Polanski is soooo unlucky. He offered breast enlargement only because he was misrepresented by the Sun. He backed the Coalition govt's austerity only because he wanted PR. He criticised Corbyn's handling of antisemitism only because he didn't have the full facts.
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I’m not sure what’s more annoying on St George’s Day, the flag-shaggers or the ahistorical ‘debunkers’.
Both are becoming part of the annual tradition.
This morning's book post.
The English translation of Aymeric Leroy's exhaustive history of the Canterbury scene has been a long time coming (ten years in fact), but here it finally is - all 643 pages of it!
The shitshow that is the continual argument within Your Party shows precisely why Corbyn was a crap Labour leader and would have been a crap PM
Tony Travers: In places where the Greens do take overall control, “the risk is they’ll be a very inexperienced group of councillors focused much more on national and international issues than the local things councils need to care about”
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From a former Green Party London Assembly member.
We just want something on the worktop to put bread in that looks quite nice. We don't need to get serious about them.
Populism with a human face. Just don't ask for details.
"Yeah, it’s tricky"
“I don’t think I could come up with a model now"
“We can look at models where it’s worked and hasn’t worked"
"I wasn’t following politics closely"
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So the Green Party in Norfolk don't want the pylons that will connect the new off-shore windfarms to the national grid. And they don't want solar panels either. Bunch of clowns who are not serious about renewables.
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Released today: ‘Trying Not To Breathe’ fourth single from Little Lore album inspired by Tennessee Williams
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As long as you are anti-Israel absolutely ANYONE can be a candidate for the Green Party these days even - and I must stress this - even if you pleaded guilty to illegally disposing of waste less than a year ago and ordered by the court to cough up £8,000.
I keep a close eye on the Green Party because I'm genuinely alarmed at the direction it has taken and how, beneath the populist veneer, it's become a magnet for cranks and extremists. I keep a close eye on Your Party, however, purely for the comedy value.
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In August 1989 I travelled to Hungary as part of a group from the UK to support democracy campaigners and environmentalists in the dying days of communism. I truly hope today sees the end of Orban's autocracy and a return to post-1989 democratic values.
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As someone who remembers when the UK #solar industry measured progress by a few megawatts per year, this is staggering. Fantastic.
🔴 The Green Party Has No National Binding Rules on Selecting Local Candidates
Exclusive: A formal complaint has shone a light on the absence of any nationally-binding selection rules in the Greens. Meanwhile, Zack Polanski has noted it is a “real challenge” to vet its local election candidates
He's learned from Farage. Say anything, get it printed, move on
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I mean this is just the dumbest possible moment to come up with this line, when he has visibly stood up to US aggression and kept us out a war she would have weekly joined.
Every sensible government will spend the coming months accelerating the deployment of solar, batteries, heat pumps, and EVs, especially for lower income households. It’ll be a hell of a lot cheaper in the long run than subsidising fossil fuels the next time prices spike, which they will.
I was once proud to represent the Greens on Lewisham Council for 12 years. Now it's just a home for cranks, conspiracists and extremists #VoteLabour
Too much loony stuff has been imported into British politics from America, both on the uber-liberal left and the hard-line populist right.
This whole “abolish prisons” thing is like “defund the police” - a jarring oddity of dogma imported wholesale from the United States. Please can we decolonise British politics (from American obsessions)?
The Green Party, both in England & Wales and in Scotland, should be a complete no-go area for sensible, centre-left voters. Both parties are now a breeding ground for political insanity.
Imagine voting for the Scottish Greens in 1999 because you were inspired by Robin Harper's campaign for investing in renewables, land reform and improved public transport and then being confronted by a candidate who want to abolish prisons and set all the prisoners free in 2026.
If you’re free to believe, you’re free to stop believing.
That shouldn’t be controversial.
But for millions, it still is.
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However much I loved getting rich, high-end shopping malls or very tall luxury apartment blocks, I simply wouldn't go somewhere run by ultra-hardline, authoritarian loons.
The ban is right. I question where else repeated offending attracts mitigation like this. “Exceptional hardship” is lived daily by crash victims and bereaved families. My sympathy will always be with them—not the habitual road offender. Should we remove this provision?
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