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I flew through the night checking the UK returns — Labour won in a landslide. The people decisively ended 14 years of Conservative rule, as the party of defective PMs lost more than 250 seats. Nigel Farage helped them lose, by splitting the right-wing vote with his Reform Russki Mir party.
On my flight into Heathrow, I sat next to a lovely young Syrian immigrant, and I kept thinking how these bastards selling fear of the other overestimated people’s ability to hate longterm.
As my podcast partner Jim Stewartson says the spell of Russian psyops appears to be wearing off in the UK.
The writers I work with at Byline Times and Byline Supplement can take a bow — the tenacious reporting of reader-funded independent investigative journalists rose above the din of lies to push good, old-fashioned reality — steady and with feeling.
That feeling is a love for humanity — a desire for decency.
Putin’s knees water at the idea of a diverse planet with functioning democracies.
The evil platypus was diminished today.
While I was spinning around Paddington station waiting for my train, everyone looked like a Charles Dickens character, smiling, joyful, I expected an impromptu flash jig.
Instead I wrote you one.
Carry on.
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