General chat • Please go to the new forum now: click on Big Ben!
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by Forum admin
4y ago
Please go to the new forum now: https://pol-tics.com/index.php will take you there. Please do not post here any more unless you have difficulties. Click on Big Ben top left to go to the new forum. Statistics: Posted by Forum admin — 11 Jun 2020 20:47 — Replies 14 — Views 262 ..read more
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United Kingdom Politics • BAME MPs accuse Priti Patel of gaslighting in racism debate
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by Dynamis
4y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ism-debate I never thought I'd see the day where a home sec uses her own experience of racism to deny racism exists in this country. We really have woken up in a Picasso painting. Statistics: Posted by Dynamis — 11 Jun 2020 18:34 — Replies 0 — Views 12 ..read more
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Introduce Yourself • Grumpy
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by Grumpy
4y ago
Grumpy's the name, Grumpy's the game, you can call me Grumpy Statistics: Posted by Grumpy — 11 Jun 2020 14:50 — Replies 0 — Views 13 ..read more
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Covid-19 • The economics of the lockdown
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by Borchester
4y ago
I know that other posters have mentioned this before but it still amazes me. I am a cheap sod and live off a couple of pensions that barely total 14,000 pounds. Most everything has been paid off so this has never been a problem and I rarely have to dip into my savings. But since the lockdown started my savings have actually increased. I can't eat out or even go into a coffee shop. The museums, pubs and cinemas are all shut. I don't even have to put anything on the collection plate because the churches have closed. Overall, it is very hard to spend money. So its looks as though this flu has ..read more
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United Kingdom Politics • Britain’s economy set for biggest blow from Covid-19, warns OECD
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by Dynamis
4y ago
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/busin ... ecd/10/06/ The UK economy is set to be the hardest hit among the world’s developed countries due to the coronavirus pandemic, a major international organisation has warned. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said Britain’s economy was likely to slump by 11.5% in 2020 – but could contract by 14% if there is a second wave of Covid-19 later this year. Its latest global economic outlook shows the UK’s plunge in gross domestic product (GDP) outstripping even that of other badly impacted European countries, in a “single-hi ..read more
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United Kingdom Politics • Dom C to 'revolutionize' the yookay's 'knowledge economy'
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by Dynamis
4y ago
Cummings wants to replicate ARPA in the UK. He already has an agenda on what it will do and how it will be run. EXCLUSIVE WHITEHALL ANALYTICA – THE AI SUPERSTATE: Part 2 – Is COVID-19 Fast-Tracking a Eugenics-Inspired Genomics Programme in the NHS? Nafeez Ahmed In 2018, he wrote a 47-page document concluding that a British ARPA would cover research into “machine learning, robotics, energy, neuroscience, genetics, cognitive technologies… and, crucially, funding what now seem ‘crazy’ ideas just as the internet and quantum computers seemed ‘crazy’ before they became mainstream”. Cummings adde ..read more
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Political correctness • Oh Noez..JK Rowling annoys the LGBBQSTDXVI Brigades
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by Dynamis
4y ago
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has spoken out over author JK Rowling's comments about transgender people and said he hopes her remarks have not "tarnished or diminished" fans' experience of her beloved books. Actor Radcliffe, who became a worldwide star after playing schoolboy wizard Harry in the blockbuster adaptations of the novels, was responding to a series of tweets Rowling posted over the weekend after which critics accused her of being transphobic. She took issue with the phrasing of a headline for an opinion article about healthcare equality, titled Opinion: Creating a more equa ..read more
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Scotland-Wales-Northern Ireland • Minimum Alcohol Pricing Bites
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by johnofgwent
4y ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-52984817 what the alcohol nazis who wrote this FAIL to consider is whether there is now a rise in home brewing .... Statistics: Posted by johnofgwent — 10 Jun 2020 07:48 — Replies 5 — Views 30 ..read more
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Rest of the World • United States Presidential election - 2020
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by Barry
4y ago
On 3rd November America have their election. Currently Biden has 50 and Trump has 43 in the polls. But who will win? Statistics: Posted by Barry — 09 Jun 2020 21:35 — Replies 4 — Views 24 ..read more
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General chat • PG and Yorkshire Tea tell Black Lives Matter critics 'don't buy our tea'
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by Borchester
4y ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52978990 Statistics: Posted by Borchester — 09 Jun 2020 18:20 — Replies 3 — Views 58 ..read more
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