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School's back again (but perhaps not food yet), so everyone please take out your AQA Poetry Anthology and turn to page 12. Also Kabul: Fallen, Alpaca: Dead, Sea: Closed, Beer: Delayed In Other News  • 75% of UK adults have now received both doses of some Covid-19 vaccine combination. • Health Secretary Sajid Javid announces a vaccine booster scheme, with adults over 50 likely to be offered a third dose, beginning in September. • Sanctions begin against Belarus, BBC journalist Sarah Rainsford is permanently expelled from Russia. • A US lawsuit is filed against Prince Andrew for being a nonce. • SNP and Scottish Greens announce a power sharing arrangement, including a commitment to hold a second independence referendum within the next five years. • The government agrees a contract for 35 million more doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, to be administered in 2022. • Demolition of Eggborough power station (where Sajid Javid comes from?) begins.  Saragarhi Day UKMT Summer 2021: I didn't paddleboard while Kabul fell, the sea was closed UKMT May 2021 - Change the things that need changing and that is the change we will bring about UKMT April 2021 - UK Now Slightly Less Institutionally Racist UKMT March 2021 - Two Flags One Pole UKMT February 2021 - No deal is better than a Baddiel UKMT January 2021 - i have no chin and i must chitterwagger UKMT December 2020 - Best viewed with Brexcape Navigator 4+ UKMT Autumn 2020 - Thou shalt have a Rishi act a little fishi UKMT Summer 2020 - Two Pints of Saline and Abacavir for Drip UKMT May 2020 - Let them eat Nando's UKMT April 2020 - The Betacoronavirus and the Virgin Atlantic All Previous Threads (thanks Pesky Splinter) National Payroll Week Europol Thread Scotpol Thread Trainchat Thread Political Cartoons Thread C-SPAM: BREXIT BYOB: UKMT Abbots Bromley Horn Dance Podcasting is Praxis - The official podcast of the UKMT with UKMT goons talking into microphones about things. Mandatory Redistribution Party - Two northern comedians try to be educational about various socialist topics. Off the Fence - Brighton based, covering UK & Global topics. Pretty chill and professional peeps. Older 'casts can be found in the PLATFORM B archive. Reel Politik - The Original Leftie Hate Trolls. Check 'em out. We Don't Talk About The Weather - Two cool guys discuss news and other stuff. The second-most UKMT-iest of Podcasts. Desolation Radio - Socialism from a Welsh perspective. Informative hosts. Revolutionary Despatches - Two new guys starting out. Connected & Disaffected - Breezy discussions of lefty social, and historical topics, and news updates. Pretty Good. Trashfuture - Theme of the week style podcast about capitalism and how much it fucks up. Cool podcasters, sometimes working with Reel Politik Agitpod - Owen Jones & Ellie Mae O’Hagan discuss news. 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Swampside Chats - "The highest communist podcast" Banned Books Week Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, And Resistance – Peter Linebaugh Demanding The Impossible - David Morland Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism - Peter Marshall Chav Solidarity - D. 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The Effortpost's Graveyard (thanks goddamnedtwisto and UKMT goons) Join us on synIRC for Question Time Awfulness and Stuff #ukgoons on synIRC (thanks crispix). Or on Discord for other UKMT Chat and Podcast Conspiring https://discord.gg/QErneZT  Do Not Post In This Thread:
learnincurve posted:Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this. Exciting office space opportunities to let:   Also please remember that that the pandemic and vaccine rollout are nowhere near under control everywhere even as it hopefully starts to come under control locally. 
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I do think that where someone is possibly just suffering from online teen lad brain and downloading stupid poo poo, reading some of say Steve Biko, Emma Goldman, and Theodor Adorno in the company of a group to put it into context could prove good rehabilitation, or at least remove their "I'm a tortured genius and uniquely persecuted" head out of their rear end, as long as it was standardized rather than just for Anglo failsons. I'm not convinced that doing a book report on Far from the Madding Crowd would do the same.
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Neun und elfte Luftkämpfer Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont Bobby Deluxe posted:I feel like it's more true that empathetic people read fiction more, whereas if you try to force a chud sociopath to read they'll just have another thing to be mad about.
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Jel Shaker posted:sending a nazi home to read mein kampf seems a bit on the nose quote:he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin pacifists somehow won't do. mrpwase posted:I can't believe I never looked this up before, all I need is a heavy-bottomed saucepan, I've got everything else! I thought golden syrup was made by magic and fairies an all that OwlFancier posted:If you can't find sugar and water you can make your own in a sufficiently large particle accelerator by banging protons together.
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 Had a momentary brainfart looking at this and thought Tim was the one who shot those two lads in his house rather than the other isolationist weirdo. Tony at least had a stockpile  e: 3 launched on 03-03-2003 to provide 3G services including video calls, weather control, and the bird flu. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Sep 1, 2021 |
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Borrovan posted:https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1432754886337310727 Someone in the Foreign Office wondering if Ireland is still a Home Office remit.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Yeah there was definitely a dulux chart involved in that sentencing, loving hell.
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"The one policy we did announce, people told us that 'minimum wage of 40p less than the Tories by 2024' was a bit poo poo, so better not announce any more."
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OwlFancier posted:Integrating and investing in digital, placing it at the core of the communications strategy; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57NH-GXbkQM&t=260s
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They've just issued so many policies that none of them got through at all.
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The minute they see the portrait, the Taliban are going to Clean for the Queen and get everything back on track. 
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Tesla was right posted:Blairite council Stockport loss Jaeluni Asjil posted:Peter Cruddas day trade cost Brendan Rodgers posted:SAS, Alpacas, paintings of the queen. e: The sextant got its name because it forms one-sixth of a whole circle and not because of those messages it sent to Anthony McPartlin.
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Why didn't they go with two steered wheels at the front with Ackermann geometry and one fat driven wheel at the back? The Robin geometry seems like the worst way of doing it, you still need a differential and you fall over.
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That explains why they were able to classify them as covered motorcycles.
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Sanford posted:The secret documents, codenamed Operation London Bridge and seen by Politico, reveal the scale of the plans for the funeral and British government anxieties about whether the UK has the resources to execute them. 
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That's the real reason They don't want you to know about why Liverpool banned the yellow buses.Ghost Leviathan posted:Reminded of that Top Gear episode where they try out a ton of vintage vehicles to try to find out who was the first to have what would become the standard manual control scheme, with three pedals and a gearstick. Quite a few had very weird controls. (the Model T being no exception) And one of them actually had a setup that would become standard for quadbikes. I imagine it'd be a complete pain on the roads but that never stopped any of the other horseless carriage designs.
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I thought the whole point of a codeword, even if everyone knows what it is, was to give everyone time to prepare. Like "big bridge fell over 😢" gets whatsapped out to everyone and then they have some time to stop doing lines in the toilets and pick someone to send up to the roof, so that by the time someone (I assume in a delightfully unusual uniform and hat) strides to the palace gates to announce "The Queen is Dead" there's someone already in place. I'm sure someone will manage to balls it up somewhere though, even with all the 10 minutes and flag widths and that being matters of convention.
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It's heart disease and we already know.
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It's only in about 40% of mild-moderate cases as far as we know, so it's only slightly worse for your ticker than smoking for decades. Only nobody ever said "I don't normally want a covid but I'll have a few if I'm out for a drink" No wait, everyone packing into the pubs on the last day before lockdown and the first day after said that too 
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Specialist in Messerschmitts and Heinkels over London, featured in the Daily Mail, recently operating under a new name.
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Mitsubishi makes good air conditioners. Or is that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.domhal posted:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/04/hilary-mantel-i-am-ashamed-to-live-in-nation-that-elected-this-government
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"Boris Johnson's treatment of refugees and the woke taliban calling all authors 'they' in a university publication featuring authors of many genders where their personal pronouns may not be known in advance are equally oppressive." Interestingly the Express version of the interview cuts out all the transphobic stuff and instead puts in a bunch of sectarian stuff, "We were northern, working-class and Catholic, and to me, Englishness was Protestant and southern, and owned by people with more money." e: Kowloon means 'nine dragons' because of a phonetic association or because of the number of dragons that live there. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 11:50 on Sep 4, 2021 |
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Hilary Mantel, JK Rowling, and Garry Bushell collaborate in an all new crime fiction, working class detective Peen Spotter combats the anti-Catholic tyrant Halal Cromwell and his nefarious plot to call everyone 'they' in 17th century England.Angrymog posted:Turns out Messerschmitt are bringing back their bubble car as an anniversary special.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Did people really care about being European before Brexit? It just feels like a really fake affectation that people took on in response to being told the bad people were Brexit boys. goddamnedtwisto posted:This is why BSA's main business is now selling t-shirts 
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She's definitely hopped on the train of talking about a real problem (endometriosis is very bad and frequently mis/underdiagnosed due in part to it being complex and not well studied but also due to structural misogyny in healthcare), and then swinging around and blaming trans people, like if only the cis male endocrinologists were a bit more transphobic they'd suddenly be less sexist or something.
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A song about a tree that became a Christmas song, a scouting song, a workers' song, and a Confederate sympathizer song, among others.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:liberals instinctively avoid going after anyone they recognise as actually having any power when they can find an excuse to attack an acceptable target and will use the flimsiest logic imaginable to do so
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learnincurve posted:Not that this applies to any poster here - A huge problem I’ve always had with the respect is earned mentality is that right wingers use it as an excuse to be absolutely horrible to kids. “I’ll trust you if you prove you can be trusted” and all that poo poo. And right wingers love muddying those to say things like "if you respect me, I'll respect you" when they mean "for me to respect you as a human being, you need to first respect me as an authority."
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