Quote from: Jacob on October 06, 2025, 10:24:06 AMI remember years ago reading an entry from an old Encyclpedia Brittanica (pre-WWII for sure, maybe Victorian?) stating "England is blessed with the best climate in the world".The best that can be said for it is that it is broadly benign and very rarely lethal - which admittedly when we'd only just discovered germs is not something to sniff at
QuoteThe best climate for civilization and the best climate for sitting on the beach are not necessarily the same thingThe Mediterranean strongly suggests otherwise. In fact I'd go so far as to argue that sitting on the beach is civilisation, but I'd also accept a terrace or a square
Quote from: Josquius on October 06, 2025, 03:41:11 AMLooks like we have a French Liz Truss.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewn9k0w9rxo
So...finally give people the socialist they voted for?
Quote from: crazy canuck on October 06, 2025, 07:09:22 AMUkraine is fighting an actual war and they have developed their own ability to hit targets in Russia.
What does the inter war period have to do with present day Ukraine, fighting to survive?
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on October 06, 2025, 10:37:21 AMQuote from: Sheilbh on October 04, 2025, 11:09:56 AMPolitical parties or politicians need to do the analysis and have a diagnosis in order to have policy offers and narratives that tie together and are coherent/make sense to voters. It's not just that the radicals on both sides have got better comms - they've got an analysis and theory. The mainstream don't yet - as I say I think they're still in the denial/bargaining stage.
Mainstream parties still mostly have a commitment to objective factual truth in describing the world and to policy solutions that actually could work. That puts them at a big disadvantage as against the "analysis and theory" of the extremes, which have no such pesky constraints.
Quote from: Sheilbh on October 04, 2025, 11:09:56 AMPolitical parties or politicians need to do the analysis and have a diagnosis in order to have policy offers and narratives that tie together and are coherent/make sense to voters. It's not just that the radicals on both sides have got better comms - they've got an analysis and theory. The mainstream don't yet - as I say I think they're still in the denial/bargaining stage.
Quote from: Baron von Schtinkenbutt on October 06, 2025, 09:58:31 AMI look forward to Schlittler returning the favor.![]()
Quote from: Sheilbh on October 06, 2025, 07:34:10 AMSaying our climate a great positive for Britain is the most depraved thing I've ever seen on Languish.
QuoteSaying our climate a great positive for Britain is the most depraved thing I've ever seen on Languish.The best climate for civilization and the best climate for sitting on the beach are not necessarily the same thing
Quote from: crazy canuck on October 06, 2025, 07:24:59 AMJos, Australia has significant resources.
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