1980s British parliament pedophile cabal

7am in the inner west

Poster describing the 'Downfall of the Dictators is Assured'. From Imperial War Musuem collection.

I know I've posted this before but I fucking love this poster.

Need to get a print framed and put up on the wall.

I mean you very much *couldn’t* go on hikes or spend more time with family depending on where you lived and your personal circumstances, but I see what you mean

Cold comfort for me given which region I live in

Have established it’s set in 1978, and therefore carries the late 60s/early 70s sense of gloom, pessimism and inexorable American decline

Personally I find this to be extremely true. I need to block out an entire morning or afternoon to write productively (and it’s why my output has hugely slowed since becoming a parent)

Agreed, but only in the short term. In the long term it won’t be good for anybody anywhere if all the world’s major powers are fascist

The other candidates are China and Russia who are authoritarian, dictatorial states

Ah good point - probably also true in Australia it’s just that I mostly fly domestic these days

Weird. At Australian airports you walk back past the same bars, shops and cafes that you did on departure, it’s literally all the same area

Current administration obviously sucks but I would still prefer you guys be the hegemon over any other present candidate

Yes! Let us live while we are alive!

100%. My partner and I are doing quite well for ourselves these days but I am unable to convince her to stop living like a British housewife in World War II. It’s surely part of her upbringing (though I grew up poorer than she did) and I find it an absolutely fascinating mental dynamic

Because in the same way that nobody thinks of themselves as rich, nobody thinks of themselves as LTTA

Hang on, do British airports have segregated arrival and departure areas? Are passengers not both departing from and arriving at the same gates?

I find sitting in an airport pre-departure quite soothing since it’s one of the only times in life that you have only one (1) thing to keep front of mind for the next hour or so

Interesting to come across this as an aside in a 1970 novel, except that it’s also a sci-fi novel and I’m not yet sure if it’s meant to be set in the near future. (The Year of the Quiet Sun by Wilson Tucker.)

'The Church of All Souls, Langham Place, London' (1924) by Charles Ginner

(The Fitzwilliam Museum)

“Presented with the nightmare of a JD Vance-Stephen Miller GOP presidential ticket, these folks say no, I cannot support this or that Democrat for president today or ever, even if it means our fascist era continues and accelerates into a new and terrible phase. That's loser shit, plain and simple.”

Ideally I would be able to mute any discourse whatsoever about American politics other than the federal executive

Well overdue

I feel very strongly that any self-pub author who generates a cover with AI is a traitor to the arts

I would like to see more parenting discourse on here. There was heaps at the old place (albeit of a suspiciously right-wing/tradcath/natalist vibe)

Two weeks that pushed Trump to the edge. Is his presidency unravelling? The president has opened fissures in his base by starting a war he couldn’t finish with Iran, stoking inflation and offending Christians. Barred from running again, he may feel he has nothing to lose

This feels like copium but I'll take it www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

“Jeremy, the gyro isn’t going to solve all your problems.”

Mixed media Edinburgh tenements sketch

I'd only vaguely paid attention to the Mandelson scandal and didn't realise it was Epstein related, and you have to admit, if Britain is a country where a PM can be forced to step down merely by third-degree association, while America is... y'know... then Britain clearly comes out ahead there

Lots of replies here correctly addressing why the current situation is bad, but not addressing why it’s worse than it was for e.g. Brits suffering bombardment from a Europe ruled from coast to coast by literal Hitler, or Americans during the Cuban Missile Crisis, vis a vis “dread”

Is this not justified in the case of home ownership? (Sincere question; I know the housing market is fucked in the rest of the Anglosphere but that the US is a bit better on that front)