In my view Starmer is viscerally hated because of what happened before him and how little has actually changed from what came before. By the time the Tories left office the average voter was pretty d… (View Post)

ETA: quotes a bit broken, my response to Cookie below. Completely agree. That and the 35k likes per minute on Bluesky suggests Polanski is a disappointing caricature of the very online left. What… (View Post)

FPT: This is facile. In that situation there are a lot of people who deserve to have their safety cared about, not least the police themselves who were presumably at risk of being stabbed next. We ca… (View Post)

Agreed on (1) and (2), and many are getting suckered in. Disagree on (3). I think most objectors are anti the idea in principle, rather than just on grounds of it being near them. I think most of the… (View Post)

I can't understand this line 'the UKs only Jewish party leader'. Polanski should be judged on his political skill, judgment etc (which seems to have been found wanting recently) rather… (View Post)