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refitman wrote: ↑Wed 13 Mar, 2024 7:32 pm So, Rowling is just doing Holocaust denial now

Lovely to see George Takei dealing out some sweet Sulu justice.

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During prime minister’s questions, the speaker must select MPs from either side of the house on an alternating basis for fairness. This takes place within a limited timeframe, with the chair prioritising members who are already listed on the order paper. This week – as is often the case – there was...

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Second day in a row where no comments are enabled on the Graun live news. They're afraid of people libelling Frank Hester, which given what we're learning about the man would appear to be a near impossible task. And even if someone did manage it they'd simply have to apologise for being rude and th...

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So Newsnight just had the 'black farmer' Wilfred Jones on blaming the left for weaponising racism while making excuses for racists on the right. According to him it's just an unfortunate matter of them not knowing the correct language to use. At least I think that was his argument, it was hard to ma...

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If all else fails there's always bribery.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Leeds/comments/1bc5o2z/time_for_the_rest_of_the_country_to_find_out/ So glad that he's now being nationally recognised for being a twat, and an abusive employer. I spent over 4 years at TPP and these articles paint an accurate picture but there's SO much more to tell. Like t...

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Wow, I've been doing a bit of reading on Frank Hester's company TPP in Leeds and he sounds like an absolute headcase. Imagine working for this guy. (A review on Glassdoor from a former employee) All of TPP’s problems can be traced back to its CEO, Frank Hester. The man is deeply insecure and wants n...

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AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Sun 10 Mar, 2024 11:33 pm Anyway......are *you* a Kate Middleton pic troofer?

That depends, is she showing boob?

I've no idea what your talking about.

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Leaving Las Vegas https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113627/ Based on a novel by an alcoholic author who committed suicide a fortnight after learning the book was going to be made into a film this was never going to be a barrel of laughs. I've avoided it for years because of its reputation for being utt...

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Huge Furry-Whippingstool nails it.

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I don't think it's just boomers who are open to this kind of shit, as we've seen with Covid deniers and anti-vaxxers being a drooling moron isn't an age related condition.

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Thanks for posting a link to Parris' latest obnoxious scrawling Froggy. I hadn't actually read the whole thing. Unbelievably he's still going on about PIP which is hellishly difficult to claim for mental health reasons (I wouldn't stand a chance) so has little to no bearing on his pig ignorant scept...

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This is pretty relentless at the moment, last week the most viewed article in the Spectator was some clown claiming nearly all mental health conditions are non-existent, and there's been more in The Times alongside this garbage from Parris. All written by right wing journalists with zero expertise i...

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Night.

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PorFavor wrote: ↑Fri 08 Mar, 2024 12:51 am I can't let the effort that went into the Question Time review go without at least acknowledging it. Thank you.

You're welcome, and thanks, but it gives me a purpose in life, a bit of much needed routine, you know?

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Although in defence of Dundee I did venture into a second hand record shop there in the early nineties. While pawing through the Pixies I couldn't help but notice a doorway obscured by a Seventies bead affair like there used to be at the hairdressers I was taken to annually for a bowl cut. Upon push...

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For brits the 'North' is the North of England, tho an alternative might be the 'South' of Scotland ? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mAY46AzN39I Eh? You've lost me froggy. She's making the point that calling the country 'The' Ukraine is a communist hangover, I'm not sure what that has to do with the...

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Question Time tonight came from Cardiff, with an audience which could best be described as the least Labour friendly we've had for quite some time, besides Sayeeda Warsi last week who was essentially attacking her own party, this is the first time I've seen a Conservative MP receive any applause for...

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Oh god, what the hell's happened to Phil Oakey?

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And even their harshest critics surely cannot deny that things got worse for people on benefits from 2010 onwards. This simply isn't true in regard to sickness benefits. I've given plenty of anecdotal evidence over the years here, but the figures themselves clearly demonstrate that under the Tories...

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Oh god, David TC Davies and Guto Harri, really? Thanks for that.

[Edited because the original tweet disappeared, I think because they misspelled the Plaid blokes name]

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Labour are really going all in on attacking the most vulnerable Instead of Reeves coming out with his crap it would be entirely possible for Labour to point out that after a century of improving health and life expectancy both have gone into decline in the last 13 years (life expectancy began to go...

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Cream cords!

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From AK yesterday. Very, very few people spend their entire lives on benefits anyway - save for the small minority who really cannot work. Her statement there was crowd (or media, if you prefer) pleasing rhetoric and not to be taken too literally. I've spent most of my life on benefits and having a ...

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Anyway back to politics. Perhaps a little belatedly I'd like to inform the voters of Rochdale about George Galloway's previous in Scotland. Read it and weep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_for_Unity One of its candidates was Alan Sked, founder of ukip, another was a vocal 'Tommy Robinson' support...

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Poor Things https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14230458/ I've got a bit of a love hate thing going on with Yorgos Lanthimos, I loved Dogtooth and The Favourite, but hated The Lobster, this however is on a completely other level, I loved and was repelled by it both at the same time. Is it a twisted femini...

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Another grim day for us United supporters. Anyhoo...I agree with Caroline in as much as this was what Sunak was attempting, where I disagree is its importance. Sunak's intent was undoubtedly malign, but he's such an inadequate lightweight he merely ended up looking ridiculous. Still it would have be...

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That would be the cleanest public toilet I've seen for a while. Usually if I can get in and out without retching I count it as a win.

To me it looks more like the cover of a gloomy German Electro single from about 1981.

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But Labour are only promising to bring more private provision into the NHS, I've not seen anything about improving the finances of people who aren't already very rich, their 'commitment' to tackling climate change is diminishing by day, if you're LGBTQ+ they seem pretty sanguine about one of their ...

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The problem with Aditya Chakrabortty's theory, and it's essentially the same as what Dan Hodges has been suggesting, is that I don't see how it helps the Tories. Maybe I'm being thick but it seems to me that unless Labour disown a load more of their candidates and face someone of Galloway's dubious ...

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Have to say my response was and is closest to the last one - "is that it?". A widespread impression is that he originally intended to say something "big" but for whatever reason got cold feet at the last minute. It was completely bizarre, I can't remember a Prime Minister standi...

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As for Twitter, fucking hell. I'm old enough to remember when all we had were unmoderated Usenet Newsgroups and how they always eventually descended into the depths of hell as a result of a minority of dickheads. It's why we all fled/flocked to moderated forums back in the day and Usenet went from b...

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So the one really notable thing this evening was how the audience reacted to Sayeeda Warsi. She's the first Tory politician to appear on QT for months who didn't face laughter, groans, or even worse tumbleweed. Despite all the sound and fury from racist dickheads on Twitter and elsewhere over the pa...

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Last question was on the war in Ukraine. Lammy blathered some delusional nonsense about him exerting pressure in Washington. Warsi said it would end in negotiation, while then confusingly pointing out Putin couldn't be trusted to abide by the terms of any negotiation. Stanley also went down the nego...

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Wow. On the subject of assisted dying Tim Stanley gives a well reasoned argument against it which takes the view that we'd be turning against the post WWII attitude towards the sanctity of life, while speaking out against the ideology of seeing people only for their economic worth. So whether he und...

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Hah. Caroline Lucas kicks David Lammy's arse on Labour's fear of taxing the rich and the audience love it.

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Tim Stanley thinks Lee Anderson is wrong and thick but manages to avoid calling him racist then comes out with some guff about the Tory Party being in some kind of existential intellectual crisis about the balance between calling out racism and the right to free speech. Sayeeda Warsi wonders if her ...

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Lot's of conspiracies on Twitter about why the QT live stream was pulled with 15 minutes notice.

To be honest I actually think they dropped a bollock last time when airing it before the by-election polls had closed. As far as I can remember they've observed purdah rules on every previous occasion.

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Oh ffs...there were two by-elections a couple of weeks ago on the same night and it didn't stop them airing QT earlier online. What's the difference this time? I'm not starting a review at 20 to midnight so a running commentary is probably the best that's going to happen if I'm not already too pisse...

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RIP Dave Myers - an absolutely brilliant ambassador for Barrow-in-Furness (a place frequently and unfairly maligned) as well as everything else. Absolutely, my Mum met them both and said they were lovely, I was genuinely saddened to hear he'd died and we won't be able to experience his good natured...

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This could be fun.

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I was reading the comments on a Toynbee article this morning and saw a few from people discussing the lack of English grammar teaching at state schools in the 70's and 80's. After a bit of googling it's absolutely true, between some time in the late 60's and 1988 (when the National Curriculum was br...

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Anyway on the more genteel front of the culture wars Jonathan Sumption is making an arse of himself again.

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As a counterpoint to the right wing journalists now facing shit from Islamophobic racists, it seems Corbyn supporters have taken it upon themselves today to have a go at James O'Brien for defending Dawn Butler (who as far as I'm aware was a Corbyn ally) against accusations of antisemitism from a Tor...

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