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Having to google what The Odyssey is
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It’s amazing how inorganic the pint throwing has become - it used to be a spontaneous expression of delight.
For an equalising penalty… these lot have never been to a game in their life
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It’s kinda cute seeing Tories in that phase every young/inexperienced leftist has at their first few protests where you’re like “wow it’s so big”, “there’s no way a protest this size won’t make a difference”.
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This actually understates the story. There was a substantial movement among the factory owners to demand the U.K. join the war on the Confederacy’s side and use the RN to break the Union blockade which the workers resisted despite the mass unemployment of the “Cotton Famine”.
TIL there's a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Manchester, UK, because despite the Civil War devastating the city's prominent textile industry, workers refused to process American cotton as a product of slavery, leading to Lincoln issuing a statement praising the people of Manchester
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It’s so stealthy how monarchists have managed to set up dictatorship as something distinct from monarchy in the public mind as if an absolute monarch isn’t just a dictator whose dad was also a dictator.
@AERMorg After the abolition in:.France: a dictator.Germany: nazism.Greece: military dictatorship.Italy: facisme.Portugal: communsit dictatorship.Russia: communist dictatorship.Turkey: wars.USA: wars.And more :) . Yeah, abolish the monarchy and you will end up with a dictator :)).
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It's all good to identify the problem but what no one wants to really reckon with is that being a "content creator" - ie a self-employed businessman living off of the adulation and financial largesse of others - is an inherently right wing thing to be.
Hasan sounded the alarm about right wingers dominating the online space for young men. 47% of 18-29 year old men just voted for Trump
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The problem they have is they have so internalised the insane SW1 ethic that if a bribe is declared in the Register of Member's Interests it is magically no longer a bribe that it doesn't occur to them that other people, most people, in fact consider this insane.
This is insane. Labour’s Bridget Phillipson says she took a £14,000 donation, primarily to throw a birthday party. She’s smiling while she divulges this information. I’m genuinely in awe that they don’t appear to see how bad this looks.
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Because the class of highly skilled artisans required to build them were made extinct by the intensification of capitalist production methods.
We have known how to build beautiful, highly desirable homes like these for hundreds of years. Why did we stop?
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Would be a fantastic bit for the U.K. to deliberately destroy its original industrial economy and then replace it with a new knowledge based one only to destroy that one as well.
Education Minister Jacqui Smith is asked by @cathynewman if she is "willing to see a university go bust" because of "massive funding problems". She says: "Yes, if it were necessary. Yes, that would have to be the situation.". Read here:
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@kennixonette I remember reading that the Soviet leadership were baffled why people thought he’d done something wrong as well.
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Although I guess the chances of said Tories transitioning to the jaded, experienced leftist position of “it won’t make a difference but we ought to protest anyway” are lessened by the fact British politics loves to capitulate to pressure from RW cranks.
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quite apart from the seething contempt for British muslims, we once again see the return of the mindset that "Labour Right politics cannot fail, it can only be failed" here.
Labour source: 'It's the Middle East, not West Midlands that will have won Street the Mayoralty. Once again Hamas are the real villains.'.
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My assumption is that the median voter has never actually heard any first hand argument from the Left and to the extent they have any awareness of what the Left thinks it is through multiple layers of transmission distortion
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We must persuade people to once again believe that trains are nice to look at.
Tell me this isn't the most frustrating thing you've ever seen. We're burying most of this train line for literally no reason at all. Ballooning costs, just so people don't have to look at a train in a flat field.
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Additional fun fact about British involvement in the war - much of the confederate navy and almost all of their blockade runners were built in Liverpool.
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Gladstone (speaking as he did for bourgeois commercial opinion) said in a 1862 speech that “Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the South have made an army; they are making, it appears , a navy; and they have made what is more than either, they have made a nation”.
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Incorrect reading imo: Americans hate criminals as a generality but they love them in specific. The dashing bandit who stays one step ahead of the law is as much a part of American folklore as is the cop who doesn’t play by the rules but my god he gets results.
This might be reason to think that the popularist strategy of Harris playing up her background as a prosecutor might have outright backfired among some groups. The death of criminal justice reform may have been greatly exaggerated.
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@notbenfish Popifh plotting doth abound and would it not be the cafe that William shalt be corrupted by the Marchioness of Cholmondeley who thou knowest to be from Norfolk and therefore an affociate of the Howards those most foul purveyors of Popery.
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Elden Ring boss type name.
One of the UK's hereditary peers is called Lord Remnant. This has absolutely made my week.
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The Labour Party has such an incredible case of main character syndrome that it genuinely regards a rival political party acting according to its interests as illegitimate and wrong.
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One of the reasons I love Warhammer Fantasy is there’s a character who looks like a frog but cast a spell so powerful it a) banished the Daemons from an entire continent and b) left him undead and his name is Lord Kroak.
Warhammer Fantasy is so funny cause you'll look up the most powerful mage in a faction and get people that look like mages and then for the lizardmen it's just this
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Crazy how British officialdom just ignores this when it’s the IDF
Lionesses of the Desert: Inside Israel's all-female tank unit taking on Hamas terrorists - and led by British captain, 20, who says her role is 'a dream come true'
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I think we should stop thinking about anti-ULEZ backlash and start thinking about the specifically pro-ULEZ vote. The reason I and a number of my friends and relatives held our noses and voted for Sadiq was specifically to defend ULEZ and I think this can be seen in the results.
another one that stretches all the way out to zone 6 seeing no observable ULEZ backlash.
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You’d hope that the press would understand incredibly basic bits of Labour Kremlinology like the fact that Labour Students is a production line of the kind of ultra-loyal Labour Right partisans that Starmer wants selected.
Can someone explain why so many Labour candidates in winnable seats are so young? Seems to be a swathe of 20-27 year olds being selected. Not a criticism but a different demographic to what came in in 97.
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@iesumawr123 @GarethDennis I remember my first protest when I was 17 wrapping a peace scarf around the MOD with CND and thinking oh wow that was awesome we must have made the news and we got like 30 seconds on BBC London (although amusingly my mate and I were on those 30s).
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There’s actually no chance this would happen because Powell’s opinion that the SAS soldiers who killed suspected IRA militants in Gibraltar should be tried in British courts for murder would have got him expelled from Labour.
It's a big tent and you're not in it
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Do you still believe in British agriculture as something other than an investment vehicle? Because at 12 it’s marginal right?.
LATEST. Sie Keir Starmer responds on @GBNEWS to 12-year-old who told us he fears Labour robbing his farming ‘dream’.
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@SzablaObr2023 The whole Aristotle typology of government is so funny - literally just “good” and “bad”. This guy is meant to be one of the founders of political theory
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Not enough people know that von der Leyen is descended from South Carolina slave holders.
I have arrived in Israel with @EP_President to express our solidarity with the Israeli people in the wake of the horrific Hamas terrorist attack.
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Things like decorative cast iron, moulded plasterwork and so on are basically lost technologies at this point aside from a very small group of restoration specialists.
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@MrDumbBitch no one's funding Asmongold or Adin Ross to be right wing while they game, they just exist in social conditions that produce right wing politics.
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@simonk133 Also let’s be real Starmer only did that because the target of Sunak’s remarks was Starmer himself.
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It’s kind of amazing how Americans have invented an entirely new religion but kept some of the names and symbols of the old one for nostalgia reasons.
Joel Osteen explains "I'm not a poverty minister" and that "being poor and broke. doesn't bring any honor to God"
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There may be left wing exceptions but they always just be proving the rule.
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British liberal distaste for the Ten German Bombers chant is a legacy of the Clean Wehrmacht myth developed in the Cold War to justify the incorporation of West Germany into NATO send tweet.
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Do you hear the music
Harris campaign clearly views Madison Square Garden rally as a turning point among late-breaking undecided voters, in ways that's giving them confidence in the final days. “It really broke through," senior campaign official says. "It’s helped gel their feeling about this race.”.
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Now one of the ways that the British left sought to rectify that was through the establishment and promotion of new media outlets such as Novara but Novara’s leadership doesn’t seem to recognise that their proper purpose is to be organs of propaganda not wannabe leftist gadflies.
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The average Labour MP’s conception of the ideal constituent is a dutiful little sheep who votes Labour every election but in between registers no opinions on any political issues whatsoever.
MPs must be able to do their work without intimidation and threats. Solidarity with @rushanaraali and I hope police will take action on threats of violence.
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I know this does exactly nothing for any Gazan but in 5, 10, 20 years time virtually everyone will want to say they were against what’s about to happen in Gaza and for the vast majority it will be a total lie.
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I think is a very important and underrated point - while Osborne decisively won the argument in favour of fiscal conservatism he did not win (or even really attempt to make) the argument that the state should do fewer things
UwU Conservatism and the end of smol government - Britain’s Conservatives are losing as they governed. Meekly
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@gracecthdralprk When I went to Turkey basically every hotel had an image of Atatürk, also been told lots of houses in Argentina have images of Evita.
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Those 242 years of keeping the country safe in full
For 242 years the Home Secretary has kept the country safe. Today marks the start of a new chapter as the Home Office welcomes @YvetteCooperMP, the new Home Secretary.
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Another point on this is that two of the most important moments in the British road to democracy - the Great Reform Act and the 1911 Parliament Act were absolutely a consequence of parliament acting out of fear against its own convictions.
"For the first time since the 17th century. it seems that our elected representatives are acting out of fear rather than out of conviction. this is how a democracy dies". #trevorphillips, who has a record of making Islamophobic comments.
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Thought about it and I do actually think Stonehenge is a good place for a climate protest for the reason that the Government tunnelling a road underneath and so destroying priceless archaeology so as to ease congestion on the A303 is a great example of the evils of car culture.
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@itsthelee I mean I wouldn’t go too far they were perfectly happy to handle slave cotton prior to that moment.
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@marwood_lennox The impact of the City of London on British political economy is honestly so devastating.
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Whenever a hurricane hits Florida
the lede being buried is the states rebelling hardest against trump are the wholesome chungus mainline protestant ones while the defining feature of movement conservatism over the last five years has been the complete capture of its commanding heights by scheming papists.
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@SlatorH actually all occupations are political because they all involve some relation to capital.
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lol they’re literally going full Starmer now.
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German police warn England fans over ‘10 bombers’ chant: ‘Don’t be a d---’. ✍️ @ben_rumsby. #TelegraphFootball.
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I do think the thing in British politics (that appears in somewhat different ways on left and right) that politicians are expected to celebrate religious beliefs that not only they do not themselves hold but are entirely contradictory with their own to be quite weird.
On this Good Friday, as we remember the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, let us reflect on the values of compassion, charity and selflessness he embodied. These values are at the heart of British values, inspiring us to build a society based on respect, tolerance and dignity for all.
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London in the mid-20th century was, in economic terms, very much only primus inter pares of the UK's cities but then a very conscious choice by successive governments was made to abandon essentially any economic activity that was not financial services in the Square Mile.
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I'm afraid this Zone will be quite Ultra Low Emission by the time your friends arrive.
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The thing I keep coming back to is that the IDF were briefing early on that their plan was to rapidly destroy as many pre-selected targets as possible before international pressure forced them to stop and then that international pressure just,,, never came.
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@notbenfish I do fear so my Lord, for it hath ever been the plan of the Bifhop of Rome and his foul lieutenants at Arundel to return our good land of England to Popifh slavery.
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@DanielBerman2 I feel like the best way to go if they want to get rid of him is the 25th Amendment not through the convention.
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The reason this argument keeps reoccurring imo is that the British far right is (as always and everywhere) a petit bourgeois movement of self-employed tradesmen and the like which the British class system reads as “working class”.
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@ahrivederci17 This is also true under dictatorships - it’s not like the church wasn’t powerful under Mussolini for example.
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Why does the information about the hotel they met at need to be quite so specific I’m crying.
BREAKING on @GBNEWS now,.Former Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson held private 'one to one' talks with Richard Tice, the leader of the Reform UK party, at a Holiday Inn hotel, at junction 28 of the M1 in South Normanton, Derbyshire on Sunday, 24 hours after he lost the Tory whip.
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When you’re asking the Iron Done to defend against missiles that aren’t just a drain pipe fuelled with sugar
I have never seen a total failure of Israeli interceptors like this. Completely ineffective against Iranian missiles to the point of comedy.
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My sister whose in Brazil just sent me this from a Bavarian beer festival she found there - interesting date
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Notable that he demonstrates less willingness to credit antifascist counter-protesters than was this morning demonstrated by the Daily Mail.
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This wouldn’t be the same Arch of Titus that proudly depicts scenes from the destruction and looting of the Second Temple would it?.
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@notbenfish Fervently do I confult the Good Book my Lord for I do dearly hope to find in its pages guidance left the Antichrift - the “King of Spain” - seek to send his Armada againft us.
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You’re laughing, the President of the United States is expressing solidarity with the working class in the global South and you’re laughing.
Reporter: "Any comment on the strikes in Yemen?". Biden: "I've spoken to both sides. They gotta settle the strike. I'm supporting the collective bargaining effort. I think they'll settle the strike.".
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Part of the reason they do it is as displacement activity because there’s no question they could ask the PM re what Britain will do that would not reveal the lie of the collective fiction that Britain has any meaningful influence in the region.
Holding Jeremy Corbyn to account for the actions of Hamas is very on brand for the UK press.
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@bierkonceagain Step 1: Build a financial services sector appropriate to being the World’s economic hegemon.Step 2: Become a mid-sized economic power without diminishing that financial services sector.Step 3: ????.Step 4: Profit.
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@alexcxcxz Quite so but I don’t see the relevancy to my accounting of events - in any case the most important source of cotton for British industry post US abolition was Egypt not India anyway.
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It’s so crazy how English people simply deny the objective historical fact that the only descendants of the Romans on this island are the Welsh.
St George *wasn't* foreign. He was simply from the other side of the same empire. As English as Hadrian 👍
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I find it odd that given a) Israel has objectively lost the information war in the UK and that b) their comms strategy has mostly consisted of shouting at James Schneider and Owen Jones no one seems to think that b) contributes to a).
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Really happy to announce I’ve been offered a place to study for a PGCE in History teaching for the coming academic year. Over the moon to be starting to realise my dream of becoming a history teacher.
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Welcome back early 20th Century Republicanism
Walz is a great example of what people mean when they say that there are still unassimilated German immigrants living in the midwest. He may adopt the outward trappings, but inwardly these people are not fully American, which is why they gravitate to identity grievance politics.
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@BlokeJeff 70% of the British public’s only news source is the BBC which is whatever else might be said of it not a first hand accounting of left wing opinion.
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The modern sin is not to be a moron. That of course is ancient and an unavoidable part of the human condition. The modern sin is for the morons to act like they shouldn’t be criticised for being morons.
It must be SO WILD to never catch a reference, like EVER. I can't imagine how different that makes film and television, on a core, fundamental level. To just never know anything going in. about ANYTHING.
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Always funny that the man whose Vietnam strategy turned out to be “we bomb them enough to delay the fall of South Vietnam until after Nixon’s 1972 re-election attempt” is held up as this master of Grand Strategy.
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I am calling for a complete and total shutdown on the BBC referring to right wing hacks with a side hustle in terrible pop history books as ‘historians’ until we can figure out what the hell is going on.
On Question Time tonight, Fiona will be joined by Sayeeda Warsi, David Lammy, Caroline Lucas and Tim Stanley. Join us and an audience from Croydon on .@BBCiPlayer from 8pm or on @BBCOne after the 10 o'clock news #bbcqt
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The wait for someone to shatter that last, greatest glass ceiling - a Warhammer fan party leader - continues.
BREAKING: Kemi Badenoch & Robert Jenrick go through to the final round of Tory leadership contest after knife-edge vote.Results:.Kemi Badenoch 42 votes .Robert Jenrick 41 votes .James Cleverly 37 votes .Next up - members pick next party leader.
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@ElonMusgraves I think the religion point is especially important because the great strength of the Tories over time is they’ve been attached to a Church with extremely flexible doctrine - much harder to move away from unpopular positions when you think said positions are divinely ordained.
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One of the things about the average privately educated journalist is that while they are substantially wealthier than national average they are also substantially less wealthy than all of their non-journalist friends who mostly work in the City.
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Americans have very strange notions about the history of their country.
Think for one moment. In every single war that America has fought, we have never asked for land afterward—except for enough to bury the Americans who gave the ultimate sacrifice for freedom.
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Feyd Rautha’s obvious attraction to Paul in the film becomes even more fun when you realise that the Bene Gesserit had intended for him to have a kid by the daughter Jessica was supposed to have instead of Paul.
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@MrDumbBitch no you're just coping because its convenient for you to believe conservatism is a product of billionaire subversion without real societal basis.
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Telling Catherine II of Russia she can’t annex the Crimean Khanate because she’s a woman
If women ran the world, wars would end.
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Pedantic historical bug bear I have is maps of the 13 colonies that depict them with their present state borders.
Just learned that Americans rebelled whilst paying 1% tax on income and tea, whilst British subjects were paying 25%. What the fuck was their problem?
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people on our street's demanding the return of the Corn Laws - Stand Firm Peelite Patriots.
Farmers protesting Britain’s food security are driving through Central London. They blame politicians, and say we are facing the end of British farming.
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The ta’veren thing in Wheel of Time is cool. Robert Jordan was like ok these are the main characters let’s make some magical explanation as to how things always work out for them.
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old people understand the economics of this exactly backwards btw - it is precisely because housing is so unaffordable that there is no incentive to save.
The cognitive dissonance an entire generation has worldwide about the housing crisis needs to be studied for a century:
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Azhar Ali’s campaign looking at moronic leftists atm
🚨 NEW: Azhar Ali has decided to campaign as an independent candidate to "teach Starmer a lesson" after being dropped by Labour over alleged anti-Israel comments . [@MichaelLCrick]
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@ElonMusgraves which speaks to a lack of proper central command and control - a modern military should be able to account for every bomb it has dropped but it sounds like they're sending pilots up there like happy shooting.
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Germany a European country famous for having no manufacturing industry of any kind.
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