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More cops and more paranoia doesn't necessarily make us more safe. The last few times there's been a major terrorist attack, it's been followed by a wake of wrongful arrests and police shootings. Any "solution" to terrorism needs to be holistic and needs to revisit the flawed models that...

Reconsider the choices that you made that lead to you posting that.

Details of the attacker haven't been released as far as I'm aware. Maybe have a couple of hours off before trumpeting how great Prevent is (it's fucking horrendous). If you want something to read in the meantime on the causes and motivations behind home-grown terrorism and how it intersects...

William Hill are still offering 4/1 for Labour to retain Wrexham. if that poll is anywhere close to accurate, that's printing money.

I like to think I wouldn't push at least one of my parents down the stairs for cash either. But isn't conservatism meant to be aggressively cynical about human nature? It's the rolling back of a universal benefit I object to. We know how this happens - we've seen it enough before. First...

Imagine watching your parent suffer a slow death through Alzheimer's. Imagine doing so, and knowing that their sometimes confused and miserable existence is costing your inheritance upwards of £50k a year. The priority for end of life care should be ensuring people live out their life as...

Urgh, centrism. Social care is underfunded. The decision to underfund it was a political one. If we need to fund social care properly (and we do), fund it properly through taxation. Forcing the burden of paying for social care onto the sick is barbarism.

Rest of this is spot on, but I thought the proposal was to essentially sell people financial products to allow them to release equity from their house, and use that to fund social care (so funding is provided by banks, who recover their costs when people die).

I think thinking that your home is "a high value asset" rather than a basic human need is part of the reason we're in the state we're in, where many of us have very little prospect of getting long-term housing security (either through ownership or secure tenancy). For many people inheritance is...

One of the (myriad) self-owns the PLP have done themselves over the last seven or eight years is to create absurdly low expectations for Corbyn in a general election. They needed to do that in order to legitimise their own opposition and they assumed their claims would never be tested as they...

Find those last two points pretty incongruous? I mean, say what you like about Corbyn, he's been vociferously consistently opposed to the deployment of British troops anywhere in the world - including Northern Ireland. Corbyn's position on Sinn Fein was essentially correct though. I mean...

The budget deficit was high in 2009 because of a global financial crash (it quadrupled between 2008 and 2011 - from about £40bn to £150bn - it's now £70bn). It's not conservative prudent management of the economy that has led to the deficit decreasing, but regression to the mean (if you're not...

There's definitely a recognition among a chunk of the membership (not just among the people who joined in 2015, but longstanding members too - who've frequently felt overlooked and disrespected by and out-of-touch leadership) - that this is their only chance to gain control of the party and...

I'm voting for anarcho-abstentionism although it's possible I'll crack in the next couple of weeks.

And yet the enforcement of a false binary of sex leads to doctors regularly mutilating the genitals of intersex babies (around 1% of babies are affected by this) to make them conform to one or other binary sex. It's an absolute vicious myth to suggest that children are being told they're...

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It's the perfect Tory policy though. Fund social care by asset stripping pensioners and use that to sell financial products. And it's the culmination of the privatisation of housing that was started under right-to-buy. Sell social housing cheap to social tenants. House price increases become...

It's equally wrong to suggest that there are two biological sexes though. Science isn't really able to classify people into male and female - they have a number of different measures, but they don't always stack up nicely. How do you classify someone with male genitals but XX chromosomes? How...

"the fact" that there are only two genders comes from where exactly? Biology? Anthropology?

I think it's important to stress that anyone claiming to be communist who isn't in favour of destroying the family structure, traditional society, hetero-normativity, gender-roles, race and borders is a fraud and a cop though. It's a pity literal fucking nazis have a better picture of what...