Speed limits on the autobahn? Believe it or not, a majority of Germans are now in favor.
In Slate, I wrote about rising opposition to extreme speeding in the country most famous for it.
https://slate.com/business/2024/07/germany-autobahn-speed-limits-car-deaths.html
This is a powerful article in the Guardian newspaper. We shouldn't send people who are shouting "Fire!" to prison, when there's a fire.
You may find Just Stop Oil annoying. You may dislike their tactics. But they do not belong in prison
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/19/just-stop-oil-tactics-prison-chris-packham
A lot of people are reluctantly supporting Biden but don't have any specific reasons to like him. There is a constant wail of how Dems barely hold the line while Reps actively destroy things. I think this narrative was correct for Clinton & Obama but is totally wrong for Biden. People don't see how different this government has been. Here is a thread of some of the things Biden's govt has done.
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Four of the thirteen polls are 14+ days old. But a quick skim of seats suggests:
- Likely to lose: Hunt, Mordaunt, Shapps, Rees-Mogg, Mercer, Duncan-Smith, Stride, Buckland, McVey, Coffey, Mitchell, Harper, Chalk, Fox, Villiers
- Likely to survive: Sunak, Badenoch, Braverman, Cleverley, Dowden, Barclay, Keegan, Chope, Patel, Trott, Williamson
- Close: Truss, Fabricant, Davis, Frazer
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