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For more information on the Fraternal Order of Police, see the documentary Telemarketers which includes their years of participation in a telemarketing donations scam.

And the far-right is also bad because they're authoritarian. But I just don't see how you can compromise on a little treating some fellow citizens as unequal based on who their parents are and maintain your stance against them. At that point you've sold your soul and are just haggling over price.

The policies are also morally disastrous, but clearly that kind of reasoning isn't persuasive to some.

"In short, social-democratic parties should stop chasing after far-right voters. This strategy is not just unsuccessful in the short run; by failing to win over these voters, it leads to the loss of progressive voters and prevents the rejuvenation of their ageing electorate in the future."

All you'll do is make the label less reliable.

"... those who fail ideological screening over their attitude toward Russia find themselves banned from entry to Mariupol for a decade or more and often lose their apartments, residents said."

>>her flinching from what she's spent 800 pages setting Robespierre up to do and then blaming Élisabeth Le Bas, but it's a life-changingly powerful book.

The trick Mantel does of making the third person point of view character totally justified in their own narrative works so muuch better when there are three protagonists! Plus you can feel her grudge against the British conservative view of the French Revolution and that's great.

I can't forgive>>

Gandhi on Smuts is either damning with faint praise, or praising with faint damns, or both.
"I am however sure of two things. First, he has some principles in politics, which are not quite immoral. Secondly, there is room in his politics for cunning and on occasions for perversion of truth."

E.P. Thompson discussed the ‘pilgrim’s progress orthodoxy’ where history is ‘ransacked for forerunners’: ‘Only the successful (in the sense of those whose aspirations anticipated subsequent evolutions) are remembered. The blind alleys, the lost causes, and the losers themselves are forgotten.’