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What the absolute f is P Patel's problem with people a) from any other country than, what, England? and b) escaping hell?

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Nice audible gasps.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h ... 57225.html
Sky perhaps you could provide an anthropological analysis of Wakefield.

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/13/covid-fines-partygate-boris-johnson-rishi-sunak In May 2020, David Wilson received a £1,000 fine after hosting an outdoor party he says followed coronavirus rules at his restaurant, Calypso, in Blackburn. He’s still fighting the fine in court, and is ...

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The 80s increasingly looking like Eutopia.

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Indeed.

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Bloody eco-warriors trying to stop us from killing ourselves through climate change.
I did mention 20 years ago that addressing the cult of the car might be prudent.

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I still miss "thanking"

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Rishi "all laws have been followed" Sunak may have missed the lecture on law setting the minimum standards of expected behaviour.

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Evening

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Just been introduced to the existence of the Alexander Calder piece "Clangors" (close enough)

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You are missing nothing.

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Lawks but it's been cold.

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I was going to post about identity politics and "the slap" but decided not to.

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It does seem that the emphasis on "diversity" somehow requires us all to think the same. I don't see it that way.

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hello

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Seeking: talented emoji artist to capture Clanger thought processes into widely (and instantly) understandable visuals.

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And involves active engagement rather than ticking a box every x years. Without which it's not democracy it's just pretending.

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I guess we need to start thinking what sustainable democracy looks like.

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PS apologies to PF for the myriad of spelling and grammatical irregularities.

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I grew up terrified in equal measure by nuclear war, domestic terrorism and the threat of your common or garden mass murderer. I though things had moved. on. But I guess not so much.

#DemocracySquanderedOrWhat

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Oh sorry forgot:

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Apologies fellow nesters.
[can we have an emoticon that denotes what is in the clanger brain at this point - which is something along the lines of peace to the world/deal-somehow-meaningfully with those who don't get the peace bitt.]

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Evening all. (Approximately)

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#okI'llstopsulkingthen

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I have a birthday coming up and am very much hoping to receive this:

https://unbound.com/books/clangers/

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Evening all.

Technically a "boomer" I'm officially taking offence.

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The continual lying from various quarters, and our collective anaesthetisation towards it, need to change.

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(repeat offender on the biscuit scoffing front I might add)

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I am, however, a big fan of Juan Carrito, the rare Italian bear famous for scoffing biscuits.

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I write stuff, but am generally so struck by my miserable, unhelpful tone that I just delete it.

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Ted's ace.

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This cheered me up a bit (off topic)

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Morning

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 38227.html
Brexit trade deals may not deliver any "actual" economic benefits MP's warn

(deliberate redistribution of " "s)

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 38894.html
as if the people of Britain care about a free and independent press.

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Very good.
Except that there's no way the Big B (or rather Big Dog) would hang his head in shame.

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Hey it's the 2020s

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gilsey wrote: ↑Tue 15 Mar, 2022 12:03 pm Hi tc <waves>

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refitman wrote: ↑Tue 15 Mar, 2022 1:16 pm For TC2

I do like the idea of a kind of sartorial representation of (packets of) biscuits.

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((hello))

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Am a big fan of soup.
And ~~money~~ music trees.
http://www.earthstar.co.uk/clangermusic.htm

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(hello)

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Am not sure we need to so consistently put the idiots and psychopaths in power.

This was also disheartening:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/bl ... abramovich

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Ideally one silver lining to the current nightmare that is the modern world would be an end to our casual tolerance of lies and corruption.

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I seem to have failed to maintain the earlier cheeriness, an almost forgotten state of being which currently seems both inappropriate and necessary in equal measure.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/maga ... lapse.html
How Do You Know When Society Is About to Fall Apart?
Meet the scholars who study civilizational collapse.

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Grim.

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It's almost like Brexit marked the (visible) start of humanity's downward spiral.

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OK - a clanger waving despondently then.

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