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Basically that. The powers that be know catastrophic economic miss-management when they see it, even if it gives them an income tax cut.

See, if the centre-left Democratic Party and the Five Star Movement had acted sensibly and kept their tentative alliance, and ideally if the liberals hadn’t petulantly split from the centre-left, the right-wing coalition wouldn’t have won. Or they’d have only narrowly won. The right-wingers have...

Full on economic meltdown in the UK right now, due to last week’s budget, it’s worse than 1987, 1992 and the post-referendum crash put together. And the government deny responsibility and blame “the left”.

Remainers and the globalist agenda are now being blamed for the Pound collapsing in value and interest rates skyrocketing.

A year is a long time to wreck the economy beyond repair.

The chancellor* just announced a ludicrously right-wing budget that slashes taxes for the rich, including abolishing the top rate of income tax entirely, and it seems to have had immediate negative reactions from the markets. It’s almost like the Tory government is deliberately crashing the...

They’re all appalling people, really; a complete bunch of Joffreys. Hopefully my country will come to its collective senses sooner rather than later.

Russia is the perfect comparison, really. One-party state, extreme nationalism, unelected rulers, sham democracy, protests banned, authoritarian policing. (And yes, it’s still technically illegal to call for the abolition of the monarchy.)

Protesters against the monarchy have been using blank banners to avoid being arrested, but are still being arrested. Because it’s Britain, where we’re living in a slightly less authoritarian dystopia than Putin’s Russia.

Anti-monarchy protesters are now using blank banners to stop themselves getting arrested… And are still getting harassed and arrested by the police.

First move as king? Fire 100 of his staff with no warning. Nice.

First move as king? Fire up to 100 of his staff with no warning. Nice man!1

Can’t even go out to the shops in this country without encountering bizarre scene like this.

Change of plan, we’re getting a bank holiday after all! (No,I don’t know why we call our national holidays that either.)

Any shop, business, public space or transport in Britain with an electronic screen currently has an imagine like this on…

(I don’t think this is technically true, given stamp sets are printed many months in advance, but…)

Imagine if the Queen’s last official act turns out to have been swearing in Liz Truss as prime minister.

I think the future of US politics for the foreseeable is basically what we have now, the Republican Party as far-right, and the Democratic Party as a catch-all party for everyone to the left of the GOP.

The significant majority of his supporters, realistically.

IMO there needs to be a Europe-wide Manhattan Project for renewables (I’m not anti-nuclear at all, I just realise it takes a long time, years, to get new nuclear power plants into operation). In the meantime, any European country who were aiming to shut down existing nuclear plants should really...