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MPs must be brave and tell us they were wrong would be more like it.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:This has really annoyed me, from Matthew Parris, praised by Ian Birrell and Steve Richards.It's in the Times so I can't read it.MPs must be brave and tell us we were wrong
Misinformed and manipulated perhaps, but to say the electorate was wrong shows these guys understand nothing at all.
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Well this place has been a bit busier than yesterday, good to see ![Wink ;)](./images/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/ ... ationalism" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;I’m increasingly convinced that there will be a second referendum. The Sherlock Holmes principle is always a good one: you eliminate the impossible and whatever remains, however improbable, must be the solution. The second referendum has always been highly improbable but everything else is looking impossible. There’s just no deal that the Europeans can do that can get through the House of Commons. And no deal is so catastrophic that you have to hope that no sane parliament would allow it. So the one thing left is a second referendum.
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https://www.theguardian.com/culture/201 ... es-aged-93" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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News story
Communities to have greater say in protecting local trees
News story
Communities to have greater say in protecting local trees
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Exam reforms boost private pupils in race for universities
Exam reforms boost private pupils in race for universities
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Bangladesh election: polls open after campaign marred by violence
Bangladesh election: polls open after campaign marred by violence
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8281168.stm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
(Usual not just elderly/nonsense about charging regime caveat applies)
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(Usual not just elderly/nonsense about charging regime caveat applies)
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Policy incoherence? I'm shocked etc...HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... iversities
Exam reforms boost private pupils in race for universities
The irony is of course that the DfE and its cheerleaders are all for schools having more freedom as it is supposed to make schools better...but let them choose what exams their pupils sit? No way...
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Anyone make anything out of Bennett's article? I had little success figuring out the point of her piece.The furore over the Queen’s Christmas message was so much and fury
Queen Elizabeth II poses with the offending instrument in the background after recording her Christmas message at Buckingham Palace.
- Catherine Bennett
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... of-windsor" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
A wealthy and powerful individual lecturing the nation on unity while seated in opulence while others scramble for a living on a daily basis
We are rudderless, without sane leadership from democratically accountable representation
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The quote at the end of her piece wasn't made regarding the article's topic and she's fundamentally misunderstood its meaning
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I'm outraged that Republicans,regardless of Corbyn sympathies or not watched and she wasn't dressed in rags,toothless and in a cave.
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Farts like a trooper,I am reliably informed
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Mix loaf mixed says Brexit may not happen (4,3).
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From Friday - sorry if we've already had ithttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... exit-views" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
New BBC Radio 4 series shows bewilderment at Brexit outside the UK
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Neil MacGregor wrote:“Because the rest of the world sees the EU as such a positive force, our language about it as the enemy, our comparing it with Nazi Germany, is not only seen as incomprehensible but also unacceptable,” he said.
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"we" are collectively somewhat deluded. it's the island at the edge of the world thing I suppose.“Following the debate from Germany, it became so obvious that what was being said in the UK was incomprehensible. Either it was historically untrue or else it was a misreading of the EU as it actually is,” he said.
“There is growing bewilderment at the language used, at the desire to cast the EU as the enemy, which brave little Britain alone was resisting.”
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will be a bit sad on Wednesday when I have to put the festive antlers away for a year.
still time goes so fast these days that I'll be getting them out again in what feels like a week or so.
still time goes so fast these days that I'll be getting them out again in what feels like a week or so.
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QuiteThe decision to hold a referendum on EU membership was seen as a perversion of parliamentary democracy, said MacGregor, especially in Germany.
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“One of the things that bewilders them is that a democracy that had so invested in being absolutely clear that authority rests in parliament should surrender and confuse that in a referendum. That seemed to them to be an abandonment of the most important political achievement of the United Kingdom.”
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Golden antlers
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i think of them more as beige.
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Won't take me long to put the three cards away(to be recycled next year)
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The fact that a lawnmowing tortoise gets more xmas cards than me,may be indicative
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Comments from our experts please:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... iversities" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Tory education reforms are giving private school pupils a huge additional advantage in the hunt for university places and jobs by allowing them to sit easier GCSEs than the more rigorous exams that are being forced upon state schools, new official figures suggest.
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See above or below
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RogerOThornhill wrote:Policy incoherence? I'm shocked etc...HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... iversities
Exam reforms boost private pupils in race for universities
The irony is of course that the DfE and its cheerleaders are all for schools having more freedom as it is supposed to make schools better...but let them choose what exams their pupils sit? No way...
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The point was to sneer at those not as "clever" and knowing as her. As is usual with her output.citizenJA wrote:Anyone make anything out of Bennett's article? I had little success figuring out the point of her piece.The furore over the Queen’s Christmas message was so much and fury
Queen Elizabeth II poses with the offending instrument in the background after recording her Christmas message at Buckingham Palace.
- Catherine Bennett
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... of-windsor" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Ah thanks HA - missed that.
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Too much speed reading. I can hardly read properly now.
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Like typing eradicating my ability to write legibly by hand.
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As somebody whose handwriting has always been hideously bad (*) this is one respect in which online communication has been a genuine godsend.
(* a "high" point being when I was asked to dictate my answers to one of my degree papers onto a tape, as the examiners couldn't actually read it)
(* a "high" point being when I was asked to dictate my answers to one of my degree papers onto a tape, as the examiners couldn't actually read it)
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Congolese finally go to the polls amid fears over fraud
Congolese finally go to the polls amid fears over fraud
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That family lets people die homeless
It's a choice they make
Hypocritical, spoiled and willingly perpetuating a sick, dysfunctional hierarchical class system
The monarch and her family could use their resources preventing homelessness and early mortality, giving every one of their compatriots the finest education, healthcare and housing. They could choose helping create a society where everyone fulfills their potential and contributes as equals regardless of ability variation. No human being is more or less than another human being. People like working, participating, contributing their best.
There is nothing stopping powerful people from giving power to everyone
Cooperate, share, love, help, get helped, teach and learn from others
It's wasteful, shameful and wicked letting people fall and pass away when preventing tragedy is available but withheld
The word comrade means people sharing room
It's a choice they make
Hypocritical, spoiled and willingly perpetuating a sick, dysfunctional hierarchical class system
The monarch and her family could use their resources preventing homelessness and early mortality, giving every one of their compatriots the finest education, healthcare and housing. They could choose helping create a society where everyone fulfills their potential and contributes as equals regardless of ability variation. No human being is more or less than another human being. People like working, participating, contributing their best.
There is nothing stopping powerful people from giving power to everyone
Cooperate, share, love, help, get helped, teach and learn from others
It's wasteful, shameful and wicked letting people fall and pass away when preventing tragedy is available but withheld
The word comrade means people sharing room
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Price tags on education, access to justice, healthcare, all the things necessary sustaining life got a price tag...£40,668-per year Eton College...
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... iversities" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
if people can't pay they don't get what they need
we can do better than this
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If we have to pay for justice, none of us is getting any
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I preferred Stanley Baxter as Queen
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Still doing his "playhouse" occasionally on R4/4xtra.
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I once literally (sorry PF) bumped into him in Glasgow.
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Yes paying for just ice is ridiculous.
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Still alive at age 92 according to Wikipedia, which did slightly surprise me.HindleA wrote:I preferred Stanley Baxter as Queen
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After Miss Marple (with June Whitfield) mention yesterday,not knowing she had died,I hope this hasn't been repeated.
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