[on the UK election] In her acceptance speech, Angela Rayner [Deputy PM, UK] said that the result was a response of the electorate to 14 years of Tory failure. I don't think the Tories failed - they have been highly successful for the elite they represent. Since 2010, the country's top few percent have seen their wealth quadruple, while most people have seen their real-term income drop. Bankers enjoy unlimited bonuses, public sector pay has been substantially cut, the tax burden has been significantly switched from rich to poor, privatised utilities profiteer from monopolistic positions without hindrance, and our railways are among the worst in the developed world, while being among the most expensive. These are all amazing achievements from a neoliberal perspective. The chief reason for their being ousted is that they didn't persuade the electorate as successfully as Reform that immigrants were responsible for all this.
Stephen Riley
July 21, 2024
Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years. Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called Social Security. Socialism is what they called farm price supports. Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
Harry S. Truman
July 5, 2024
My uncle, 106 years old and a D-Day veteran, today explained why he is a big fan of [Nigel] Farage. He explained how he and Farage have the same aims, ideals and aspirations. He explained how he and Farage share the same moral compass. It’s the first time he has ever talked of his time in the SS.
Anonymous
July 5, 2024
Australians should be embarrassed that one of our major political parties is so scientifically and economically ignorant and stupid. Worse, it should be frightened that one of our major political parties would for base male-fide reasons promote such a policy.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8642007/the-folly-of-peter-duttons-nuclear-power-argument/
Crispin Hull
May 28, 2024
Trump exploited low and middle-income white people's anger over their deteriorating life prospects to mobilise racial animus and xenophobia and enlist their support for policies that benefit high-income people and corporations and threaten health. His signature legislative achievement, a trillion-dollar tax cut for corporations and high-income individuals, opened a budget hole that he used to justify cutting food subsidies and health care. His appeals to racism, nativism, and religious bigotry have emboldened white nationalists and vigilantes, and encouraged police violence and, at the end of his term in office, insurrection. [https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32545-9/abstract]
S. Woolhandler et al.
April 27, 2024
[TV Channel] Seven has stations everywhere - a massive platform with free-to-air into so many regional areas. And it has buggered things up comprehensively. I am not sure how viewers could ever again trust what's screened. This week showed us - again - that the best thing you can do to protect your reputation is not to be an utter arsehole. [https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8596279/jenna-price-the-sins-of-channel-seven-and-why-they-matter/?cs=14258]
Jenna Price
April 21, 2024
I suggest, if the Leader of the Opposition wants us to go down the nuclear road, he should stop having meltdowns.
Anthony Albanese
March 26, 2024
[On Scott Morrison] History will record, and many will now recall his many failings – his cravenness and inaction in the face of adversity, his ducking of accountability, his claiming of the success of others, his malice and bullying, repurposing taxpayers’ money to cronies and right-wing supplicants – all manifestations of his lack of character.
A shrivelled, one-dimensional intellect, a light-weight incapable of reflection or forethought with underlying smarm and personality defects, mentored by a proselytizing grifter and informed by an eagle painting he was impervious to self-reflection – comfortable in the belief he was the Chosen One.
In his departing sermon presented as a valedictory speech he professed “faith in Jesus Christ, which gives me the faith to both forgive but also to be honest about my own failings and shortcomings” which he then failed to be honest about by neglecting to mention any.
Manifestly unsuited to the job he is a study in how megalomania, verbal diarrhea, treachery and happenstance can reward a shameless fabulist and serial failure.
[https://theaimn.com/heres-ya-hat-whats-ya-hurry]
Grumpy Geezer
February 28, 2024
Christofascists are like the Taliban but with pork and alcohol.
Anonymous
February 23, 2024
Religion belongs to a very early stage of human development, and ... its rapid decay in the world since the Reformation is evidence of genuine progress.
