Labour must bring back its most successful leader of recent years. Its time for Carwyn Jones.

None of this stops Gaddafi from being a murderous dictator.

Unfortunately the original - as in 1790s - left did see Caesar's assassins as their forebears for some reason tbf

That non-agression pact had a clause to divide Europe, and the Soviets had-because no country had or has-no right to unilaterally annex terrirtories that declared indepdence.

Gotta love hammer and sickle imperialist revanchists. Such a charming bunch.

Is it just that it /already had/ its own set borders and institutions and they figured making it an SSR could wait?

The thing I can't quite get my head around is the difference between Finland and the others

IIRC it was very late on that it was decided whether the embassies were from the RSFSR or the USSR?

Once again this is why a world that just rejects data for not feeling true is a world where leftism is dead. Crime is extremely low! But so many people are like "we have so much crime!" And then go right wing over it. Remember this when you're Discoursing.

(Except on gambling)

Absolutely – be tough on crime and anti-social behaviour, be ambitious on defence, be generally pro-fun and resist the puritan streak in the British left

My kingdom for a left-wing PM willing to fight public health busybodies. (Lowkey I think this would be a good way to do left-populism without demonising immigrants or making unrealistic tax promises)

Honestly one of the most common complaints I hear about him "selling out and becoming a Tory" from those who've never been activists for any party is not doing enough to rejoin the EU

Seeing it take hold among both critics and supporters that Mandelson’s appointment was an attempt to assuage Trump has been odd because, as Stephen references below, it was a news story at the time that the Trump side wasn’t happy with the appointment!

I am /not/ a crackpot.

I still believe the producers deliberately let bad Oxbridge teams on University Challenge because them losing badly makes good television despite having had them deny it to my face.

Now this is stuck in my head again
youtu.be/zU0dfKPOBWo?...

Northampton couple who met on bus ride double decker to wedding The pair are now married after meeting during their commute last summer.

Everything is terrible. So here is a NICE THING.

Misleading parliament and correcting the parliamentary record | Institute for Government The clearest rules about making inaccurate statements to parliament mostly come from outside of parliament.

As a reminder
- No, you can’t accuse another MP of lying in the Commons
- Yes, it is broadly sensible that MPs can’t just stand up and accuse each other of lying
- Yes, there is a substantive process that can be used if an MP is felt to have misled the House
- Yes MPs know what the rules are

I love the US Cabinet. It’s weird that there’s not more academic reports about it because it’s a body that is on paper able to remove the Head of State whilst also being totally pointless.

Reminded of Miliband's best line

I think Jonny Reynolds could also work for the latter with Rayner but I don't think it can really be two men

Vote the Fascists Out (Neon Liberalism #70, with Greg Sargent) Why did JD Vance personally campaign for the former Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán? Why did his comprehensive defeat by a former member of his own party, Péter Magyar, garner such attention fr...

A big lesson of Trumpism and Orbanism has been that corruption isn't incidential to right wing populism, it's intrinsic to it. Enjoyed talking to @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com about my piece on need for libs/Dems to make common cause w/anti-fascism abroad:
www.liberalcurrents.com/vote-the-fas...

Sincere question: what would you say are the best and worst things about the Lithuanian political system and constitution (and best and worst ways they stand out if those aren't the same?)?

one fascinating dynamic that seems to drive both the UK/US new right is this idea that contemporary society needs to emulate Bukele's authoritarianism against crime when crime rates are, on the whole, much lower than they were in the 20th century

I absolutely hate Americans and Brits talking about each other's political systems because whether they think theirs is superior or inferior it becomes clear they are generally unaware others exist :)

This specific war is illegal and immoral, but "seizing enemy commerce" is actually a pretty standard part of how wars have worked since approximately forever, and is well-covered by international law.

idk how to articulate this but i don't really like that we live in a world where the only thing that benjamin netanyahu will condemn his soldiers doing is a destruction of a christian artefact

obviously it was a horrific, criminal act. but how many criminal acts were committed before that don't have purchase with the yankvangelicals?

It is an indictment of the level of attention paid to devolution in Westminster that nobody is noticing the rebirth of a party that junked a clearly incapable leader and replaced him with a former leader not previously regarded as a success and drawing conclusions.

Also they tried being a normal centre-left party this time but seems to have been too late and I would guess pushed some of their trad vote towards Radev