John Cotter
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John Cotter
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Senior Lecturer in Law at Keele University, England. Research in EU constitutional law, especially defence of democracy, and impeachment. Irishman living in Cheshire. Views are my own.
They basically went through a CSN phase for two albums.
January 11, 2026 at 12:46 PM
They are a weird group in the sense that their two best albums (and they are excellent) (Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty) are almost completely atypical of the rest of their output, which was a lot of hippy noodling. But those two albums alone would be a legacy.
January 11, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Of course, there’ll be a whole team in Bavaria and in Liechtenstein.
January 10, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Yes, but on solemn occasions, you will have to co-commentate and interject in a hushed tone every so often with things like, “while this is all very impressive, we must remember that this is just some guy and the real king is over the water.”
January 10, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Yes, for balance, you will also have to appear.
January 10, 2026 at 10:15 PM
He was even an in-story character at one point.
January 9, 2026 at 3:02 PM
The Supreme Court would rule it unconstitutional, because reasons. I mean, no reasons.
January 7, 2026 at 11:03 PM
The likes of Farage will calculate what they can just about get away with saying at any particular time. The current climate is bringing the full extent of their extreme beliefs into the open.
January 7, 2026 at 11:07 AM
One wonders whether these are conversations he’s had with Rubio and Miller on the phone in the next room doing accents.
January 6, 2026 at 7:38 PM
In fact, their weak, mealy-mouthed responses, to the extent he or the people around him notice or care, would only heighten his/their pre-existing contempt. European leaders might as well have shown some dignity in the circumstances. 2/2
January 4, 2026 at 8:20 AM
(albeit thin) justification rather than “it’s ours because we can”.
January 3, 2026 at 6:03 PM
I am myself reeling to an extent: is this an extension of business as usual (looking through a longer lens, you can go back to the invasions of Florida, Mexico, Cuba, Grenada, Panama, etc. and paint this as business as usual)? As I hint at above, post WW2, there has tended to be an attempt at some…
January 3, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Isle of Wight too.
January 3, 2026 at 2:53 PM