Tag: government
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Westminster Product Recall
Yes they are very dangerous, and ironically get really shirty about ‘old views’ (read: 4 years ago) being dug up. I mean what’s a death penalty between friends? :-/ Also funny in the Question Time clip Priti Patel says “A lot of politicians run away from this debate…” – like you’re doing here? And as…
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5 Years of Angry
Went to see Super Furry Animals tonight, it was great, but before a very emotional ‘Fire In My Heart’ Gruff Rhys spoke about the current situation in the UK, with the Tories being re-elected. He said ‘Let’s get angry. 5 years of angry’ to cheers. They later did an appropriately angry ‘Man Don’t Give A…
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Artistic Protests in Hong Kong
As part of the Umbrella Movement aka Occupy Central in Hong Kong, there have been amazing shots of artworks and symbolic gestures in the streets. Here is a video from CNN-HK of some of the artworks, and it reminds me of other ad-hoc Occupy spaces, how quickly people reclaim the space to make something creative,…
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Land Grab
While most of the country seems to be worried that Uragoing Home from the World Cup, I’m more concerned about the Infrastructure Bill and the land grab going on. There are two things: like the horror of what happened to Royal Mail, the Land Registry is being privatised, and this new Bill allows building on…
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Why Are American Health Care Costs So High?
Great video, detailing quickly a VERY complex problem. It’s interesting that the US is supposed to be Land of the Free Markets, but what ends up most often than not is the people get screwed. I’d say this also applies to telecoms too (something I know better, if you excuse the diversion, it does relate).…
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The gradual acid drip of fascism
Something I’ve always struggled with it certain labels, certain accusations towards the UK government and security services. ‘Police state’ ‘Nazi’ ‘Fascism’ ‘Stasi’ – all very easy to blurt out and demean the original usage, and when using them you think about some cold grey depressing country (oh it is the same!) in Eastern Europe with…