" ... it seems clear – to me, at least – that both Labour and the Conservatives are in the narrative business, as distinct from the business of good governance"
@fkamiah17 That's right - I was hunting round for some similar ideas. The closest I found was some around break ups of and betrayals in relationships (I suppose this has some relevance here if we consider the relationship between citizen and government).
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It's frankly outrageous that someone who claimed, at one point, to be a 'human rights' lawyer, has such contempt for human rights and the ECHR. #RedTory for sure 😡
When the Reform Party lose Julia Heartless Bastard.
from Talk TV last night
JHB: "You would leave asylum seekers to drown in the channel?"
Ben Habib: "Absolutely"
JHB: "That is not a policy that a civilised country should endorse"
BH: "Why is that uncivilised?"
JHB: "Because we don't leave people to drown.. I don't want these people here, but I wouldn't leave them to drown.. I don't think anyone in the border force or Royal Navy that would do that"
@fkamiah17 These folks never think the leopards will be round to eat their faces next, do they?
Less eloquent than the Paul Schofield “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?” but essentially that.
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops"