John Le Carre was right about the British establishment and how the alumni of the best schools will sell out their own country for status and money and in particular a desperate desire for American attention

Because this is what russia stands for:

The story of conservatism for the past 70 years or so is conservative establishment figures thinking they could temper the extremists in their movement by adopt some of their rhetoric and policies. But instead of that, they just wind up giving the radicals the car keys.

Let me give you a list of Reform UK promises and the diametrically opposite reality they will lead to if implemented. (1/?)

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

We got this with Brexit too where there was a lot of, "Aha! It wasn't as bad as you nerds warned!" ... yes because you listened to us and: 1. Had a multi-year transition period; 2. Negotiated a tariff free EU FTA; 3. Accepted EU standards; 4. Did not actually implement border screening for YEARS.

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Brexit was a referendum on whether the UK should leave the European Union. The UK has left the European Union. Referendum fulfilled. If the people bleating about "Brexit Betrayal" wanted the Referendum to enshrine their pet policy preferences, they should have included them in the question.

Every few years Western democracies elect conservative demagogues and travel alongside them on their learning journey to discovering that huge challenges like meaningfully cutting spending, changing global supply chains, and forging peace in war zones are actually quite complicated.

A lot of the "backlash against globalisation" is occurring in countries like the US where it made some people poorer, the country as a whole wealthier, a wealthy elite obscenely rich, and which at every opportunity chose against policies that would redistribute those outcomes more fairly.

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty” -Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)

A lot of what appeals to Trumpists about the sudden abandonment of Europe, Ukraine, Canada and Mexico is the emotional trauma it is causing. They're turning what was perhaps an imbalanced relationship into an abusive one. The cruelty is the point, and the shock and pain expressed is the pleasure.

Pretty disturbed by some of the Kremlin framing on the Trump talks being bought by parts of the media worldwide. It’s as if the genesis of the war is entirely forgotten. This isn’t a conflict which needs mediation. It was an unprovoked act of aggression. It could end tomorrow if Putin just withdrew.

Of course, the world hasn't gone mad. The Right has gone mad and is trying to drag the world down with it.

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Scousers leading the charge.

Dominic Grieve, ex Conservative Attorney General, excoriates Elon Musk for his baseless accusations against Keir Starmer.

💓 Ukrainian defenders sent canned meat to Czech President Petr Pavel with a message of gratitude for Czechia's help. 💬 "While many of us were spending Christmas in abundance, soldiers of the 10th Ukrainian Brigade were defending their country in the trenches."

we should be concerned about the impacts of social media on kids and teens, but i don’t think we’re worried nearly enough about what it’s doing to middle aged people and seniors

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Syrian army fighters have captured the strategic T4 airbase in Syria, driving out the Russians with curses. According to Arab and Western sources, there is a partial withdrawal of Russian units. t.me/c/1377735387...

While Putin had another one of his psychotic episodes yesterday in TV, the defeated Russian army in Syria receives its last „farewell message“ from the victorious free Syrian army.