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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...

Incidentally, we have people over here who ask “why do we need to have 650 MPs in the House of Commons, America has just 435 seats in the House of Representatives with a far bigger population?”, who as you can see are oblivious about that whole federalism and decentralised states thing that the...

Remember that website called (IIRC) Transformers 2001, where a fanfic by someone called Anton Max was illustrated up with 3D rendered images?

If only Corbyn was a normie social-democratic politician like some of his apologists claim he is, rather than someone who has poisoned British politics for at least a generation.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/22/jk-rowling-bbc-issues-apology-after-accusations-of-transphobia/ Couldn’t make this up…

It’s still considered a four-letter word over here, not an obscure term at all, and you wouldn’t call a female colleague that word unless you wanted to lose your job. It’s pretty obvious why the character’s legacy name has been changed – no different to when that Power Core Combiners figure...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/food-shortages-supermarkets-jobs-coffey-b2288054.html “Let them eat turnips.” (Incidentally, the BBC1 6pm evening news yesterday claiming that the fruit and vegetable shortages are “Europe wide”, but the BBC is as reliable source of information as...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/supermarket-rationing-uk-restrictions-asda-morrisons-b2287020.html?amp In other news, a shortage of fruit and vegetables has caused major supermarkets to limit purchases. (Anyone in a mainland European country, please let us know if the same thing...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/kate-forbes-children-sex-marriage-wrong-b2286533.html Looks like the next First Minister of Scotland will be a member of the conservative wing of the SNP, someone who doesn’t like childbirth out of marriage, wants to outlaw abortion and opposes...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2023/02/09/tory-mp-uses-conspiracy-theory-in-uk-parliament-against-15-minute-city-concept/ The “15 minute city” conspiracy has taken root in the UK, and even Tory politicians are promoting the conspiracy theory in the House of Commons. (I have no idea...

Yeah, former party – Corbyn’s essentially expelled from Labour, and allegedly planning to compete directly against a Labour candidate at the next general election. Corbyn is such electoral poison that the party leadership distancing themselves from him is more about self preservation than...

Just when you thought Space Karen couldn’t wreck Twitter further…

I don’t like Starmer, but this is a good move. The taint of Corbyn needs removing from that party.