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www.lrb.co.uk Tom Crewe · Carnival of Self-Harm: Good Riddance to the Tories

​It would be a mistake to think that what has happened to Britain since 2010 is an accident, an unforeseen side-effect...

Tom Crewe · Carnival of Self-Harm: Good Riddance to the Tories

Short-term thinking has been the fatal tendency of the Conservative governments to which Britain has been subjected since 2010.

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Dreaming of a more egalitarian world
  • I think the truth is women do like muscly men, but men tend to overestimate how muscly. Like swimmer physique is attractive, hollywood batman physique is male power fantasy; or something

  • Such a quirky, yet inoffensive art style for my corporate shitpost
  • There's really no good reason to believe that the devourer is Chronos/Saturn, that the devouree is even a child, or that either body is male.

    There is a good reason to think it's a child - it looks like one. Just not necessarily the child of the devourer

  • Beware the Midwest
  • Is American cheese any good? TV shows seem to imply it isn't but it seems weird you wouldn't have good cheese by now
    Edit: I meant cheese made/available in the US, rather than the type called "American cheese". But thanks for the answers

  • Removed
    This is a real photo
  • I'm not really involved in US politics, but how do you change the voting system away from FPTP while still voting for Biden, who (as far as I'm aware) supports FPTP?

  • Minimum wage is UK’s ‘most successful economic policy in a generation’
  • Worth remembering that it wasn't always a free-for-all before minimum wage was introduced. I think there was a mechanism to set minimum wages by industry, which got dismantled by thatcher (not sure on specifics but pretty sure there was some mechanism to set minimum wages).

  • Channel 4 presenter among more than 250 UK stars victimised by deepfake porn
  • Does everyone know they're not real? I'm not suggesting they are real, only that for all I know the quality of these fakes might be convincing.
    Whether this story is "overblown" or not is subjective I guess but the victim's being "creeped out" does seem like actual harm to me

  • Lloyds Bank coprolite is the largest palaeofaeces yet discovered
  • Do construction crews get special training on what counts as important archeology?
    "Hey foreman I found a massive shit while digging that trench we have to call the museum"
    "Dave what the fuck are you talking about?"

  • Labour MPs must vote tomorrow to support a Gaza ceasefire
    tribunemag.co.uk Why Labour MPs Must Support a Gaza Ceasefire

    In just over a month, 11,200 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza by Israeli forces. This cannot go on. Labour MPs must put themselves on the right side of history and vote for a ceasefire, writes former Scottish Labour Party leader Richard Leonard.

    Why Labour MPs Must Support a Gaza Ceasefire

    In just over a month, 11,200 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza by Israeli forces. This cannot go on. Labour MPs must put themselves on the right side of history and vote for a ceasefire, writes former Scottish Labour Party leader Richard Leonard.

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    There Is Zero Evidence of a Shoplifting ‘Epidemic’
    novaramedia.com There Is Zero Evidence of a Shoplifting ‘Epidemic’ | Novara Media

    Shoplifting rates are down from 2017, writes Ell Folan, while the media is acting as if all hell has broken loose.

    There Is Zero Evidence of a Shoplifting ‘Epidemic’ | Novara Media
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    Ofcom just let GB News off the hook over Tory MPs moonlighting as journalists
    www.thecanary.co Spineless Ofcom just let GB News off the hook over Tory MPs moonlighting as journalists

    The Ofcom GB News ruling shows the regulator is as mighty as a drain fly when it comes to doing anything about Tory MPs posing as journalists

    Spineless Ofcom just let GB News off the hook over Tory MPs moonlighting as journalists

    Ofcom has found that a GB News show presented by two Tory MPs breached its impartiality rules. However, the regulator only scalded the far-right media outlet over it not airing differing views. Ofcom failed to rule against the fact that two sitting Conservative MPs were posing as journalists interviewing a sitting Conservative minister.

    The problem here isn’t the fact GB News is a screeching, far-right foghorn amplifier. At the Canary we’ve never claimed to be impartial. They and we are private entities, and that’s our right in the UK. However, while GB News can present its programming with whatever ideological stand point it wishes, it should not be allowing sitting politicians to do it.

    The UK’s democracy is already a shambolic farce, which has become increasingly worse in recent years. Allowing sitting MPs to present news programmes is the thin end of the wedge. Ofcom, with all the might of a drain fly, is failing to act quickly enough to stop this practice before even more damage is done.

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    The NHS Doesn’t Need Reform – It Needs Funding
    tribunemag.co.uk The NHS Doesn’t Need Reform – It Needs Funding

    New research shows the NHS was the world's leading healthcare system before austerity put it in crisis — exposing calls for 'reform' as justification for more privatisation and underfunding.

    The NHS Doesn’t Need Reform – It Needs Funding

    New research shows the NHS was the world's leading healthcare system before austerity put it in crisis — exposing calls for 'reform' as justification for more privatisation and underfunding.

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    Mick Lynch and Matt Wrack: We Will Defy the Anti-Strikes Law

    Following a historic motion backing non-compliance with anti-strikes law being passed at Trade Union Congress, the general secretaries of the RMT and FBU sit down with Tribune to discuss why a mass campaign of defiance matters for the future of the trade union movement.

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    American XL bulldogs kill 22 sheep
    www.walesonline.co.uk Escaped American XL bulldogs kill 22 pregnant sheep and savage dozens more

    A farmer was forced to shoot the escaped dogs as they terrorised his defenceless livestock

    Escaped American XL bulldogs kill 22 pregnant sheep and savage dozens more

    Two escaped dogs savaged a flock of pregnant sheep, killing 22 and injuring another 48, before the out-of-control American XL bulldogs were shot. A farmer turned his gun on the pair of escaped animals that subjected his livestock to a brutal attack on a Welsh farm.

    The financial cost of the incident, including the numerous deaths and injuries, amounted to more than £14,000.

    The owner of the two dogs – David Hughes, 26, of Pen y Wern, Rhosllanerchrugog – appeared at Wrexham Magistrates’ Court where he admitted being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control and being the owner of a dog worrying livestock. Hughes was banned from keeping dogs for five years and ordered to pay £900 in fines.

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