Not surprising to me at all. Chomsky has advocated many good things, but his focus on obscure anarchism and strange linguistic theories take him far off the path.. Into a world of the truly strange.

Absolutely correct. Russia has every advantage in a long war of attrition. Superior manpower, alliances, arms production capability etc. Ukraine is unable to reclaim the land it has lost, it can only lose more. The only wise decision here is peace and a posture of neutrality.

It really is a shocking state of affairs when there are people who have millions, billions and trillions, and there are people who are on the breadline or who have nothing - struggling with debt etc. Such a mess.

Yup.

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She is walking straight into a brick wall, and handing the country to Reform.

The fight against gun murders isn't against guns - only the bullets they emit

Canada goose and a herring gull, from my little trip up to Windermere today. #birds #photography #lakedistrict

Trump would be right to push Ukraine for peace here. Ukraine’s options are extremely limited. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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I think even if you were in a relationship before, when you marry your wife or husband.... something inside you realises that they are - and were always - and always will be - your first love.

I love how the name and the fantasy of Ultramar is connected to Outremer.

Beautiful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFqC...

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves’ decision to yield to the finance lobby and roll back financial regulations could prove catastrophic for the UK. @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social’s Nick Kotucha

Time to replace them. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/zack-p...

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There isn't any other way. It is a simple fact that Ukraine cannot recover its lost territories. What is lost on the battlefield cannot be regained at the negotiating table. Also obvious any solution has to involve a type of Ukrainian neutrality - Finlandisation.

The government will not achieve ‘decency’ over ‘division’ by trying to be Reform Lite

Very true, and very relevant to our situation in the industrial, digital Anthropocene age. Very true in politics too.

It's like we forgot to bail out the housing market after we bailed out the banks for the mess they created in the lead up to 2008/09.

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With winter well and truly upon us, have you turned the heating on yet? I have: 83% (+9 from 28 Oct) I have not: 15% (-8) yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

Some of the people in this article have shared their recollections with me before - but on condition of anonymity. Coming forward now is an act of patriotism. Farage’s claim that it never happened is the opposite. (Note also the line about pronouncing his name.) www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

Starmer’s anti-asylum policies show how utterly clueless he is about the right-wing media’s role in politics. He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist

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Can't do it without massive subsidy. Singapore is food secure in the sense of it has a wide range of imports - if one fails, it can get from elsewhere. But it is not food secure in the sense of being able to produce its own should all or most routes fail.

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The Government even aping the crassness of Reform, in a futile attempt to win over Reform voters.

There have been very significant Brexit Benefits, but none of them accrue to the UK.

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Henry I's great mistake was to hold on to, and consolidate in, Normandy. A mistake of many Kings of England. Would have been far better for Henry to come to terms with France over Normandy, hand most of it over and let the French King struggle with the aristocrats there.

Great piece from Simon drawing on my Substack and expanding well beyond.

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Many good points in the article. "And her plan to get tough on Angola, Namibia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo by refusing to grant visas to their nationals if they don’t take back foreign national offenders is hardly the gamechanger she claims." Good read.

Wrong. The Government is barrelling down the wrong path, full speed. The only possible way to stop Reform is to reconsolidate the left. This involves a Labour shake-up, a strong tack to the left, and perhaps alliances with other left parties.

Good. www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

Quite amusing panic really. How many US, Israeli and other agents linked to their governments and spy agencies try to contact MP's on LinkedIn and through other channels? A very common occurrence. Run of the mill attempt to influence, which most big countries do - including the UK in China.

Absolutely criminal spill. May be impossible to actually clean up fully. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

History will judge this government very harshly for its cruel and inhumane treatment of asylum seekers.

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By deliberately and consistently detoxifying Reform’s policies, the Labour Party have succeeded in detoxifying Reform. Labour strategists think they are very, very clever, by framing GE2029 as ’Vote Labour or get Reform’, but what they have actually created is ’Vote RedReform or get Reform’.

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to fix a collar gap on a budget, stick a pin in the collar like this to prevent your head from dropping

Absolutely. The Reform base isn't the aging former-Tory bloc. It is the working class bloc. They are anti-immigration, but want taxes on the rich and more social spending. Farage is a libertarian-esque free marketeer. Very out of step.

Nuts. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Mood. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5x6...