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Condescending my arse. From someone who responded to another post with a laughing emoji? It's a straight question, try a straight answer. Are you saying that we shouldn't support Ukraine against Russia because of elements of our history?

I think you're missing my point entirely. They're not scare quotes, they're punctuation. And let's not get into personal stuff about understanding Labour or the left, I've supported the party for forty years, I think I've got at least some insight. Let's recap. You said there are no credible...

I'm just waiting for the saucepan to come off the simmer, so that I can fish my eyeballs out. 😁

Hypocrisy noted. Just to join the dots here, you're saying that because we as a nation behaved poorly towards Ireland (and not just them!), we've got no business supporting Ukraine against Russia. Or have I got that wrong and in fact they are entirely unrelated matters?

A laughing emoji is usually a good indication of the absence of an intelligent response, imho.

Oh, so you're happy with what Britain did to Ireland in the plantation then. It's because might made right. I see. That's why you're supporting Putin now. Got it.

On a slightly unrelated topic, I found myself switching over to GB News this morning. Call it morbid interest, or maybe an attempt to avoid the leftie woke echo chamber of government-funded or billionaire-owned news channels. 😁 Anyhow... some observations: The presenters are astonishingly...

Indeed, but in this specific case there's a good guy, Ukraine, not perfect, but at least a democracy. And a bad guy, Putin, with no respect for human rights or tolerance of dissent, even within his own country (cf., Navalny). Just because the US (and UK) government, who indisputably do bad...

The point is to defend the wishes of a sovereign democracy to protect its citizens and territory and stop them falling under the control of a brutal dictator. The envisaged outcome is to force Russia out of Ukraine, or make the holding of Ukranian territory so expensive in men and material that...

If he's just a grifter, why did he risk his, and his families lives to stay in Kyiv when the West offered him a way out? Easy to forget, but in the first few hours and days of the Russian invasion, it looked very likely that Kyiv would fall and Zelenskyy would be captured and/or killed...

Did you read that article? I'm just wondering because of course it's the far right in the US that are primarily spouting the "Ukraine's bent so we shouldn't support them." Interesting that you seem to be aligned with them on this. As before, unless you're saying that Russia are invading...

From John Curtice, the BBC's chosen expert... "However, these were by-elections where voters' discontent with the Conservatives was seemingly not matched in equal measure by its enthusiasm for Labour. In both Kingswood and Wellingborough, the increase in Labour's share of the vote was half the...

"Soft left" or not mate, there were a set of policies Starmer agreed to take forward that he then dropped almost immediately after being elected. You asked who is there on the left as a plausible candidate, and the most plausible person at that time who supported left-ish policies was...

Just on the endless self-harming lunacy of Brexit, this at least cheered me up. The 'Brexit' tackle. It's one for @Nick really. 😄 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/14/brexit-tackle-politics-children-football

Not just Israel. This overt hypocrisy from the west will inevitably stir up terrorism across the whole of Europe and the U.S. I'm not saying for a moment that slaughtering more innocents anywhere is in any way justified, but I think that's the reality of the situation.

How? How can the left do that exactly. I voted for a centre-left set of broadly popular policies, as promised by the prospective Labour leader, Keir Starmer. He then quickly rowed back on everything vaguely to the left and effectively moved the whole party towards the centre-right. Rather...

Ah, that's sad. Spent a lot of time listening to him in the days when I used to do a lot of driving. Always cheered me up. I don't think there's a single radio DJ or station that I'd go out of my way to listen to now. I'm too old for Radio 1, Radio 2 leaves me cold, and Radio 6 "music" always...

I'm thinking that the best thing we can do as citizens, is to support the BDS movement. This is nothing to do with anti-Semitism, it's about denying the Israeli state income and (more importantly, perhaps) status until it changes its ways. Much like the anti-apartheid movement against South...

I think this is kind of what I've been trying to say on the problem with Starmer, except professionally written and referenced... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/11/keir-starmer-labour-party-british-democracy

Don't forget how much talent is simply overlooked at the top echelons of civil service, politics, and industry, just for not going to the right school. There's no lack of talent and serious brain power in my current line of work (finance), or where I was before (the car industry), but they...