August 2011
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“UK population: 61,838,154
Police killings in last 30 days: 3
Chance of being...”
– ~ Laterbase, UK Megathread : Greggs Memorial Edition
Edit: a correction, courtesy of someone more anal than me:
Isn’t the Euromillions a weekly event? If so, the chances of winning in the same 30 day period are 1 in 27,190,753 - only 1.32 times more likely to be cop-killed, whereas the...
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“The riots were caused, apparently, by black culture, and we can get round the...”
– Mark Steel, right on the money once again…
“James Murdoch’s bid to join exclusive gentleman’s club...”
– There’s a pun in there somewhere but I’m not making it
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“…those professing shock at the level of disaffection in many levels of...”
– I’m scared. This is from a Daily Mail article. It actually reads quite well until you get to the end.
Between this and the Telegraph the other week, what is happening to the right-wing press in this country?
“Irresponsibility. Selfishness. Behaving as if your choices have no consequences....”
– ~David Cameron
If you take away just two sentences (“Children without fathers. Schools without discipline.”), it has a very different message.
“Just call any proposed change a ‘reform’, indeed, even if all you are doing is...”
– Steven Poole, ‘Unspeak’ (via astute-cat)
‘Unspeak’ is one of my favourite books and I really wish it was on some kind of mandatory reading list.
“First off, I don’t know what’s best. But this is what I do know. Unlike most of...”
– Tony Evans, Football editor for The Times
“We have seen the worst of Britain, but I also believe we have seen some of the...”
– Political discourse in Britain in 2011: clicking “like” on a fucking Facebook page
“We’ve got to believe we can do something about the terrible problems of...”
– David Cameron said this in 2006 - do you think he’ll remember these words in regards to the recent riots and make the right decision or just go for the kneejerk Right decision, i.e. more police?
“This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be...”
– Frederick Douglass
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“The British public don’t simply resort to violent unrest in the face of...”
– Theresa May
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“This is not a victimless crime. Every single one of us is paying higher taxes,...”
– Oh fuck you Ashcroft, fuck you.
