If they do this, they’ll need a convincing answer to the obvious question some will ask: ‘why don’t we rejoin?’ Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises

www.thetimes.com/article/8875...

PSA The two-part Arena interview with Orson Welles is on iPlayer. So good it deserves to be given a place in the Wellesian oeuvre.

Which is why they win and we lose.

Part of the reason the right aggressively demonizes George Soros is to dissuade any other left-of-center wealthy guys from doing actual politics the way every right wing billionaire happily does.

Cops are great

They're also like a box of chocolates: they'll kill your dog

Does he get paid by the pound? 🤭

The trouble NIMBYs have is that they are almost invariably the least sympathetic people you can possibly imagine. The cleverest YIMBY activist in the world could not invent a less likeable antagonist than the median NIMBY.

Won't somebody please think of the sales executives, forced to live within sight of an apartment block?

Priestley’s English Journey described Stoke as a vision of hell rivalled only by Wigan (or possibly Sheffield - haven’t got my copy to hand). He marvelled at the beauty produced by people living and working in these conditions.

The LCC planners in County Hall couldn't open the windows because their plans would be covered in dirt and grit. Up to 4,000 died in the Great Smog of 1952. Today? Air quality is on the up and up. 'Yesterday's Britain, A Better Britain' is a sick joke. Never go back. (2/2)

Reading this by m'learned colleague, and the nostalgia for 50s Britain is a crock. Much of the country was an exhausted dump. The Potteries were described as 'seven miles of concentrated ugliness and dirt'. Stoke was full of 'old clay working, old coal dumps, canal and industrial waste'. (1/2)

"People who attend church or identify with a Christian tradition are not systematically more (or less) nativist, authoritarian or populist than their secular counterparts. Conversely, people who hold nativist and authoritarian views are often also Islamophobes, and vice versa." 👏 @kai-arzheimer.com

One thing i like about this framing is that its completely consistent with facts we have like the hiring rate is really low

Loads of Europeans eye-rolling and throwing their hands up in exhausation about Trump throwing his toys out of the pram over not winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

Gee, I wonder where he got the idea he should be kowtowed to by everyone, always?

The moment the 'antifascist' was weathered away into a meaningless bogeyman 'antifa' by the American far-right and the American press, all power was lost

Frustrating.

Was a preview to what they did to "woke" - a once useful intra-community term for and by African-Americans.

Stolen. Broken.

Just found out that there's a chapter of Space Marines called "the Blood Drinkers" who are, in fact, space vampires -- but it is a secret. So they introduce themselves as the Blood Drinkers and sometimes peasants living around their castles disappear in the night. But no one knows they are vampires.

Among the many possibilities for the next few years, the scenario of swapping one pair of dominant parties (Lab and Con) for another (Reform and LD) is intriguing, under-discussed and, in English elections, not entirely implausible either (several county councils made this leap in May)

you know what fair

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads!

Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession.

From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio

#Archaeology

Indeed.

This bilious malefactor's weekly dose of thinly veiled race hate, spewed from an air-conditioned condo in the UAE.

A reminder that she is likely to be moving into 11 Downing Street as the wife of the future Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Most young and many not so young people already have that option - it's called living with your parents and they can't wait to escape it.

*Cries in American* 😭

#OtD 9 Oct 1912 the Little Falls textile strike began at the Phoenix mill when the mostly women workers walked out to reduce working hours from 60 to 54 a week. Workers joined the @IWW and spread the strike. Learn more about IWW women: workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/02/e...