In 1981, the PLO laid down its arms in Lebanon, scrupulously upheld a ceasefire for nearly a year, and offered to recognize Israel via a two-state settlement.
Israel responded with an unprovoked invasion, killing 15-20,000 Palestinians and Lebanese.
One day, one of these stupid bastards will have to explain how many houses you would have to build in order to render them affordable, and why (other than abracadabra the market) they think there is any chance of this both happening and working.
But today is not etc
Very easy to hate your Stephen Pollards and your Sarah Vines but ultimately they're on the same intellectual level as Tommy Robinson supporters and can't help themselves. It's people like Lewis who are smart enough to know exactly what they're doing who I truly despise
@jondotfreeman@UnityNewsNet@BratfudRecusant Crazy that I can think I'm discussing the negatives of AI with someone, then I check and they're actually a holocaust denying, YANK-Fellating neo-nazi.
@jondotfreeman@UnityNewsNet@BratfudRecusant The Industrial Revolution provided huge numbers of job sacross multiple industries and propelled us ahead as a species. AI provides nothing material, destroys existing jobs, provides zero new jobs, destroys the ecosystem and exacerbates local issues like water.
@jondotfreeman@UnityNewsNet@BratfudRecusant "Nature matters" in bio, is pro massive wastes of energy that wastes massive amounts of fresh water and destroys local ecosystems. Have you heard what a data centre sounds like? There are no birds, no animals, no water near these things.
"Do you think that the police are institutionally racist?"
Lammy: "I actually think we've moved on from that period of institutional racism that was very real in the Stephen Lawrence era"
The Casey report found that the Met was an institutionally racist organisation. In 2023.
Step 1) Run as MP in by-election.
2) Win by-election. Step down as Mayor.
3) Campaign as new Labour Leader because the current one is terrible.
4) Win Leadership Challenge. Become PM.
5) Change nothing from old, terrible leader.
6) Lose everything?
This appears to be the plan.
Camilla, you are the host of a national syndicated television show and have a newspaper column; your views are representative of practically the entire ruling class of the Western Hemisphere
Just so we're clear on how absolutely stupid the British Government is.
When a petition is signed with over 2 million people saying No to Digital ID, it gets ignored.
When 9000 people answer an online, unadvertised survey, suddenly it's "overwhelming support".
The right is framing this as a story about how white people are mistreated, but it's actually a story about what cops are like. This is how they treat people!!
We subsidies low pay by £110 billion each year, £40 billion goes to landlords as housing benefit. Another £14 billion on job training.
Neoliberalism has never ever been a “small state”. It’s always been co-opting the state to socialise the cost of the private sector.
Or to put it another way: the public have taken on the cost of the infrastructure, because firms couldn't make money from it, while the high-profit rolling stock remains in private hands.
They think We're stupid.
It blows my mind that liberal supporters of Israel still just write this stuff off like "yeah those guys are terrorists" and "I don't support that" and "most Israelis don't support this" when it's stuff you simply cannot do without the state tacitly allowing it.
Sarah Wakefield (the Greens candidate in Makerfield): "The fundamental problem we have.. is that we're building on 40yrs of deindustrialisation topped off by 15yrs of austerity.. we're all feeling it.. we should be looking at the massive inequality in this country.."
The key to understanding this is that government after government delivered more and more public assets into private hands hoping that eventually, this would unlock the genies of enterprise and innovation, and what it’s done is raise the cost of providing essential services.