"Swung to the hard right" overstates it, the far-right party came 6th behind the ruling party, the Osaka ruling party, a religious cult, and both of the different mutually antagonistic vers… (View Post)

On the EV thing I was in Shanghai and it was so weird, you're in the centre of the city and you've got the middle-income-country traffic with loads of cars and little scooters zooming in and out all … (View Post)

Totally OT I've been seeing threads like this about random members of Congress illegally being turned away from detention facilities and I thought it was interesting that they have the legal right to… (View Post)

On topic, TSE says: "Labour’s problem is self inflicted, for fourteen years Labour kept on saying austerity was a choice, this week’s vote was when those chickens came home to roost." The t… (View Post)

The real power move is to write about how you don't like it in the Spectator. You get loads of traffic from Bluesky because it's basically the only remaining platform that doesn't massively down-weig… (View Post)