Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: #GE2015: Proper Mad, in reply to linger,
#JeSuis “coined” seems an overstatement; it’s basically #IAmSpartacus, innit?
True.
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Hard News: #GE2015: Proper Mad, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Yup and by hashtag #misappropriating an expression of solidarity with the victims and survivors of an act of mass murder, which vile as that Sun front page is is not even close.
How many #JeSuis hashtags have there been since it was coined for Charlie Hebdo? Hundreds?
Do a #JeSuis Twitter search. It’s used all the time in a variety of contexts. And I don’t recall any alarm when it was harnessed to Eleanor Catton’s cause.
I am not feeling your outrage at all, sorry.
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Really interesting report on the Muslim vote from Vice News. Damn I love Vice News.
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Hard News: #GE2015: Proper Mad, in reply to Stella Duffy,
And yet, meanwhile, the bright spark, especially if we do get PR by 2020, is the brand new Women’s Equality Party, that I’m privileged to be at the start of, and answering about 500 emails a day for.
Wow! Go Stella.
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Hard News: #GE2015: Proper Mad, in reply to Stephen Judd,
Is that Sun cover trying to remind people (pork, bacon, Milliband’s face pulling) that Ed is a yid?
You have to wonder.
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Hard News: #GE2015: Proper Mad, in reply to Paul Campbell,
Yep, thanks guys. I managed to lose a half-written post earlier, and got a bit frazzled catching up.
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Hard News: Synthetic cannabis: it just…, in reply to Andre,
Anecdotal evidence would lead me to proffer that the increase in penalties for cultivating marijuana (taking growers’ homes etc) is leading gangs to make P instead because the profits are so much higher. Great work PC Plod.
The purge on Switched On Gardener seems to have been a factor too. It got harder to get growing gear – so, hey, stop growing and do something easier and more profitable. And much more harmful.
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Hard News: Synthetic cannabis: it just…, in reply to jon_knox,
I suspect a similar ideas was used as part of the justification for implementing the Prostitution Reform Act 2003. Though I applaud the maturity of the intent, the problem of shady characters controlling “the game” remains, though at least the possibility exists of legitimate operators
Most sex work now is run by legitimate operators. And while some of them might not be good people, OSH can walk in inspect and require standards are met and the workers have protection and can talk to police.
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Hard News: Synthetic cannabis: it just…, in reply to william blake,
I think taking the commerce out of ganja growing would take the criminality out of it as well.
There would still be a market, just like there is in garden vegetables. But it would certainly help with the criminality part.
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Access: Here's to them, in reply to Sacha,
Supports the theory that our tendency to overload is connected to not being able to filter out extraneous details
I could have told them that :-)
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