Mill Glen Industries
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It’s interesting and ultimately useful that the sensibles are still obsessed with Corbyn/YP while so many ordinary folks have simply moved on. Wasting and misdirecting their energy, possibly in the belief that they’re still dealing blows to the ‘left’.
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
It’s interesting and ultimately useful that the sensibles are still obsessed with Corbyn/YP while so many ordinary folks have simply moved on. Wasting and misdirecting their energy, possibly in the belief that they’re still dealing blows to the ‘left’.
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It’s important to understand that all of these people knew very well special forces were committing horrifying war crimes in Afghanistan and the most important people among them continued to sign the orders authorising new operations. The law will not save us, here. Political will might.
November 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
It’s important to understand that all of these people knew very well special forces were committing horrifying war crimes in Afghanistan and the most important people among them continued to sign the orders authorising new operations. The law will not save us, here. Political will might.
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artists and designers using ai like
November 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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I think there's something to be written (possibly prematurely at this stage?) about how history might see Corbyn's Labour as an essential but ultimately false dawn for the left. Essential in that it mobilised lots of people, flushed out the roaring cranks in the UK media and in the end set up....
November 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I think there's something to be written (possibly prematurely at this stage?) about how history might see Corbyn's Labour as an essential but ultimately false dawn for the left. Essential in that it mobilised lots of people, flushed out the roaring cranks in the UK media and in the end set up....
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Finally the research has been published to prove that wild cat (Felis silvestris) lived in Ireland 5,500 years ago. Many claims over the years but the backup genetics was needed and a good number of bones have been recovered to provide enough material www.rte.ie/news/munster...
Wildcat bones found in Co Clare dated to 5,500 years ago
The first directly dated wildcat bones found in Ireland have been identified, confirming that the species inhabited the island more than 5,500 years ago.
www.rte.ie
November 28, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Finally the research has been published to prove that wild cat (Felis silvestris) lived in Ireland 5,500 years ago. Many claims over the years but the backup genetics was needed and a good number of bones have been recovered to provide enough material www.rte.ie/news/munster...
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These lads are going to get in trouble for making all of their journo colleagues look like gormless fucking idiots, quite frankly
November 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
These lads are going to get in trouble for making all of their journo colleagues look like gormless fucking idiots, quite frankly
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JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
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The central delusion of Thatcherism is the idea politicians can destroy the postwar settlement and replace it with nothing, which in practice turns out to always be panicking governments shoring up the systems they vandalised fuck out of, using sticky tape and wood glue.
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The central delusion of Thatcherism is the idea politicians can destroy the postwar settlement and replace it with nothing, which in practice turns out to always be panicking governments shoring up the systems they vandalised fuck out of, using sticky tape and wood glue.
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Not that anything matters anymore but just on a personal level that mid 2010s period where these people got to feel like staunch antiracists by opposing the only viable left wing alternative to the shitshow we’re facing now was some of the most galling stuff I’ve ever lived through
November 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Not that anything matters anymore but just on a personal level that mid 2010s period where these people got to feel like staunch antiracists by opposing the only viable left wing alternative to the shitshow we’re facing now was some of the most galling stuff I’ve ever lived through
Withnail and I
The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski
6. What film do you think you could quote 50% of the dialogue while watching?
November 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Withnail and I
The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski
Manic Street Preachers
Snow Patrol
Hothouse Flowers
Stars of The Lid
The Necks
Snow Patrol
Hothouse Flowers
Stars of The Lid
The Necks
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Adele
The Electric Light Orchestra Part II
Stevie Wonder
The Australian Pink Floyd Show
Deicide
Adele
The Electric Light Orchestra Part II
Stevie Wonder
The Australian Pink Floyd Show
Deicide
introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Pulp
Pet Shop Boys
All Saints
Starsailor
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Pulp
Pet Shop Boys
All Saints
Starsailor
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Manic Street Preachers
Snow Patrol
Hothouse Flowers
Stars of The Lid
The Necks
Snow Patrol
Hothouse Flowers
Stars of The Lid
The Necks
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Well, what if your politics dictate that the right wing press are the authentic voice of the patriotic public and the centre of robust British common sense, and that their mortal enemies are your enemies also. What then?
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Well, what if your politics dictate that the right wing press are the authentic voice of the patriotic public and the centre of robust British common sense, and that their mortal enemies are your enemies also. What then?
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It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.
Maybe a hangover from the times when being a landowner conferred a person special status in society. Seems to apply to farmers as well.
My mum has had to downsize four times including leaving London in the last 20 years, again life just happens. Are homeowners just meant to all have some kind of special protection ring around them financially so they never come to any harm from market changes?
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Maybe a hangover from the times when being a landowner conferred a person special status in society. Seems to apply to farmers as well.
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One of the big issues of our time is seeing 'young people cant afford homes' and 'homeowners cant afford to be taxed more' as two separate problems, rather than the inevitable consequence of an economy built around inflated house prices to placate landlords
Some sympathy for this potentially made up woman but I wonder how the poster feels about the numerous people who would love to be able to call a house their own and form relationships with their neighbours but can't because of the housing market. Does their emotional plea count for anything?
Mumsnet is already on the case.
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
One of the big issues of our time is seeing 'young people cant afford homes' and 'homeowners cant afford to be taxed more' as two separate problems, rather than the inevitable consequence of an economy built around inflated house prices to placate landlords
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Look I keep saying this - the most nuns I personally met or know about were women uninterested in the constraints of patriarchal society. While the church of course has those too a convent still frees you up from marriage to men and pressures to have children, and gives you access to education.
November 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Look I keep saying this - the most nuns I personally met or know about were women uninterested in the constraints of patriarchal society. While the church of course has those too a convent still frees you up from marriage to men and pressures to have children, and gives you access to education.
It was obviously a good decision, but I think in most people's minds, whether they agree or not, how it came about illustrates that this is not a government that can be trusted to instinctively put ordinary people first.
Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.
Scrapping the two-child limit in full is a monumental decision. Well done to all involved in the Child Poverty Strategy, and everyone who has made the case against the policy.
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It was obviously a good decision, but I think in most people's minds, whether they agree or not, how it came about illustrates that this is not a government that can be trusted to instinctively put ordinary people first.
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The technology basically peaked. It's all incremental tinkering now. Like with digital cameras - the technical differences between the highest end products are only of interest to a tiny percentage of experts. Which might be part of the reason for "AI" being pushed in everything.
My phone is doing all the same things from 2015 with only minimal benefits. The only reason we have to upgrade is increased software bloat.
We should actually just have phones that last 15 years now.
We should actually just have phones that last 15 years now.
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The technology basically peaked. It's all incremental tinkering now. Like with digital cameras - the technical differences between the highest end products are only of interest to a tiny percentage of experts. Which might be part of the reason for "AI" being pushed in everything.
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tbh that is also basically correct; if you get the economics right the bond market will fall into line, it isn't a separate constituency that needs to be courted
November 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
tbh that is also basically correct; if you get the economics right the bond market will fall into line, it isn't a separate constituency that needs to be courted
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You can't employ more nurses than you have and you can't pour more concrete than you have. This is a significantly more reasonable way of understanding what you can and can't do than the government's deficit.
November 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
You can't employ more nurses than you have and you can't pour more concrete than you have. This is a significantly more reasonable way of understanding what you can and can't do than the government's deficit.
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Again, I invite the public to put two and two together about what has been happening in British politics and media for a long time now.
November 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Again, I invite the public to put two and two together about what has been happening in British politics and media for a long time now.
Let them, they aren't going to suddenly change and become the party everyone wants, this will only make it more obvious.
"Coronation": the latest thinking on how to overcome the fact the Labour membership would never choose Wesley.
November 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Let them, they aren't going to suddenly change and become the party everyone wants, this will only make it more obvious.
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Still seeing conservation ecologists using the ‘precautionary principle’ as a catch all to constrain new ideas
As the climate crisis takes hold, we are going to have to try novel approaches to conservation
And some of that will involve taking risks
As the climate crisis takes hold, we are going to have to try novel approaches to conservation
And some of that will involve taking risks
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Still seeing conservation ecologists using the ‘precautionary principle’ as a catch all to constrain new ideas
As the climate crisis takes hold, we are going to have to try novel approaches to conservation
And some of that will involve taking risks
As the climate crisis takes hold, we are going to have to try novel approaches to conservation
And some of that will involve taking risks
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Ultimately, capital sees the natural world as a 'free gift' (in Marx's words) - an externality, which capitalists merely happen upon, and which they can exploit without any restraint (or at least, no restraint which the accumulation of capital does not equip them to abolish).
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Ultimately, capital sees the natural world as a 'free gift' (in Marx's words) - an externality, which capitalists merely happen upon, and which they can exploit without any restraint (or at least, no restraint which the accumulation of capital does not equip them to abolish).
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what the fuck
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
what the fuck