I'm quite interested in why they made that commitment. What's the theory of diplomacy behind it? To make a craven deal between Trump and Putin less likely - an effective poison pill? (View Post)

Council do it round here and it's almost universally observed now. The sky hasn't fallen in, despite some earnest predictions. Makes life much easier if you've got disabled relatives o… (View Post)

"Personally I try and avoid commenting on incidents such as we saw yesterday. Far too many times has the video been carefully edited to show one particular point of view, or we see only the begi… (View Post)

Whether the actual shooting was justified is only one small part of the story here, and can't really be assessed in isolation. The much bigger issues are 1) wtf are ICE up to in general, conceal… (View Post)

Yes - it's perfectly possible to explain that many Americans will support this kind of thing (unidentifiable federal agents storming into cities and killing US citizens), without actually espous… (View Post)