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I, who raised a scaffold / Around the house I never built.
Joined December 2020
Lamb propaganda.
While I'm posting on Portuguese imperialism, here's some good map-based Portuguese propaganda :. "Portugal isn't a small country"
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In the 2010s, Tim Stanley was confidently predicting on the BEEBEECEE that American society would come together because they all believed in. The Family, a fact he had apparently gleaned from watching something called "Ellen".
I tend to think now that Toryism is dead and not coming back. They seem incapable of grasping the seriousness of the problems faced by ordinary people living at the sharp end of their policy decisions.
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and you know, my message is very simple and it's what Chas n Dave said to the NF in the 70s: gertcha cowson.
"People that are working here shouldn't be targeted like that, nobody should be targeted like that.". Social media content creator and “proud Englishman” John Fisher, aka Big John, on the flag debate. #Newsnight
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"R Armed Forces". Who else's?.
Today was just a test but did you know the first time the Government’s mobile emergency alert system was used for real was in Plymouth?. It was when the Second World War bomb was transported from Keyham by road to be safely disposed at sea by our armed forces.
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clearly a continuation of much older battles. The final Tory government really was one long betrayal of Michael Howard by wretched papists like Patten and Tugendhat (example no. 94).
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The house of commons Library officially states that it was the Chinese NSL of 2020 was the reason for the Hong Kong visa, but you can already see before this it being pushed by Tugendhat's FAC. Just a convenient excuse for something they'd always wanted.
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Adopting a “UK First Amendment” is no longer an extreme position; it is the minimum required to get the UK’s speech environment back to where it was in about 1999, when censorship powers were not as widely abused as they are today.
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*consults affirmation on back of phone before PMQs*. "You can well tell us what a woman is, and what a man is too!"
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It's not mentioned, but TToI was made the year after BBC4 had produced its biggest ever hit, Alan Clark's Diaries. "Maverick", "irascible", "blast of fresh air", "justice and principle". It's not impossible to imagine them having re-appropriated this complex of characterisations.
‘I’m from Glasgow – the swearing came naturally!’ The full uncensored history of The Thick of It
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On the contrary, for all its provincial Amnesty-ism , a focus on power is a breath of fresh air compared to stale Hollandisms, based as it is on.1 "The history of ideas" (a Cold War literary genre).2 A counter-Thatcherite reaction which roots novelty in deep (religious) history.
This book feels like one last obnoxious death rattle of New Atheism. Building an identity out of the nonexistence of God was always a tricky project. The further attempt to fill the god-shaped whole with, essentially, the Lib Dem manifesto was doomed from day one.
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I think they're just beginning to know how it feels.
This is properly bonkers.
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So interesting, Mr Equality Act. Now tell us what public opinion was when these restrictions on political power were introduced in the first place?.
Farage squarely on wrong side of public opinion on this one. While the public back the deportations, they oppose by a margin of 3-1 sending eg a woman involved in girls education back to a country where she'd face persecution & by nearly 2-1 a woman fleeing domestic abuse.
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Politics today is much less musical than it once was. Nothing new in a "Primrose dame".
Ok I know everyone is distracted rn…but Andrea Jenkyns has just entered Reform UK conference singing in a fully sequinned jumpsuit
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Oh dear.
You can definitely hear echoes of this in say Blackadder. Series 1,2,4 (83-89) all have "miscarriages of justice" plots, processes which are also depicted as squarely embedded in The Establishment (church - royal family - army).
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The choice couldn't be clearer 👍
Theatre is the best option if you’ve no substance.
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Not just national, over here too. Though in Europe we also got a third transformation (out of the same institutional and professional dynamics) into "modern slavery".
Human trafficking doesn’t actually exist. It’s just a way to demonize those who help immigrants migrate, and pretend that prostitutes are all doing it involuntarily. I don’t think we’ll ever get over this very stupid national phase, though.
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The Fabian interest is also a little odd because their mode of activity was really left behind by the new pressure groups of the 1970s onwards. They do not really belong to what came to be known as "civil society".
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