That ended with the Tudors, or the Lord Protector, or King Billy, depending on how hard a stop you require. Certainly the current crop of Battenbergs don’t have much connection to the Normans.

Mandelson should get back under the rock he was hiding under. There is no possible reason for him to ever be involved in public life.

Europe.

The less interaction the UK has with the US over the next four years, the better.

So what does Trump want from Starmer?

This is going to prove to be one of Starmer’s worst strategic errors. The oligarch-controlled press will be Labour’s undoing, but Labour seems to be under the delusion that some of those propaganda outlets can be brought on-side. The British press is a cesspit that is poisoning our society.

Sydney has 6 million people compared to Auckland 1.2., Melbourne 5 with similar land area. If you look at % then yes, look at people per sqkm we are no where close.

So you don’t need as many buses to achieve the same coverage. Public transport infrastructure costs are not fixed for a certain land area, they are also proportional to potential ridership.

Yeah, you can’t use austerity as evidence of economic problems when austerity is NP policy. Self-fulfilling prophesy.

And the only real reason for austerity is to make the rich richer and drive inequality even higher.

Our country is less than 200 years old

Presence of Europeans in your country is less than 200 years old.

Almost as if certain governments and malefactors of great wealth were coordinating in promoting it.

That’s not the only way it might go.

A surprising degree of self-awareness from the slimy toad.

Let’s go, tactical voting! ABCDEF: Anybody But the Conservatives, but Don’t Ever Farage.

Except that he’s the one who packed the court, he’ll do it more if elected, and they’ll be his dutiful toadies.

More future Reform candidates there.

It’d be interesting to know how much of that is a mercantilist attempt to capture market share in other countries (i.e., dumping) and how much is reflective of a sincere effort by the Chinese government to address the climate crisis.

I suspect it’s the former, since alongside China’s renewables investment, China’s emissions of greenhouse gases continue to grow, as does its consumption of coal.

I agree with the need for tactical voting. I absolutely disagree with the desirability of ever voting for Reform, even to drive the Tories out.

That would be nice, but I’m more pessimistic and think low-information voters (along with the usual racists, xenophobes and other hateful morons) might vote Reform as a protest.

It’ll be interesting to see where he settles and whether his legal troubles are over.

This is likely to become an issue with climate modeling as well, as interested parties attempt to poison the discourse with fake analysis and phony effects models. Perhaps, with the banks, the Fed should require the use of open, peer-reviewed models and reject the use of any closed-source model.

So they’ve moved past denial to bargaining?