Burnham saying that we should look at banning the kirpan was further confirmation that the response to Starmer's failure will be 'what if we had the same soft left policies, the same equivocation, but with a more charismatic leader who actually likes and does politics'
What the absolute fuck???
a psychological theory: a reason ukraine became a cause celebre for left liberals and social democrats around the world after february 2022, not just in its neighbourhood, is because we so desperately need a good cause to believe in that doesn't seem fucking doomed
An awful lot of this is downstream of a decision not to antagonise Trump. If you make that a priority then all sorts of really obvious things become unthinkable.