Two years after winning in a
landslide, with his Labour group being given its largest majority in Parliament
in decades, PM Starmer found himself polling as the least favored PM on record
and was forced by the political reality of his political group to resign. Why?
I contend that the actual reason, behind and obfuscated by the headlines, is
rather basic, or fundamental.
The full essay is at "Starmer Resigns as British Prime Minister."
Like the coronavirus in the
early 2020s, HIV/AIDS in the mid-1980s and for at least a decade after then paid
little or no attention to national borders or even to nationalities. Even
though coronavirus freely walked through the boundaries of our various group-identities
with the implication being that they are actually artificial demarcated
constructions, AIDS showed us that sub-societal cultural differences do exist.
In fact, within a given sub-culture and thus group-identity, one set of values
may be ethically and psychologically better than another set, so broad-strokes can
be understood as over-simplifications.
The full essay is at "Downtown."