I do think the best comparison is QAnon. For all those who are legitimately troubled by events in Gaza and wanting to express that, the most visible and active on these protests are now those who wan… (View Post)

Indeed. It also wasn't much of a secret that left to his own devices he was a Lexiteer given his past comments. But that didn't matter so much as not having a Labour campaign that was prepared to do … (View Post)

The issue with Truss's growth plans were that while fine in theory, they looked implausible in light of the actually existing UK economy. Which had - under Conservative governments that did cut certa… (View Post)

There's no doubt it's dangerous, but I'm not sure the threat is correctly identified as 'Islamist' - though there are elements that are. It's more like a left-wing version of QAnon that sees events i… (View Post)

They are doing so because in the UK that's where the electorate is. Britain and Labour itself has had its populist revolts, and they're widely seen as failures outside dwindling groups of very loud t… (View Post)