Reality is always more complex, and yet. The simple story is also mostly true. Often when people bring up the black people in Africa who profited from the slave trade they seem to do so to excuse the… (View Post)

I reject a choice between chopping off an arm and chopping off a leg. It can be hard to escape a forced choice with FPTP, but the only way to get something different is to reject the forced choice. O… (View Post)

I think it is likely that this individual received an exemplary sentence because of the wider context. In a similar way that people who called for violence online during the 2024 riots also received … (View Post)

I don't think it's shuffling people around between different pieces of land that is the issue. The issue is that Israel isn't willing to allow an independent Palestinian state to exist, with the sove… (View Post)

There's a difference between being wrong and being the enemy. From my point of view, Tories are [mostly] wrong, Russia is the enemy. Trump, and to a lesser extent Farage, are big on treating people i… (View Post)