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Probably lost on purpose. You know, playing the long game.

Okay. Firstly I didn’t compare our government and media to Ukraine. I just pointed out that we’re not exactly free of issues ourselves. Completely different, you’re adding your own context. You dismissed that and then rather poetically half an our later a story broke about press intimidation in...

But you’re using press freedom as a judgement on Ukraine and Ukraine alone as a reasoning as to why we shouldn’t be involved. The alternative is to let a country with one of the worst track records in the world on press freedom crack on. It was a shit argument from the outset. The kind you see...

They’d automatically dropped 80+ places on the only reliable measurement of press freedom. It wouldn’t just be press freedom though. It would also include freedom to internet access to outside sources. Free in Ukraine, suppressed in Russia. Unless you live near the border of a neighbouring...

Sunak’s green plan has just been found to be unlawful in the British courts. Green groups argued that it was just word salad and was signed off by the government with no evidence that the government had a plan to achieve it. He’s not having a good day.

Have it with oat milk. Easiest way to improve any coffee regardless of the price tag. Especially true with a latte.

You do know that listening to Ukrainian Journalists and paying attention to facts from an independent organisation such as Reporters Without Borders don’t have to be mutually exclusive. It is possible to look at the bigger picture and form a balanced view considering all the facts not just a...

Sorry sickboy was it too much information for you so you had no choice but to find it funny. Here’s some more for you. In the reporter’s without borders poll when Kuchma left power Ukraine was 132nd in their freedom index, they’re now 90th IIRC. Ironically if you look into the details of that...

And now I’m talking about the Ukrainian government. Keep up.

But a lot of what happened to press in Ukraine pre war was either a hangover from previous Russian friendly presidents, especially true under Kuchma who closed down many opposition favouring outlets and really ramped up surveillance and intimidation on “unfriendly” journalists. In the period...

He’s a piece of shit isn’t he.

It’s being reported that Boris Johnson, the PM who insisted that we had to introduce voter ID to stop voter fraud (that doesn’t exist on numbers big enough that you can’t count them on one hand) and is definitely not a tool to hamper voter turnout amongst a demographic that would probably vote...

The EU hasn’t insisted on anything. That’s just how it’s done anywhere in the world on shipments from somewhere else in the world with the exception of inside the EU. If something is shipped from Australia into the UK under the free trade agreement we have with them you still have to use the...

Like I said. In the past for sure. I don’t hide from that. With the benefit of hindsight I would never have voted Tory in the 2015 GE and I openly admit that I didn’t fully understand at the time what I was voting for. I can’t turn the clock back but I can acknowledge that mistake and learn...

In the past for sure, I don’t hide away from that. How’s Brexit and the Tory government you enabled by voting for it going? You still towing the Murdoch, Barclays and Rothermere line that you shouldn’t be regretting your vote contrary to the evidence of your own eyes and reality?

As if by magic https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-68939035

Do you think headlines like “enemies of the state” aren’t fed by the government. The collusion between the press (the Sun especially) and the government over Hillsborough, the miners strike etc. The murder of Daniel Morgan and the this governments reluctance to release the report and then...

Or even non wartime. Look at our own country and the behaviour of the government towards “unfriendly” media, the pressure they put on the BBC, the client press, who they invite on photo ops, who they talk too (especially evident during the pandemic) etc etc. It’s all about shaping the narrative...

And what do the people of Ukraine think? What Putin thinks is irrelevant. And how you’re gauging what the Russian public thinks god only knows. Tucker Carlsons word? Margery Taylor Greens word? You’ve certainly swallowed some propaganda from somewhere.

They wasn’t banned for being on the left though they were banned for being in collusion with Russia. They were also minority parties. IIRC only one had seats in parliament and even then not enough to influence anything and even then were predicted to lose those seats when a GE can be held...