Second and Third Thoughts
You know what’s wrong with Bordeaux? I’ll tell you what’s wrong with Bordeaux. It’s made by French people. Did you know that? Yeah, totally made by French people. So no wonder I didn’t like any of the 2015 Bordeaux I tasted—French people are losers.
More winey satire from The Hosemaster.
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Dead people can’t sue or answer back. Maybe that’s why supporters of Brexit thought they could get away with fabricating a quote by Winston Churchill to support Britain leaving the European Union.
Increasingly doing the rounds in the lead-up to Britain’s EU referendum is a quote by Churchill which it is claimed he said to Parliament on 11 May 1953 when he was Britain’s Prime Minster.
The quote or variants of it, usually depicted alongside a photo of Churchill, is being heavily promoted on social media such as Twitter and Facebook, and quoted in readers commentsin multiple newspapers and blogs, usually by UKIP supporters.
The quote is being used to prove that Churchill would never have supported Britain’s membership of the EU, and that if he were alive now, he would be against the concept of today’s European Union and vote for Brexit in June’s referendum.
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Great stuff, courtesy of The Guardian.
Full Fact and the UK in a Changing Europe initiative have produced a report on the claims made by both sides of the EU referendum debate. We’ve covered topics including the UK’s EU membership fee, immigration, economics costs and benefits and borders.
It’s an instructive little report that can be downloaded from this page.
Hard though it may be for the godless to accept, some people really do believe in the imminent End Times and the 72 virgins awaiting them in paradise. We ignore the reality of such sincere convictions at our own peril. The terrorists of IS are neither mad nor brainwashed. Their brains have been infected by a number of dangerous supernatural delusions, with deep roots in the Quran and in monotheistic tradition.
Fucking scary stuff.
The UK has a special status in the EU. It is a full member of the Single Market but will not join the single currency or participate in the Schengen open border arrangement. The UK’s new settlement has secured this status with important reforms to economic governance, competitiveness, sovereignty, and welfare and free movement. [Read more…]
Powerful words!
After the massacres in Paris on November 13, the US Secretary of State John Kerry made a statement so disgraceful you had to read it, rub your eyes, and read it again to comprehend the extent of his folly: “There’s something different about what happened from Charlie Hebdo, and I think everybody would feel that,” Kerry began in the laboured English of an over-promoted middle manager.
“There was a sort of particularised focus and perhaps even a legitimacy in terms of — not a legitimacy, but a rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, OK, they’re really angry because of this and that. This Friday was absolutely indiscriminate. It wasn’t to aggrieve one particular sense of wrong. It was to terrorise people.”
The staff of “Charlie Hebdo” in 2006: The cartoonists Cabu, Charb, Tignous and Honoré (first, second, fourth and fifth from left)…
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Can’t help thinking that Michael has a point.
The article, The CBI has admitted defeat – and the economic case against Brexit is collapsing, appeared on the City A.M. website on 22 March 2016. The author, Richard Tice (co-founder of Leave.eu) is commenting on a PwC report, Leaving the EU: Implications for the UK economy. I have read the PwC report—admittedly I mostly skimmed the annexes—and don’t see how Mr Tice’s comments are supported. I’ve annotated the article with my remarks and quotes from the PwC report, the CBI announcement on their website and other sources.
For the avoidance of any doubt, I am in favour of remaining in the EU despite the problems.
The TL;DR version of this post is that the City A.M. article is a steaming pile of falsehood and misdirection.
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