Philippos Schleswig-Holstein Sonderburg-Glucksburg
No comment: A story about Prince Philip, who died today at 99. The weekend of the Kennedy assassination, he flew to Washington for the funeral. At the White House on Sunday, Nov. 24, 1963, Jacqueline Kennedy was looking for John Jr. and opened the door to his playroom. There she found (more) — West Wing Reports (edited by Paul Brandus)…
You’re Right, George Monbiot Is Horrendously Confused
To be in favour of more care for the environment is just fine. It’s even defensible – even if misanthropic – to prefer the environment to human beings. It’s just a value judgement and as with fundaments we’ve all got one of those. Where George Monbiot goes wrong is in not understanding the details of what…
The Amazon Union
From our Swindon Correspondent: From the BBC Amazon has defeated activists hoping to establish the company’s first unionised warehouse in the US. Workers at the Bessemer, Alabama warehouse voted 1,798 to 738 against the effort, labour officials said. That represented a majority of votes cast in the contest, which was seen as a key…
Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Nowedontsaythatwordanymores
The joys of second hand bookshops and charity shops. A couple of days back I picked up a copy of Agatha Christie’s “Ten Little Nowedontsaythatwordanymores” just because the full title would cause shrieks of horror in the modern. Does cause shrieks of horror in fact. So, not having read it I wondered whether it was like…
Dear God How Can Anyone Be This Stupid About Race?
A young lady complaining about changing standards of beauty. She entirely and wholly missing the point: Everything about me – specifically my racialised features as a Black mixed woman – felt “too much”. I remember the distinct feeling of wanting to shrink myself, melt myself down into something neater, smaller, sleeker – which is how I saw…
The Awful Fate Of The Disappearing Middle Aged Woman
It is possible to take the same facts in use here and come to an entirely different conclusion: This may be bound up with hormonal changes, but is certainly connected with another shift, as one woman told me: “You get to your 50s, the male gaze is no longer turned on you and you realise how awful it was to live under it, how liberating to…
Sexism Certainly Exists. But…
From our Swindon Correspondent: From the Toronto Star The most recent 2020 survey by Wikimedia — the site’s parent organization — found that 87 per cent of its editors are men. The survey did not ask about race, but almost half live in Europe and one fifth in North America. Sarah Severson, a librarian at the University of Alberta and a…
Reasons Not To Use PayPal 1)
I was wary about getting involved with PayPal to start as i’ve heard about them terminating accounts, but… Over the weekend PayPal informed us that they would no longer be willing to process payments for us due to “inappropriate content”. What this actually means is “we dont believe in your political…
Fighting Climate Change Really Does Mean We’ve All Got To Shiver In The Dark
Here we have it, straight from the horse’s mouth: Radiators would have to run 10 degrees cooler under changes to homes needed for Britain to hit net zero, the public has been warned. The Government has said it wants 600,000 heat pumps replacing gas boilers every year by 2028 to help decarbonise the country’s home heating, which…
OpenDemocracy And Transgenderism
From an email from OpenDemocracy: “Trans people have always existed, everywhere,” writes Arya Karijo. “We were mudoko dako for the Lango in Uganda, yan daudu for the Hausa in Nigeria. We were priestesses and priests for the Bunyoro in Uganda, a third gender for the Teso in Kenya. “We were eunuchs with powerful court positions in the Dahomey…
Fun Little Details Of The Gupta Metals Offerings
That Gupta was attempting to do a Mittal is obvious – plug together the scrag and dog ends of the global metals business and see if a new conglomerate can be assembled. Why not, it did, after all, work for Mittal. It’s possible to wonder a little at this though as Mittal was doing this while prices were depressed by that…
Yes, You’re Right, The Home Office Is Mad
This not being a surprise, that the Home Office is either mad or woefully ignorant. The only interesting question is which particular subject they’re displaying their mental inability over. Here’s it’s on the idea of end to end encryption: Ministers are considering forcing Facebook to implement a backdoor to allow security…