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Oh, I absolutely support funding it from general taxation. As long as it is kept fully independent, both officially and in practice. No big party seems to want to promote that policy, though. The door to door inspection thing isn’t something that happens these days (at least bot like that), and...

I’ve watched American broadcast television. The licence fee is better than the alternative. Do remember that the commercial media absolutely guns for the BBC constantly due to its public broadcaster status. And the cuts to the BBC over the last 14 years have sapped its popularity –...

128 days left until Trump declares himself dictator for life on 6th November.

https://m.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-808400 This isn’t directly connected to the conflict, but Israel’s Labour Party is dissolving to be replaced by a new party. Pretty momentous – the party ruled Israel for its first three decades as its earlier incarnation Mapai, and was still a big...

LOL, Frogface Farage is going in a strop and won’t appear on BBC television because they didn’t give him preferential enough treatment for his tastes. Someone who owes his entire career to the BBC’s politics department giving his fringe party more coverage than by rights they ever deserved.

Ideally Trump would be banged up on several life sentences for trying to overthrow the government, and illegible for running for office again.

The Supreme Court, I’ve rabidly come to the conclusion is like the worse part of our House of Lords (being a load of unelected-for-life lawmakers) but with its powers greatly magnified to almost dictatorial levels. It seems to be a terrifying system to live under.

If America had a political system like ours (parliamentary), the Democratic Party would be scrabbling quickly for a new lead candidate, I imagine.

https://bsky.app/profile/chadbourn.bsky.social/post/3kvvovamdtg2q I see that Russia have got one of their proxies to interfere in the general election campaign…

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/06/25/ukraine-and-moldova-enter-formal-membership-talks-with-the-european-union Ukraine and Moldova formally begin membership negotiation talks with the EU!

If by “started”, you mean back to before your great grandfather’s time. Antisemitic conspiracy theories are just as much an established part of the far-left as they are far-right ideology.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cndd65k06x8o Wizarding Karen has stuck her oar into the general election campaign, accusing the TERF-adjacent Labour leader of not being transphobic enough.

Looks like that, basically. The Reform party were barely registering on polls until Farage announced he was standing for MP (again) and was coronated Reform leader. Now he’s appearing on television daily, getting much more news coverage than the LibDems and Greens, who both actually have...

(Direct link to article.) If you’ve not been following the Uk general election campaign, the far-right Reform party is surging in opinion polls, and this is the sort of candidate that the party is inducing on towns like mine.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/21/russia-was-provoked-into-ukraine-war-claims-nigel-farage Farage’s party is estimated by some polls to come second in the election next month, and he’s so blatantly a Russian asset.

Northern Ireland is voting too. However, they have different political parties to the rest of the UK, and those parties don’t join the British government. That’s the most likely reason why they were left out of the map.

Some of the recent electoral forecasts from opinion polling companies are wild. Few months ago I still assumed that the Tories would be in power for another decade…

Depressingly, that’s similar to how our elections work. Where I live it’s always a foregone conclusion, well, except this time my area is forecast to go non-Tory for the first time since 1922 due to the weird circumstances. It’s a very frustrating state of affairs, particularly as we don’t have...

Ironic, given Louisiana was originally bought from France, the most aggressively state-secularist nation on Earth. Well, apart from the communist countries. (Louisiana is doing that unconstitutionally, right?)

I see a pattern emerging.