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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/09/dame-priti-and-sir-party-marty-the-aides-and-allies-in-boris-johnsons-honours-list In his (belated) resignation honours list, Boris Johnson has given knighthoods, damehoods and peerages to some of the worst ghouls and monsters in Tory party. He’s...

I’m beginning to think it a positive that Mastodon isn’t going to be a mass-market, mass appeal thing, and basically won’t ever be giving the nature of how it works. Social media was a mistake.

Going slightly off topic, I find it depressing how people I followed on twitter still use the system, as in primarily in terms of their social media / micro-blogging habits. I guess as the main alternative, Mastodon will never be mainstream. It’s just too ‘computer nerd’ oriented, and engagement...

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/barclay-plans-price-caps-food-092554634.html So the government floated the idea of food price controls due to surging inflation, but quickly rowing it back to a “voluntary” arrangement. I still think it amusing that Brexit seems to be moving an increasingly...

Copy and pasted the wrong link, not the one I was intending, but doesn’t really help that we have to check passports that had free movement before. All this decaying infrastructure was never up to the task of even a mild Brexit, but politicians gonna politics.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/27/electronic-passport-gate-fault-causes-long-delays-at-major-uk-airports-epassport-egate More Brexit chaos.

I also try and avoid caffeine as much as possible. Doesn't do my blood pressure any good. And I once got a bit, well, almost addicted to it (chain-drinking coffee all day until I had a headache). I can't 100% avoid it, but 90% avoidance is good enough. (I remember trying Starbucks coffee for...

I remember when we had bomb drills back at secondary school, in case the IRA ever planted a bomb in our school (seriously), but then chances of that actually happening were remote. I despair at kids in the States having to actively practice drills in case there’s a mass shooting, given how often...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/15/low-birthrate-is-uk-top-priority-tory-mp-tells-rightwing-conference-miriam-cates “Stop women going to university so they can breed more native British children” – the Conservative Party in 2023.

Florida has its own Gestapo for schoolteachers now?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-retained-law-bill-b2336385.html What a hugging surprise. It’s almost if the whole think was unworkable ******* bollocks.

Most British people I suspect probably don’t know who Cromwell was, let alone that his ‘commonwealth’ was a theocratic dictatorship. It’s a long time ago anyway. It’s more to do with keeping the vestiges of the feudal class system in place (remember we still have an appointed House of Lords with...

Anyway, republicanism is very heavily repressed in Britain. We have no real organisations, no flags, icons or symbols, no political party behind us, no anthem. It’s still treated with disdain and an eccentric fringe view rather than, say, something reasonable like wanting to have a democratic...

There’s no contradiction in accepting that we have a relatively powerless constitutional monarchy while also supporting republicanism… I’ll always be a republican, and support the abolition of the monarchy and prefer to be a parliamentary republic despite that. (I don’t like the idea of becoming...

Happy coronation weekend, everyone!

In the States do you get oddball far-left people suddenly claiming to have Jewish heritage, in order to back up some claim that anti-Zionist Jews are the only ‘real’ Jews? Same people will also claim that they don’t know any Hebrew as anti-Zionist Jews don’t learn it, and also showing zero...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/02/anti-monarchists-receive-intimidatory-home-office-letter-on-new-protest-laws-coronation Anti-protest laws ‘coincidentally’ tightened to draconian levels before coronation event. Funny, that.

Hah, I knew those would be Celtic supporters before I even clicked on the link.

Well, I’m someone who 100% definitely won’t be doing this next week.

That’s the exact same bullshit that the Corbynites/British far-left wheel out “Jews hate blacks”, “Jews invented racism, “Jews hate transgender people”, “Jews oppress Muslims”, etc, etc.