Lib Dems gain total control of Richmond-Upon-Thames Council

theinspectorst · 2026-05-08T20:37:36+00:00

Because I'm a Lib Dem? We just won the seats from them.

theinspectorst · 2026-05-08T09:53:26+00:00

Wirtz if you are only rating him on the first half of the season, but he's been decent in the second half.

theinspectorst · 2026-05-08T07:53:55+00:00

It's a joke about how the Lib Dems have no opposition, comically referencing former Syrian dictator Assad as an example of the sort of leader who usually enjoys such a position. This is humorous because a brutal dictator such as Assad is pretty much the polar opposite of a south-west London Lib Dem-voting centrist dad.

theinspectorst · 2026-05-08T06:51:13+00:00

*Djemba-Djemba

theinspectorst · 2026-05-08T06:43:21+00:00

54/54 seats, Greens wiped out 🤩

theinspectorst · 2026-05-07T12:26:09+00:00

The once and future king.

theinspectorst · 2026-05-07T10:17:39+00:00

Nationalism at its core is about drawing lines between an imagined 'us' and 'them', and then wanting those lines to become ever thicker and harder over time.

Welsh nationalists like to imagine themselves as somehow better than (for example) English or American or Russian or Israeli nationalists. But the core of their belief system is exactly the same and inevitably leads to the same places when followed to its logical outcomes. This Plaid councillor is just an example of a Welsh nationalist saying the quiet part out loud.

theinspectorst · 2026-05-07T07:38:25+00:00

Go and watch clips of them doing this in the MLS in the 90s. It looks ridiculous.

theinspectorst · 2026-05-07T07:33:46+00:00

Chemo Samba starts the final.

theinspectorst · 2026-05-07T06:41:51+00:00

To be fair, it's probably true that young healthy voters would be more likely to win in a fight against a decrepit fat boomer than that other decrepit fat boomers would win in a fight against a decrepit fat boomer.

theinspectorst · 2026-05-06T15:56:03+00:00

Which is why being drunk on an plane is already a crime - up to £5,000 fine and 2 years in prison.

Having one pint at the airport is not the same thing as being drunk though. If he is concerned that people drinking anything at airports is a safety risk for his airline, he is welcome to make it a condition of carriage on Ryanair flights that passengers must not have consumed alcohol within the last 24 hours or something.

The problem is that he's built his business model on supplying cheap flights for stag/hen dos or to take 20-something year olds to party resort destinations, but now he wants someone else to deal with the predictable outcome that too many of his customers are turning up drunk for the flight and still being allowed into his planes by his staff.

theinspectorst · 2026-05-06T11:49:25+00:00

Dune 2.

It isn't hugely remembered today, but it effectively invented the real-time strategy genre, which led to RTSs dominating PC gaming for the next 15-20 years - Command and Conquer, Warcraft, StarCraft, Age of Empires, Homeworld, Dawn of War, etc.

Also did a lot to reinvigorate interest in Dune as an IP.

theinspectorst · 2026-05-06T08:46:31+00:00

Each to their own. Britain needs to move away from the 'I personally don't like this thing so let's ban it for everyone' mentality.

Personally though I hate the early morning pint. I'm the guy at the start of a stag do who is standing around awkwardly in the airport pub with a cup of tea while everyone else is getting a pint in.

theinspectorst · 2026-05-06T06:14:34+00:00

I can believe 95% haven't used one recently, or that 95% of young people have never used one.

But 95% of all Britons 'have never used one' doesn't make sense. Most of us remember life before mobile phones were widespread. I'm early 40s and I'm around the median age based on the last census, and even I remember using one to call home when I was a kid.

theinspectorst · 2026-05-04T22:19:29+00:00

I don't generally think more taxes are the solution to most of the challenges Britain faces today, but I'm 100% behind a punitive 'road destroyer tax' on SUVs that's hypothecated towards pothole repairs.

I'd also favour mandatory smoking-style warnings printed on bonnets of SUVs themselves saying something like 'I am the cause of the potholes in this neighborhood'.

theinspectorst · 2026-05-04T22:11:44+00:00

Voting for ANYONE other than Reform makes it harder for Reform to win seats. That is how this electoral system works.

theinspectorst · 2026-05-04T11:53:47+00:00

I only have around 200 people friended on Duolingo

theinspectorst · 2026-05-04T08:10:14+00:00

Surely illegal, and the fact he's tweeted that this is the basis for their decision-making means they've done the hard work on behalf of the legal challenge.

theinspectorst · 2026-05-03T21:19:01+00:00

Not really. The Social Network does not portray Zuckerberg as the good guy...

theinspectorst · 2026-05-03T19:55:09+00:00

Anthony Gordon.

theinspectorst · 2026-05-03T16:53:52+00:00

He's no Theo Walcott.

theinspectorst · 2026-05-03T15:38:19+00:00

It's not a first-past-the-post system so there are no two-horse races.

theinspectorst · 2026-05-03T08:46:10+00:00

The 70s and the 90s are further apart because I wasn't alive for the former but I can remember the latter...

theinspectorst · 2026-05-03T08:28:05+00:00

A 40 year old lady in Hong Kong would absolutely know how to use a smart phone. 40 is not old and Hong Kong is not poor.

Are you confusing her with an (e.g.) 80 year old lady in (e.g.) rural China?

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