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Mick Harper
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I'm pretty sure the Ukrainians are as much to blame for failing to get the civilian population out of Mariupol as the Russians. They have, after all, more interest in keeping them there than the Russians do. Another revealing sidelight was a Russian spokesman referring to the overwhelmingly Russian-speaking inhabitants of Mariupol desiring 'liberation'.

This is going to be a huge consideration when the peace finally comes. Before the war, the eastern Russian-speakers were -- as far as anyone could tell -- in favour of unification with Russia. Either formally by annexation or informally by puppet government. Either Ukraine as a whole or eastern Ukraine in particular. It remains to be seen what the effect of having one's immediate surroundings being reduced to rubble by Russian action has on these sentiments.

One further thing is the fate of the 'hundreds of thousands' of Ukrainian refugees that have ended up in either Russia proper or Russian-occupied Donbas. It took ten years to get such people out of Russia after 1945. Such people who survived the rigours of ten years Russian hospitality that is.
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A nice example of double (or perhaps that should be expected) standards was exhibited with Boris Johnson's visit to India. On one side was someone who is conniving at the genocide of two hundred million Muslims. I really fear the worst. Once the Hindus are let off the leash there'll be no stopping them and Modi's government, far from stopping them, is tacitly urging them on.. On the other side was a bloke who had a illicit drink on his birthday. So which leader of which democracy is the Guardian describing here

Every day he clings on, democracy rots a bit more... his presence contaminates essential parts of the body politic.
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And this latest trope: Lying to Parliament. Every great PM from Pitt to Blair has lied to parliament. Often the lies have caused the deaths of thousands. But Johnson has lied about having a party.

They weren’t even proper parties, just a bunch of MPs sharing a glass of wine instead of a cup of tea.
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Mick Harper
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Remind me of one of Blair's lies (and one of the Pitts' lies). I will not ask about the others though, suspiciously, you seem to have left out Brown, May and Cameron.
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Does anyone care about lying? There are more than enough checks and balances in any country with a free press and free elections to root this out.

It is the culture of constant spinning and leaking to fill the news cycle that is destroying trust in politics.
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Mick Harper
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Well now, let's look at the Privileges Committee since apparently it will mean the end of the Johnson Junta. It has one thing to decide, "Did Boris lie to Parliament?" I can tell them the answer to save them having to sit for seventeen days listening to the evidence.

1. Nobody, not even a jizzock like Johnson, commits a crime that will probably lose them their job, by sending out a hundred emails announcing the crime, then committing the crime in the company of his wife and thirty-to-forty others, and committing the crime in a place (the No 10 garden) where everyone and his dog (or the Downing Street cat in this case) can witness them committing it.
2. Johnson can be found guilty of not knowing the rules, he can be found guilty of skating over the thinnest of thin ice by a louche interpretation of the rules, he can even be found guilty of breaking the rules (he has been by the police, and has admitted to doing so by non-volering the FPN).
3. What Johnson cannot be found guilty of is lying to the House since he told them he thought he wasn't breaking the rules which is manifestly true (see 1 above).

My guess is he will be found guilty anyway and that after more kerfuffling back and forth, he will continue in office. So perish all liars!
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Mick Harper
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Watching the local election results it was borne upon me yet again how right I was. Whenever some typhoon starts blowing -- Partygate, Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, Lib Dem coalition meltdown -- I always say, "If you can just hang on for five minutes, everything will return to the way it was."

Whenever anyone says to you
"Things can never be the same again"
always reply
"Not for you, they won't"
and kill them.
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It was amusing to listen to the breakfast news this morning. They were desperate to demonstrate that this was a “historic” result and the Tories were in real trouble, but as far as I could see it was rather disappointing for Starmer. Yes, the Tories lost a few London councils. London is a Labour voting city.

Considering that Boris has been the subject of six months of relentless negative propaganda the buffoon did amazingly well.
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A good example of the hairshirt principle that Leftists so delight in. After an account of right-wing people doing what they do best -- legally flouting the Covid regulations by dressing up a drinks party as a leaving-do -- a Labour MP popped into the Newsnight studio to tell how she said goodbye to a colleague. Via Zoom with the leaving present placed on a park bench for the recipient to pick up. How sweet. How nauseating.
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The Met fining underlings for attending the leaving do on the grounds it was really a drinks party and acquitting the PM on the grounds it was a leaving do not a drinks party, is going to take some nimble footwork. But they must be pastmasters in the art by now since the Covid regulations made it clear that practically anything could be excused if it was a work event but practically nothing was allowed if in the home.

Result:
People who call Downing Street a home: 3, one fine each
People who call Downing Street a workplace: eighty-three, 187 fines.

In contrast to
Prime Ministers, Prime Minister's wives, Chancellors of the Exchequer: 3
Underlings of the above: 83
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It’s amusing to watch Sir Keir with his brilliant forensic mind not getting the point that no-one gives a damn any more. The problem with his strategy of focusing on Boris’s parties is that for every person who couldn’t attend their grandmother’s funeral there are ten who were happy to use Covid as a reason not to go, plus another hundred who thoroughly enjoyed the lockdown.

He’s also been telling us for three years that Boris is a liar. No one cares about that either because they assume all MPs are liars.
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1. Bong-bong Marcos is elected president of the Philippines by a landslide
2. Protesters riot in the streets of Manilla against the election of Marcos
3. Police clear streets of rioters
4. Rioters complain this is evidence of how Marcos behaves as president.
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The Russia-Trump narrative is a mirror of the Zinoviev letter.

In the first, Russia was suppossed to be manipulating elections with a view to a "populist" "right wing" take over, in the latter it was a "working class" "communist" take over.

After years of speculation there is no hard evidence of either Trump being manipulated, or the Zinoviev letter being from Zinoviev. Which has led us to further reverse speculation that this was a Clinton or Daily Mail attempt to smear the right or left opposition.
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After 6 years the Scots Nats have decided to abandon their 10 year pledge to end the attainment gap between rich school pupils and poor by 2026. As this surely can't be because the poorer pupils, with all the additional help they are getting from the SNP, are still not improving, it must be down to the richer ones by also improving are keeping up their established lead from 2016.

Well done rich kids.
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Mick Harper
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We still don't know the truth about the Zinoviev Letter. It is assumed to be a forgery either by rogue elements of British secret services or Russian white émigrés and foisted on the Daily Mail but, don't forget, Zinoviev was later found guilty of and executed for espionage.

So it's a bit early to wax lyrical about Trump. Let us wait until the Czech archives reveal the truth about Ivana Trump née Ivana Zelnickova.
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