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Following Johnson's phone call with von der Leyen the mood is down beat. The talks can't go anywhere now and the Internal market bill comes back to th...

Yes it's a perfect storm and very scary. We just have to hope we can avoid economic collapse. The one bit of positivity which there may be is that the...

I'm hoping the government collapses by about the end of January and Starmer can step into the breach.

Well really the deadline is 10.59pm GMT 31st December, but it's not that simple, I've heard talk of crashing the deadline and softening up the other s...

The talks are frenetic as both sides think that the deadline is the end of Sunday, in two days time. Rumours are flying around about concessions, brea...

I'm inclined to agree, although I think it is is highly unpredictable in the short term. It will depend on the fortunes of the Conservative party, who...

I have to agree, although there is a sizeable proportion of the UK population who does value the EU. Everyone I know, for example, except a few older ...

I have to agree with everything you say. It's about the privelidged classes maintaining their iron grip on the ordinary man/woman. Cracking the whip t...

One which I have many answers to, but few can be blamed for the act of Brexit itself, we may have to wait for the historians to give an answer. To me ...

A good update from someone with his finger on the pulse. The rollercoaster (ghost train) is loaded up now and ready to roll. I expect it will set off ...

I think you're onto something there. Consciousness can be equated with living. Perhaps only living things, beings, are in complex realities, where the...

Nice, we can put out the trash can now.

Quite, anti-semitism is a reliable dog whistle because of the holocaust, it's so easy to slam Labour with it because all the conspiracy theories aroun...

Likewise, also I am conflicted because I will qualify for a Scottish passport should Scotland leave the Union. So part of me looks for that as a way o...

You may be right there, but somehow I doubt by compromise he means any from the UK side. The lead negotiator David Frost threatened to resign the othe...

Johnson is between a rock and a hard place. He would like to capitulate and reach a compromise with the EU, but he is hostage to the ERG and the perce...

Implode is more appropriate and the ERG will attack the corpse like rabid dogs. In the meantime, a paper thin deal might, or might not be agreed.

Its scary, when I first heard that laugh, I was worried. Some people have gone down a deep rabbit hole. So deep they might even pull the rest of us do...

Perhaps it's an apparent contradiction, someone says there is little accuracy in the targeting of bombs and another says the bombs are only aimed at c...

You've contradicted what the book review said about how inaccurate the targeting of the bombs was. In cities like Sheffield civilian areas were in amo...

Rats leaving a sinking ship. He was the only brains in the whole outfit.

Which bit is a fairy tale, the destruction I pointed out, or the myths about Hitler?

There are quite a few oligarchs in London, where they have infiltrated the social circles of the Conservative party, have made large donations and may...

I don't think we're going to get very far trading bombing intensity, or targets. It was a complex situation. I'm not well read on the 2nd world war, b...

Yes, he is a wacko though, so who knows.

Yes I see the points you make, but Olivier5 is right there is a large armed militia "standing by" amongst his base. Also most of those 70 million will...

He's up to something, he's replaced most of the civilian leadership in the pentagon in the last 24 hrs. There are lots of rumours going around, my pre...

Unfortunately its human nature to become complacent when one is in a position of privelidge. This is what the political class did, they were complacen...

Yes, the same in the UK. Labour had to become Tory light to win power back in 1997. During the successful days of the 1980/90's capitalism was king, p...

Its the same in the UK and numerous other western countries have problems as a result of globalisation. It wasn't those elites you refer to who caused...

Interesting article on how the political class failed to rescue the Brexit debacle. To the stent that we now have looney government with absolute powe...

Great speech from Biden today, who's already setting up his team to mitigate Covid. Meanwhile Trump announces a press conference in a car park located...

It has barely stopped raining here for two months, I can barely remember what sunshine is like. We do get lots of rainbows though. I've been at the en...

Don't you get it, a Trump figure would only give us more of the swamp, on LSD. The thing you hate is about as good as it gets in human civilisation. T...

It looks as though Johnson is totally cornered, it's like checkmate, there's no where for him to turn, now that Biden is president elect. Either he ta...

Trump can't show his face, he's so naked in his failure. The next 70 days are going to be his worst nightmare come true, with the whole world literall...

I don't know, it's speculation. My point was that there may be beings in the biosphere with knowledge of this existence, while we are in ignorance. It...

Fox is calling Arizona for Biden, looks like they've dumped Trump.

I can agree with that. I agree that DNA plays an important day to day role in cellular life. Yes, also individual cells likewise. Both questions are n...

I agree with most of what you say, but my focus is on the imperative of removing Trump. Gridlock is fine while Trump is ushered off the stage and put ...

Will Trumpism continue when he's been defrocked?

Its only dualism from a certain perspective, or in other words, where does one draw the line between monism and dualism. From where I'm looking it's m...

I wouldn't put to much emphasis on emotion myself, as it is a system within the vehicle of the body for the purposes of controlling behaviour, in a co...

Agreed.

I sympathise with your ideas here, I have similar ideas. But we will need someone like Corbyn as Prime Minister to even start moving in the right dire...

The only thing I don't define here is spirit (for want of a better word), because any attempt falls short. Remember what I said about a different kind...

Yes, but there must be a mechanism by which they come to exist. Unless you wish to assert that this existing thing is the natural state, so there is n...

That's not correct. I do know what I want, to be able to have a cup of tea and a biscuit when I want. Fortunately I am able to most of the time.

Yes, I agree that it's about providing the circumstances for experience. Although I wouldn't say it's consciousness which is having the experience, sp...

That the material we find ourselves in is a construct, an artificial substrate, or vehicle enabling the appearance/experience of a being/s. Being arti...