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May 7, 2020 No Comments

“Will some people be affected badly? Yes,” Trump said on Tuesday. “But we have to get our country open, and we have to get it open soon.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/06/trump-economy-reopen-us-experts-warning Trump spelled out a potentially brutal approach to kickstarting the world’s biggest economy. “We have to be warriors,” Trump told Fox News when asked if Americans should […]

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Internets Oh Lol Trumperica You Couldn't Make It Up

“Mod Drama” in the Alt-Right

February 7, 2017 No Comments

This is a fascinating and delightful article by Katie Notopoulos, with its detail on classic Mod Dramas: Things have gotten bumpy for the alt-right online movement since the election. It’s facing an identity crisis (what does it mean to be the “alt” if you’re getting what you want?) and grappling with certain fundamental questions like […]

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Cycling You Couldn't Make It Up

You’ll have to crash louder

January 30, 2017 No Comments

Folk who advocate banning cycling with headphones always think it's ludicrous to equate it with banning car stereos.https://t.co/YhtsbkTFRR pic.twitter.com/HM2RArlWqB — Bez (@beztweets) January 29, 2017 Didn’t realise people drove with their ears.

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Politics UK You Couldn't Make It Up

Brexit: The end of the beginning

October 5, 2016 No Comments

It’s now obvious Britain is leaving the single market. Of course, Theresa May spent much of her speech to the Tory party conference today insisting there was no such thing as a hard or soft Brexit. But there is. Continued membership of the single market is a soft Brexit and leaving the single market is […]

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Europe Politics UK You Couldn't Make It Up

Brexit, Day 2

June 26, 2016 No Comments

A summary of events: UK politics update:Government: PM resigns, but not quite yet. Opposition: Tearing itself apartScotland: Leaving https://t.co/I741HiBLvC — Lorcan Roche Kelly (@LorcanRK) June 26, 2016 Quite.

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Europe Jesus Wept UK You Couldn't Make It Up

Farage post Brexit: Nothing to do with me, Guv

June 25, 2016 No Comments

“I would never have made that claim…” Watch Farage move sideways fast here: WATCH: @Nigel_Farage tells @susannareid100 it was a ‘mistake’ for Leave to claim there’d be £350M a week for NHShttps://t.co/JNkl5k8IlK — Good Morning Britain (@GMB) June 24, 2016 Breathtaking.

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Europe Sport You Couldn't Make It Up

Ordinary decent men

December 31, 2015 No Comments

A tale of finance, power and bribery in the Times today. Against a background of major clubs paying non-triers up to a million a month, endless hoopla and hype around the aptly-titled transfer market, phoney melodrama on the managerial merry-go-round, venerable clubs used as money-laundering operations by oligarchs bearing stolen billions, and much else along […]

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Society UK You Couldn't Make It Up

“Each of us has just one chance at existence”

November 13, 2015 No Comments

Ruth Hardy points out the huge disparity between the content of David Cameron’s drive for permanent austerity in the UK, and the rather more lavish surroundings he made the speech from. State events always have, and perhaps require, a certain pomp and ceremony about them, but to stand there at a “golden lectern” pronouncing on […]

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Cities for People Transport You Couldn't Make It Up

“City Bus Drivers Protest Vision Zero Law By Driving More Carefully”

June 18, 2015 No Comments

No, it’s not the Onion or Waterford Whispers, or even the Donegal Dollop, yes, these NYC bus drivers are protesting that they are not being allowed to squish pedestrians (and, we can presume, other vulnerable road users) with impunity if they simply don’t see them, and they are protesting by being extra careful. Apparently, this […]

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“Mod Drama” in the Alt-Right

You’ll have to crash louder

Brexit: The end of the beginning

Brexit, Day 2

Farage post Brexit: Nothing to do with me, Guv

Ordinary decent men

“Each of us has just one chance at existence”

“City Bus Drivers Protest Vision Zero Law By Driving More Carefully”

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