No prompt for coconut milk?

Fascinating interview. Thoughts on this - are there male MPs in any party who could speak half as openly and compassionately? Chris Chope is still an MP, what does he think of Niblett’s campaign? Is the fixation on Zack Polanski’s boob hypnotherapy set-up depressing not just as a political hit job?

Who comes after him? Who is the most self-reflective and inclusive figure on the Israeli Right, if there’s anyone approaching such a thing? @yairwallach.bsky.social

There is a fascinating piece to be written about the more poetic parts of the take off and landing scripts on space missions. Who writes them, who signs them off and what are the small and big ‘p’ politics involved?

Could Americans (particularly the one who owns the other App) simply not be so noisily anglophone?

What might it be about the Green Party’s policies that personally threaten Professor Portes, anon? The personal abusiveness and switching off replies is a great look by the way - more unhinged hate, please!

Is it Green Party policies on redistribution that personally threaten Portes? He’s not a billionaire or multi-millionaire

Is it their policies on nationalising utilities? Is it their position on the overall household benefit cap? What is about the Greens that personally threatens him, in your view?

You raised the issue, anon - what is it about the Green Party that might personally threaten Professor Portes? Don’t go shy on us

Spit it out

What is it about the Green Party that might personally threaten Prof Portes, anon?

What a response to say this, rather than eg “I hate racism with every bone in my body, I’m disgusted by this untrue accusation” or “How dare you, retract that now”

Why don’t you spell out what you think it might be about the Green Party that threatens Professor Portes, anon?

Nice bit of anti-semitic insinuation from this anon account. Will Polanski kick these ghouls out of the party?

Bad thought to have, but I do worry what the discourse is going to be like if god forbid there is a wave of terror attacks like in the mid 2000s or 2014-17, so the nationalist Right have other things to fixate on than Muslim open prayer or stanning Maccabi Tel Aviv

I think I’m going to go out and enjoy my Saturday instead… 🥺

It seems to me spectacularly incoherent and self-indulgent stuff - doesn’t even define the issue as “black boys”, boys from single-parent families, new migrants/Somalis etc. Doesn’t have a single piece of data about the UK! Just demographic stats from Baltimore, bizarrely. Reads like satire

Grateful that he has - I think it’s important to know what paper-thin saloon bar bigotry which reads like satire North is putting out, as it reflects on all his other output too and is something he can be constantly challenged on

Lily, a white cat, against a yellow background and with a blue and yellow tablecloth in front of her. She appears to be by an empty bowl. She is approximating half of the ‘woman shouting at cat’ meme.

I imagine people will be thinking about how to respond to the crisis in ways that might best support the (exponential) energy transition

Interesting to think of Nick Timothy’s very vocal opinions about people who aren’t his constituents v his presumably well-attuned understanding and sympathetic view of people who are

Beyond sick in the age of high-speed rail that a steam locomotive is the face of rail transport for impressionable youngsters. We should be burning these books (not in Thomas’s firebox)

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Appreciate decisions about nuclear energy are not so simple and cost-free

Who is best to read in English on German Greens’ development through this period? (I am afraid I take a very negative view of German Greens’ policy on nuclear but I am a layperson and don’t know the political history of this)

I mean that would have been my answer but I fear I have a woeful grasp of economics! 😀

*thought-provoking thinker, ugh sorry

Interesting discussion - who do you both consider the most serious and thought-provoking economic thinkers in or around Polanski’s Greens (even if you completely disagree with them/consider them dangerously wrong-headed James)?

I think it’s great for general education, but they should be able to do it just as reflexively for Slovenia or South Korea

I wonder how many votes there would be in ‘Restore Britain, but CCP’, and would it be worth trying in one medium-sized city (only 75% joking)

Solihull telling me please add a carve-out of suburban conurbation

As we forgive those who trespass against us 🙏

Genuine question - is it going to completely die or just be less salient, and will it be replaced by something even more exhausting and obnoxious?