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alanferrier, 6 months ago to random

Britain in British history books vs. Britain in everyone else's history books.

Daniel Radcliffe as some mad bastard

alanferrier, 3 months ago to random

Do you remember last October, al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City was bombed and Israel said it was a misdirected Hamas rocket because they'd never bomb a hospital, and the Western media lapped it up?

Since then 35 other hospitals in Gaza have been destroyed.

alanferrier, 21 days ago to random

The Rector of the University of Glasgow, a Palestinian witness to war crimes, is now banned from entering both Germany and France and, it would seem, the whole of Europe.

alanferrier, 6 months ago to random

It's perversely entertaining to watch Britain belatedly discover what it's like to be ruled by Britain.

alanferrier, 5 months ago to random

I see we’ve reached the “rich people should be able to buy your organs” point of late-stage capitalism.

alanferrier, 4 months ago to random

Who could blame it?

alanferrier, 10 months ago to random

Portugal decriminalised drugs in 2001 and subsequently treated drug abuse as a public health issue. Between 1999 and 2016 deaths from overdose fell by 92%.

If Westminster refuses to even consider this approach then future deaths are on their hands.

alanferrier, 1 month ago to random

Nicely done, London Waterstones.

alanferrier, 2 months ago to random

On Thatcher's proposed state funeral - a view held fairly commonly in Scotland, but best expressed by Frankie Boyle: "For three million pounds you could buy everyone in Scotland a shovel and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person."

alanferrier, 1 month ago to random

This letter is 10 years old. It was true then and remains true today. Regarding the recent murder of aid workers, I'd say we're at about stage 5.

alanferrier, 1 month ago to random

The laughable assertion from the Tories that "Britain is the Second Most Powerful Country in the World," (backed up by an article in the Daily Express, FFS) reminds me of this from Professor Nicholas Boyle, University of Cambridge. https://archive.is/6NC4N

alanferrier, 2 months ago to random

An extraordinarily powerful protest as thousands line the seafront at San Sebastian in the Basque Country of Spain to denounce the ongoing massacre of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli state.

The sirens you can hear in the background are those of Guernica.

video/mp4

alanferrier, 8 months ago to random

This is from Bill Bryson, but would almost function as a draft constitution for an independent Scotland.

alanferrier, 6 months ago to random

Extraordinary how many mainstream journalists are claiming it’s only now, because of the #CovidInquiry, that they realise how much of an utter shitshow the Johnson government was, rather than reporting on it honestly at the time.

The UK media failed us, and continues to fail us.

alanferrier, 6 months ago to random

Well, I suppose it's marginally less fuckwitted than Trump's "inject yourself with bleach", but being less fuckwitted than Trump is a tremendously low bar.

alanferrier, 3 months ago to random

I'm so very, very tired of being governed by a bunch of psychopaths who all went to the same school.

alanferrier, 3 months ago to random

They could save paper by just issuing a joint manifesto.

alanferrier, 4 days ago to random

Fixed that for you, New Statesman.

Fun fact: England is the only country in the world to have fully privatised its water and sewerage systems.

Via the Financial Times: "Scotland—which has its own state-owned water company—massively outperformed its neighbours with water standards similar to much of Scandinavia."

alanferrier, 9 months ago to random

"If they don’t like it they can fuck off back to France."

Not Britain First. Not the National Front. Not the BNP. Not the British Union of Fascists.

The Deputy Chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Party.

Hard to tell the difference these days, ain't it?

alanferrier, 8 months ago to random

4-year-old: What happens when you die?
Me: Well, some folk think you go to heaven and...
4-y-o: No, I mean what happens when you die? Do I get all your stuff?

alanferrier, 5 months ago to random

I fail to see the downside.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lee-anderson-says-votes-for-16-year-olds-will-kill-off-the-tories-for-generations_uk_6563023ce4b0f35896f62791

alanferrier, 2 months ago to random

The danger of ignoring atrocities, via Naomi Klein.
https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/14/the-zone-of-interest-auschwitz-gaza-genocide

alanferrier, 7 months ago to random

“Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying.”
—Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background

alanferrier, 1 month ago to random

The wonderful Kurt Vonnegut died #OnThisDay in 2007. He's up in heaven now.

alanferrier, 1 month ago to random

Douglas Adams, "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish", 1984.