The big lie is that all this change, change that the voters hate as it goes directly against their own interests, is inevitable.
Why winning the popular vote really does matter, actually.
What the American right has done has been to create over 40 or 50 years the infrastructure to build towards victory. There are no shortcuts to doing the same here in this little country of ours.
Another movie set in Ireland about the Magdalene Laundry but somehow in the 1990s, where it rains all the time and it’s just fucking awful? Ok let’s do it.
“Yet all this amounts to is a cheap psychological trick, one that has been played on electorates around the world for two decades now at least.”
Society can’t continue to have it both ways: Either what Ms Phillips did is empowering, legal, and should be tolerated, or it is deeply damaging to women and very bad for men.
Why are journalists doing the job of defence lawyers for them, by planting seeds about a suspect having “mental health issues”?
The single transferable explanation for every weather event.
Sex, violence, gore – is there a line, or do our principles require that there be none?
The public might be forgiven for thinking that the state had bought their silence on a matter of public interest.
When a media organ is suggesting – vaguely – that some people making some arguments might be Russian agents, then that media organ is not doing the public a service.
Lie about the small things consistently, and people will eventually start to assume you are lying about everything.