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1 Apr 2016
I believe Slash and Axl actually came to blows over this first draft.
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Amazon recently refused to believe I was over 18 as I'd changed my card. My Amazon account has been open for 25 years.
🚨 NEW: The UK social media ban for under-16s will be enforced through facial recognition, digital IDs, credit cards, open banking, passports, mobile provider checks or email age estimation
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I decided not to pursue this with McTernan because it’s too utterly ridiculous to waste time on.
He says “a country has to be worth fighting for”. I mean we can spend all the money on everything else and just see how that goes when we have nothing to eat.
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If you truly believe that there is no place for intimidation then I can only assume that an apology to me from you and your party is forthcoming.
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The determination of these freaks to ram this nightmare fuel through before they're consigned to the dustbin of history is as savage an indictment of the Labour Party as I can think of.
EXC: A fresh attempt to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales will be launched this week.
Lauren Edwards, the Labour MP bringing back the identical bill to Kim Leadbeater's, tells me she wants the Lords to "finish the job".
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gy…
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Absolutely no surprise that there are forces out there trying to bring back Assisted Suicide, though I have a feeling from just the initial way it’s been communicated that Lauren Edwards is going to make Kim Leadbeater look like Gladstone.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but the prevailing order hasn't exactly been great for Israel.
Why shouldn't European imperial borderlines be redrawn in some places in recognition of ethnic realities on the ground? Why does Somaliland have to pretend to be Somalia, when in every meaningful way on the ground it isn't and never really was?
Why do we all have to pretend there are no Kurds in the world, or that they don't deserve a place of their own under the sun where they aren't subject to the vicissitudes of, variously, Arab or Persian nationalism?
Why should Israel be keen on backing an Arab-run political order when most of the Arab world still struggles to acknowledge Jews have those very same rights, the ones they so casually deny to Somalilanders and Kurds?
Those aren't even rhetorical questions. I'm honestly wondering why Arabs think Israeli Jews should owe any allegiance to a regional order that hasn't stopped attacking them, in one ideological clothing or another, for six generations...
Somalilanders are kinda amazing. Read their story. And Kurds are a real and distinct and oft-abused people. Read their story too. And neither people's history permits us to pretend they will be safe as permanent minorities.
Israel's recognition of Somaliland, like its support for Kurdish movements in Iraq and elsewhere, puts up alarm signals in all capitals in the region, showing it as a unilateralist, irresponsible actor which will advocate secessionism.
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Of course it was.
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These pricks could be spending their time on actually governing. I have sympathy for MPs like Antonia, who signed up to try and do that.
Absolutely infuriating that one of my colleagues has decided that what Parliament should focus on in the coming months - given everything going on in the world and here at home - is bringing back the assisted dying bill. Head in hands.
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Yes yes, Hanlon’s Razor, but what happens when the wall between stupidity and malice collapses completely?
I hear that a backbench MP will be reintroducing the assisted suicide bill.
I cannot think of a more tone-deaf thing to do at a time of national malaise, particularly as the bill divides the Labour Party, and has been rejected by every medical royal college that took a view.
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That’ll calm the PLP down, well done everyone
NEW: The Assisted Dying Bill is returning to Parliament this week.
Labour MP Lauren Edwards will reintroduce it on Wednesday after coming 2nd in the private members’ ballot.
“The process has been frustrated by a small minority”, she argues.
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True of most things in life, tbf
IT IS NOT BRITT EKLAND’S BUM
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But without the joyful musical numbers
Jun 12
Russell T Davies’ Tip Toe is framed as an urgent, ripped-from-the-headlines polemic on modern radicalization.
But look closer at the narrative machinery and it’s not political drama at all - it’s a paranoid, inverted folk horror, and has more in common with The Wicker Man.
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A lot of those people knew damn well, and were lying to themselves or the world at large because deep down, they thought the racists had a point. Quite a lot of them have got away with it.
Remember when some people were so braindead they didn’t think these jerks meant “Jews” when they said “Zionists”?
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Let this be a turning point in terms of what can be achieved when people stand up to these hate-filled antisemites.
There are some people who think that if Jews hide, make ourselves smaller, perhaps there will be less antisemitism.
Perhaps if we don’t fight back, don’t speak up, stop moaning, make ourselves smaller, that will work…even though it never has before.
So I’m pleased people fought back in Edgware (a special place where I spent the first 10 years of my life and where I was at a school reunion today).
I’m pleased the antisemites were outnumbered in the battle of Edgware, that they were forced to retreat even as they vowed revenge and ‘Zionists we will be back!’
This was a victory but there is no sense of joy.
They have made life so uncomfortable here that many are making plans to move to Israel, including my friends.
Now they tried to stop an event showing property in Israel.
They don’t want us here, they don’t want us there…
But today they tried to bring the fight to our doorstep and we said: ‘No Pasaran! They shall not pass!’
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Remember when some people were so braindead they didn’t think these jerks meant “Jews” when they said “Zionists”?
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Might start a Tommy Burns Rehabilitation Drive. He was probably a natural middleweight, who bulked up to 175 to win the heavyweight title and defend it 13 times, and broke the colour line to defend (and lose) against a true great in Jack Johnson, taking his lumps with honour.
118 yrs ago June 13: Tommy Burns stops Bill Squires in 8, retains heavyweight title, Neuilly Bowling Palace, Paris. In 11th defense (& 2nd/3 vs Squires), Burns, the shortest, lightest & only Canadian-born heavyweight champ, gets by Squires but loses to Jack Johnson 6 months later
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Opinions are divided on the first heavyweight champion who’d have been comfortable in modern boxing. Most agree on Dempsey, I’d say Jack Johnson for sure. Tommy wouldn’t have been a heavyweight now but there’s enough film for me to say he’d have stood his ground and more.
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Before Burns, the quality and quantity of footage declines dramatically, but I have a hunch that Jeffries, Fitz and Corbett would all have held their own in modern times.
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