To make a comparison from a different age and context, I think @donjrobertson.bsky.social has said that Trump reminds him of the Athenian politician Cleon.
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I understand the need for additional tax but a 5p increase in the basic and higher rates of tax feels like more than a 'moderate' increase. 😬
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Rachel Reeves needs to put up taxes to cover £40bn deficit, thinktank says
NIESR suggests a rise of 5p in the pound on basic and higher rate of income tax would fill the budget gap
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I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
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83/ I don't think it's at all reasonable to run a campaign literally entitled 'change' and then get mad at voters for being pissed off that things haven't meaningfully changed.
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82/ If Labour do lose the next election, it will be because they shat the bed in their first year in office.
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42/ The Labour party is somewhat unusual among western European social democratic parties in having a coalition that isn't going to die off in the next 20 years, which makes their romanticisation of a voter coalition that hasn't existed for 50 years even more baffling.
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There's obviously an element of considering place, scale and context (i.e. around AONBs etc) but generally speaking I've always found turbines aesthetically and symbolically beautiful.
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This is very interesting. Makes me wonder what proportion of folk are suspectible to be radicalised.
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The more I see people I've known go down the radicalisation spiral the more I can see the pattern. A particular combo of predisposition, bitterness, a trigger moment, attention from the new tribe.... over and over.
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