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"off-season tomatoes" hasn't been a thing in decades. Tomatoes are available at affordable prices all year long.
Grown in massive greenhouses require electric etc thus the cost has gone up because the cost of fuel has gone up, including transporting these things across the continent.
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William Shawcross's Independent Review of Prevent [0] has on page 24 > 3.46 While the products related to Islamist terrorism focus on the most serious material relating to violent Islamist ideology, mostly Islamic State and al-Qa’ida, much of the material covering Extreme Right-Wing falls well below the threshold for even non-violent extremism. > 3.47 This material tends to deal with broader themes and often covers c…
So, in other words, "No". I had already ctrl+f'd the Shawcross review document for specific titles referenced by Murray and others, and nothing was listed. The more I read about this, the more it feels like far-right circles are seizing on your highlighted point and adding their own "details" (eg, Murray naming specific books), or spin, to push a narrative that supports them.
2. This is a common pattern in left wing propaganda I have seen play out. Example:
Propagandist: “Plain bellied sneetches are bad"
Mary, the plain bellied sneetch: Am I bad?
Propagandist: Lol, show me where I mentioned "Mary" is bad. Plain bellied sneetches are always eager to jump to conclusions! lol.Earlier quoted context omitted.
Speaking from a US standpoint: 1. The legislature makes laws 2. The courts make judgements based on those laws 3. The police officers drag people into jail All 3 are part of the government.
The UK isn't the US. The UK government does not work like or even resemble the US government.
This is something that comes up time and time again with our recent string of conservative governments, going back to Cameron. At this point I'm pretty convinced that it is a dead cat strategy to avoid us talking about the lack of fruit and vegetables in the supermarkets. Or maybe I'm just being hopeful.
Total agreement. As a longtime anglophile, I believe the UK governance literally conforms to Yes Minister.There exists a strong bijection between any ongoing UK crisis and a corresponding Yes Minister episode. I have discovered a wonderful proof for this theorem but the HN margins are too narrow.
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Cleese recently said he is leaving the UK.
Given that he was a proponent of Brexit, I think he really should be forced to stay.
> The Monty Python comic had been portrayed in the press as having strong views on Brexit – but Mr Cleese said he has ‘no strong views’ and had been in favour of reforming the EU Commission. “If they don’t reform it, I’m in favour of Leave but I said nobody understands the economic impact,” he said.
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/movie-news/a...
This is the same country that considered their advances in computing during World War 2 to be so important that they hid them and left the USA to capitalise on the innovation. We'll leave our poor UK cousins to carry out their "techxit".
I once again find myself apologizing for my country and trying to explain that in 20 years our (very severe) boomer infestation will be fixed and we'll be a real place again. Sorry.
I've never quite understood why saying something like this is still socially acceptable. I know that my own Mum and Dad didn't vote for the current government nor do they support blunt, poorly thought out Tory policy. Yet I know so gen z and millennial people that do. If you want to apologise for something why don't you take responsibility for your own ageism, it's repellent.
I'm personally really angry at the amount of debt it will be left as inheritance by our subsidized european parents/grandparents among a lot of other "intergenerational gifts".
This is something that comes up time and time again with our recent string of conservative governments, going back to Cameron. At this point I'm pretty convinced that it is a dead cat strategy to avoid us talking about the lack of fruit and vegetables in the supermarkets. Or maybe I'm just being hopeful.
Total agreement. As a longtime anglophile, I believe the UK governance literally conforms to Yes Minister.There exists a strong bijection between any ongoing UK crisis and a corresponding Yes Minister episode. I have discovered a wonderful proof for this theorem but the HN margins are too narrow.
1. The civil service has been hollowed out; it is now largely reliant on external consultancies and outsourcing firms for many important functions (e.g., Crapita).
2. It’s lost power at the same time. Simon Case is the weakest cabinet secretary in living memory. The last reasonably powerful cabinet secretary was Sir Jeremy. It’s not so much that parliamentary parties are in charge—though they’re not blocked; rather, nobody is in charge at all.
3. Political advisers now no longer find their path blocked to the same extent, but end up burnt out by political events: see the farce of Cummings’ plan to hire some mathematicians ending up cancelled because he couldn’t be bothered to filter out people unironically advocating the sterilisation of the Untermenschen. Since the SPAD system is so ad hoc, it of course manages even less than the Butskellite civil service did.
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If I understand correctly, the “chemical castration” that Turing was subject to, is the same substance that nowadays US kids with gender disphoria are prescribed.
You mean the effects of drugs have different uses in different contexts?! What?! That's amazing!
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You really think that an issue as important as basic food supplies is going to be bumped out of the headlines by a tedious government consultation on internet governance?
That's exactly what's happening. I'm in the UK and I was unaware of the problem with our food supplies