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Nobody who reads the mail wants it to be a different century, of course.
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incredibly anti-semitic of the conservative party
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Jun 6, 2021 04:03
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https://www.festival2022.uk/ was reading on the millenium dome all night and found out the gov is doing another festival next year with the same concept and it's still a go even after the pandemic.
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Jun 6, 2021 04:30
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Public engagement projects.
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Jun 6, 2021 04:55
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Speaking of absolutely incredible UK journalism. https://twitter.com/DailyMailUK/status/1401314330239553536 I think you could improve basically any headline by appending "claims clairvoyant" to it.
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Jun 6, 2021 05:33
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OwlFancier posted:
pretty handy cover from libel claims too "this crystal ball I bought from H Samuels showed me the parents murdered her" is a lot less actionable sounding than "the parents did it for fucks sake" still not as good a cover as being rich white doctors with PR connections I guess but it's just a bit of libel, not murdering a kid
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Jun 6, 2021 07:25
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The weather, not the Fine Traditions Of Etc, defeated the Armada. I mean, it was both really, otherwise all the English ships would have been sunk in the storms too.
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Jun 6, 2021 07:38
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Beefeater1980 posted:I mean, it was both really, otherwise all the English ships would have been sunk in the storms too. Not really, they stopped chasing once they were at Scotland and turned back. They didn't have enough ammo to press home an attack and they just wanted to make sure the Spanish weren't going to suddenly sneak back to the Channel or attempt to seize a North Sea port, and once they were happy they weren't they all went back for prizes, medals and typhus (the other thing nobody mentions about the Armada is the undoubted winner of the engagement in terms of body count was typhus and other infectious diseases - at least 5,000 English soldiers died of typhus compared to around a hundred in actual combat)
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Jun 6, 2021 08:35
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DesperateDan posted:pretty handy cover from libel claims too I mean, "the parents killed her" is definitely the funny edgy banter explanation but it doesn't really stack up. Neither the how or the why questions are easily answered, and if you'd killed your kid why would you ntentionally create an enormous international media circus for years? They were definitely negligent idiots, but I don't think they actually killed her, or covered up an accidental death even.
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Jun 6, 2021 08:46
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Comrade Fakename posted:Pour one out to a real one: 
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Jun 6, 2021 08:49
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I'm sorry, loving Didsbury?  With its M&S foodhall and artisanal cheese shop?
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Jun 6, 2021 09:49
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I guess they can't claim it about Whitechapel anymore now that half the Bengali population's been punted over to Bow by gentrification
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Jun 6, 2021 09:55
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I feel like there is a glorious opportunity for a #nogoarea social media campaign here
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Jun 6, 2021 09:57
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Security footage of a mosque disguised as a church, they've been getting away with it in Didsbury for twelve years.
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Jun 6, 2021 10:00
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I'll always be grateful that I got hear her incredible self-own on radio live. A lifetime being subjected to my dad's in-car radio choices redeemed in one moment.
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Jun 6, 2021 10:25
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I'm sorry, loving Didsbury? Don't forget those multicultural hotbed "towns" of Edinburgh and Glasgow up in Scotland. There's probably more English poshos in and around Edinburgh than Muslim.
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Jun 6, 2021 11:30
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Kin posted:Don't forget those multicultural hotbed "towns" of Edinburgh and Glasgow up in Scotland. Going by how often a muslim woman I know said she was verbally abused on the street there, definitely. #nogoarea and all that e: Speaking of daily mail this is top news apparently:  A) However shall he cope and B) how the gently caress do so many people read that tripe. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 11:45 on Jun 6, 2021 |
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Jun 6, 2021 11:40
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Edinburgh and Glasgow being included is baffling until you remember that the Scots are being wrapped into the culture war so bojo can secure his legacy by standing up to those wokist blm trans brutes
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Jun 6, 2021 12:02
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they're no go areas for the english, they will chase you down the road and call you a sassenach
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Jun 6, 2021 12:14
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They don't even have the Church of England up there, the woke taliban turned them all into chippies.
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Jun 6, 2021 12:16
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sebzilla posted:Neither the how or the why questions are easily answered, and if you'd killed your kid why would you ntentionally create an enormous international media circus for years? Hell she may not have died in the hotel room. She may have woken up, found her parents gone and wandered out to find them, and genuinely gone missing. A minimum wage worker might have found her in a cleaning cupboard full of bleach and panicked. The point is once they came back and realised she was gone, the panic and the 'blame others so nobody knows we've been negligent' thing kicked into overdrive. And they were propped up by the guilt by proxy of every parent who's ever left their kids alone for five minutes, even for good reasons the McCann's didn't have. I doubt they were the ones who sought out the PR company, I think at that point it had become such huge news I have no doubt that a very sympathetic-sounding and manipulative PR guy got their foot in the door and managed to weaponise their denial. From that point on it was just PR guys framing everything as salaciously as possible to get the TV appearances and column mentions rolling.
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Jun 6, 2021 12:21
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There are areas of Glasgow that you'd be afraid to go, but it's not because of the Muslims.
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Jun 6, 2021 12:32
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sebzilla posted:Come and post in The How could you leave out The Yohan Kebab???
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Jun 6, 2021 12:34
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One time before the Pandemic I was over in Glasgow having a burger in Bread Meats Bread. There were two very young/very trendy London types in the table next to me having lunch. I could tell they were from London because they were talking about how much they missed London and hated having to be in Glasgow as part of "the tour." (From the context I think it was something to do with the theatre and their work.) They then started talking about "Irn Bru" how awful it was, and why was it in all the cocktails in the bars? Despite this being a very busy place, they were definitely speaking loudly enough to be easily overheard by all the patrons. I'd say they were at risk of turning Glasgow into a No-Go area, but a different sort of No-Go area than the Daily Mail imagines.
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Jun 6, 2021 12:41
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keep punching joe posted:There are areas of Glasgow that you'd be afraid to go, but it's not because of the Muslims. Is it the crunch boxes?
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Jun 6, 2021 12:42
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I doubt they were the ones who sought out the PR company, I think at that point it had become such huge news I have no doubt that a very sympathetic-sounding and manipulative PR guy got their foot in the door and managed to weaponise their denial. From that point on it was just PR guys framing everything as salaciously as possible to get the TV appearances and column mentions rolling. didn't lord freud, accused post mortem by his wife of abuse and paedophilia, deal with the media for them in the first week?
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Jun 6, 2021 12:42
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https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-05/time-to-distinguish-between-vaccinated-and-unvaccinated-says-tony-blairquote:Tony Blair: Former PM says the vaccinated should have no lockdown restrictions tonty's off his shits again quote:Former prime minister Tony Blair says it makes "no sense at all to treat those who have had vaccination as the same as those who haven’t."
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Jun 6, 2021 12:43
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sebzilla posted:if you'd killed your kid why would you ntentionally create an enormous international media circus for years?
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Jun 6, 2021 12:45
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Yeah, people have been complaining about how Bradford is about to become majority Pakistani since at least 1983. How inefficient of these indolent foreigners that in nigh on 40 years they still haven't managed to get that last few percent.
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Jun 6, 2021 12:52
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Communist Thoughts posted:Edinburgh and Glasgow being included is baffling until you remember that the Scots are being wrapped into the culture war so bojo can secure his legacy by standing up to those wokist blm trans brutes I assumed they meant Govanhill because of its large Muslim and Roma population. Its also Nicola Sturgeon's ward and where she got confronted by that Britain First psycho last month.
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Jun 6, 2021 12:53
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Gonzo McFee posted:I assumed they meant Govanhill because of its large Muslim and Roma population. Its also Nicola Sturgeon's ward and where she got confronted by that Britain First psycho last month. But Govanhill is lovely with the big park and everything, plus it's like 2/3rds white or something.  There's far worse places if you want to choose somewhere as a slum. Like say most of England for one, if that's your criteria IMHO.
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Jun 6, 2021 12:57
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Govanhill is pretty chill and safe because the majority of people don't drink. Worst places in Glasgow are where groups of middle aged white men congregate while drunk.
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Jun 6, 2021 12:57
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It's amazing that the second that Leicester became 49.9% white English the other ethnicities didn't all form a Voltron and replace the council with that palace from Aladdin, as predicted by the Sun. It's not even on the list of foreign cities what they hid in Britaine these days.
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Jun 6, 2021 12:58
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Noted extremely white hipster no-go area Edinburgh..
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Jun 6, 2021 12:59
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100% not joking when I was considering taking a job in Glasgow a few years back I was actively looking at places to rent in Govanhill and not for any hipster grungy reasons or anything. Real no-go zone that.
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Jun 6, 2021 13:01
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what does Lisa Towns have to say about this
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Jun 6, 2021 13:03
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Guavanaut posted:It's amazing that the second that Leicester became 49.9% white English the other ethnicities didn't all form a Voltron and replace the council with that palace from Aladdin, as predicted by the Sun. They still don't have the mandate a 52 48 super majority would bring to ceceed and form the Sharia Republic of the center east midlands
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Jun 6, 2021 13:05
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Dick Dorkins at it again. https://twitter.com/HKesvani/status/1401275093251207173
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Jun 6, 2021 13:22
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Private Speech posted:100% not joking when I was considering taking a job in Glasgow a few years back I was actively looking at places to rent in Govanhill and not for any hipster grungy reasons or anything. Govanhill has a weird rep (partly because there are more than a few proper slum landlords operating there, but mostly because most people think nothing of being racist about the Roma) that far, far outsizes what it's like. There's plenty of deprivation for sure, but people forget/ignore that a large chunk of that is the Western half (the other side of cathcart road) which I'm pretty sure is predominantly white. The Eastern half, which at one point (and possibly still is) was the most culturally diverse place in scotland, was where I lived for 18 months or so 7-8 years ago, and it was a very nice place to live. In the interim Vicky road now has *loads* more great brunch and eating places, and just generally has a bit of a hipstery vibe, but not oppressively so. People who chat poo poo about Govanhill (including many, many Glaswegians) don't know anything about it in my experience.
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Jun 6, 2021 13:23
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No-go zones probably have vastly better food
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