Mailman,
That's how I understood your comment, but I think you're looking at the small-c idea as: He's only a conservative where I'm a CONSERVATIVE. But don't you think the idiom makes more sense referring to: He's paid for membership of the Conservative party, but he's doesn't have a conservative bone in his body? On that reading, it's the small-c ones who have principles.

tomo,
The ship of state becalmed again. Has climate change moved the doldrums north about 40°? Well, whatever it is, I suppose you'll all just have to get to rowing. Who's going to be the one beating the drum?

With expensive electricity, a "cost of living crisis" and a federal election not too far in the future, Australia's parliament is reluctantly looking at nuclear energy. Logic and reason all seem to be on one side, but I'm guessing it'll be a while before it gets the go-ahead.

...also known as cucks! :)

Robbo,

My reference to small c conservatives is a p1ss take on these so called conservatives who are conservative in name only.

Mailman,
Reparations: such a daft idea. Who do you pay them to? As you say, most of it will end up in Swiss bank accounts (and the like). Exploiters did well in the days of slavery and will do nicely from this too.

I think you've messed up on the meaning of "small c conservative". Capital "C" refers to the official Conservative party. Small "c" refers to the conservative philosophy.

I'm sure Prince Harry's nuptials was a happy occasion, but I think it would rate as a day of national unity more than pride (likewise the Queen's funeral). There would have been a large number proud to be British after the announcement of the Brexit referendum result, though that wasn't so unified. What has there been since the Falklands War that made a vast majority of Britons proud to be British? Perhaps the Queen's Diamond Jubilee would rate?

DaveS,
Googling around shows Reeves to be as shallow as they come. Apparently she's on a mission to fill 11 Downing Street with pictures "of or by women". On the plus side, that suggests she's willing to define what a woman is.

I enjoyed this forthright monologue on Middle East hypocrisy. Talk is by Erin Molan, daughter of General Jim Molan, who also talked sense.

It is a bit nauseating to see the likes of Starmer & Reeves standing in front of Union Flags when they clearly do hate this country so much. A pre-Budget group photo in No. 11 apparently revealed that Reeves has put a photo on the wall of a woman (whose name escapes me) who was a founder member of the British Communist Party and was later convicted of spying for Stalin's Soviet Union. Nice to have it confirmed where her sympathies lie.

Robert,

Labours idea of making Britons around of Britain again is to give billions away on reparations for slavery.

The Bahamas must have thought all their christmases had come at once with Starmer and co now in charge. Must be warming their Swiss bank accounts up for all the lovely lucre coming their way.

Labour will do nothing to celebrate Britains glorious history because they hate Britain with an absolute passion and its storied history with with equal hatred. But this is what happens when you let intellectual pygmies in to power.

The small c conservatives are no better.

Actually...probably the last truly celebrated day of British happiness was Harry and MeAgains wedding (before she came out as crazy horse). I wont count the Queens funeral as that was a national day of sadness.

tomo,
On the space tech theme: a recent Amp Hour podcast was an interview with an Australian satellite engineer which I (again, as a space ignoramus) found interesting.

It's groundhog day with that renewables ad. The truth about "100% renewable" will never topple the lucrative lie.

Listened to a couple of Brendan O'Neill interviews this morning. One overlapped with Mailman's contrast of how "hurty words" are treated, versus outright terrorism. It was a talk with Genevieve Gluck on trans idiocy. There are harsh punishments for wrong pronoun use, meanwhile convicted rapists are put in women's prisons on their assertions of trans identity.

Time advances relentlessly; not so civilisation. The trans stuff is just another step in the decline. How long is it since the UK government took an action that made people proud to be British? Likewise for the USA, Canada or Australia. It's been downhill for decades.

The other interview was with Jon Moynihan, on economic growth. He was quite heated on the stupidity of Net Zero and the like. I don't have any particular highlights, but will listen a second time (won't do that with the other one — too bleak).

So the f88k who murdered the girls in Southport has been charged with terrorism offences.

I wonder if all those who were locked up for claiming it was islamic terrorism will get their sentences quashed by The Man? Guarantee the Five Oh knew this right from the get go and that they passed that information on to TTK yet its only now that this information is coming to light!

Seems Labour is utterly committed to protecting one particular ethnic voting block while happily locking up another for the crime of hurty words.