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

fucksake http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/sep/24/bbc-news-tories-jeremy-hunt

Political equivalent of Fergie questioning the neutrality of an upcoming referee. He's only really looking to pressure the coverage of the next General Election.

tl, dr but as their political editor is an ex-chair of the Young Conservatives I don't know what they've got to complain about.

How can the Tories trust an organisation that allows their only late night political discussion show to be presentedby, errrrrrrr, Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/dec/16/the-return-of-poshness

Can't say I've spotted many young things wearing Barbours tbh.

i guess some of the stigma of conservatism and its trappings got eroded for younger people who can only really remember a labour govt, so they can adopt it as a pseudo-radical pose. which is aiding and abetting conservative oxymorons who are trying to say the party has always had a progressive side. http://brightblue.ning.com/

was slightly taken aback by the right-winginess of a housemate last year who was just out of university and said things like "there's no excuse for not being a success in britain" (then he got made redundant from his job in the city and joined the norwegian army). reminded me of a previous housemate who grew up in soviet slovakia and used to bemoan the laziness of homeless people.

imo actors' names are getting posher

Tuppence Middleton

Ophelia Lovibond

Montserrat Lombard

Isabella Amaryllis Charlotte Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe

Oliver and Olivia top names' list

Never trust a man called Olly.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/nov/22/maggies-nightclub-inspired-by-thatcher

Cheaper to hang around outside and punch the clientele in the balls on the way out.

subject to louis's approval, hope some misguided students burn the fucker down

j/k gchq bros. not actually going to burn down an airport.

big protests tomorrow btw

What, at Maggie's?

o word?

busy in the LIBERRY like a real pro

also REDACTED super-excited

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"It's not a Tory club," he says carefully, but rather a tribute to the 80s – a bit of "childhood nostalgia for the decade of our birth". The reference to Britain's most divisive politician, he says, is tongue-in-cheek. "I know she's divisive, but I do admire her. She's a leader."

it's not about politics, it's about leadership.

While Gilkes would love Thatcher herself to visit sometime – despite conceding "her nightclubbing days are probably over"

where's that strikethrough function...?

Sonic The Hedgehog not rilly a symbol of Thatcher's 80s is he now

also didn't the Graun run a piece on this already this year?

"Adam Ant's down quite a lot," he says

your most namedroppable celeb client is a man only notable in recent years for his public displays of mental illness = let the good times roll

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/nov/26/kate-middleton-conservative-style

i basically like suzanne moore but thought this was kind of like an entry-level version of this thread. then i remembered she was ex-marxism today, or whatever it was called, and was probably consciously drawing on stuart hall in the first place.

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