Love Actually is the most vomit-inducingly kitsch waste of space since the Great Pyramid of Giza (View Post)

Giving Trump an "unprecedented" state visit in exchange for the US not leaving NATO and joining a military alliance with Russia is pretty good value. Trump apparently yesterday extended som… (View Post)

Any details of this polling? Pew research asked an open-ended question in 2023 and got: "Around a fifth of Americans (22%) name the United Kingdom as their country’s most important ally. This is… (View Post)

It's a bit of a niche interest, but pb.com is the one place to talk about minor-ish issues with voting systems: https://verfassungsblog.de/wahlkreissieger-ohne-bundestagssitz/ Discusses the new probl… (View Post)

In other German legal news, Merz has been criticised for inviting Netanyahu and promising to make sure he wouldn't be arrested. Apparently making sure he isn't arrested would be illegal. (View Post)