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Post by bracknellboy on Apr 23, 2023 15:59:01 GMT
Diane Abbott suspended by Labour after letter suggesting Jews do not face racism - so much for Labour having overcome their antisemitism problems.
I have to admit that I have on occasions stood up for Dianne Abbott. Thinking that while her political views are frequently not terribly aligned to mine (to say the least), and she has a habit of putting at least one foot in her mouth, that she is often too easy a target of people who call her thick which I'm not sure is entirely justified. I sometimes sense that the combination of being black, overweight, and a woman have put a larger target on her back. She managed to make her way from a Grammar school to Cambridge after all, in a time when that was even more difficult than now. Although now I check, she did read History, and did get a lower second class. (Apologies to all those who studied history). Anyway, putting all that aside. Her track record is tending to demonstrate that if not 'thick', she is at least occasionally pretty stupid. I note that her narrative was pretty selective: The former shadow home secretary added: "In pre-civil rights America, Irish people, Jewish people and Travellers were not required to sit at the back of the bus.
"In apartheid South Africa, these groups were allowed to vote. And at the height of slavery, there were no white-seeming people manacled on the slave ships."No Dianne, maybe not. But rather more recently than that latter reference, there were quite a few that were herded into cattle trains, shipped off to various locations, and gassed. That's after having been forced to wear distinguishing badges (after all, as they were a bit "white-seeming" how else were others meant to be sure) and in some cases pushed into ghettos. After having had their businesses destroyed. History doesn't record whether they were made to sit at the back of the cattle trains of course, although as there were no seats and they were the sole occupants I guess its an irrelevant point.
Now what was her degree in again ? Oh yes, history. How the hell did she manage to scrape a 2:2 ?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2023 17:21:21 GMT
or as some might complain, riding two abreast
Note that central London has been closed without police having to be called. But this is a money making race, rather than a life saving climate emergency.
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Post by bracknellboy on Apr 23, 2023 17:46:20 GMT
or as some might complain, riding two abreast
Note that central London has been closed without police having to be called. But this is a money making race, rather than a life saving climate emergency.
Nice. Like it.
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Post by bracknellboy on Apr 23, 2023 17:56:52 GMT
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Post by adrianc on Apr 23, 2023 21:19:27 GMT
But this is a money making race, rather than a life saving climate emergency. I suspect XR have got a lot more public-sympathy-per-column-inch out of stewarding this than out of many of their previous escapades. A friend went up to town for Friday's "Big One". Not something he's done before - let's just say that in his former career, he'd probably have been there but professionally. He was overwhelmed by just how friendly and happy and positive it all was. Will it change anything? God, no. Unfortunately. Everybody in power is paying lip-service, and doing as little as possible. Meanwhile: saving glaciers is a lost cause, and they'll all be gone in 25 years. phys.org/news/2023-04-glaciers.htmlIn the Swiss Alps, 6% of glacial mass gone last year alone. In 2019, we visited a high Alpine pass that my OH had been to in 1991. It was unrecognisable. We compared photos when we got home - yep, memory did not play tricks. What had been glacial was rock. And, let's not forget, those glaciers had taken millennia to form - the last major glacial advance in that part of the world ended 10,000 years ago. But this is probable better in the thread where people are currently prioritising snooker tables and electricity prices.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2023 6:01:07 GMT
Northern Italy is already facing a drought this spring because the snows did not come, while some french villages are already under hose-pipe bans.
Still they drive in FF cars to the supermarket
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Post by registerme on Apr 24, 2023 9:01:21 GMT
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Post by moonraker on Apr 24, 2023 9:38:18 GMT
One of my pet little hates again: this morning a brainy type was enthusing about a 1623 example of Shakespeare's works going on display, and referred to the Bard's effect on the English language. The expert started off most of his replies to the interviewer with "So" ...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2023 13:33:15 GMT
did also add "like"?
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Post by bernythedolt on Apr 24, 2023 14:33:34 GMT
One of my pet little hates again: this morning a brainy type was enthusing about a 1623 example of Shakespeare's works going on display, and referred to the Bard's effect on the English language. The expert started off most of his replies to the interviewer with "So" ... Forsooth, doest thou findst it grindeth thy gears, my liege?  I do agree, but have to remind myself that language is a living, evolving medium and we are a mentally lazy lot. In a few years, I predict the construct "you're" will disappear completely, to be replaced everywhere by "your". Sadly, it has largely already done so on social media...
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Post by registerme on Apr 24, 2023 16:00:35 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2023 17:31:04 GMT
we are all laughing at Lavrov again
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2023 7:56:48 GMT
The son of Putin's spokesman has been claiming that he has been fighting with the Wagner troops in Ukraine. Meanwhile he and his Tesla has been clocking up speeding tickets in Moscow.
Tricky
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Post by agent69 on Apr 25, 2023 8:46:35 GMT
South West Water extend hose pipe ban to large areas of Devon
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Post by keitha on Apr 25, 2023 9:46:59 GMT
One of my pet little hates again: this morning a brainy type was enthusing about a 1623 example of Shakespeare's works going on display, and referred to the Bard's effect on the English language. The expert started off most of his replies to the interviewer with "So" ... Forsooth, doest thou findst it grindeth thy gears, my liege? I do agree, but have to remind myself that language is a living, evolving medium and we are a mentally lazy lot. In a few years, I predict the construct "you're" will disappear completely, to be replaced everywhere by "your". Sadly, it has largely already done so on social media... the one that bugs ne is the interchangeability of our and are as in "this is are new car""are friend John"
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