Starmerites will look at this dross and say he's the best foreign policy mind in the history of British politics.

“well I wouldn’t put it like that, but” is a comically unsatisfying response to a call for a people’s eradication

They are still very much leaning on the UK, it's just way less noticeable now because of the extent of British withdrawal.

If the SNP get above 40% in the constituency, it's going to cause unbelievable amounts of psychological damage to a subset of ScotPol.

Proposed aesthetic reform to Scottish local government- abolition of the suffix "shire"

A persistent theme in Glaswegian politics is people who work in the city but commute by car from Renfrewshire or elsewhere demanding that they never be inconvienced by Glasgow City Council ever

The way this would start a new front in the culture war around the Black and Tans so quickly

Hello Malcolm this is your campaign manager speaking. I am advising you today to please keep saying this shit

concept of a ceasefire

A lot of tankies/campists talk about eastern europe in the sort of ways that'd get you sacked from the Colonial Office after 1930

it's funny how this same logic could be used against Indian independence activists

these people will suggest literally anything except "excise the corruption from the defence procurement chain", which is the single most powerful thing the uk could do to reprepare its armed forces for serious problems

Malcolm Offord is the gift that keeps on giving this election. uk.news.yahoo.com/malcolm-offo...

Whomst could have foreseen etc etc

if you're not familiar with SG's colour system, please allow me to introduce you, it's amazing

My foreign policy

*cracks neck* Ireland, Brunei, Cyprus, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE all occupy the same status as "Protected States" in British officialdom thinking

Think it’s time Keir Starmer called for Anas Sarwar to stand down as leader of Scottish Labour.

Remarkable that this poll shows: - the economy and health are the most important issues for the election - the government has ratings of -39 and -44 on those two issues - the government is highly likely to be re-elected for lack of alternatives.

Lads I'm beginning to think that Scottish Labour might be in trouble

More generally - and I'm increasingly convinced this is one of the defining political problems right now - if voters cannot recognise the real world in what politicians say, they will look for truth elsewhere. And we're not short of unsavoury figures trying to make the world make sense for people.

Am reminded of the scene in 13 Days where Robert MacNamara chews out the Admiral for following procedure during the Cuban Missile Crisis and not appreciating that because of modern communications that each stand off was actually JFK and Khrushchev speaking to each other by another means.

I dont mean this as a dunk, but diplomacy is partly conducted in public. It's a fair criticism to say that the UK should have responded much louder to an ally threatening to do genocide, *even if it wouldn't have much of an effect in practice*, because the language of politics does matter.

Jawarhalal Nehru’s entire family for some reason: We have created ethnic violence from our dad’s beloved political philosophy Never Commit Acts Of Ethnic Violence

UAE foreign policy vs Oman foreign policy

Our ten point plan, which I am sure the president of the United States read and understood before agreeing to...

Being smug about how you always knew Trump would taco is, I suspect, thin gruel to Iranians who just spent the last few hours wondering if their entire civilisation would die.

We’re not involved, they’re just taking off from here

American Trump opponents:

And in many cases for self-interested imperiums allows you to retain an Empire if that really matters to you.

As MacMillan demonstrated, "you can always leave" is an underrated geopolitical strategy

Ultimately the problem with "heads I win, tails you lose" as a diplomatic mantra is that eventually someone will just shoot you instead of flipping the coin.

There is a particular kind of US Bskyier who gushes over Andor, about Luthen burning his life for a sunrise he knows he'll never see, but reacts with visceral disgust if you ask them to do anything but post.

there's a pervasive learned helplessness to the american left which makes so many of them utterly humiliating to interact with. everything is too difficult, everyone is powerless, there's no point. "you expect me to blow up the white house rather than just post"? as if those are the only options

Look man, Sauron is all the way in Mordor. What do you expect me, a Hobbit to do?

America spans a continent and therefore mass social or political action is impossible, as opposed to Imperial Russia which as we both know was the size of Morningside

Every single person who bears the citizenship of a country is responsible for that country. There is no optout.

Three hours after Donald Trump's threat that “a whole civilisation will die tonight” in Iran, and Nigel Farage has been more openly critical of this than Downing Street or anyone else in the UK government.

Actually I think it’s the people of Iran who are actually in danger, you absolute fucking ghoul.

Disgusting.

Of course, don't let your country threatening to commit henious war crimes knock you off your message. Thousands may die but that is of little consequence to a comms grid.

I also know the Americans hate it when you teach them how to read but their literacy rates require this so: the most obvious current plan of counterattack would be for the congressional Dem leadership to simply stand up and call for the people to march to the White House, today, now

Every single US military installation in Britain or on British overseas territories should be shut down today

After Trump's latest shocking threats, Keir Starmer faces a choice. Withdraw US access now to UK air bases, or risk letting British soil be used to commit war crimes.

The President of the USA declaring that "a whole civilisation will die tonight" is not something that arrives out of a vacuum. It is precipitated by the widespread international failure to hold USA, Israel, and their allies including the UK, accountable for their actions for many decades

This really is the only course of action and it has been clear for some time now.

We're long past the point where saying "I didn't vote for him" when they're abroad won't cut it.

Without being funny, the Americans /have/ to overthrow him and they have to do it now.

Obviously what they mean is "Scotland has taken too many refugees and asylum seekers as part of UK-wide dispersion policies", which is of course just racist, but what they've written is "the fuckin English need to stop treating the Highlands as their holdiay home playground, the bastards"

Setting aside the reparations debate (complex, not one that we should dismiss) the idea that you ban every citizen of say, Jamaica, because its govt's policies, shows that REFUK isn't a serious party. But the USA shows us that unserious parties can be in govt. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...