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Rogan is likeable, and his podcast can be interesting, but he's had many more than a few alt-right/alt-lite/IDW types on. He's less the out-and-out grifter that Dave Rubin is, and clearly much more capable of having his own thoughts, but obviously he's built himself a very big audience largely...

Of course, but Boris has clearly hitched himself to the Trump wagon and it's even clearer today than most days that Trump has his wagon hitched to Putin's. On a related note, a friend of mine was telling me the other day that he has read stuff that indicates the Christian Right are a lot more...

Of course it does, but that's not how things are judged in politics.

It's increasingly looking like there will be a global recession which will muddy the waters anyway. The chances of nothing going wrong are tiny, but the chances of it going so wrong that significant numbers of Brexiteers come to regret it are, I think, equally as tiny. The problem in any no...

I seem to be fine on 7 for the most part, though occasionally a 9 hour will happen if the opportunity presents itself. Overdoing it exercise wise can make me wired, I need to take theanine if I go gym later in the evening. Tryptophan taken as a supplement will knock me the fuck out and make me...

Yeah it was watching Rippetoe on YouTube that I was reminded the Bench Press is where the fuck ups can...fuck you up. But funnily enough, this afternoon I did dead bench off pins about 3cm above the chest and ground out an 100kg single - which I think is more than equal to a 100kg bench. :)

I've done 90 for 6, and 92.5 for 1 but bench press is where the accidents happen and there's a shortage of power racks and deadlift platforms in London gyms unless you are willing to go at very quiet times. I've probably got a 100kg press in me if I'm feeling it and I can create a safe set-up. I...

Re: Luka's image - The album Parklife had a working title of 'Magic Arrows' - clearly referencing Keith Talent from 'London Fields'. http://www.vblurpage.com/articles/stories/select_95/70_london_loves.htm I much preferred 'Money' tbf.

I happily stand corrected, and it's not like I've never made a Turkish woman a bacon sandwich, but I think you know the broad point I was driving at. My Dad had a belief/story, might be bollocks, that the Muslims in Oldham used to drink a bit more but they started turning up to the Mosques...

I actually have direct experience of Burnley, I've been out on a Saturday night a few times - not recently or anything lol, but still. Antipathy towards Muslims was definitely noticeable, but if people want a taxi or a kebab they're probably interacting. My Father lived in Oldham for a few...

Yes, the real problem is the Popperian notion of 'intolerance of intolerance' has not survived its contradictions. That's not just a right-wing problem (obviously the above is).

True enough. But it's easy, speaking for myself as much as anyone, to use a disdain for the Englishness as cover for something probably closer to misanthropy. I certainly remember, but a) Theresa May was not a strong opponent, b) the actual real world significance of his 'losing by less than...

You've diluted your point to make it sound more reasonable tbf. Note: Tea taking people at their word is pretty naive though. Sometimes people don't tell the truth, especially to themselves. Sovereignty my ass.

Whilst England has its own flavour of the qualities you refer to, they are hardly unique to England. The romantic attitude towards capitalist ideology is stronger than in the rest of Europe, but there is *something* to the right-wing talking point that England is actually a tolerant nation...

A No Deal moves an United Ireland from being 'the thing we're not really supposed to talk about' to 'very realisable in the 2020s'. I'm not overly convinced Sinn Fein aren't kinda pleased at the turn of events.

Truss is a known Ayn Randophile so it's unsurpising.

The boring but nonetheless correct answer is wool trousers (I do mean 95-100% wool, some elastane is acceptable I guess though wool has natural stretch anyway) - yeah, they do have to go to the dry-cleaners from time to time but if you hang them up, give them a brush and a hot iron then you can...

It's one thing to vote for an extension, it's quite another to vote to effectively cancel Brexit. I'm not even sure Corbyn would want to (to be seen to) vote for that.

'Stopping a No Deal Brexit' heavily implies the EU will just wave another extension through. I'm not convinced; they just see us spunking away this extension. Unless there's a GE or 2nd Referendum then I don't think they'll let us extend again.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/04/brexit-party-plans-john-lewis-style-rescue-of-british-steel So the first BXP policy that isn't just 'We want a Brexit'. Obviously they're trying to at least to appear to straddle left and right a bit - though I suspect more tokenistic with the...