hunk wrote:Seems Italy is lost now. And guess who's cheerleading the far right populists from the sidelines. It's our favourite billionaire Bannon. Yes, the same Bannon behind Cambridge Analytica; the company which played a pivotal role behind instigating Brexit. There's a pattern emerging here... Liberal democracy is under attack from the powers that be in the east (Putin's Russia) and the West (Trumpian America) and has caught the EU sleeping and off guard. A cultural war is being waged against our democracy and the liberals are only just waking up and starting to realise it. Are the attacks coordinated? Who knows. Meanwhile the unholy new right coalition is chipping away at the EU where it can one nation at a time. And it's working.....
Liveinadive wrote:Calm down. It is Italy, they are historically retarded at elections.
Yossarian wrote:Dacre’s stepping down from the Mail. That can only be a good thing.
Brooks wrote:Prices can go down as well as up.
Benefiting from the rise in life expectancy.SpaceGazelle wrote:They're all in decline, but The Mail is fairing pretty well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_Kingdom_by_circulation#/media/File:UK_daily_newspaper_circulation_1950_present.svg
The way war is fought has changed. Fewer boots on the ground, more bombing folks from miles away. The politics hasn't changed and the world is still fucked.SpaceGazelle wrote:I know the world seems fucked, but every modern generation thinks this. What it is is complicated, and environmental issues aside, I think it's best summed up with this graph. I suspect you'd see this flipped back to front if it was a graph of happiness, but I suspect that's mainly because people are more fraught these days because internet news.
Yossarian wrote:Steve Bell emailed the whole company about that. Twice. It seems it was turned down because it could have been perceived as anti-semitic.
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