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[philmophlegm]

BBC admits Bake Off is catastrophic social experiment

A pretty clever piece of political profiling and surveying from the Social Market Foundation.

Terror attack stopped by heroic activist who established a safe space in local mall.

A blog that examines the use of fonts in science fiction. What a time to be alive.

Labour's new shadow minister for domestic violence has personal experience of the issue - a police caution for domestic violence.

Typical day at the Labour Party conference.

Brilliant picture of Jeremy Corbyn at his own party conference protesting to bring back the position of Shadow Cabinet Minister for Mental Health. Now, see if you can guess which politician it was who abolished the position of “Shadow Cabinet Minister for Mental Health”…

Amazingly, there is an article on the website of Standard Life all about collecting tabletop games. Pretty good article too, although there are a couple of factual errors. They should have asked me! (One of the people interviewed described H1 Bloodstone Pass as “almost impossible to get hold of”. We had one in stock, although ironically we sold it last week to a bloke in Denmark.)

Epipens are really expensive in the US. Here's why.

Jewish Labour Movement heckled by Corbynistas at the Labour Conference. The speaker (not the heckler thank god) was a friend of mine at Magdalen.

Comments

[asher63.livejournal.com]

I love the SF fonts site.

How long has this trend of growing anti-Semitism in Labour been going on?

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

It's heavily associated with the Corbynistas, many of whom only joined the party recently, exploiting a change in the leadership election rules. The British far left has been anti-semitic for quite a while ("Kill the bankers, especially the Jewish ones!"), but that far left wasn't previously part of the Labour Party, preferring to lurk in borderline-terrorist organisations like Class War and the Socialist Workers' Party.

That said, the Guardian newspaper has a long-held reputation for anti-semitism.* It has been the newspaper of choice for even the moderate reality-based wing of the Labour Party for years. It's just that most perhaps turned a blind eye then to the more outrageous stuff. Unfortunately for the party, those people who were writing comments in a newspaper with a pretty low circulation, are now close to the Corbyn inner circle.



* Can you imagine the New York Times printing a cartoon like this? http://i1.wp.com/commentisfreewatch.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/saudi.jpg