When using my current browser, any guess as to how often I’ve said to myself “I need a browser that spies on me more”?

Also, learning the language is very important, since there’s not much tolerance for “ex-pats” with a superiority complex.

In Catalunya, that might mean learning two languages, since some Catalans don’t like it all that much when people speak to them in Castillian, but it’s also not that wise in Spain to know only Catalan. But yeah, my experience is that people accept you for what you are, as long as you’re not an entitled fool like the ones who used to clutter the Costa del Sol.

Good luck to you and I hope that your safe space remains safe.

Or he, like so many bullies, secretly likes to have someone dominate him, and he loves Putin for it.

Zelenskyy has already “prolonged the war” by fighting back. And now Trump wants to give Russia what it failed to gain by its war of aggression.

Is there any doubt who owns and controls Trump?

The Muslim Brotherhood is an ultra-conservative Sunni extremist group. They’re antidemocratic, opposed to human rights, especially those of women and religious minorities, and are generally reactionary pieces of shit that are out to undermine secular society. I find it hard to think of a situation where their existence as a political force should be permitted.

The additional particulate emissions will kill kids with asthma. But I suppose it’s all worthwhile in order for some people to have that perfect cottage with a Rayburn or Aga.

Is he going to paint himself orange to ingratiate himself with the boss? “You wouldn’t fire a fellow Oompa-Loompa!”

Until some accountability is established, I don’t want the police near anyone.

I’m living in the UK. The number of killings by police here is in single digits per year. Almost all are armed robberies in progress or active terror incidents.

In my city, there are homeless people, as well as a population of junkies and alcoholics in the city centre. Sometimes one has a meltdown. I’ve seen two or three police patiently talking someone down who’s been having problems.

I’m not saying the local police are without fault. They have their biases and sometimes overreact. The jails are in horrid shape and there are far too many suicides by people in custody. But there’s no reason that police have to be as homicidal as they are in the US.

“Potential.”

What’s that word doing in that headline?

There’s always a way out, Leon.

because of rubbish reality TV

Is there any other kind?

Because nothing makes a state more attractive to highly-educated people than a lack of public services.

And multi-party systems lead to coalition government, which disproportionately empowers centrist parties that will work with either the right or the left.

There is no electoral system without anomalies.

I suspect Altman has ambitions beyond being Microsoft’s cat’s paw, though it may be that that’s all he really is once the shouting is over.

Well, killing off Chrome would probably be a good thing.

That’s because medium and small states cannot stand up to larger ones without forming alliances. And, despite its many inefficiencies, NATO has been effective in that way.

That deal was a poison pill, and it was Rabin’s deal, not Clinton’s. Clinton just cynically pretended it was fair.

Israel/Palestine is absolutely, ultimately the fault of the British

I’d say it’s more the fault of the Stern Gang and its modern descendants, especially the Likud, and the utter spinelessness of the US and Europe in the face of a disciplined, well-funded, relentless lobbying group.

Wow, Pitchfork still exists.

The Graun’s centre point is near the middle of the Lib Dems. Anything that even vaguely resembles socialism is alarming to them. I remember how much they fell over themselves to promote that absurd vanity project, the SDP, back in the day. I suspect they even found Blair a bit too much a lefty for their comfort.