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Thread: 2024 USA Election: Wishin' and Hopin'
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Re: 2024 USA Election: Wishin' and Hopin'
Something puzzles me about the US election system. Am I right in thinking that a ballot paper is a single sheet of paper with all of the candidates standing for election for multiple posts: that is:...
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Thread: What is The Last Movie You Watched?
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Coming soon (but probably not to a cinema near you) -documentary about Tara Emory
The End of Wonderland review – trans porn star deals with eviction and a hoarding crisis | Film | The Guardian -
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Thread: Miriam Rivera documentary
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I don't know if it is just in the UK, but reality tv has been dubbed a 'theatre of cruelty'. In many such shows, the audience is invited to react with ridicule, amusement and so on, but the...
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Re: National Conservatives: New Wine or Nouveau Plonk?
Who are the National Conservatives? | Sebastian Milbank | The Critic Magazine
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National Conservatives: New Wine or Nouveau Plonk?
Yesterday in the thread on Israel, I posted a video by Melanie Phillips. At the National Conservative conference in Brussels last month, among other things she attacked what she called the...
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4 Days Ago
Thread: Israel: Turn Right for the Abyss
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Below is a link to a speech Melanie Phillips gave to the National Conservative Conference in Brussels last month.
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Thread: Miriam Rivera documentary
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Had not heard of the film All About the Money before. Looked it up on imdb and this is the review on the first page-
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Thread: What is The Last Movie You Watched?
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Rotten Tomatoes’ 300 Best Movies of All Time | Rotten Tomatoes
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Thread: What is The Last Movie You Watched?
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Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, 1997).
This aired on Film4 the other night, and though I have watched parts of it before this was the first time I watched it all the way through. It is rubbish,... -
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Thread: What are you reading now - and then
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The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier (1974).
Has anyone read this? I have not,
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Thread: Thought for the Day
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I tend to think in terms of parallel lines characterising a lot of the conflict since the first Aliyah in 1880. The settlers were astounded to find Arabs living and working where they expected a...
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5 Days Ago
Thread: Thought for the Day
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I think a lot might depend on now the left is defined, particularly in the US. This study, while flawed, documents the twists and turns of ideas and political activism in the US. I would like to...
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5 Days Ago
Thread: Israel: Turn Right for the Abyss
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Anthony Blinken is trying to put a positive spin on his current visit to the Middle East, but it is gloom and doom in Gaza. For
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Re: The Russians are Coming, the Russians are...oh, they're here...
Tucker Carlson out of his depth and bewildered by the philosophical ideas of Aleksandr Dugin, described as 'Putin' Brain', but a man who conjures up out of the 'Anglo-Saxon World' (!) a new...
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1 Week Ago
Thread: Miriam Rivera documentary
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All three episodes are now available for streaming in the UK -I don't know if it can be viewed outside the country- this is the link
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Thread: The General Election in the UK, 2024
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If you are in need of some light laughter this Monday morning, ponder the backroom efforts of a few -and I think it is a few- 'radicals' who want to replace Sunak with Penny (The Diver) Mordaunt...
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1 Week Ago
Thread: Hacking warning?
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Fair point. I have no problem in Bardland so can't explain it.
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Thread: Miriam Rivera documentary
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And another one-
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Thread: Hacking warning?
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No problem in the UK -maybe something to do in the country you live in? Or is the State you live in governed by the Republican Party thought police?
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1 Week Ago
Thread: Crossdresser, the sexy charm of ambiguity
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Pictured outside the nightclub SeOne-
SeOne - Wikipedia -
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Thread: The General Election in the UK, 2024
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You know you are at the fag end of a Government when the MPs of the ruling party are mired in scandal, like the MP -Mark Menzies-
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Thread: SNP in Disarray with Nicola Away?
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Is it the last dance for Hamza Yusuf?
Will Ash Regan become the executioner of the SNP?
I know what you're thinking: Ash who?
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Thread: Conservative, Catholic- and Confused
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Now Barr says that when Trump raged at people he wanted executed, it was not to be taken seriously. He would be talked out of it and nobody would do it anyway.
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Thread: Thought for the Day
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The question to ask might be why this conflict has generated so much public protest, but not the savage war taking place in Sudan? The war in the Yemen has not become a public issue, and for much of...
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Welcome to HungAngels...but for Hung Dudes, LPSG is a better place for you.
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