TheMightyEthan Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Lord Justice Leveson said the legislation would enshrine, for the first time, a legal duty on the government to protect the freedom of the press. As an American, with the different political baselines that entails, this part jumped out at me. Interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2012 Kate Middleton is preggers. And in hospital with morning sickenss :/ It turns out Disney was right all along. Some day... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted December 6, 2012 Report Share Posted December 6, 2012 ^How is that politics?^ http://www.gamesindu...elief-for-games Woohoo! Now we get to pay even less tax. Find it quite amusing when juxtaposed with http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20560359 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 6, 2012 Report Share Posted December 6, 2012 What was Disney right about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted December 6, 2012 Report Share Posted December 6, 2012 A prince coming. Nudge nudge wink wink say no more... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 ^How is that politics?^ Well future head of state n all. Also am I maybe in a slightly different timeline, cos wasn't all the "next in line regardless of gender" stuff done earlier this year/last year. Folks are talking about it as if it's a thing only just happening now due to the baby on the way. In semi-response to your other link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20624857 Starbucks have finally become profitable after 14 years and opening 700 unprofitable stores across the nation where any other unprofitable company would have given up on their expansion. Funny that. Meanwhile UK company Costa Coffee has been turning a profit and paying taxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 the succession issue hasn't been agreed by the commonwealth nations yet. I guess they all thought they had more time. I'm guessing it needs to be sorted before the baby is born. On related - though not political - news the nurse who was duped by the prank call to the hospital has been found dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 It has until the babies father dies. Third in line won't matter until then And yeah heard on the nurse thing on the radio. Pretty shitty circumstances. There has to be something going on behind the scenes, I can't see someone being pranked being cause enough to commit suicide. The whole gay marriage thing is back in the news. Now saying Churhces won't have to do it if they don't want to. Which many have been very vocal that they don't want to. So I'm not getting at what they plan to do with this law. Just remove the restriction from Civil Partnership on religious ceremonies and the churches that wish to join 21st century can. and those that don't get to keep their precious word. What's great is the church saying their primary concern is for the good of society...their official stance being marriage is one man one woman. So yeah, according to the church if you're gay you're not part of society. So inclusive. No wonder they're dying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20738746 Sanity prevailed and the opt-out nationwide porn filter was scapped. The fact it's opt-out rather than opt-in was my only major issue with it. You're either going to end up with a huge list of folks that have specifically contacted their ISP to check porn, or a huge list of folks who specifically wanted to protect their kids. Which list is the better would should it end up leaked or what not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted December 16, 2012 Report Share Posted December 16, 2012 Thank god. Governments have a habit of ploughing on in the face of public opinion when they've got a bee in their bonnet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 The Tories are being Tories again. http://www.guardian....-tax-credit-ads Also the BPI (British Phonographic Industry) is seemingly aiming to bankrupt an entire UK political party on an individual basis. http://torrentfreak....members-121215/ Certainly one way of showing that media organisations have a bit too much power afforded to them. edit: Oh yeah for those of you that follow sport (but will likely already know) Bradley Wiggins is Sports Personality of the Year. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/sports-personality/20748902'>http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/sports-personality/20748902 You can view rest of the results on the Beeb hub page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/sports-personality/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 4, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20905415 Could be a good idea. Certainly better than the current "Work Fair" scheme. And I might be a bit out of whack on costs n such, but £1billion seems cheap. Though I'd say a big problem is it still subsidises the creation of jobs for companies, thus discouraging them from actively hiring when the gov't will plonk someone on their plate for free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 9, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 So benefits are raising faster than the average wage (benefits were raised with inflation) so they've now decided to cap benefits to raising only 1% until 2016. Because the problem was with this stop-gap system that fills in where wages don't, and not maybe the fact that average salaries are not raising with inflation. So you have people that are earning less that they should, who top up their less than stellar earnings from part-time jobs and NMW positions and short term contracts with benefits which are now going to be less than they used to be too. So if you're earning more than average, then you're fine and dandy, but if you're not, you're now even more fucked than you were when you were just earning less than average. There are on average around 25 or so applicants for every job opening, which maybe implies that the reason people aren't in work, or full time work even, isn't because they're all "work shy" and thus should be squeezed until they become productive non-"work shy" people, but maybe because there's not enough jobs around to employ everyone. Which'd maybe be resolved if Gov't had put in systems to let big companies fill positions for free with the aid of JCP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 http://www.newstatesman.com/alex-andreou/2013/01/welfare-debate-and-end-reason 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 of course he doesn't come up with a reasonable solution though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 31, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-21262308 Scottish Independence question changed from "Do you agree that Scotland should be an independent country?" to "Should Scotland be an independent country?". Cumbria County Council have decided against continuing plans to bury UK nuclear waste there. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-21253673 Worth noting they currently house 70% of UK nuclear waste in Sellafields in pools of water so I don't know where they get this impression they're not already known for storing of nuclear waste. All gov't is asking is that instead of being in what are meant to be temporary pools of water, to shove it all underground. Secures jobs for the next hundred years at least too. (The local council which contains Sellafield actually did mostly vote for continuing with the process, so it's more the county council at large that's a bit silly) Also Polish is England's second biggest language (third in UK cos of Welsh) and also the country's premier supplier of horse meat burgers. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21259401 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21267262 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted January 31, 2013 Report Share Posted January 31, 2013 ugh. I hate autoplaying videos. I do think they've neutralised the question a bit which is a good thing. If they could get rid of the 'independent' as well that would be even better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2013 Unless the Lords block it (and/or the Queen but she never has done afaik) the Marriage (Same-Sex) Bill passed. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21346220 400 for, 175 against (of which 136 were tories * .) Personally I'm still in favour of no marriage, just Civil Partnerships. That way you don't have to have MPs being all "adam and steve" n other religion based reasonings for being against equal rights. (It'd also make the law a shit ton shorter since as best I can tell most of the wording of the new bill is religion based, especially since Church of England has to be banned from giving SS marriages) http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2013/feb/05/gay-marriage-debate-politics-live-blog *This bill being one of Cameron's love children of late. Most of his party voted against him. Which isn't that great for him. Nor future election prospects. Suddenly Lib Dems won't care so much one of their guys resigned over a speeding ticket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21335872 So for those not in the UK (but it seems you've heard) there's a huge scandal that some supermarket foods have contained horsemeat. Like not just random traces but between 20-100% horsemeat. Now the issue isn't that it's horsemeat itself, there's nothing illegal about eating horse we just don't make a habit of it, and we've several specialist abattoirs for horse too that exports to france and italy n other equine loving countries. The problem is that the packaging says beef and clearly somewhere along the line it wasn't and clearly suppliers and purchasers weren't properly testing the food they were buying/making. I guess on one side it at least gets folks chatting about what goes into food, potentially a few here n there going for locally sourced meat, and also opens up the discussion on horse as a beef alternative(when properly labeled). The only major downside is if it wasn't for the Pope resigning and the LA manhunt they'd be banging on about the "horsemeat scandal" for fucking weeks on end and there's only so much to talk about in the whole "there's horsemeat in your beef burgers". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRevanchist Posted February 12, 2013 Report Share Posted February 12, 2013 I'd eat horsemeat in my beef burgers, but I kinda don't give a fuck about the meat, as long as it ain't venison. I hates me some venison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 Well, the other problem is whether the horses have been given drugs that would not be administered to animals intended for consumption. Though, yes, the main worry is about what else has been getting through. ...and to think they won't let us have proper Mountain Dew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 I think it breaks down as: - People who are annoyed because they disapprove of eating horse. - People who are concerned that this is indicative of other issues in the food chain. - People who are annoyed that they were sold horse when they ordered beef. - People who are annoyed because the media are telling them to be annoyed. - People who don't care or are smug because they never buy processed food. I think the majority of people who are talking about it fall in to the media camp. If you sit them down and ask them why it's so bad to eat horse, most would accept that horse meat is fine really, had they been told in advance they probably would eat horse without complaint, this is just a mis-labelling error and since there are no indications that the food chain is toxic as a result we can all go back to our lives. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted February 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21426928 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21490542 http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/en/Policy%20and%20Media/Press%20Releases/Were%20not%20above%20shelf%20stacking%20say%20geologists It's pretty much worth following the chain just for the Geological Society's response. I think this was posted about a fair while back when the court case first started. Basically lass told to work at Poundland for free, which also cuts into the self-organised voluntary work she had with a museum. She fought this at court (along with another guy), and court rules the scheme to be illegal. Ian Duncan Smith has since come out with the old "people think they're too good for shelf stacking" rhetoric (the lass works legitimately at a supermarket so obviously not the case), while also bashing geologists. Geological Society responds. The associated video is fun to watch too. "Half of the kids have left benefit" is not the same as "half the kids have got gainful employment" since it could be over half of the kids on it got sanctioned and removed from being able to get benefit. Terry Leahy, current head of Tesco, has a BSc in Management Sciences which I think might lead more to his being CEO of third largest retailer in the world than his early work stacking shelves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 Apparently three people voted against Falklands remaining part of the British Empire Overseas Territories. They were given a row boat and pointed towards Argentina. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21750909 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted March 12, 2013 Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 I get why the British care, because it's their people the Argentines are trying to kick out, but I don't get why the fuck the Argentines care after all this time. They're just some goddamn islands in the middle of the South Atlantic, with none of your people on them. I understand there's some oil, but apparently its exploitation has only become feasible in the last decade or so, long after the 1982 invasion. I just don't get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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