Taking bets now on Ed Sheeran's disastrous drive to the Right. Collab with Kanye and Tom Macdonald, shaving all his hair, declaring women and minorities are whats wrong with the world, etc.
We're about 2 months out from this
Yeah, but not as massively breached as planetary boundaries necessary for the flourishing of life we had back in 1976! We just got on with it... enjoyed it, even! Never heard us complaining.
One of the faultlines in society is between people who think we should prioritise making sure everyone who's eligible for something gets it, and people who think we should prioritise making sure that nobody who isn't eligible for something gets it
No system is perfect, yes some people might "cheat", but would you rather people who desperately need these things go on suffering so you can be SURE you're not being duped? Why is you not being duped so important that other people have to die for it?
Tony notably saying in the 2010s that it was foolish to get all wound up about e.g. ownership of trains and buses, given we would all be going around in self-driving cars. Toot toot
That Wes Streeting ordered this report *less than a month* after NHS England delivered the second part of its independent inquiry into exactly the same thing more than suggests he wanted a very specific answer. Shame on him and on MPs for using health as a scapegoat. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bob Vylan, Kneecap, Macklemore- not just bans but police "terrorism" investigations(!) I don't think there has been music censorship like this since the 1990s/"Parental Advisory "/Cop Killer /2LiveCrew era. There was an Iraq War bit (Dixie Chicks), but not like this. Born of establishment fear imo
"enjoy the camps" must go so hard as a lib insult if you are too stupid to notice that a lot of the camps got built while obama was president and then didn't get closed down while biden was president. sure seems like you actually don't mind the camps.
I'm going to say it. Thom Yorke should have got way more flak for what he did and said re: Palestine.
I suspect part of the reason for that was timing, but also the fact his musical output is considered worthy and credible.
#OtD 20 Sep 2015 the #piggate scandal broke when claims from Tory donor Lord Ashcroft were published in a right-wing newspaper that UK Prime Minister David Cameron had sex with a dead pig's head while at university stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9335...
Labour minister bills taxpayer £34,000 for four-day trip to US during World Cup
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26508818.labour-minister-bills-taxpayer-34-000-trip-us-world-cup/?ref=rss
ideally i would love to support minority rights but in this case the minority in question is a minority of the population, so it just isn't worth it, mathematically speaking
A skate park does more to reduce knife crime than “more bobbies on the beat”, the only difference is middle class white people are scared of groups of kids at skate parks and they’re comforted by the presence of the police.
The problem with solving youth crime is you need to spend a lot of money now, for results you won’t see for 10-15 years. And not a single politician is willing to look beyond the next election cycle. Like, we know the answer, it’s skate parks and youth clubs.
Getting a train. The only decent coffee shop within range of the station is the slowest coffee shop in the world.
I've got a train to catch! Get a shift on!