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It's hard to imagine anything good coming out of Wigan.
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Trufax.
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Pie barms and nowt else.
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All power comes from the land ...
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/apr/17/who-owns-england-thousand-secret-landowners-author
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All power comes from the land ...
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So, all this money suddenly and immediately pouring out for Notre Dame is definitely not a good look.
The huge donations pledged by France’s wealthiest tycoons – admittedly all tax deductible – proved something of a poisoned chalice for Macron, frequently nicknamed “president of the rich”.
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The government hit back calling Alston’s report “barely believable”.
“The UN’s own data shows the UK is one of the happiest places in the world to live, and other countries have come here to find out more about how we support people to improve their lives,” a spokesperson for the Department for Work and Pensions said.
“Therefore this is a barely believable documentation of Britain, based on a tiny period of time spent here. It paints a completely inaccurate picture of our approach to tackling poverty.”
Obviously, the Government's astute response is the only thing worth quoting here. Never mind that hundreds and hundreds of newspaper reports effectively say the same thing as Alston, that everybody can see the rise in rough sleeping and destitution, it's actually all hunky-dory.
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The report slams the government’s austerity programme, with criticisms of “shocking” rises in the use of food banks and rough sleeping, falling life expectancy for some, the “decimation” of legal aid, the denial of benefits to the severely disabled, falling teachers’ salaries in real terms and the impoverishment of single mothers and people with mental illness. Alston said austerity had “deliberately gutted” local authorities, shrinking library, youth, police and park services to the extent that it was not surprising there were “unheard-of levels of loneliness and isolation”.
This is also worth emphasising using this sort of language - this isn't a left-leaning think tank, this is the UN's rapporteur on extreme poverty.
Also, hate the misuse of the word 'decimation' - what's happening has been way worse than one quid in ten being cut.
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Well, that is one word where I think you have to accept that it can also mean 'severely reduced'. I do like emphasising the literal meaning of words, but sometimes the horse has bolted.
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I do like emphasising the literal meaning of words, but sometimes the horse has bolted.
I reckon you've done a clever here but it's gone over my head.
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I haven't, actually.
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Amber Rudd will have her work cut out complaining about all these terribly uninformed people being so mean about her:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/may/22/universal-credit-hardship-linked-to-prostitution
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Are you sure?
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Yes. If there's anything clever, it was unintentional and therefore not clever.
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A very good article by Gary Younge on the origins of the fashion for far-rightism at the moment:
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And this is an interesting longish read in which someone meets someone who abused him and his religion on Tw*tter:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/may/23/what-happened-when-i-met-my-islamophobic-troll
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No word of a lie, someone should make a video about it.
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Some good interviews in here, and one that's shocking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4uIC0AwD68
I don't think some of John Harris' to-camera bits are that good, and I don't think there's any need for them. The other parts tell the story.