Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

‘Mob rule’ is also, of course, an insulting way of referring to democracy.

That's fair, I guess we'll have to wait and see when the time comes. The matter has been complicated more as this is happening at the same time as Labour having its natural "Burnham bounce", but ultimately the motion has hurt the Greens at the worst possible time for them.

THE FERRET: The company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal – and one of the largest in the world – is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via a Caribbean tax haven

Maybe, I guess we'll see. Agree on ultimately it'll come down to the more long term impact on membership.

Like Berry, I also didn't see the ZIR motion as constructive, and his lack of leadership on that was a huge misstep which hopefully they can recover from, I don't disagree, but the statement the leadership released clarified the party position.

I think there's a much stronger argument to be made for his judgement being poor around the motion (still not resigning matter tbh), but it's a different point than the one I was making, some are using the by-election alone as basis.

Fascinating to watch people *still* fixate on whether Polanski should resign as Greens leader because of a by-election loss, after doing relatively well in what used to be a very safe Labour seat. On what basis? Farage has stood for parliament eight times.

No country has ever walked this path as a former member, already closely aligned and sharing the EU’s values. With the political will, Britain could be back at the table within a single parliament.

“In France, you’re arrested for demanding better schools; in Spain, for demanding decent housing; in India, for demanding that people be allowed to vote (130 million removed from official lists); and in Greece, for wanting to practice free journalism.” ~ Alex Afouxenidis

The women have been told that their alleged abuser cannot not be prosecuted in the UK because the Royal Military Police could not find evidence that he had paid tax to HMRC, meaning that the case would have to be prosecuted in Germany – where the statute of limitations has expired.