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Regular reminder that the far-left, despite defining themselves as antiracists, are as racist as the far-right; they just just target their racism at different groups, and use different justifications.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67401753 Cruella’s out after an inflammatory newspaper article accusing the London Met Police of being “woke”.

Japan’s a mass of contradictions from a Western European and North American perspective. Advanced and developed on many levels (and they have universal healthcare!), awful on gender, LGBTQ and racial equality, among other sensibilities. Although, to be honest they’re more developed on some of...

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/nov/03/record-number-hate-incidents-british-jews-reported-hamas-attacks Unfortunately, I’m not entirely surprised by this news. (I’ve seen elsewhere online a common claim that there isn’t actually any rise in anti-Jewish racism, just “the Zios” have forced...

https://www.politico.eu/article/boris-johnson-asked-scientists-if-covid-could-be-killed-by-hairdryer-up-nose-ex-aide-claims/ The government’s Covid inquiry is going well.

Well, they don’t over here either, but it’s a lot of social media and forum traffic as far as I see that is influenced by that form of thinking. I saw that side of things as fringe, relatively harmless cranks until the emergence of Corbyn and his personality cult just complacent and naive I was...

That might explain in part actions on the American centre-left, but speaking as a British person, I’ve become incredibly aware in the last 7-8 years how much deep antisemitism there is baked into the more radical left. It’s just there, but unspoken about on the surface, utterly taboo to even...

Not as such. Smer, the party of returning Slovakian PM Robert Fico is openly pro-Russia, and promised to end aid to Ukraine if re-elected. Smer is officially a social-democratic party and was founded as a centre-left movement, but has gradually become nationalistic, socially conservative and...

Done some more research. The colour difference doesn’t show up as well on screen as it does in real life, even using photos taken on my “good” camera. The older Retrax definitely has discoloured over time, unfortunately, but seems to have been more yellow-tinged on its yellow parts to begin with...

That’s it, yes. Sorry it got compressed a lot posting here. Original figure (right) looks more yellow-tinged to the naked eye.

Hmm, doesn’t really seem visible in this quickly-taken photo, but in real life it’s quite a contrast. Brilliant white versus stained dentures off-white.

Ah, that’s helpful! Thanks. Definitely seems off-white there, which is a good clue. Particularly if it’s a fairly old photo.

I have the 2022 reissue Retrax, but yesterday found I had my 1997 (1998?) original figure stashed away. But! While the reissue is bright white, the original is this slightly pearly stained-dentures shade. Was the original off-white, or has it discoloured in the last quarter-century? (The reason...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/21/uk-government-keeping-files-on-teaching-assistants-and-librarians-internet-activity? Nothing to see here, just the UK Department for Education monitoring internet usage of school staff for any criticism of government policy.

I just reminded myself that Netanyahu has been around for so long, that he first became prime minister at almost the same time the pilot of Beast Wars was airing in the States.

Oh true, it was pretty amazing to be aware of it during its glory days, so much constant creativity, and such passion for the Transformers mythos. I’ll see if I have any of the CDRs, and if they still work if they do. However, I definitely have some TMUK text fanfics as HTML files on my Mac, so...

That’s definitely the long-established BBC style on reporting on these issues, yes. Every time this happens, elements of the commercial media will attack the BBC for doing what they’ve been doing for the best part of a century. I did watch some BBC News coverage and it’s definitely not revelling...

Wondered what happened to Transmasters UK. I think 2004-ish is when they went off my radar. (Perhaps in-fighting? Always a problem with that group.) I did have a lot of their fanzines, like a lot, but unfortunately they all ended up going in the recycling during a life crisis at some point. And...

Argh, only just saw this post. I did go to all but one of the Transforce events, and probably have some of the material from the conventions somewhere, so I'll search when I next have suitable spare time, although I can't promise anything, and I'd have to check several places. But I'll attempt...

Speaking personally, I still have very strong memories of the Troubles, even though I’ve always lived in England. Something related to the conflict would always be on the UK-wide evening news. We had bomb drills at secondary school to prepare if the IRA ever planted explosives in or near our...