[Bones McCoy]

What's that? Contrary hypocritical cunts causing mayhem with no accountability?

What ancient hell is this?

A lack of scientific literacy in our media provides them a gap to exploit.

[RedSparrows]

The lack of 'giving a shit' in our media, and our contemporaries, is deeper. They just don't care. They just, don't, care.

Capital, what.

[Youngian]

There's no start to Claire Fox's expertise on any subject but for some strange reason has an even more permanent platform on the BBC then Farage.

[Bones McCoy]

There's no start to Claire Fox's expertise on any subject but for some strange reason has an even more permanent platform on the BBC then Farage.

She has acquired that bizarre status "Public Intellectual".


Which in many cases seems longhand for edgy cunt.

[Philip Marlow]

There’s a kind of zen mastery involved in the production of a Chiles column.

[davidjay]

You have to hand it to someone who can earn so much for doing so little, with nothing more going for him than being married to the editor.

[Watchman]

Yes, but has he driven all the way to Dundee, barefoot and eating nothing but toberones

[Philip Marlow]

About a decade ago, I ventured my opinion that the adult multitudes queueing for superhero movies were potentially an indicator of emotional arrest, which could have worrying political and social implications. Since at that time Brexit, Donald Trump and fascist populism hadn’t happened yet, my evidently crazy diatribe was largely met with outrage from the fan community, some of whom angrily demanded I be extradited to the US and made to stand trial for my crimes against superhumanity – which I felt didn’t necessarily disprove my allegations.

I do love a bit of Alan Moore sometimes.

[Andy McDandy]

Alan Moore knows the score.

[The Weeping Angel]

I'm not sure many people who voted Brexit actually watch that many superhero films.

[Philip Marlow]

Monbiot on the latest in the spy cops saga.

These fake relationships were standard practice in the team of spy cops Lambert ran. The officers used similar seduction techniques, built similar falsehoods about their lives and used similar methods for destroying or abandoning the relationships when they were redeployed. It looks like a refined, state-sanctioned grooming operation. As Helen Steel, another woman deceived by a spy cop, remarked, “there weren’t any genuine moments – they were purely manipulative and abusive. …. it was as if he set out to destroy my sanity.”

You do wonder if there are women who have since been involved with the “real” versions of these men and whether those women know about their pasts. How could you convince yourself to trust someone who could cultivate a relationship, father a child and then just walk away, even vanish? Because it was, after all, just a job.

[Youngian]

Knew some animal rights people very concerned about checking identities. Thought they were fanciful, as if the police would send in Donnie Brasco to infiltrate a bunch of plonkers like them. Seems they were right.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Allegations now that a cop set fire to Debenham's.

This is Reece Dinsdale in ID stuff.

[Youngian]

Allegations now that a cop set fire to Debenham's.

This is Reece Dinsdale in ID stuff.

This story's up your street

Means can sometimes justify ends so what did the police gain from these long game unsavory shenanigans, prevent fag smoking beagles from escaping from labs?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Sounds as if, like Reece's character, they were just enjoying themselves.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Lots of people seem to be getting into a tizz about this. "Young people giving up on democracy!"

One in five Britons aged 18-45 prefer unelected leaders to democracy, poll finds

Do they though? Or do they just think in the abstract that somebody not worrying about elections would be able to take longer term decisions on eg climate change or tax? I'd be very surprised if this meant "Send for Farage" or "Caroline Lucas can storm Whitehall in a tank, for all I care". If you asked a follow up question "What if people disagree?" the same people would say "decide by elections".

How this stuff can be the lead story, God knows.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... poll-finds

[Oboogie]

This ^^^
Plus, by implication, 80% prefer democracy to unelected leaders - it could be worse.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Interesting that there doesn't seem to be all that much of a movement for direct democracy.

I can live with the absence of that.

[Youngian]

Any consensus on who this great unelected leader will be, Kim Kardashian, the Candyman, Ashleigh and Pudsey?

[mattomac]

I doubt this has ever been that different, it’s to get a reaction.

It’s odd that the highest number were those after 18-24.