Yes, I always view people saying "my cause is just like X" with suspicion - you get anti-vaxxers saying it's like the holocaust, people annoyed about a planning decision saying it'… (View Post)

The writer seems to be more Green than Labour though now formally unaffiliated. It's obviously a scoop for the paper, and I'd have thought a rival party would normally have raised it ages a… (View Post)

Incidentally, while I'm agnostic on drug liberalisation, strip-searching a child for suspicion of carrying drugs seems to me wildly disproportionate, EVEN IF THEY ARE. A lot of people would find… (View Post)

Totally agree. It can sometimes be a deliberate tactic by opponents to try to put different groups against each other so as to obscure their common interest, but people do it even when not manipulate… (View Post)

Don't think so? POUM were the Trotskyists, persecuted by the Stalinists, no? My understanding was that Orwell positively liked the POUM, therefore disliked the Stalinists. A lesson from all that… (View Post)