It is fine to imagine things this way, but you’d also have to concede things like “Dominic Cummings outsmarted his Remainer opponents” and leave any further analysis.

Fun fact: the magical child safety solution which Jess Philips cited in her resignation letter is a vendor-specific offering, which benefited from an intense PR and lobbying campaign, and was previously praised by ... Prince Andrew. I always keep the receipts. heatherburns.tech/2026/02/20/t...

Personal attacks, sad to see such a sensible fellow brought to such a low place by a rapscallion.

Interesting when someone deliberately adopts a persona in order to trade off of it, in ottos case the centrist dad archetype, but then personalises criticism of that class to deflect it. Clearly to me the “nice isn’t it the quiet” is about a whole group of mostly men Otto has chosen to represent.

Journalists aphorism proven true!

Return of the war chopper.

Every clique gets their Jesus. That’s the deal.

Update: The quiet is no longer nice.

We’re going to need more hotdog suits.

Everyone should check out the work of Ethan Shone and Adam Ramsey for Open Democracy. They are for me, top working journalists who’ve been answering this question for a number of years now. That it’s even a question seems extremely naive at this point.

Noah smith saw a mediocre white dude that everyone hates and was like "I identify with this"

It's funny how the Blue Labour "left economics and social conservatism" types are basically invisible whenever Labour are doing austerity but desperate to yell into any available microphone on culture issues

I mean, you would *think* this would cause Discourse. What it instead prompted was months of televised roaring in fury at the unfairness and surely cheating that caused e.g. Ashworth to lose his seat.

The fact that the people who did Watergate, Iran-Contra, and Guantanamo got away with it is part of how we got here

What do these people think that the whole Corbyn thing was actually about?

Good for her.

This is exactly how all of those conservatives became some profoundly ill informed in the first place.

lol

Framing these two things, which are completely separate problems, as somehow in competition is exactly the kind of clumsy, half arsed punditry that’s come to characterise much of the Guardians worst output.

If you crowd fund me I’ll call Wes Streeting a bellend to his face.

Sometimes, disabled people mourn for the non-disabled life we had planned. I mourn who I could've been had the IDS, Kendall, Reeves, Osborne, Starmer, Cameron, Freud, Brown, Blunkett, Hain and cooper not cooperated in building the torment nexus that is social security in the UK.

Labour went the absolute worst way about picking the lowest hanging fruit. Taking all the flack of rising tax’s while securing an absolute pittance in terms of revenue. They should have gone further since they are taking the heat either way.

Incredibly telling that centrists simply cannot imagine being popular & winning elections by actually making people's lives materially better & only though flag shagging, having enemies & doing the wars

Russia is not Iraq. Not even close. And Britain, our coalition of the willing, will not be the US led coalition in Iraq. The potential here for calamity, is overwhelmingly more significant here than it was in the first gulf war. We all love picking our favourite historical allegory, but this is bad.

He was supposed to be winning the next election on the basis of dealing with gross inequality, and it’s impact on everyone particularly those in poverty who by far suffered the most and for the longest due to austerity. Today he announced further welfare cuts.

Can this man who’s fumbled every single golden opportunity he’s been handed finally land this one? I mean, that’s what literally everyone has said about everything and it’s been ‘no.’ Every other time. But maybe? Who knows.

The way no one ever goes to prison for bribery here is very funny. Do we think it’s because it never happens? Or do we think it’s because it isn’t illegal?

Aaron Bushnell died by self-immolation in protest of the Gaza genocide a year ago today. His memory should stir a fire in our souls, and force us to evaluate our commitment to a better world. mondoweiss.net/2025/02/reme...

Even if you believe the political salience of people marginalised by inherent characteristics, is too high. The response should be to analyse the methods by which the advocates of these people managed to make that happen. Because they have been more successful than class organisers.

What’s fun about this reporting, from last month. Is that it’s a pretty disingenuous framing of what the ethics advisor actually said. To the extent it cannot be an accident. The ethnics advisor noted, it does not have powers to actually demand any evidence, and so cannot prove she broke the code.

We keep electing capitalists and then they turn everyone and everything into raw resources for their mates. Wild innit. No one is safe.

I get why disabled people get annoyed by the “noone should ever use deliveroo” stuff. People often say “well I didn’t mean you specifically”. But if you’re disabled, that’s literally like 90% of things people say, and it’s extremely alienating and dehumanising to *always* be an after thought.

We can’t re-industrialise without international development. The overwhelming majority of international development is used to improve primary industries as well as freight transport infrastructure. We depend on this for our secondary industry.

The reason I always see these things as a matter of power. Of who had the power to say, is because they are always expressed in the way which maximally absolves those with power, and directs blame to people without.

Are we finally seeing the Great Noticing?

In England, they treat the economy like a household budget. Only instead of food, water and heating the priority is the Bombs and Guns fund. If you speak out and say this is a bad system, a man called Paul Mason refers you to Prevent.

Reflexive anti-Americanism is back baby!

Who is it who owns all the news papers, radio stations and Tv news? Is it blue haired uni students? Or is it incredibly wealthy old men? Before even agreeing this is a valid way of seeing things, why do people see it this way in the first place, did anyone encourage them to do that?

Many of those “rogue nations” have been subjected to exactly what Ukraine is going though now, and that’s exactly why they are not able to exercise their sovereignty.

lol

It’s a real book cover this.

I want to understand the process of stopping doing something which you are not doing in the first place.

No, I don’t think anything which gives centrists dads new ways to rationalise having ignored the emerging crises, the people who suffer from them most directly, is ever a good thing over all.