I am not arguing with this. Simply that we tend to be quiet and hide under a rock when the conversation turns to capital punishment of any stripe given our own sordid history. There are people who have murdered others on death row in the United States, yes; there are also people who are demonstrably innocent there as…

True. There now follows a very selfish sentiment—I do appreciate that Fox has done far worse to its country and, by extension, the world than Murdoch has ever managed via Sky. However, Sky as a network is more scary to me than Fox because it’s got so much more to damage in its own cultural sphere. We could say PBS is…

Although, Sky News sails pretty close to Fox in many ways.

Yep, that protest has made me happy - the British voices you often hear loudest, particularly online, are so xenophobic and prejudiced and basically bullshit (especially the ubiquitous Daily Fail mentality). Its nice to see with this and other similar demonstrations that actually we and other EU nations do have some…

ugh I wanna barf this can’t happen

honestly, NDP is so close this time around I just want them to win. I don’t mind Trudeau TOO much, but good lord do I think we need a complete and total shake-up.

If anything, Liberal majority, with plenty of NDP seats and ZERO CONSERVATIVESarrggghhhh

That is what makes me laugh. People here are like “Europeans are so bad” and “this would never happen here”. And yet they may vote DONALD FUCKING TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT. He makes Marine Le Pen look sane. And gets a lot more voters.

Oh, that’s always been bullshit. The Europeans are very sanctimonious when it comes to racism, imperialism, etc- but they buy just as much Saudi oil as we do, set up just as many Chinese and Bangladeshi sweat shops as we do, and they put their immigrants and minorities out of site in massive apartment blocks far from…

That hostility is also echoed by some many Hungarian citizens

This article is just so American-centric, it’s ridiculous. First of all, what the hell is “International Feminism”? Everything outside the US, from Australia to the UK, is just “International Feminism” now? Second, I don’t see very much effort at all to understand this from the particular historical, social,…

“ the UK has always had these laws, why make a fuss now?”

Yeah, that’s what irritating about this article and the OP’s response. Count the number of times the expression “in the past” or a variant has been use in the article. They’re obviously trying to make it look like this was a significant time ago. It’s not. Look, defenders of this asshole rapper: you can only make one…

Black woman here. I love hip hop and have actually worked (tangentially) in and around the music industry for years.

Good luck getting Theresa May to change her mind. Try being sick when they say you’re fit for work here and you’ll really know some hardass bureaucracy.

I don’t know where the line is between holding people accountable for things they’ve said previously and forgiving past digressions, but I do know that Tyler does not sound like someone who has learned anything, and instead is insisting that his past actions be ignored because “he’s not like this”.

Theresa May is basically real life Dolores Umbridge. I’m not saying in this case her actions were right or wrong, but she does seem to take pleasure in passing down acts that she knows will cause annoyance or upset. Just thought I’d provide some context for any Jezzies unfamiliar with her.

Tyler said that he thought addressing his fans’ threats might actually rile them up and worsen the situation, and insisted that by tweeting at Alison, he was trying to strike up a dialogue with her. “I wanted everyone to see that I was trying to speak to her like a regular person,” he said. “[Coralie Alison] never…

No country is obliged to give a visa to anyone. Here is a very short list of some of the people who have been denied visas to enter the USA (some were subsequently readmitted): Amy Winehouse, Boy George, Nigella Lawson, Lily Allen, Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens), etc.

I’m growing more and more uncomfortable with the seemingly increasing progressive notion that people’s backgrounds must be fully delved into and punishment doled out for things they did years and years ago, retroactive, permanent punishment. It strikes me as so anti-liberal.

Yay! We can knit by the guillotine together. :) Yer the Labour back biting is pretty much all over the place. I want another series of The Thick of It out of this.

Yeah he is great. Talk about flatter casting going on. They are going for charisma and charm over actual reality.