Another variant of how America's national myths are most undermined by its nearest neighbours is in how Mexico managed to produce a constitution that in the 1820s went further in securing the liberty as citizens of all its inhabitants than the US constitution managed to do before the 1860s.
Sometimes wonder whether in ideological terms the greatest threat to the national myths the Americans tell themselves is the existence of a strong and prosperous state to its North that over time chose bilingual constitutional monarchy over unilingual republicanism.
Every day another datapoint for how these guys were right
Domino meme Small domino: a they/them in Budapest wants to wear a pride flag Big domino: the EU Army-led NATO coalition occupies Minsk
sorry sorry i process big news through the millennial language of memes
U.S. forces boarded a sanctioned tanker in the Indo-Pacific without incident, the Pentagon said.
Robbins claiming in March 2025 he was asked to "potentially" find PM's then director of comms Matthew Doyle a job as an ambassador or high commissioner: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce...
Never mind that the supposedly fractious Italian system has had less Prime Ministers serving for longer on average than the UK system since 2007
He's running.
Over time I think it is Schengen rather than Euro that will be the key hurdle
The reason I think he may survive is if a more Left leaning leader feels he/she need to keep the right of the party on side. But there may be others more suited to that role
Just as a counter-factual, worth asking whether Labour could have become a successful project in the 1990s with figures who understood a change of course was needed other than Mandelson influencing matters. And you could probably answer that with yes.
An interesting question there is whether with each party at 15-25% you can even argue whether there is such a thing as a mainstream party around in the pre-2016 sense of the term
At this point, you could argue that the damage Mandelson has done to Labour over the years by far outweighs the contribution he made to its revival in the early 1990s
Robbins: "I was told that UKSV [UK Security Vetting] were leaning towards recommending against, but accepted it was a borderline case" www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Agree. Though I think a firm 65 is better than an occasional 70. But to return to the initial post, I think the pivot point is migration and borders rather than currency as the key issue.
Yes, but he's also a shrewd operator.
There are other figures where you can imagine them either flourishing or completely getting discarded, but with Reed it seems it could go either way.
Will be interesting to see whether Steve Reed keeps a ministerial position in a post-Starmer government.
Not that much "way" higher. It's more about having it a long term sustainable level of 65-70 in polling rather than occasionally flashing over the 60 line
Presumably an enthusiastic FSB hack has already forged The Protocols of the Elders of Linden
Whose HQ is in Hannover
His Qatar phase is kind of interesting too
The alltime classic is a Bundespräsident having to resign because he had the temerity to suggest that the German military might have to defend national economic interests
What does Starmer think being Prime Minister is? A recurring series.
It would all be much nicer if everyone got along like they did in 1997, but that is not the world we live in anymore.
Normal Starmer to Angry Starmer is basically petulant gerbil to enraged hamster
This harks back to plaintive pieces in German newspapers in the early 2010s about how Russia, Europe and America would for all the niggling differences still be stronger together
The main battleground in UK politics over rejoining the EU will still be border control and migration. Battles over currency hark back to a pre-cashless transaction era in which the Deutschmark, Franc, Lira and Schilling had a much greater physical presence in the lives of voters
