But as Roy Hattersley said to a young Tony Blair after the later claimed he was only interested in ‘what works’, you have to decide what works means and work for whom? I get the desire to be non ideological, but ‘works’ requires assumptions about ...
Ah yes, the Met’s kettling is equivalent to what the Russian authorities do those who oppose Putin and it’s scared the people of Britain into not expressing opposition to their government for fear of the kettling. Brilliant argument, got me!
Where exactly are you going with this, that in the recent past the Ukrainian government committed genocide and then threatened another on ethnic Russians in East Ukraine? Your attempts a moral equivalence seem somewhat fundamentally flawed.
Given it’s patently obvious why those states wanted to join NATO, it’s a bit rich for some to then turn around and blame that for the reasons their fears proved prophetic. My view is it’s only ‘wrong headed’ if you think that dictators should be appeased ...
That’s always been my point about those who from day 1 talked about the harm from the restrictions given that people die from things all the time. In the abstract I could understand the argument, in a desire to save life’s we could have done more harm. ...
Oh yeah, I was merely saying I’d already seen an improvement. Obviously things could be far better and if there a ‘positive’ to come from all this it may be that. I agree about managers often being the worst. Requires further up the chain to send them home...
Hilarious, you make it sound like NATO expansion was forced on unwilling states for imperial purposes. Why on earth might these countries have been keen to join NATO of their own free will? Nope, can’t possibly think of a reason. https://amp.theguardian....
Should the Baltic states also recognise Russia’s ‘strategic interests to protect’. https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/29/lithuania-is-safer-with-nato-mr-corbyn Given we’re going down the route telling countries they should given up their rights to ...
These kinds of views are deemed inconvenient so best pretend they don’t exist or should be overrided https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/29/lithuania-is-safer-with-nato-mr-corbyn
Whataboutery isn’t an answer… But nice try.
“My real issue with that particular viewpoint is that it completely ignores the right for states and populations to self-determination.” Absolutely. It’s been interesting to me for some the level of alignment between the so ‘anti imperialist’ left and ...
There’s a difference between what he would actually believe and what he’d ever be prepared to admit publicly. The whole line rests on taking Putin’s statements at face value and claiming everyone else should do the same. The moment you acknowledge the ...
I think even pre COVID there’d started to be a shift on that, from what I remember when I started my working life.
It’s almost like the Government are trying their best to respond to changing circumstances. Nah….
Has it occurred that there’s a link, namely the public health rationale to the measures the Govt have put in place?
What exactly is your argument here, that Germans and any other people of Eastern Europe should have been actively prevented from choosing their own futures on the basis that their self determination ran foul of Russian fears? That these countries concerns ...
Having been on that March in London, I can assure you none of us feared jail or being beaten for marching. The nature of the situation in Russia means we have no way of knowing the extent of any opposition for the simple reason there’s a serious danger in ...
I’m sure that all the apologists for Russian imperialism will be happy to note, they’re singing from a virtually an identical hymn sheet to ‘paleo conservatives’. https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/right-again-unfortunately-on-russia/
I would salute their courage which I can’t even begin to properly comprehend and wonder what they make of the use idiots in the West on sites like this.
When I read laughable apologia for imperialism like that, my first thought is what actually could Putin do that would stop these kind of useful idiots actually swallowing the “Yeah, but all he wants is….and if the hadn’t….” I guess it give me a tiny sense ...
I don’t know whether to be pissed off or pity someone who actually thinks that. There no ‘range’ of opinion in Russia, there’s what Putin will allow for propaganda purposes. The fact that you can freely post stuff like that from the safety of a country ...
I for my sins often read stuff at ‘American Conservative’ and it strikes me how similar their Putin apologist line some of their commentators run is similar to the one from some on the left. It’s kind of depressing that the type of useful idiot leftist ...
“Russia invaded before Trump was president and after Trump was president but not during” Given your name I presume you’re just trolling, but given I could do with a laugh please do tell us what exactly the Orange genius did that supposedly had Putin in his...
Cool analysis, I bet your mates in the playground will be super impressed tomorrow when you repeat it.
“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.” Orwell
Given that it seems that around three quarters of those on site are unvaccinated, this has the potential to get seriously unpleasant. You only hope whatever goes through their heads as to what’s actually making them sick that however many it spreads to ...
That is of course possibility, the other is that the longer this drags on with everything that entails the more it can be used as a pretext not to return to the status quo around protest and access to parliament. It also would seem to me to increase the ...
So first in first dibs? If freedom to protest needs to = freedom to set up camp so long as your cars don’t block the street, can you explain how that works, given I presume you accept everyone incl people you don’t like have the right to protest.
But fascists and ethno nationalists are collectivist, human rights advocate believe in individual liberty in fact the entire premise of the UDHR is that rights rest with individual humans. Your understanding of left/right - collectivist/individual lacks ...
Or they should provide the whole video to a body that carry out a proper investigation rather than the inevitable mess it’ll becomes if it’s trial by internet.
Let’s see, who’s more likely to have had access to a wide range of information to make informed decisions on the behalf of the country… A Labour government or some random on the internet who still refuses to give any honest answers around when talk to the ...
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