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I have a hole punch, let's not get big-headed now.
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Uh excuse me but where the fuck would this fit in
I just love how the rest of them have perfectly ordinary crosses, and then Wales is like “fuck you let’s put a motherfucking dragon on here”
I think it’d look pretty badass.
reblogging because it got better.
top news in britain today: daleks hold up traffic on westminster bridge and the prime minister stars in 1D music video
i’m not even sure this is a real country anymore tbh
They weren’t kidding.
Martin Parr, Boring Postcards (2000)
Things I do at 2AM .. Paint Great Britain with tea…..
this is possibly the most British thing I have seen in my entire life
guys,
do you ever feel we British have quite odd specific problems
about tea and strangers
like serious disappointments
GENERAL SHAME i have done this more than once
and america they don’t get it why are you so polite are you mocking me
and apologising all the time
I swear I aplogogised to an old lady when she hit me with a handbag??
and saying thank you for everythin omg why whY
we need hELP AS A NATION
HELP
Zawe Ashton-“I want to be part of that wider struggle, of the black U.K. actor struggle. However, I think I should probably be tentative to the fact that someone black might turn around to me and say, “Listen—you’re not black.” At which point I would have to say, “No. You’re right.” I am mixed-race, and we do have those different definitions here. But I am someone who does definitely fly the flag. I mean ask anyone who knows me, in terms of my writing and my work, my acting work. But I fly the flag for the black British actor, and I’m very much happy to be in that camp. But I’m also aware that there will be times when maybe I’m getting more of a break than some of my sisters in this industry.”
The first abortion clinic in Northern Ireland will open next week amid fears it will attract protests along the lines of violent opposition to similar facilities in some US states.
The privately-run clinic in Belfast will be run by the Marie Stopes group, which said it would offer “a wide range of family planning and sexual health services under one roof”.
It is extremely difficult to get an abortion in Northern Ireland, and pro-life groups and smaller political parties have already voiced opposition to the Marie Stopes clinic.
Jim Allister of the Traditional Unionist Voice party told BBC radio: “Where is the need for this clinic? There could not possibly be one.
“So there are ulterior motives and I suspect the ulterior motives might be to try and push the boundaries.”
Just 35 pregnancies were terminated in Northern Ireland in the past year and it is estimated that about one thousand women from the province travel to England every year for abortions.
The clinic will not have a police guard because it is privately-run.
I hope everyone there will be safe.
…and that is that multinational companies and the rules by which they can trade very obviously provide a clear, unfair and wholly unjustifiable competitive advantage to such corporations over smaller, locally owned and nationally based businesses.
This makes no economic sense. First, even the most pro-market person will say that tax should not distort markets. On this occasion I agree with them: there is no reason at all why the UK tax system should favour one company over another in this country when they are in direct competition one with another.
More than that though, if there is to be any such competition it should be the smaller, homegrown business that should very clearly get the support of the tax system. But it isn’t: the exact reverse is happening.
That’s bad for British business, bad for the prospects for growth in this economy, bad for the creation of an atmosphere of tax compliance in the small business community when they can clearly see the tax system picks on them, and bad for communities of the UK that need local initiatives to ensure that they prosper and thrive.
Starbucks avoiding tax has a knock-on effect on homegrown business Guardian Comment is Free.
The entire article is fantastic and worth a read if you have interest in UK business and related taxation system.
Also disappointingly: Google, Apple and Facebook don’t pay tax in the UK. Along with the homegrown likes of: Vodafone, Sir Philip Green (owner/director/etc of: Topshop, Topman, Dorothy Perkins, Burton, Miss Selfridge and British Home Stores), Tesco, Cadbury, Walkers Crisps, Diageo and Boots. Details from UK Uncut.
Bee-tee-dubs, the monetary amounts we’re dealing with are in the tens and hundreds of millions, sometimes billions, which are being retained by these by&by-showing-profit, woe-is-me-we-can’t-afford-tax businesses.
Tell me again how benefits and immigration and public services and the NHS are leaching government resources, Mr Osboure. I triple doggy dare you.
Okay, as the show is coming back onto our television screens very soon, I thought I’d make a post on the new series of QI which begins its J series tomorrow.
Now QI has not been in everyone’s good books. For one thing, it’s constant recycling of the same comedians has meant…
This old thing about not enough women on comedy panel shows. Look, comedy panel shows are not the height of comedy! Women are becoming incredibly successful where it counts; namely, in the clubs, at Edinburgh, on tour. It is not about counting the number of women per episode of QI, or Mock the Week, or WILTY. Would you seriously prefer to see Gina Yashere over David Mitchell, just for the sake of a ‘Tick, one more female comedian on a comedy panel show’?
It’s blind feminism which strives for point scoring positive discrimination, over the real issue of female comedian (comedienne? Or is that a little passe?) representation. Perhaps comedy panel shows are not the environment for many female comedians. Heck, it’s not the environment for Robin Ince, and I personally hold him in very high esteem. It doesn’t make him any less funny or any less of a comedian; it just means that he has to be a little more creative and niche when attracting an audience. Yes panel shows are watched by a lot of people, but frankly the opinions of an awful lot of those aren’t worth worrying about. All comedians should worry more about the people to whom they are appealing rather than how many bums are on seats
But it’s about representation. It’s as much about the audience as it is about the women performing. I hardly watch panel shows anymore but lots and lots of other people do and it’s alienating when every single person on screen is a man.
And I resent the idea that panel shows aren’t the right environment for female comics. Yep, definitely true for some, but ‘female comedy’ isn’t a genre. That’s not a thing.
“Would you seriously prefer to see Gina Yashere over David Mitchell, just for the sake of a ‘Tick, one more female comedian on a comedy panel show’?”
David Mitchell is not just there because he’s good. He’s there because he’s good and he is a man. Gina Yashere is not absent because she’s any less good. She’s not there because she’s a woman. A WOC, at that. So, yes, I would prefer to see her in place of someone like David Mitchell sometimes. I want to see people who make me laugh and white guys aren’t the only people who can do that!
Panel show appearances (and I’m not talking ~one token appearance) can also be a springboard to other things. Let everyone have a go, damnit.
Britain’s first black community in Elizabethan London
Most of us tend to think that black people came to Britain after the war - Caribbeans on the Empire Windrush in 1948, Bangladeshis after the 1971 war and Ugandan Asians after Idi Amin’s expulsion in 1972.
But, back in Shakespeare’s day, you could have met people from west Africa and even Bengal in the same London streets.
Of course, there were fewer, and they drew antipathy as well as fascination from the Tudor inhabitants, who had never seen black people before. But we know they lived, worked and intermarried, so it is fair to say that Britain’s first black community starts here.
There had been black people in Britain in Roman times, and they are found as musicians in the early Tudor period in England and Scotland.
So, tell me again that it’s not historically accurate to include POC in media set in Europe before slavery. Go on, reality & I will be here mocking you.
And the first Black community in England (reminder to Americans that England isn’t only London) was 1700 years earlier.
paging Mr. Gaider
The idea that there weren’t any people of colour living and working in Old Europe is hilarious
