Several hours later and there hasn’t been anything that has made me think that the primary goal of this was anything but to make war-flavored content to make the people it the room look “strong” and “lethal” with no real thought about what comes next.

For instance, in a society where each community decides who counts as a person, one shudders to imagine what level of personhood queer people may receive.

It feels like the current right wing movement is on part a backlash to the establishment of this norm.

horror at the abuse of children became a social norm *within my lifetime*. you can see this even in some crime writing from the 1970s and 80s where a suspect being a pedophile is treated like a pecularity rather than an aberration.

A “Reform vs Not Reform” strategy is only going to work for Labour if they are seen as credibly “not Reform” by LD/Green curious voters. Every hardline intervention on immigration weakens that credibility but without persuading Reform curious voters.

In a slightly more just world, the UN Security Council would be bringing their weight to bear on the entire nation.