Tristan SnellElon Musk doesn’t pay his bills, and they call him a visionary business genius.
You want help with your student loan bills, and they call you a freeloader.
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European. Politics, economics, education, a kinder society & the Rule of Law.
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Prof Kathy Eagar“The impact of Long Covid is going to be huge. When you’ve had 7 billion people in the world infected, you only have to increase the risk of diabetes, dementia, cardiovascular disease by a tiny percentage & you’ve got a huge long-term problem” New WHO Chief Scientist Jeremy Farrar
RussInCheshireApparently you're meant to do an #Introduction, so...
I'm a writer from the UK. I do threads mocking the political fuck-ups of the week. I've also written bestselling books taking a longer view of UK politics since 2010. I try to make it funny, even though it really isn't.
So I'll mostly be writing about that on here. And dogs.
I spent 30 years as a director-level software dude, and still do software stuff half the time, cos books don't pay. Also a painter, drummer, boxer and cancer survivor.
@RussInCheshire And we love you, Russ. You make us laugh through our tears of anger, frustration and despair...
#Orkneys to look at proposals to become territory of Norway. "We're failed by both British and Scottish governments" and "we can't go on as we are".
Steve Baker makes move for Tory Party leadership by withdrawing his support of #Braverman. I always feel that Suella doesn't read very much, and certainly not data or reports.
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America 👏 does 👏 not 👏 have 👏 a 👏 far-left 👏 movement.
- Our far-right are explicit, open fascists.
- Our center-right are extremist nationalists.
- Our center-left are classical conservatives.
- Our far-left are moral centrist capitalist moderates.
Any objective political compass would place politicians like Bernie Sanders, AOC, or Elizabeth Warren barely left of center.
A true far-left movement would be advocating for forced property seizure by the working class. Instead, our "far-left" is like "let's don't do a genocide on trans people today please I haven't even had brunch".
How Russia hunted down veterans of the Donbas conflict.
Judd LegumTo recap: Supreme Court justices nominated by a president who lost the popular vote and confirmed by Senators representing far less than half the country have eliminated abortion rights, green-lighted anti-LGBTQ discrimination, and ended affirmative action.
In one year.