Thursday 18th June 2026
Re: Thursday 18th June 2026
Morning !
Taking the knee, flag-shagging , those really helped --
Rather than tackle the economic and social basis of that disaffection, Westminster left it to Farage to turn it into ethnic resentment. Even today, Starmer’s EU reset is solely aimed at the conference room. For the streets, he took his cue at the outset of his leadership from the branding agency that advised him: “The use of the flag, veterans … give voters a sense of authentic values alignment.” What began 10 years ago as an anti-elite revolt lives on today with a political establishment chasing their voters for fear of being left behind. As the French revolutionist Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin is supposed to have said in the tumult of 1848: “There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.”
Aditya Chakrabortty is a Guardian columnist
Taking the knee, flag-shagging , those really helped --
Rather than tackle the economic and social basis of that disaffection, Westminster left it to Farage to turn it into ethnic resentment. Even today, Starmer’s EU reset is solely aimed at the conference room. For the streets, he took his cue at the outset of his leadership from the branding agency that advised him: “The use of the flag, veterans … give voters a sense of authentic values alignment.” What began 10 years ago as an anti-elite revolt lives on today with a political establishment chasing their voters for fear of being left behind. As the French revolutionist Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin is supposed to have said in the tumult of 1848: “There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.”
Aditya Chakrabortty is a Guardian columnist
Re: Thursday 18th June 2026
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Making life easier for all those lovely people above ?
Re: Thursday 18th June 2026
Well done The Mirror !
https://bsky.app/profile/malreveng.bsky ... l3wqn5fk2hThe government's own Equality Impact assessment sets out the ramifications of this in stark terms, highlighting risks of discrimination, physical harm, and restricted access to essential services for trans people. Beyond the trans community itself, the assessment warns of the dangers that appearance-based gender policing poses to public safety more broadly.
Re: Thursday 18th June 2026
https://bsky.app/profile/cliffchapman.b ... l3y2jsrc2hWorth bearing in mind again that Andy Burnham's position on all the major things most of us Labour voters grumble about - Europe, response to Israel/Palestine, LGBTQ+ rights - Burnham is either the same or further to the right than Starmer. So what's the bloody point?
Re: Thursday 18th June 2026
Preston is a vet, reported from Ukraine and is yet another of the fundraisers . He reads the respected Russian milbloggers .
NYT report at 4.30 -- some people had been blissfully unaware ... caught completely by surprise !
NYT report at 4.30 -- some people had been blissfully unaware ... caught completely by surprise !