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Oh I didn’t realise that was happening soon, guess that’s why it’s all in the news Does that mean we get two Mondays off in a row?
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TACD posted:Oh I didn’t realise that was happening soon, guess that’s why it’s all in the news Depends on your employer. It's apparently optional. We're getting the time (but not the actual day we always work Mondays unless we book them out of our annual leave entitlement which includes BH pro rata as we're all part time.) but we didn't get Brenda's funeral extra BH.
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winegums posted:Only way monarchy survives is by getting public on side. Hard to do that in context of a country collapsing all around us without forcing some major reform. Very hard to do *that* when you're a politically neutered head of state. Anyone remember the 90s-era UK version of House of Cards? There was a sequel where a thinly-veiled Charles does try to do this (remember he used to be kind of political-activist in a very knit-your-own-muesli kind of way). It does not end up well for him. Edit: also features a pre-hagiography Princess Diana this being before her death.
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Apr 30, 2023 12:14
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Guavanaut posted:That's probably not going to be the same case with the public, because we can't raise private armies Push us far enough and we can absolutely raise armies. Ask Tsar Nicholas. Or Charles's namesake - that one's fuzzier because he pissed off a whole bunch of aristocrats too, but what kicks the whole thing off (other than him managing to lose battles to Scotland twice) is the London working class (broadly defined, apprentices mostly) rioting against him hard enough he fucks up off North.
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Spooky. I had Alphabetti Spaghetti with my “Kings Fingers” sausages yesterday and it spelled out “I had Di killed so I could marry Camilla and make her my queen”
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  we had some really waspy folk up and down the street but the lack of rosettes and the multitudinous leather pouches led us to falsely believe they were jehovas witnesses to tell us the world is ending (stopped clock motherfuckers) nah, the freeman on the land flavour fascists are in town, a dozen or so strong at least
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feedmegin posted:Anyone remember the 90s-era UK version of House of Cards? There was a sequel where a thinly-veiled Charles does try to do this (remember he used to be kind of political-activist in a very knit-your-own-muesli kind of way). It does not end up well for him. There was a recentish one as well where Charles basically disintergrates the monarchy. Interestingly enough it had Prince Harry take up with a black 'commoner' long before Meghan Markle was on the scene. Though the TV one was an east london lass rather than an American actress.
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Their leader seems like a real winner:quote:During the COVID-19 pandemic, Kurten spread COVID-19 misinformation by claiming that the disease was no worse than the flu.[26] In December 2020, Kurten rejected a COVID-19 vaccine, for which he was denounced by the Conservative mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey, who saw this as irresponsible for an elected politician.[27] Kurten has opposed lockdowns implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and he has attended protests against UK government policies.[28]
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Ah yes, protecting children by returning to traditional values. Which traditional values would those be David? Hard drive checks for the lot of them.
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That last graph really makes me wonder what causes those changes...
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carving out a specific niche instead of just saying “protect children” sounds to me like they want to go the USA route and get them working in abattoirs once they hit 13
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OwlFancier posted:That last graph really makes me wonder what causes those changes... The big decrease in the 1920s seems consistent with expansion of NSPCC activity and state empowerment to address issues, along with growing community discussion. It may also have been a knock on effect from the Great War, but somewhere a gammon just turned beetroot over the suggestion that any of the Glorious Dead may have otherwise been nonces. There's also changes in reporting and legal criteria for guilt, so some of those later peaks may have been increased willingness to prosecute, better evidence gathering, laws against CAI. I'm not sure about the New Labour era trough though.
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OwlFancier posted:That last graph really makes me wonder what causes those changes... Two World Wars, One World Cup!
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Hm does anyone have any particular recommendations for cat sitters, in the east London area (Newham) specifically if appropriate? On holiday for about 3 weeks in a week and a half so it's time to get my finger out on that one.
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Guavanaut posted:In the early 1900s part there's probably a strong link between the child cruelty and neglect and an environment where nobody socially cares much about doing anything about predators. The New Labour trough does coincide with an overall improvement in quality of life and reduction in poverty (albeit some of that due to juking the stats), and we know that crime overall correlates with wellbeing. Most perpetrators of child sexual abuse are well-known or related to their victims. Presumably, when life is going okay people have more resilience when it comes to deciding whether to inflict horrific acts on children they know. And the reverse, when life is poo poo.
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two completely independent sentences: 1) fewer people guilty of sex with children does not mean fewer people having sex with children 2) Prince Andrew became separated in 1992
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kingturnip posted:The New Labour trough does coincide with an overall improvement in quality of life and reduction in poverty (albeit some of that due to juking the stats), and we know that crime overall correlates with wellbeing. Yeah, 1998 had a child benefit increase with inflation, 1999 had the working families tax credit and the education maintenance allowance. It then all went to poo poo. 
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That does make me wonder what caused the large decreases around the Great Depression. Although that is only for the 'people found guilty of' so it's possible both that things were much better than the 19th century and also that there weren't the resources to prosecute a lot of the neglect and abuse.
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https://twitter.com/MirrorPolitics/status/1652599354002227201quote:A source told the MoS: “Liz used Chevening as a mini No 10, holding meetings with her inner circle which often turned into parties in the evening.
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Oh no, she'll have to do one speech at a libertarian thinktank to pay it back.
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She could do a speech at a libertarian think tank about how governments having towels is the real theft.
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She can still name people to the Lords? Watch donors fall over them selves trying to pay this for her to get rewarded a place.
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Huh, Martin Rowson is an antisemite now for... Drawing Richard sharps... Wierd.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Oh no, she'll have to do one speech at a libertarian thinktank to pay it back. Of all the former PMs, I think she might be the one with the least ability to play this trick. These after dinner speeches have always (obviously) been about networking or social cache amongst the powerful. She has no strings to pull, no useful contacts, and is an embarrassment. She's also not a good speaker. I doubt she would be able to get onto the speaking circuit the way any of the other previous PMs have.
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feedmegin posted:Anyone remember the 90s-era UK version of House of Cards? There was a sequel where a thinly-veiled Charles does try to do this (remember he used to be kind of political-activist in a very knit-your-own-muesli kind of way). It does not end up well for him. You might think that, I couldn't possibly comment
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smellmycheese posted:Come, sweet bullets Will they offer a cigarette first?
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smellmycheese posted:Come, sweet bullets Hammer grip on a saber smh what are we teaching our soldiers these days
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It's this new Woke Model Army, where they go around dressed like that Duck Dynasty show about the furry Americans who go in the woods pretending to be birds. If they dressed like real men in salmon pink breeches, knee-high leather boots, powdered wigs, and foot tall bishops hats with their regiment on then maybe they'd know how to hold a sword properly.
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OwlFancier posted:That last graph really makes me wonder what causes those changes... The big uptick around the Brexit referendum provokes a few interesting observations.
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The urban legend about sports teams and domestic violence usually says it's the people whose team lost who go home and terrorize their family. Fortunately that does seem to just be an urban legend. Drone_Fragger posted:Huh, Martin Rowson is an antisemite now for... Drawing Richard sharps... Wierd.
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OwlFancier posted:That last graph really makes me wonder what causes those changes... Baby P case changed a lot about how local agencies manage safeguarding cases, and likely got everyone more alert to this stuff.
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