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Bernard Lee's avatar

Pretty shocking that the New Statesman can publish in this particular week without one mention of the ongoing terror in Gaza...

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Shaz's avatar

"Most Britons are no longer worshipping, baptising their children, getting married or having funerals in a church. Yet 46 per cent still describe themselves as Christian" - this may well be true, but wish there was acknowledgement amongst journalism that there are other non Church of England churches, that are full of people on Sundays.

Other than that, another interesting round up!

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De la Tourette's avatar

The Harris vs. Trump poll result here is rooted in wishful thinking more than anything remotely reality based. Cognitive dissonance much ? Just observing from a distance…

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De la Tourette's avatar

Regardless of wishful thinking, journalistic pirouettes, governmental innuendos & further moldings of mass opinion, Trump’s still going to win by a landslide. Yeah, sucks to be in a profession that’s losing all its grit, swagger & swaying power…

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Paul Rich's avatar

I’m puzzled why Harris can’t apparently make inroads into Trump’s heartland. Why isn’t opinion shifting in Iowa, Idaho etc. The voters there can’t all be trapped in an information bubble surely?

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treehill's avatar

It's because she has nothing to offer them, other than more of the same. People want radical change and Trump may not be it but he still looks like a big middle finger to the Establishment.

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Paul Rich's avatar

She does offer radical change - it might not be explained clearly enough.

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treehill's avatar

Do you seriously think the people in the states you refer to need further explanation? Isn’t that sort of condescending?

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Paul Rich's avatar

It’s not condescending to explain policies clearly - indeed the idea from the GOO that the ill educated masses don’t even need to understand policies is the real condescension. The problem in the mid west is that radio and a lot of the media are dominated by the far right pp

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treehill's avatar

I don't think people in the Midwest are more susceptible to right wing propaganda than on the coasts, do you? Or are they not as smart as the coastal types? BTW, they have internet now. I'm from the Midwest and visit frequently btw.

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De la Tourette's avatar

Then it just isn’t radical enough by simple nature. Aye, truth hurts.

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Anil's avatar

I live in the Chicago area and didn't watch even a single minute of the DNC. We don't want America to turn into an atheist, post-Christian nation like Great Britain and most of Europe. That's how Nazi-ism was born.

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De la Tourette's avatar

No. That certainly wasn’t how it happened.

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