Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
When I was in the Civil Service only auditors were allowed green ink.
And the head of MI6. (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uk...carlett-still-signs-letters-in-green-ink.html)
When I was in the Civil Service only auditors were allowed green ink.
I can give the correct answer to most questions. For example: fox hunting is wrong.
Disagree. British lockdown, like the US lockdown, has been marked by a high degree of authoritarianism, it just hasn't been evenly distributed. There are different flavours of authoritarianism. Britain's isn't of the martial law variety. Instead, right wing governments single out marginalised minorities and uses real and symbolic violence against them to shore up the support of a majority. Hence years of bogus asylum seekers, ASBOS, benefit cheats, the Hostile Environment, Windrush, Operation Prevent, Stop and Search etc. etc.We've just had a relatively unauthoritarian lockdown.
Someone on Twitter shared them.
Amazingly, all published within a couple of days.
About a completely made-up story.
See the Christine Berry article I shared earlier. It's a balance that anyone who cares about anything has to find for themselves and yes, sure, we don't always get it right. However, it's better to care than not to care. Cynicism is a form of living death.You care too much about too many things that you have no control over or which behave in a way you would expect. It's bad for your health.
See the Christine Berry article I shared earlier. It's a balance that anyone who cares about anything has to find for themselves and yes, sure, we don't always get it right. However, it's better to care than not to care. Cynicism is a form of living death.
Well said. Plus we can look to other countries and see that it is possible to do better.
Yes, this is more or less the consensus amongst media researchers.There was something I heard on the radio, some university man who'd done some research on this. What he found was that people experience less of an echo chamber in social media is than in real life.
In real life, he said, we often choose our friends according to whether there's a basis of shared opinion. People tend to exclude people whose values and attitudes and beliefs are far from their own.
But on public internet media, your fundamental views can get challenged, and you might find yourself drawn into a discussion with someone very different from you.
Disagree. British lockdown, like the US lockdown, has been marked by a high degree of authoritarianism, it just hasn't been evenly distributed. There are different flavours of authoritarianism. Britain's isn't of the martial law variety. Instead, right wing governments single out marginalised minorities and uses real and symbolic violence against them to shore up the support of a majority. Hence years of bogus asylum seekers, ASBOS, benefit cheats, the Hostile Environment, Windrush, Operation Prevent, Stop and Search etc. etc.
Poor and black communities have been wildly over-policed during lockdown, while the government and the press have wheeled out a succession of scapegoats in an effort to worm out of their responsibility for the cull: working class people snapped with long focal length lenses as they exercise in parks or go to work, hypocritical scientists, teaching unions, BLM protesters, Muslims, asylum seekers in dinghies...
Which is what we're talking about here. Lockdown has been waged as a culture war as much as a public health campaign, because end-stage Thatcherism doesn't have the capacity to govern, let alone win popular support, except by channelling and amplifying the authoritarian instincts of quite a large number of voters, mostly of a certain age.
Yep. Also tend to be married to or the offspring of politicians, or journalists, or journalist-politicians, and hang out almost exclusively with journalists and politicians. It's such a scam.A lot of the people that worry loudly in op-eds about echo chambers in the media are those with access to a mass-media foghorn & are not used to the marginalised people they built their careers kicking getting their shit together & mass disagreeing with on platforms with a different playing field, this is the identical situation with “cancel culture”.
welcome to republican America.
I see only two options - the Voltaire approach and emigration. You can certainly get involved politically but at this point in history I’m afraid the left is swimming against the tide.
Less than Clinton was at this time last time and that went well didn’t it?Isn’t Biden ahead in the polls?
Only during lockdown?Poor and black communities have been wildly over-policed during lockdown,
Not really sure what you’re trying to say here.Only during lockdown?
Perhaps the under-resourced police force should be walking around lower crime middle class areas to reassure the disgusted gammon that everything is under control.
Disagree. British lockdown, like the US lockdown, has been marked by a high degree of authoritarianism, it just hasn't been evenly distributed. There are different flavours of authoritarianism. Britain's isn't of the martial law variety. Instead, right wing governments single out marginalised minorities and uses real and symbolic violence against them to shore up the support of a majority. Hence years of bogus asylum seekers, ASBOS, benefit cheats, the Hostile Environment, Windrush, Operation Prevent, Stop and Search etc. etc.
Poor and black communities have been wildly over-policed during lockdown, while the government and the press have wheeled out a succession of scapegoats in an effort to worm out of their responsibility for the cull: working class people snapped with long focal length lenses as they exercise in parks or go to work, hypocritical scientists, teaching unions, BLM protesters, Muslims, asylum seekers in dinghies...
Which is what we're talking about here. Lockdown has been waged as a culture war as much as a public health campaign, because end-stage Thatcherism doesn't have the capacity to govern, let alone win popular support, except by channelling and amplifying the authoritarian instincts of quite a large number of voters, mostly of a certain age.