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NurembergVillan

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  1. 75% SNP here. Donald where's ya troosers?
  2. Sorry - I was being tongue in cheek with my response! For future reference, assume that if I'm quoting the Mail, Express or Sun it's with a huge dose of cynicism and distrust!
  3. To be fair, so's Ronald McDonald.
  4. The Independent reported he's got a son. Either way, absolutely heartbreaking.
  5. So, so sad. RIP Ugo. A little known Ugo fact is that he co-founded a record label which is now home to Wolf Alice and The 1975. A sad day for music and for football. Thanks for everything, and particularly for this -
  6. Police are saying the suspect, who has been shot and killed, was already known to security services so I'd say it's nailed on that it was a terrorist attack. Again.
  7. That's no way to talk about a lady!
  8. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39660196 All the best Ugo. One of the trio who left us under a cloud to join a more ambitious Middlesbrough side, but someone who I still think of fondly. His fractured skull never stopped him, so hopefully this won't either.
  9. Or "turncoats" as they should rightly be called. They exist now, but not for much longer. They'll be squashed like the pathetic insects they are.
  10. This better? Think I figured it out.
  11. It's also the 430th anniversary of Sir Francis Drake sailing a fleet into Cadiz harbour and "singeing the King of Spain's beard". Surprised The Sun missed an open goal with that one today. They must've been gutted they had to report on the general election.
  12. A thread to celebrate whatever happened on X years to the day. Funny, sad, political, sporting - an opportunity for dewy-eyed nostalgia. It's 28 years today since Maradona did the most iconic warm-up ever -
  13. You genuinely don't win friends with salad. Or conversations about politics! I agree with you in terms of the news - stories come and go. Celebrity super-injunctions, serial killers, whatever, they all have one individual or a small group as the focal point and a particular issue that makes it newsworthy (or not, in most cases!). With the likes of the Mail, Sun and Express though, it's shallow rhetoric and often founded in selective truth or outright lies. It's aimed at broader groups of people, and the definitions have very fuzzy edges - "Migrants", "Remoaners". It's death by a thousand paper cuts, as the "facts" of each story become irrelevant and forgotten but the more bullshit that's piled on, the harder it is to get the stench out. The division is intentional too. As humans, we love an escape goat (go on, treat yourself to some pedantry there ;)) and so these outlets are on the one hand showing people how tough their lives are, and on the other giving them someone to blame - all the while diverting attention away from the corporate pigs who are really pulling all the strings. We're living in a post-facts world, where yesterdays news is now also yesterday's fish and chip paper, and the headlines are all that matters.
  14. True. I'd got my wires crossed and thought he was editing the Metro when I posted that!
  15. I was open and honest about it! And I only wish it was a gag. Sadly, I genuinely believe it to be true. The media has way more sway over our laws and regulations than an ordinary MP. I'd feel certain "Mrs May" would be more likely to bend to the requirements of Rupert Murdoch than most of her ordinary MPs.
  16. That's fair enough. I'm full of cold, jacked up on coffee, and also handling a fairly delicate legal matter whilst enjoying this debate so errors are possible. I actually think Enemies of the People is even worse, as it's not associating the judges as being enemies of the "state, or nation" which are simply abstract concepts that we subscribe to in order to bind ourselves to something bigger, but as enemies of every single man, woman and child on the street.
  17. As I just posted in the Tory thread, he's presumably realised he'll have far more influence over the future of the country in his editorial role than he ever would in Government. Sad, but apt timing for the debate in this thread.
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