Diane Abbott, as Home Secretary, would have potentially led British Intelligence.

I hope so! She’s been Home Sec since 2010, in charge of all this stuff. I was arguing the other day that Labour should go all out on the police numbers. My non-scientific straw poll of overhead conversation in the greengrocers this morning was that the two ladies talking about it weren’t that impressed with May’s…

I’d say it was probably the early 80s.

The Scottish Parliament system is even better. Each ballot has two votes: one for a candidate and one for a party, and the two can be different.

“British system is still a lot more sensible than the electoral college”

Thanks for covering an election that is happening outside of the US; I’m hoping it motivates the politics blogs of the Gizmodo Media Group into further discussions on things that happen outside of its home territory.

Is this because Trump’s administration is not a big enough clusterfuck???

“It’s so, so sad. Morality is just gone. Morals have flown out the window.”

Why would Fox call him on it? They’ve spent the better part of 20 years doing it themselves.

Only the far right? A now GOP Congressman assaulted a reporter and Paul Ryan shrugged it off.

Awful lot of assholes trying to play apologist for that deranged bigot.

These sort of Christians are precisely what makes me fear for me and mine, and I think part of what subconsciously drove me to study the MENA and Islam (and make some great friends along the way).

“identity [sic]”

“send a strong message to the socialists.”

He seems well adjusted.

I forgot about the part in the Bible where Jesus proclaimed to his followers “Kill ‘em all!”

“Not one penny of American treasure...”

“Higgins, a former police captain...”

The Venn Diagram of ‘ bigots’ and ‘gun nuts’ is a single circle.

Not a single radicalized Islamic suspect should be granted any measure of quarter. Their intended entry to the American homeland should be summarily denied. Every conceivable measure should be engaged to hunt them down. Hunt them, identity them, and kill them. Kill them all. For the sake of all that is good and…