Conservative Americans spending their time doom-mongering about cultural obliteration, all the while claiming that "White" is a homogeneous identity.
The milk pudding people.
Kuenssberg sounds argumentative and childish, trying to bait Cooper into soap opera diplomacy.
It's an smug, insipid question with obtuse follow-ups. A waste of everyone's time.
The tendency for BBC political journos to ape Paxman's belligerence without the insight, such as he had, is pathetic.
Has he formed a tribute act to history's greatest military misadventures?
People convinced themselves that there is justice in this outcome, when things like this are almost always because of petty disputes between terrible individuals. I don't suppose that remorse or retribution on behalf of innocent victims plays any role in most prison murders.
The Prime Meridian sculpture in Greenwich London: an abstract metal sculpture sitting on a metal line embedded in the pavement to demark the Prime Meridian, or zero degrees longitude. It represents the line of division between the Western and Eastern hemispheres at zero degrees, which both stretch to 180 degrees longitude on the other side of the globe.
Beyond this line, she has no jurisdiction. How shall the residents of Dartford ever feel safe?
The biggest insult is that, because it *sounds* identical in every way to galactic standard, the actors just spoke English.
English! How lazy and disrespectful is it possible to be? What was George Lucas thinking?
It definitely ruined my immersion. I don't know why they didn't just make the films in the historically accurate glactic basic and aurebesh, with subtitles.
If you're going to make docudramas about violent conflicts long, long ago, I think you need to be respectful and fully commit to authenticity.
I never cease to be amused by the idea that Devonshire monks make a ludicrous quack tonic concoction, feeding a nearly-exclusively Scottish appetite for mischief fuel.
It sounds like some mediaeval slur, made up by the enemies of the Britons.
Yes! Techbros constantly fail to realise that they are represented in the legendarium by Saruman.
Venal, arrogant, and detached from the world. Attempting change for the sake of nothing other than progress, where progress is defined by their personal enrichment.
This tactic has a name, derived from a creationist who would demand debates with scientists and skeptics, leading them a merry dance if they engaged in earnest.
The "Gish Gallop".
The best counter tactic is to do as here - refuse to budge, and call it out.
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Plebicites in the UK are the sort of thing a Government resorts to when it is confident of winning. Often to prevent, rather than enable an action.
It should just have the confidence to proceed with doing what is right, as it does on many issue of equal importance to voting age.
The most implausible detail was the idea that they had a gardener twice a month, paying £245 a year!
It would need to be quite the market to meaningfully supplement their core of newsagent and fizzy drinks revenues. This thread is a great precis of their problems: lack of care and lack of relevance.
WH Smith lost its purpose and its soul decades ago, overtaken by online and specialist retailers.
No. Suffrage wasn't achieved via referendum to extend the franchise to all men and women, and one isn't needed now. Parliament has always decided.
Now it should do what is right.
He's certainly no great brain, and stupid to anyone with knowledge of a subject, but he has a very particular instinct that has served his grift very well.
Oh no! Now all she has to rely on is her own wits, self-control, and what attention she can garner through rage-baiting tabloid articles. These are the crumbs that will have to sustain her.
He's an effective rabble-rouser, a sloganeer for grievances. But he is defined by opposition and incapable of positive argument. When he doesn't understand or sees something as an inconvenient barrier to his aims, he is dismissive or destructive.
Badenoch's imagined audience doesn't want consistency. They want easy answers, cheap points, and unverifiable assertions. And racism. Lots of racism.
No. KLF burned their own money. This is very, very orthodox capitalism.
Imagine selling the line that 'immigrants have stolen all of your jobs', whilst also smearing the unemployed as disloyal and foolish.
He is a deeply unserious bloke.
Incredible that he's never put in a decent shift as a parliamentarian in either the EU or UK, and his constituents seem not to have ever noticed. Some people just like the idea of breaking things.
Targeted to locations used by American officials and their allies, I believe. This is retribution for Gulf states partnering with the US over decades. Iranian drones and missiles are fairly accurate. To the point that the US copied the Shahed 136. But munitions always cause "collateral" damage.
Cheapness always comes at a high cost.
Qatar was targeted by Iran despite doing its best - as late as Friday - to prevent the US attacks. It has been a key regional mediator.
However, it is worth understanding Iran's history as the "Policeman of the Persian Gulf". They won't welcome Western intervention.
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I think this is the right timing. Yes, marshalling facts becomes very tricky at times like this.
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Vile opportunistic racism.
It seems the person who absolutely didn't learn the lessons of last week's by-election was Badenoch. Right wing hatemongering was roundly rejected. Also, Labour lost the by-election.
It's a credible military action to limit indiscriminate retaliatory attacks by Iran - preventing launches. But it absolutely is a distinction without a difference to Iran, and their proxies. And we don't have a reliable partner in the US, which also doesn't seem to have a plan beyond more violence.
I only mean that we would be a target anyway, just because we use the same airbases, hotels, buildings, and regional infrastructure. Our interests are co-located. That is why it was inevitable that we would also be hit.
There's then choices that bring other UK assets into it, e.g. Akrotiri.
It is as though they concentrated every fault and failure in the history of the United Nations, whilst removing any positive value or virtue.
Condensed Cream of Chauvinism.
I don't think, given the extent of our presence in the region, there was ever a way for the UK to avoid being sucked into a conflict. The same as Bahrain, UAE, Qatar.
US aggression made this inevitable. Another bad gamble on regime change. More innocent blood as the price of diplomatic failure.
