I wonder if, when the demographics have got that far, the young people will sweep away all that is dear to the old, all the narrow-mindedness and fuddy-duddiness.
The biggest problem with coverage of the US election is that almost nobody covering American politics has ever had to cover a pure patronage system, and very few people understand how autocratic pseudo-democracies do genuinely manage to get people to vote for them over and over again
Technically, May had no reason to decide on hard Brexit and trigger Brexit with no prior debate about what kind of Brexit or any real plan. Realistically, jingoistic hysteria would have prevented serious discussion and Johnson would have brought her down and done all the stupid things anyway.
Keine Reisefreiheit für Russlands Diplomaten? #Russland #Tschechien
Tschechien warnt, dass russische Geheimdienste die Reisefreiheit von Diplomaten in der EU ausnutzen.
🚨🚨 This is a quite unsurprising action by the EU Commission but this is still a significant case in terms of broader #ruleoflaw enforcement in the EU. Short 🧵
Man solle die AfD nicht verbieten, sondern sie "inhaltlich stellen", sagen die, die das noch nie taten, aber die Fakes & Feindbilder der Rechtsextremen nachplappern. Diejenigen, die mit Faktenchecks & Analysen seit Jahren versuchen, sie zu stellen, fordern aber eine Prüfung eines Parteiverbots.
He‘s already doing the splits and it doesn’t look comfortable.
They can’t recover because of their aging membership, Johnson’s purge, pressure from Reform and far-right entryism. The centre-right will remain vacant.