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Honestly, with Knebworth having a capacity of 125,000 and this event competing with the likes of Download Fest, the Metallica stadium shows, MCR at Wembley Stadium on the same day, i.e. many other high profile rock music events in the UK this summer and this being a re-visit of this year's tour...

London Stadium last year was larger by itself and that wasn't even the only UK date, for this to be hyped up in this way it has to be an 'Edfest' at a large outdoor location like Knebworth. Download Festival can also be ruled out I expect, as I believe they have exclusivity clauses for their...

The setup at Sonisphere in 2014 was superior to any of the Download fests I have attended, it was a great festival.

'Special Headline Show' for the UK without further details is very intriguing. The dates line-up with the Hyde Park concert weekends, which is a shame because these day festivals kind of suck in my opinion, terrible sound and repulsive tiered ticketing practices. Seems like the most likely...

Why are you sticking to this falsehood? As per CNN and many other news sources, the killer's own mother is recorded in court documents stating that he had 'become more political and started to lean more to the left - becoming more pro-gay and trans-rights oriented'.

Nonsense. The guy has a transgender partner and he stated he killed Kirk because, as per his own words,he 'had enough of his hatred. Some hate can't be negotiated out.' To rule out him being a leftist but claim he might still be a groyper because he's very online (something common amongst...

This would have been good advice for those who made fools of themselves claiming pre-emptively, in this thread and more widely, that the killer was far-right/groyper, now that more factual evidence has been revealed and the true picture is much clearer. Unfortunately, people across the political...

Burnham represents the 'soft left' wing of the party whereas Starmer is the centrist/Blairite wing. He has been critical of Starmer's government on account of welfare cuts and has indicated support for or at least consideration of wealth tax. Not a complete change but definitely a leftward turn.

Highly unlikely that Starmer leads Labour into the next election, he is a walking disaster. Reports are that there is already a faction within the party plotting to install Andy Burnham in a safe seat and oust Starmer in favour of him. They will probably wait until after next May's local...

For what it's worth, I actually discovered yesterday that the quote that is being bandied about regarding empathy is half a quote being taken out of context and that he went on to say he prefers the term sympathy to empathy. Still not a remark I would concur with but selective quoting is...

Likewise. I have only had brief forays into this thread but I can see why other posters have given up on it when seeing the extreme views of many who would ironically categorise themselves as being on the kind and compassionate side of politics. And to think these people still can't figure out...

I didn't say you *were* celebrating, I was commenting that repeatedly posting on an internet forum about how evil someone is immediately following their death is kind of weird and obsessive behaviour.

'I'm not celebrating his death, I'm just going to repeatedly post how deplorable and evil he was in the hours immediately following his death.' Strange behaviour tbh.

Extremely ghoulish behaviour to make a thinly veiled gloating statement before someone's body is even cold, imo. I don't know too much about this guy as I'm not American but from what I understand his premise was that he sat down and debated people. I'm sure I would have disagreed with him on...

Now we can speculate about them arguing over Bruce costing $50 more than Nicko.

Yes, exactly correct. Though you lean a good way further to the left than I do, I share similarly pessimistic sentiments about the direction of travel, but it seems a shame to simply be resigned to society having to 'learn the hard way' again. Not that I have a ready-made solution up my sleeve...

I'm not being facetious in asking this, I genuinely want to better understand your point of view. As you have indicated in previous comments that you believe that many Western democracies are embarking on a downward spiral towards fascism by way of far-right populism, do you think this wish is...

I suppose the question I am trying to answer is, if you assert that society is largely composed of 'morons' and under a democratic system the vote of the 'moron' is worth just the same as the vote of the 'intellectual', then what is your solution to that issue?

In that case, if a huge chunk of the populace (enough to win democratic elections) are morons (predominantly the people that disagree with you of course, conveniently) what do you propose to do? IQ test to be eligible for voting?

It is quite puzzling to me when people characterise everyone who is swayed to vote for a populist party or politician as a moron, seeing as many of them in the past voted for the left-wing or moderate parties that these people support. Take for instance Reform in the UK gobbling up a large share...