The Great Moving Right Show II: The Kirsty and Phil Years

secret supper club

it's ya boy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/sep/12/march-of-the-neoliberals

this trend of naming things 'the great british ___' is dreadful

6:30pm The Great British Winter
7:30pm Great British Menu

british people are lower than vermin

You do yourself a dishonor, nilmar. I find british people quite on a par with vermin.

http://i.imgur.com/K6Yz9PU.jpg

looking forward to what the uk political class have to say about this girl allegedly being killed allegedly by a latvian migrant

And litigants (or more importantly litigators) have been reminded that they should look first to the common law to protect their fundamental rights: radical suggestions have been made about the power of judicial review to protect them. Whether this trend is developing as a response to the rising tide of anti - European sentiment among parliamentarians, the press and the public, whether it is putting down a marker for what might happen if the 1998 Act were repealed, whether it is a reflection of distinctive judicial philosophies of the judges who are at the forefront of this development, or whether it is simple irritation that our proud traditions of UK constitutionalism seemed to have been forgotten, I leave it to you and to the academics to decide.

http://supremecourt.uk/docs/speech-140712.pdf

thats the 98 human rights act obv

idk where to post this excerpt from the wikipedia page about the manhattan project

i will post it here since it neatly encapsulates the assymetric nature of the delusory 'special relationship' which is so integral to the current right and its belief that the uk can do without distant/sclerotic/treacherous europe

The opportunity for an equal partnership no longer existed, however, as shown in August 1942 when the British unsuccessfully demanded substantial control over the project while paying none of the costs. By 1943 the roles of the two countries had reversed from late 1941;[51] in January Conant notified the British that they would no longer receive atomic information except in certain areas. While the British were shocked by the abrogation of the Churchill-Roosevelt agreement, head of the Canadian National Research Council C. J. Mackenzie was less surprised, writing "I can't help feeling that the United Kingdom group [over]emphasizes the importance of their contribution as compared with the Americans."[54] As Conant and Bush told the British, the order came "from the top". The British bargaining position had worsened; the American scientists had decided that the United States no longer needed outside help, and they and others on the bomb policy committee wanted to prevent Britain from being able to build a postwar atomic weapon. The committee supported, and Roosevelt agreed to, restricting the flow of information to what Britain could use during the war—especially not bomb design—even if doing so slowed down the American project.

Sort of a metaphor for ILX really

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2014/oct/28/tower-of-london-poppies-ukip-remembrance-day/print

“Total public spending is now projected to fall to 35.2% of GDP by 2019-20, taking it below the previous post-war lows reached in 1957-8 and 1999-2000 to what would probably be its lowest level in 80 years”.

The OBR warned that the scale of the projected spending cuts – which would leave public spending per head of population cut be a third during the 2010-2020 decade – would lead to slower growth from 2016 onwards and require the Bank of England to boost activity at a time when interest rates were at rock-bottom levels and the outlook for UK exports was weak.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/may/28/bbc-defends-reality-show-involving-poor-dubbed-hunger-games

the trend of “poverty porn”

this is amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SvRqVvctQk

https://twitter.com/stephenkb/status/746169256727953408