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Boris Johnson, best known for instructing Ukraine to fight Russia rather than make peace in April 2022, hosts the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion in the UK. This will not be a scandal because the hundreds of billions spent by Johnson and other NATO leaders on the Ukraine proxy war has also bought them a FashPass.™️ What a bargain!

Why Australia’s political duopoly is a bad thing… The polarising pressures of partisan media, social media, and even deeply rooted cultural, historical and regional divides are hardly unique to Australia. By comparison, Australia’s relatively rigid, two-party electoral system stands apart by collapsing a wide range of legitimate social and political debates into a singular battle line that can make our differences appear even larger than they may actually be. And when the balance of support for these political parties is close enough for either to gain near-term electoral advantage – the competition becomes cutthroat and politics begins to feel zero-sum, where one side’s gain is inherently the other’s loss. Finding common cause – even to fight a common enemy in the public health and economic threat posed by the coronavirus – has eluded us. Over time, these battles result in nearly all societal tensions becoming consolidated into two competing camps. As Ezra Klein and other writers have noted, divisions between the two parties have intensified over time as various types of identities have become “stacked” on top of people’s partisan identities. Race, religion and ideology now align with partisan identity in ways that they often didn’t in eras when the two parties were relatively heterogenous coalitions.

Gotta love headline writers – openly telling the public what you’re doing is hardly plotting. Many people have been in touch who want accountable politicians delivering common sense policies like decent public services and an end to privatised utilities fleecing us. Get in touch if you’re interested. Link to mailing list: https://t.co/SUxD6c2rVt https://t.co/XrFBXz3NSo