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7 hours ago, MixuFixit said:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/german-chancellor-angela-merkel-suffers-third-shaking-bout-in-less-than-a-month-11760276

Angela Merkel shaking again. I feel bad for her if it's Parkinson's or whatever, seems silly to pretend there's nothing wrong though even if it's not as serious.

She’s effectively a Tory.  Why feel bad for her?

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This is something which *should* bring down both parties but ofc it won't. I think the most depressing thing about Pizzagate/ Q-Anon is it's clearly on some level real but there's major cognitive dissonance in who the advocates for both believe to be complicit.

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Unite to investigate claims of collusion with construction blacklist

Looks like some Trade Union officials colluded it’s construction industry bosses in blacklisting workers.  If so they should be sacked and subject to civil prosecution.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/14/unite-to-investigate-claims-of-collusion-with-construction-blacklist

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On 10/07/2019 at 15:48, Detournement said:

I think that figure is the key.

Scotland isn't Norway. There are a lot more social problems and persistent offenders here. That isn't going to be solved by prison policy alone. Education, housing and employment are huge factors.

Perhaps so.   However,  it seems to be like the Dark Ages in prisons here.

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15 hours ago, Granny Danger said:

Unite to investigate claims of collusion with construction blacklist

Looks like some Trade Union officials colluded it’s construction industry bosses in blacklisting workers.  If so they should be sacked and subject to civil prosecution.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/14/unite-to-investigate-claims-of-collusion-with-construction-blacklist

It's hardly a surprise that some trade union activists and officials collude with bosses for their own gain.

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This is a long read but very illuminating and worrying.

Large numbers of Millenials heading for pensioner poverty because they cannot get on the property ladder.

It also highlights the inherent inadequacies of electing governments that have a five year life span but which need to address longer term issues.

Even if a future government chose to address this their work could be quickly undone by a subsequent government.  A real dilemma.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/17/renting-millennials-homelessness-crisis-retire

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To be fair the Faroese are a bunch of whale hacking dicks, maybe she just says that to them about everything.

She was happy to go to Iceland and Greenland and I assume she’s been to Japan too.

Also, whale meat is delicious.
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