forkboy84 posted:

Yup. According to this Guardian article which quotes Doreen Lawrence's book

Though I did get one thing wrong, Neville Lawrence was a builder, not a painter.

The problem is that Paul Dacre leads a massively sheltered life, gets a chauffeur driven car from his front door to the Mail office where he apparently puts in extremely long days, then heads straight home. The only plebs he has contact with are presumably the cleaners of his building and the sort of tradesman who might be doing up his home. He's completely tucked away from the real world, free to spout his xenophobic fear mongering, homophobic bile without the risk of many real people who could challenge his world view. I mean this is a oval office who fell out with Tony Blair because of Blair's progressive views on gay rights & Cherie's public breastfeeding. No one person has done so much harm to this country since Thatcher was punted out of office by her own party.

Guavanaut posted:

If you think about it though, Thatcher's ancestors in the medieval period would have probably been responsible for covering houses in flammable insulation.

Skinty McEdger posted:

Nick Davies two books about the evils of modern journalism Flat Earth News (which goes in depth about the Mail and the Stephen Lawrence case) and Hack Attack (which focuses on the Murdoch papers and phone hacking) are well worth a read. Flat earth news predicts a bunch of pessimistic trends for journalism that he hopes to be proven wrong about, while Hack Attacks message is things are worse than I had thought they would be.

Guavanaut posted:

It's all about the good futures now that we're in the bad future of the 80s.

Skinty McEdger posted:

Nick Davies two books about the evils of modern journalism Flat Earth News (which goes in depth about the Mail and the Stephen Lawrence case) and Hack Attack (which focuses on the Murdoch papers and phone hacking) are well worth a read. Flat earth news predicts a bunch of pessimistic trends for journalism that he hopes to be proven wrong about, while Hack Attacks message is things are worse than I had thought they would be.

LeoMarr posted:

if corbyn becomes PM, what would HE do about the flammable biilding wraps? i mean хрущёвка were fireproof were they? maybe bulldoze the housing blocks and replace them wth a low cost solution...

Captain Fargle posted:

I dunno. David Cameron kicking off Brexit is a pretty drat strong contender.

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

Rich people will be the first against the cheaply cladded wall

Zephro posted:

If only. We somehow got the massive inequality, overmighty corporations and constant future shock without any of the cool poo poo like Ono-Sendai decks

Guavanaut posted:

David Cyberon hosed a dead orc.

Darth Walrus posted:

So what's the difference between the leader of a council and its CEO?

Darth Walrus posted:

So what's the difference between the leader of a council and its CEO?

vodkat posted:

The leader of the council is the 'PM' of the locally elected councillors, the Chief Executive is the head civil servant of the council that is actually responsible for doing and running everything.

Darth Walrus posted:

Ah, that makes sense. So the council makes the policy, and the CEO makes it happen.

nopantsjack posted:

Why would you rent a luxury flat anyway? You're pissing above the average salary worth of money into a black hole every year.

serious gaylord posted:

If anyone remembers the hilarity of pooles council closing all of the toilets it took a funnier turn today.

Because all the toilets are closed near to the queue for the sandbanks to Studland ferry people have taken to pissing against the wall of the now closed toilet blocks (And lobbing pissfilled bottles at the councilors and MP's houses). The council, after receiving notice of legal action due to the health hazard this is causing,have now scheduled their street cleanings team to go to these toilets once a day to clean them.

At a greater cost than it took to maintain the toilets previously.

nopantsjack posted:

I have a super wealthy uncle who is having to flee the country for 6 years because he hasn't paid any income tax basically in his whole life.

serious gaylord posted:

If anyone remembers the hilarity of pooles council closing all of the toilets it took a funnier turn today.

Because all the toilets are closed near to the queue for the sandbanks to Studland ferry people have taken to pissing against the wall of the now closed toilet blocks (And lobbing pissfilled bottles at the councilors and MP's houses). The council, after receiving notice of legal action due to the health hazard this is causing,have now scheduled their street cleanings team to go to these toilets once a day to clean them.

At a greater cost than it took to maintain the toilets previously.

ThomasPaine posted:

Depends on whether they're on insulin tbh. Very unlikely though perhaps possible occasionally on oral medication like metformin. Doubtful Abbot is on insulin if she's only been diagnosed a few months. If she was hypoglycemia then sure thst would account for it.

High blood glucose on the other hand can cause tiredness and thirst and blurred vision but it would have to be pretty loving persistent to get to that level. And even then it shouldn't have any cognitive impact short term.

My issue isn't with Abbot because I agree that it's being blown out of proportion and we all have off days, I just get wound up when people use diabetes as an excuse because it brings both the insufferable 'LOL FAT MAYBE LAY OFF THE CAKE' and equally annoying 'oh the poor sick dear how vulnerable' types out. I get frustrated because the media always wilfully misunderstands the nature of the condition and people using it to excuse themselves directly contributes to oversimplified and often plain wrong attitudes to it.

I'm probably just bring precious but obviously it's a topic I have a personal investment in.

Hidingo Kojimba posted:

Could be as simple as wanting to live in inner London and being not quite fabulously wealthy enough to get a mortgage. Alternatively I suppose if you want to live somewhere short-term before moving somewhere else then it's much easier to get out of a short lease than sell a heavily mortgaged freehold. (Though I can't imagine it's that hard to find a buyer in London so i dunno.)

ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:

You know, I really don't know how far The Heil can sink to be honest

https://twitter.com/thebobpalmer/status/877803436825116674

Julio Cruz posted:

I like that they've got to point out what the particular spelling errors are in case their readers are too thick to work it out themselves.

ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:

You know, I really don't know how far The Heil can sink to be honest

https://twitter.com/thebobpalmer/status/877803436825116674

Jedit posted:

Oh, we can do better than that. The cunts complaining about Grenfell survivors being rehoused in their blocks are quite possibly the same cunts who demanded the external refurbishment of the tower that led to the fire.

serious gaylord posted:

I also assume everyones already seen this?

https://twitter.com/C4Ciaran/status/877951036589170688

serious gaylord posted:

I also assume everyones already seen this?

https://twitter.com/C4Ciaran/status/877951036589170688

winegums posted:

I'm sure there'll be serious repercussions for the Tories this time.

serious gaylord posted:

https://twitter.com/C4Ciaran/status/877951036589170688

Jose posted: