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DesperateDan posted:This day is called the feast of Ed Balls: Barry Foster posted:Ed Balls ed balls
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British Journalists: We are fearless truth tellers and we will not be censored The British Journalism they're talking about :https://twitter.com/spectator/status/1519580756888236034?s=19
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Apr 28, 2022 09:26
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"Cosmo Landesman" is also the name of the guy in the painting.
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Apr 28, 2022 09:28
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I am very belatedly reading Captain Corellis Mandolin, which i always completely disregarded cos the movie adaptation starred Nicholas Cage before he became meta. However, I'm really enjoying it... Its beautifully written, and in general is quite optimistic in its romance, so it's like a nice warm bath. I can sort of imagine the author is pretty melty, but nevrrmind.
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Apr 28, 2022 09:31
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quote:I confess that I look at attractive women on public transport regularly. And sometimes a look probably lingers a bit too long. I still have the hope that maybe one day those beautiful eyes across from me will look back with pure adoration: the old love-at-first-sight fantasy. Does this make me pathetic? Yes. Does it make me a perv? No. 
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Boss has covid, end up having to break my WfH streak, work immediately goes "gov says everything is okay dont wear masks anymore pls  ".Its a cramped af building. Love ingerland.
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OwlFancier posted:"Cosmo Landesman" is also the name of the guy in the painting. "Cosmo Landesman (born September 1954[1]) is a British-based American-born journalist and editor. With his former wife Julie Burchill and friend Toby Young, he founded the magazine Modern Review." What a cursed bio.
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ijyt posted:Boss has covid, end up having to break my WfH streak, work immediately goes "gov says everything is okay dont wear masks anymore pls https://www.gov.uk/guidance/living-...-or-a-face-mask
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Lungboy posted:"Cosmo Landesman (born September 1954[1]) is a British-based American-born journalist and editor. With his former wife Julie Burchill and friend Toby Young, he founded the magazine Modern Review."
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Apr 28, 2022 09:56
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A nom de pute, or peen name.
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Well this doesn't look good https://twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1519398928432742400 (context)
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ijyt posted:Boss has covid, end up having to break my WfH streak, work immediately goes "gov says everything is okay dont wear masks anymore pls Ask for danger pay or just wear the mask anyway
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Apr 28, 2022 09:59
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Lungboy posted:"Cosmo Landesman (born September 1954[1]) is a British-based American-born journalist and editor. With his former wife Julie Burchill and friend Toby Young, he founded the magazine Modern Review." The titles of all his historical Spectator articles are an absolute trip.
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Apr 28, 2022 10:02
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Borrovan posted:Well this doesn't look good It's depressing as gently caress. It's not so much a slow slide towards fascism and authoritarianism as a gleeful plunge. forkboy84 posted:Ask for danger pay or just wear the mask anyway Yes, but ideally other people would be wearing masks too. So thy could all protect each other.
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Apr 28, 2022 10:04
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Borrovan posted:Well this doesn't look good so the implicit becomes ever more explicit
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Borrovan posted:Well this doesn't look good I've said it before, all of his political experience is from the may brexit voting bullshit, when there was a hung parliament and you could get away with being clever by letting a bill through and then neutering it in the amendments. You can't do that against a majority government.
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Apr 28, 2022 10:12
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I love the idea that this is a 'failure to whip' on Labour's part given Keith's history of letting issues through by abstaining. Starmer Project reveals the May Brexit voting bullshit was mainly about him deliberately sabotaging Corbyn and May's attempts to secure a soft Brexit deal. This one appears to be born out of a complacent assumption that Labour will win in 2024 and all this antidemocratic bullshit will serve to benefit them.
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Apr 28, 2022 10:22
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Lungboy posted:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/27/boris-johnson-tempting-evil-revealing-ukrainian-soldiers-trained-poland It wouldn't be the first time that Boris Johnson's carless attitude to speaking without ever considering the consequences has gotten someone hurt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazanin_Zaghari-Ratcliffe
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Darth Walrus posted:Starmer Project reveals the May Brexit voting bullshit was mainly about him deliberately sabotaging Corbyn and May's attempts to secure a soft Brexit deal. This one appears to be born out of a complacent assumption that Labour will win in 2024 and all this antidemocratic bullshit will serve to benefit them. No, it's because he's beyond any shadow of reasonable doubt an MI5/Tory plant. You can't make a "complacent assumption" that the attempt to end the impartiality of elections is going to benefit you once you win unless you're on the side that is currently winning, because the whole loving point of such a move is to make sure that nobody else ever wins.
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Apr 28, 2022 10:35
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Borrovan posted:Well this doesn't look good From the article: quote:The increasingly bitter row is threatening to further tarnish the government’s reputation over constitutional issues, following the unlawful prorogation of parliament in 2019, the Owen Paterson lobbying controversy last year and the ongoing “Partygate” scandal. Things mattering status: Not. Well in the "this time everyone will turn against the Tories" sense, anyway; it does make things measurably more poo poo.
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Small fry perhaps, given that our elections are going to get a lot less fair, but apparently there’s a chance my home borough (Wandsworth) could end its ~40 year run of Conservatives running the council. The local labour manifesto doesn’t look terrible - more recycling, better green spaces, protected cycling, 1000 apprenticeships, living wage stuff, more affordable housing, etc. There’s the inevitable MORE COPS MORE CCTV. They also want to bring the Northern Line to Clapham Junction, which my one-time London Transport/TfL friend reckons is a great idea but largely a nonstarter. I’m not holding by breath (just my nose…) but it would be interesting if it flipped. Wandsworth isn’t a bad place to live. It hasn’t outsourced all its refuse collection to Veolia for which I’m grateful. During Covid my house was part of a LTN and it was lovely, but sadly they backed down because people got weirdly, weirdly unhinged about them. Council tax is literally lower than it was when I lived in Glasgow, even when you factor in that Scottish council tax includes water and I had the single person’s discount. Somehow in spite of that the streets are clean and we have libraries, at least one of which Glasgow is failing at. We’ll see. I have a note in my diary that just says ‘vote the Tory cunts out’. Jeherrin fucked around with this message at 11:32 on Apr 28, 2022 |
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Lungboy posted:"Cosmo Landesman (born September 1954[1]) is a British-based American-born journalist and editor. With his former wife Julie Burchill and friend Toby Young, he founded the magazine Modern Review." Either we found the one person who is willing to admit to being friends with Toby Young, or Toby Young has been editing Wikipedia.
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big scary monsters posted:Either we found the one person who is willing to admit to being friends with Toby Young, or Toby Young has been editing Wikipedia. Was he one of the guys that didn't go on Toby Young's stag do?
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Jeherrin posted:Council tax is literally lower than it was when I lived in Glasgow, even when you factor in that Scottish council tax includes water and I had the single person’s discount. Somehow in spite of that the streets are clean and we have libraries, at least one of which Glasgow is failing at. afaik there's not much of a secret to this, Wandsworth just has a much higher percentage of homes that pay council tax and a much lower percentage of poor people than most other London boroughs or large cities.
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peanut- posted:afaik there's not much of a secret to this, Wandsworth just has a much higher percentage of homes that pay council tax and a much lower percentage of poor people than most other London boroughs or large cities. Ah, so the secret to clean street and libraries is having fewer poor people. *takes notes*
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If the local council is doing such a good job, and for such a low cost, why do you want them voted out?
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Have any of your heard about the Our Future Health research program? I was asked to do a survey about it and potentially be asked to join it in future. On its face it seems legitimate but if someone can tell me it's actually an organ harvesting scheme I'd appreciate the heads up.
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Why do people assume that a comment such as "World leaders are not interested in world peace because the arms trade is so lucrative" instantly makes you a Putin-shill?
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The Perfect Element posted:I am very belatedly reading Captain Corellis Mandolin, which i always completely disregarded cos the movie adaptation starred Nicholas Cage before he became meta. de Bernières is, bafflingly, a pro-Boris Brexiteer.
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Boorish Boris's Mandarin, a tale about a man who has to be stopped from reading racist poems on every stop of a journey across the mysterious Orient.Jaeluni Asjil posted:Why do people assume that a comment such as "World leaders are not interested in world peace because the arms trade is so lucrative" instantly makes you a Putin-shill?
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Jeherrin posted:I have a note in my diary that just says ‘vote the Tory cunts out’. I appreciate the sentiment, but the problem with council elections is that even if you vote the tories out of your council, the tory central government gets to decide how much funding your council gets, so the now non-tory council gets to take flak for cutting services. Plus the tories have form on cutting the budgets of non-tory councils while leaving their own the same. Not saying don't vote them out, to be clear, just expect them to get to gently caress you anyway.
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josh04 posted:de Bernières is, bafflingly, a pro-Boris Brexiteer. That's a shame, his books are great. Big fan of his South American trilogy in particular. https://twitter.com/PhilipProudfoot/status/1519622801275207682?t=H9tgNzbDgzrFENXALzSGNA&s=19 Labour trying to squeeze into the wafer of political space to the right of the Lib Dems is certainly a classic strategy. Lol if the net result is pushing Ed Davey left into the Charlie Kennedy zone.
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Dabir posted:Ed who? Traditionally, MPs who want to resign at the next election are appointed to the position of Royal Squirrelhawk, with its ceremonial yellow rosette.
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Jedit posted:No, it's because he's beyond any shadow of reasonable doubt an MI5/Tory plant. You can't make a "complacent assumption" that the attempt to end the impartiality of elections is going to benefit you once you win unless you're on the side that is currently winning, because the whole loving point of such a move is to make sure that nobody else ever wins. Labour is currently polling ten points ahead of the Tories. If you don't think that's enough to make the Labour right instantly assume that they're the new party of government and that they no longer have to worry about trivialities like wholesale government election rigging, then you've never met one of them. Their arrogance is outright Swinsonian.
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Darth Walrus posted:Labour is currently polling ten points ahead of the Tories. If you don't think that's enough to make the Labour right instantly assume that they're the new party of government and that they no longer have to worry about trivialities like wholesale government election rigging, then you've never met one of them. Their arrogance is outright Swinsonian. I bring you - The Sheffield Rally of 1992. "We're alright". They lost. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TOgB3Smvro
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NotJustANumber99 posted:If the local council is doing such a good job, and for such a low cost, why do you want them voted out? Because as someone with a nontraditional path through education more apprenticeships is a good thing. Because it took labour councillors ten years of pressure to get a pocket playpark of under 100 square meters built (that’s now very busy) because tories are cunts. I guess the joke is on me for responding this most obvious of trolls.
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Dabir posted:Ed who?  sebzilla posted:https://twitter.com/PhilipProudfoot/status/1519622801275207682?t=H9tgNzbDgzrFENXALzSGNA&s=19 Love the other implication that starmer will come down hard on drugs crime by using nuclear weapons. 
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