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Puzzling about UKIP

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Having recently been on my regular holiday to the lovely town of Whitby where I spent an awful lot of time in a pub, danced like an idiot and then got lightly singed (in short had a damn fine time) I’ve been way behind on the news and this whole local election malarkey. However I’ve now sort of caught up on all my news feeds and blogs and that sort of thing, and thus I’ve been reading an awful lot about those UKIP chappies. One interesting thing about catching up on about two weeks worth of news at once is … Continue reading →

Blog off

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Following a rather dubious bit of political chicanery in the early hours, but not in a smoke filled room, our glorious leaders along with friends of Mr Huge Grunt have cooked up a typical mess of a piece of legislation to regulate “the press”. Of course this ignores that everything the press supposedly need to be regulated for was already illegal, and the editors and such could probably have been done on conspiracy charges, nope new legislation was needed #hackedoff insisted on it, and they got it and it went far beyond what Levesson proposed. It’s voluntary except if you … Continue reading →

Purile amusement

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Not got anything terribly insightful or clever on this one (so no change there) but the juxtaposition of these two links on the book of face to day amused me terribly. Via a feminist connection we have: A campaign against page 3 – or more specifically naked breasts in the Sun. I do think the Sun is missing a trick by not just renumbering their pages so that they go 1,2,4 and thus satisfy all those campaigns against page 3 but that’s just my surrealist side talking. However the other link that was posted in close proximity was… The Sun … Continue reading →