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There’s a queue for the lift. If I’ve got corona and I get into a lift and cough without a mask shedding some virus, will it be gone by the time the next person gets into the lift?

Lifts and toilets are the hardest things to work around with the whole "return to the office" stuff.


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Starmer really good at PMQs again, Johnson getting visibly rattled and annoyed, and indeed quite shouty and bangy.

Actually worth watching again after years of Corbyn clearly preferring to be at home making jam.

One term government? Very much possible IMO.


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It's both hilarious and worrying how out of his depth he appears on this occasions. His standard tricks of just repeating empty phrases or just waffling are completely exposed. When I heard of the Telegraph headline this morning, I knew dam well what the first question would be, and yet he seemed taken aback by it. That was just the first one - his anger as time went on was not due to point of principle, but of someone realising they're struggling.


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You can see why they try not to let him out very often.

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You can see why they try not to let him out very often.

https://twitter.com/jerryhayes1/status/ ... 3960483840




They have so few they can trust, don't they? Johnson - oh, hated at least as much as he is admired. Lock him up! Rees Mogg, you want to take... oh for crying... Right, Priti, say something about the death penalty to get those fuckers on our side. No! Don't try anything else, back in your box.

And Jerry Hayes is not exactly a soft Tory.


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I'm still not sure what to make of the last-minute cameo by Theresa May right at the end. It didn't seem like a friendly question, nor one that Johnson had any answer to.


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Nice to see that Trump has finally confirmed he was just winding people up and not really trying to be elected.


At least the slide into facism will be slightly comical and inept, rather than oppressively terrible.


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We should remove Liverpool and Bristol because of the slavery connections.


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If that statue wasn't there today, absolutely not a single one of us would be having a conversation about Cecil Rhodes and why imperialist attitudes to other nations was a bad thing. It's always better to have the conversation.


It's good the conversation is being had again, I think. I am quite surprised that the statue in Bristol was chucked into the river.

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Yes, time for him to take a long swim in the Cherwell.

I've changed my mind on all of this over the years. Who or what we choose to commeroate in our towns and the values we wish to communicate is for us the living to decide.This is particularly true when it's a pretty clear cut case.

No real hard and fast rules - people can be total shits but some saving throw that outweighs the rest. In London, for example, Churchill should probably stay but I think Cromwell now needs to be reunited with his head under a Cambridge college chapel.


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This is good background information:

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I saw that demonstrators had renamed streets in Glasgow that are named after slavers or people who made their fortune off the slave trade. There's been a discussion for a long time in Liverpool about renaming some of the city streets for the same reason.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-m ... e-51064508

The main opposition to this movement is the fact that one of those slave streets is... Penny Lane.


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I didn't know that but there could be more call for Penny Lane to be named as such because of the Beatles. I don't know, rewriting history maybe?


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I feel that the statue being put there is an important piece of history. I feel that the statue being pulled down and thrown in the river is an important piece of history.

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I think there should be a statue put in its place of protesters pulling down the statue. Meta the fuck out of it.

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I think there should be a statue put in its place of protesters pulling down the statue. Meta the fuck out of it.

That way you can incorporate the original statue into the design!

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I saw that demonstrators had renamed streets in Glasgow that are named after slavers or people who made their fortune off the slave trade. There's been a discussion for a long time in Liverpool about renaming some of the city streets for the same reason.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-m ... e-51064508

The main opposition to this movement is the fact that one of those slave streets is... Penny Lane.


When the origin of the names has been lost to history I think that’s far less of a priority than other things. Like statues which should have been moved to a museum where a proper explanation of their life and historical context could be provided.


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I saw that demonstrators had renamed streets in Glasgow that are named after slavers or people who made their fortune off the slave trade. There's been a discussion for a long time in Liverpool about renaming some of the city streets for the same reason.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-m ... e-51064508

The main opposition to this movement is the fact that one of those slave streets is... Penny Lane.


When the origin of the names has been lost to history I think that’s far less of a priority than other things. Like statues which should have been moved to a museum where a proper explanation of their life and historical context could be provided.

Yeah, so they could fish that statue out of the harbour, stick it back on its plinth, but put a plaque underneath it with the legend, "This bastard made a fortune out of slavery and then willed a lot of his evilly gotten gains to this city when he snuffed it. Let this be a warning to you."

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I saw that demonstrators had renamed streets in Glasgow that are named after slavers or people who made their fortune off the slave trade. There's been a discussion for a long time in Liverpool about renaming some of the city streets for the same reason.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-m ... e-51064508

The main opposition to this movement is the fact that one of those slave streets is... Penny Lane.


When the origin of the names has been lost to history I think that’s far less of a priority than other things. Like statues which should have been moved to a museum where a proper explanation of their life and historical context could be provided.

Yeah, so they could fish that statue out of the harbour, stick it back on its plinth, but put a plaque underneath it with the legend, "This bastard made a fortune out of slavery and then willed a lot of his evilly gotten gains to this city when he snuffed it. Let this be a warning to you."

Or such like.


They tried to do something similar for years, but nobody could agree on the wording of the plaque.


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Is the statue of John Bunyan in Bedford going to be torn down? I've no idea if he's a cunt or not.

It's a long walk down the High Street before you get to the river, though.

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Is the statue of John Bunyan in Bedford going to be torn down? I've no idea if he's a cunt or not.

It's a long walk down the High Street before you get to the river, though.


It was a fair distance from where it was stood in Bristol to the waterfront where they dunked it.
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Is the statue of John Bunyan in Bedford going to be torn down? I've no idea if he's a cunt or not.

It's a long walk down the High Street before you get to the river, though.


It was a fair distance from where it was stood in Bristol to the waterfront where they dunked it.
I’m sure they went twice as far as needed.

Yes, it was deliberate. The bridge they took the statue to was named after an enslaved black man.

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Can anyone explain to me what the current brouhaha involving JK Rowling is all about? I read her missive and it seems supportive but wary (decisions need to be taken cautiously and slowly, not just broad brush everything and crack on), which doesn't seem at all unreasonable.

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Can anyone explain to me what the current brouhaha involving JK Rowling is all about? I read her missive and it seems supportive but wary (decisions need to be taken cautiously and slowly, not just broad brush everything and crack on), which doesn't seem at all unreasonable.

She’s got a history of supporting blatant transphobes. Here’s an example: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/20/uk/j ... index.html

You should see the state of her retweets.

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Can anyone explain to me what the current brouhaha involving JK Rowling is all about? I read her missive and it seems supportive but wary (decisions need to be taken cautiously and slowly, not just broad brush everything and crack on), which doesn't seem at all unreasonable.

She’s got a history of supporting blatant transphobes. Here’s an example: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/20/uk/j ... index.html

You should see the state of her retweets.


Oddly, she and Stuart Campbell share a lot of transphobic views, yet they hate each other and are constantly fighting.

It’s a... TERF WAR.

I’ve been waiting for a natural set-up for that for about a year, but decided it was never going to happen.

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Can anyone explain to me what the current brouhaha involving JK Rowling is all about? I read her missive and it seems supportive but wary (decisions need to be taken cautiously and slowly, not just broad brush everything and crack on), which doesn't seem at all unreasonable.

This is a good response too

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Oh goodness sake, she said it too? I take it back. It was a rubbish joke and I have wasted a year.

I actually can’t see half of that thread. A lot of the tweets are coming up as missing.

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The statue debate (and latest battle in the ever-tedious culture war) relates to Baden-Powell. Most papers carry a ice photo-op for one of the minor organisations today. For those wanting to evaluate Baden-Powell's life and attitudes, Tim Jeal's 1989 doorstop of a biography remains the leading text although I got rid of my copy during a general clearout a while back. I've always found him a very enigmatic subject who just when you think you can nail something on you'll find contradictory evidence a bit later.

I'd probably divide his life in to his military career and Scouting career. The former contains most of the uncomfortable stuff, but that's part and parcel of 19th Century British colonialism. The later part of his life I think outweighs the general stuff. True, there is some deeply distrubing stuff in his work (as ever "Rovering to Success" takes the dodginess of "Scouting for Boys" to the next level) but I think he was naive about Hitler and fascism rather than all for it, and whilst clearly an imperialist there does seem to be an understanding of the need for education for all young men.

As for accusations of homophobia, I think he was so deep in the closet he was practicallly in Narnia and was never able to rationalise it all.

Some cases are clear-cut (Confederates; slavers), others less so. This falls into the latter category. But works not deeds and I don't think the loss of a statue would be erasing his memory.


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A local equivalent - there's a pub called The Black's Head which has had its sign removed. I'd never heard of the place before, but considering the name and the sign, I figured there couldn't be too much fuss over it being removed. Turns out I was wrong - every comment I read about it was the same 'political correctness gone mad'.

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A local equivalent - there's a pub called The Black's Head which has had its sign removed. I'd never heard of the place before, but considering the name and the sign, I figured there couldn't be too much fuss over it being removed. Turns out I was wrong - every comment I read about it was the same 'political correctness gone mad'.


Ashbourne is a weird place. Used to drive through it loads, on the way to Buxton, but never once saw anyone there smile .

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I always find a real unease around the Black Country flag, which you see a lot around here, and even more around Dudley, Wolverhampton, etc. It features, at centre, linked chains, which were one of the area’s biggest trade outputs, and they were forged in huge numbers for use in the slave trade.

With the statues and those people arguing that these symbols should be kept as they are historic and part of an area’s legacy, and were made in an different time, well this flag was designed and adopted in 2012.

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I always find a real unease around the Black Country flag, which you see a lot around here, and even more around Dudley, Wolverhampton, etc. It features, at centre, linked chains, which were one of the area’s biggest trade outputs, and they were forged in huge numbers for use in the slave trade.

With the statues and those people arguing that these symbols should be kept as they are historic and part of an area’s legacy, and were made in an different time, well this flag was designed and adopted in 2012.

I didn't realise that, I had assumed the chains were for things like boats? Guess I need to read more too.

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I always find a real unease around the Black Country flag, which you see a lot around here, and even more around Dudley, Wolverhampton, etc. It features, at centre, linked chains, which were one of the area’s biggest trade outputs, and they were forged in huge numbers for use in the slave trade.

With the statues and those people arguing that these symbols should be kept as they are historic and part of an area’s legacy, and were made in an different time, well this flag was designed and adopted in 2012.

I didn't realise that, I had assumed the chains were for things like boats? Guess I need to read more too.


Oh, they had a multitude of uses, as they do today, but the sales to slavers were a big part of it.

If you show somebody an image of a chain, though, and ask them what it brings to mind, I think a lot of people would say incarceration of one kind or another, and it just looks ‘uncomfortable’ at best. In fact, the entire imagery is rather aggressive.

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Mimi wrote:
I always find a real unease around the Black Country flag, which you see a lot around here, and even more around Dudley, Wolverhampton, etc. It features, at centre, linked chains, which were one of the area’s biggest trade outputs, and they were forged in huge numbers for use in the slave trade.

With the statues and those people arguing that these symbols should be kept as they are historic and part of an area’s legacy, and were made in an different time, well this flag was designed and adopted in 2012.


I find the Black Country flag annoying as it seems to go hand in hand with being proud of talking unintelligible gibberish, and going on about how great a place it is despite evidence to the contrary.

The slavery aspect is an interesting one. I haven’t researched it, but I expect that they would have been responsible for production of a high percentage of chains used for slavery though that was only a tiny percentage of the regions total industry.

Definitely something that could be highlighted to make more people aware, and also that working conditions for those in the factories were pretty dire too, though clearly not slavery.


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I don’t think that picking black, white and red for a new flag was a particularly good choice, either, given the other flag that was famously made up of the same three.

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Parents of £3k a term school ask government to help it stay open, as "many may go to already oversubscribed mainstream schools, with huge class numbers - this is not acceptable."

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Tbf if I’d had to go to mainstream school I wouldn’t have survived. I was very lucky my parents had the means to pay for my education (well, they got themselves up to the eyeballs in debt, but still).

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How do you mean, you wouldn't have survived? I know you don't mean you'd have died, but what? There's nice kids and horrible kids and good teachers and shit teachers everywhere.


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Parents of £3k a term school ask government to help it stay open, as "many may go to already oversubscribed mainstream schools, with huge class numbers - this is not acceptable."

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 15:04 
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markg wrote:
How do you mean, you wouldn't have survived? I know you don't mean you'd have died, but what? There's nice kids and horrible kids and good teachers and shit teachers everywhere.

I needed a lot of support. I wouldn’t have got that in a class size of 30.

Of course we should put more money into the state school system so they are as good as fee-paying schools, but I thought I’d just share my experience.

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