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Maybe they should adopt the British electoral system. Then you have clear winners and losers, which sometimes matches how everyone voted.

Here's what's up right now on French TV: Lots of politicians are fighting, & it's complicated to figure out what's going on. This level of fragmentation in Parliament just has not happened under this constitutional regime, designed in 1958; this is unprecedented territory.

You never hear about Bonapartists any more these days do you

One crucial difference between the British and French far right is that the latter managed to find a leader who doesn't look like a boiled scrotum.

I was playing a Stereolab album earlier, and you never know, every little bit helps.

Whilst the Democrats have been fidgeting about Biden, the French Left show what can be done when you get your merde together.

I'm not saying French voters were energised by seeing Grant Shapps lose his seat but clearly they were.

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Block Printsdiscontinuednotes.com We went to the exhibition Yoshida: Three Generations Of Japanese Printmaking at Dulwich Picture Gallery. The works are arranged broadly chronologically, divided between the lives of the 6 creators. In...

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Saw this on mastodon and it is fantastic. AI in medicine

The fun thing about stories like these is they seem twee and inconsequential but are potentially more serious than any of the political stuff dominating the headlines, given the possibility of collapsing ecosystems, food supplies, civilisation.

As if we didn't have enough environmental problems, now earthworm populations are crashing: in the U.K., down a third in the past 25 years. No one is sure why. Fun fact: 1 cubic meter of healthy soil has 1 km of worm tunnels. 🧪 www.economist.com/britain/2024...

What’s behind Britain’s earthworm cataclysm?www.economist.com Their numbers may have declined by a third

One notable moment in the BBC election coverage was when they had the Reform guy in the studio. He said they had employed an agency to do background checks on candidates, but they let them down. Reminded me that ChangeUK (remember them?) said a similar thing when they had a few dodgy candidates.

On Monday the Telegraph will publish a bombshell poll showing the decline in support for Starmer.

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Since Starmer became PM, British F1 drivers have qualified 1-2-3 at the British GP for the first time ever, and England have actually won a penalty shoot-out. Labour fixing things already.

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Frank Lampard makes taking penalties sound like the guilt of taking a trip to the back alley massage parlour to get wanked off. #Euro2024

Imagine how many more seats the Tories would have lost to Reform if England supporters had come home a week earlier.

Is all this "not a real landslide" guff an attempt to create a UK equivalent of the "2020 stolen election" theme? In which case it's a typically crass garbling, because all it leads to is demand for a proportional system, which will *definitely* lock out those old Thatcher-style Tory majorities.

ConHome readers maintaining a sense of balance and normality

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This is so cool! Frog & amphibian have been dessimated by the disease chytridiomycosis, caused by a fungal pathogen. Researchers have realised that the fungi is heat intolerant so little brick saunas for frogs can help kill the fungi! Recovered frogs more resistant to further infxn 🧪

These frog 'saunas’ could help endangered species fight off a deadly funguswww.nature.com How a hot resting spot can help frogs survive chytridiomycosis infection, and the decades-long hunt for dark matter in black holes. Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 3 July 2024

The real lesson is that the old Liberal Party's decline in the 1929 election could have been avoided if Lloyd George had done more wacky water-based stunts.

Let's wait and see how many more votes Starmer gets on iPlayer.

Daring move by Starmer to appoint some ministers from outside Parliament, but I wouldn't have given DEFRA to Timmy Mallett.

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Debris Slidediscontinuednotes.com Since some of my readers live outside the UK you may be interested to see how political campaigning happens here. We did not see any canvassers or campaigners in the past 6 weeks or go to any events. ...

Did anyone ask Liz Truss how she felt to see the Lib Dems doing better without her

How bitterly the Americans must envy the British system for dealing with incapable leaders, by getting them to call and lose early elections.

I think it's the right moment to declare I'm disillusioned with the Starmer government.

Can someone check if Allister Heath is ok

Did Paul Mason stand as a candidate anywhere? I lost track of that saga.

ConHome taking it as well as you'd expect conservativehome.com/2024/07/05/r...

Requiem for the lotus eaters | Conservative Homeconservativehome.com If there is one thread that unites all the governments and prime ministers we have had over the past 14 years, it is postponing difficult decisions and taking the easy way out. Tonight, the whole part...

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Bit on the nose there, signer guy.

It's a mark of how crap Mogg is that he didn't lose till after I went back to bed