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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/apr/03/no-10-denies-using-dog-whistle-politics-in-grooming-gangs-crackdown-rishi-sunak They’ve already tried “trans people are a threat to your kids”, now the government’s doing “brown people are a threat to your (white) kids”.

I like this series, and I l’m someone who has absolutely no interest in football (despite, or because, being a few roads away from the stadium of a Premier League team). Season 2 got way too saccharine for my tastes, and I didn’t enjoy the first episode of this season, but the most recent two...

Sinister electric bug of doom!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/22/boris-johnson-facing-formal-reprimand-for-misleading-parliament I’ll be massively surprised if there are any actual negative consequences for either Johnson or the Tory party from this.

The longer time goes on, the more that I think making the internet a mass-market form of communication rather than a niche nerd interest was a colossal mistake.

Still relevant 30+ years later.

Younger members of the Transformers fan community won’t remember this, but there were loads of guys exactly like this oddball in the online fandom during the ‘90s and early ‘00s who were obsessed with bringing back the Sunbow G1 cartoon exactly as-is, and wouldn’t accept any other form of...

I’d have no problem scrapping daylight savings time, but as long as we had BST (British Summertime, as in GMT+1) all year round instead of regular GMT. I hate it when it gets pitch black dark at 4pm in October…

There’s lots to like about the way Germany’s electoral system works. The weekend voting, for a start – here in the UK elections are always on Thursdays, and you can end up arriving at a polling station after work, have to stand outside queuing for hours, and not actually being able to vote...

“Billions” of people want to come to the UK, according to the Home Secretary. Good luck feeding them all with the current food shortages!

Found everyone’s favourite Gamera-a-like in the bottom of my socks drawer.

The British version of Trump’s “build the wall” slogan. New drinking game: take a shot whenever a Tory politician or their media surrogates say “stop the boats!” on TV or radio. Death from liver damage guaranteed within 48 hours.

Making the importation of food from our main source market far more expensive and difficult in terms of paperwork* when our island hasn’t been self-sufficient in terms of food for centuries, that’s a specific kind of malice. * Americans and Canadians! Imagine moving produce effortlessly from...

Expected as much. The media last week was full of “stop expecting to eat foreign fruit and vegetables, your grandparents had to make do without” type articles.

How long until we’re back to food ration books?

On the ignore list you go!

Oh, I was reading the reactions to the episode on usenet, and it was mostly very positive, but I saw some “how dare they treat evolution as fact” responses , about the presence of hominids in the story of the episode, and it turned out that there was a specific belief system denying evolution...

Oh, same as Britain then! ;) Well, at least if you go to a state school – “public school” means elite private school over here, bizarrely. (Incidentally, I was taught Biology A-level by a teacher who refused to teach the evolution part of the syllabus for religious reasons, and claimed...

Can I be honest, perhaps stereotyping a bit here, but I assumed that American schools taught creationism as the basic default. I was wrong, right?

Oh, that’s happening as well. The local elections this May will be the first elections to require photographic ID, which the government are making no effort to publicise https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/20/low-uptake-for-free-voter-id-scheme-among-elderly-and-young-people-in-uk...