Posts by alanferrier@mastodon.scot
(DIR) Post #AitcoMLoecNEsdbxAW by alanferrier@mastodon.scot
2024-06-13T15:15:15Z
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(DIR) Post #AixRNDLPi5wEGU7Gls by alanferrier@mastodon.scot
2024-06-15T15:53:09Z
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In 2015 someone took the audio from the BBC’s coverage of a parade in North Korea and dubbed it over footage of Trooping the Colour at the royal birthday parade outside Buckingham Palace.
(DIR) Post #Aj1B7w4LyWgm1zNxCq by alanferrier@mastodon.scot
2024-06-17T11:24:50Z
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It's bleakly amusing that Farage's Reform UK party is usually abbreviated as "REFUK"."REFUK - when fucking the country once isn't enough."
(DIR) Post #AjkPzqdsHortNSWqP2 by alanferrier@mastodon.scot
2024-07-09T07:23:23Z
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It's an interesting thought that if France had the same voting system as the UK, Marine Le Pen would now be in power.I wonder if a case could be made for a two-round election to the Scottish Parliament. Constituencies one week and once those results are known, list votes the next week.Thoughts?
(DIR) Post #AjnoXIjppLquRjgHdg by alanferrier@mastodon.scot
2024-07-10T19:38:09Z
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“No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.”—Aneurin Bevan, 1952 “You're there to make money.”—Wes Streeting, 2024https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/07/09/wes-streeting-nhs-treasury-three-million-sick-leave-growth/
(DIR) Post #AkBHQlyJ6a7p1M0zdQ by alanferrier@mastodon.scot
2024-07-21T20:46:41Z
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Labour has ordered the Home Office to begin mass deportations of undocumented migrants.Writing in The Sun, Yvette Cooper says she has told the Home Office to raid car washes, nail bars and salons. 1,000 staff will be deployed to fast-track deportations."Change," eh?
(DIR) Post #AkEorOJ15BJNP0sj7g by alanferrier@mastodon.scot
2024-07-23T22:34:37Z
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During the election campaign Anas Sarwar described as "nonsense" a suggestion that Scottish Labour MPs would do exactly what Keir Starmer told them to, irrespective of what Scottish Labour members wanted. Tonight all 37 Scottish Labour MPs did what Starmer told them to do.
(DIR) Post #AkFxRMnh9LVPwzrBD6 by alanferrier@mastodon.scot
2024-07-24T11:14:27Z
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The "United" Kingdom, 2024
(DIR) Post #AtttpPbWuDuH4vdPpg by alanferrier@mastodon.scot
2025-05-08T08:55:00Z
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"'Austerity' is the idea that the worldwide financial crash of 2008 was caused by Wolverhampton having too many libraries."—Alexei Sayle
(DIR) Post #Au3i7oyK4XvB68uIIS by alanferrier@mastodon.scot
2025-05-13T08:14:40Z
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In Scotland, we used to call Labour "Red Tories."Yesterday, they became "Red Reform."
(DIR) Post #AuhXE1LEGyWMlDQ2Hw by alanferrier@mastodon.scot
2025-06-01T17:29:43Z
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I do find it rather amusing that Lawrence Fox went batshit when Dr. Who became a woman, then he went batshitter when Dr. Who became a black guy, so they've made the new Dr. Who Lawrence Fox's ex-wife.
(DIR) Post #AvKp9ntT6HiI3Oja52 by alanferrier@mastodon.scot
2025-06-20T20:25:33Z
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Protesting against war is terrorism.Supporting a genocidal state is defence.War is peace.Freedom is slavery.Ignorance is strength.
(DIR) Post #AvOkdzy53Aph3DJGds by alanferrier@mastodon.scot
2025-06-22T18:49:03Z
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Well played.
(DIR) Post #AwGbSqnUnYvHRj5YUi by alanferrier@mastodon.scot
2025-07-18T17:11:39Z
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Opposing genocide is not a crime.
(DIR) Post #Ax8LnyXwGk6opYWAls by alanferrier@mastodon.scot
2025-08-13T11:47:57Z
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Orwell's "1984" was not intended as an instruction manual.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4wy21dwkwo
(DIR) Post #Ax9jEv8bXgugBJRfeq by alanferrier@mastodon.scot
2025-08-14T08:20:48Z
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Another Category A event - the most serious and the second in the space of two years - which carries an "actual or high potential for radioactive release to the environment," at Faslane.I'm sure @BBCScotlandNews and @jackiebmsp will be all over this.https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25388110.serious-nuclear-incident-took-place-faslane-naval-base/
(DIR) Post #AxC76zIGzdrdyDdbCi by alanferrier@mastodon.scot
2025-08-15T09:59:50Z
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Letter in today's Times:
(DIR) Post #AxhUuUOCUS9ZRmk0VE by alanferrier@mastodon.scot
2025-08-30T09:39:38Z
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Under Stalin, repression was so severe that the Soviet Gulags held one sixth of the entire world's prison population.Just kidding - that's the United States, today.
(DIR) Post #B1kT0pjvydWgAXkTuS by alanferrier@mastodon.scot
2025-12-29T17:05:08Z
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When your Chicken Tikka Masala tastes a bit municipal swimming pool, you'll know it's the taste of #Brexit freedom.
(DIR) Post #B3ApNYJSLkTjmxUJkG by alanferrier@mastodon.scot
2026-02-09T18:28:38Z
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Sarwar says there have been too many mistakes and poor judgement from No. 10 Downing Street.Well, he should know.