extremism as to what people think is a big threat to the UK.
https://x.com/YouGov/status/1821111700126372182
* https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2024-06-23/ty-article/.premium/u-k-reform-party-candidate-blames-powerful-jewish-groups-for-muslim-immigration/00000190-458e-d16c-a7b0-5f8fa62b0000
* https://news.sky.com/story/reform-candidates-accused-of-antisemitic-posts-13160663
* https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/28/jewish-groups-and-mps-condemn-nigel-farage-for-antisemitic-dog-whistles
* https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/02/15/tory-mayor-salisbury-atiqul-hoque-expelled-antisemitism/
That said, you may have fallen victim to an algorithm.