@stephenfry “The alleged aptitude of the English for self-government,” Bernard Shaw wrote in his preface to Androcles and the Lion, “is contradicted by every chapter of their history.” Well, it sure is contradicted by the chapter that opened with the Brexit vote in June 2016 - Fíntan O’Toole
@CupOfEarlGreyT @stephenfry@BorisJohnson So Boris got Brexit done. Chucking Rule Britannia red meat, he lied us out of the evil EU. Is anyone better off? Jacob R Mogg? Imagining the glorious days of the Raj with no pesky Euros reminding him that those filthy workers also have rights. This Tory fetish needs to end now!
A lot of you are calling Trump "a waste of oxygen", but I would remind you that oxygen comprises only a quarter of the human body by atomic mass and that in reality he is a waste of over 50 chemical elements.
Trump’s victory was proof that he was able to expose, exploit & ultimately legitimize a vein of racism that has run through this country for hundreds of years. When democracy helps minorities, many white voters prefer authoritarianism https://t.co/sYiVcVWumP
Trump’s victory was proof that he was able to expose, exploit & ultimately legitimize a vein of racism that has run through this country for hundreds of years. When democracy helps minorities, many white voters prefer authoritarianism
“Trump is a con artist - ignorant of government, of history, of science, of philosophy, of art, incapable of expressing or recognizing subtlety or nuance, destitute of all decency, and wielding a vocabulary of 77 words that is better called Jerkish than English” Philip Roth, 2017