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    Is voting for the far-right a form of gambling?

    "This is not the great global wave of fascism, not yet anyway." Droid wins.
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    Is voting for the far-right a form of gambling?

    I admire people's optimism. I hope it is that and not cpmplacency after Austria and Holland. Droid is definitely right aboit the climate, the great unmentionable in any election campaign. Strangely Le Pen has apparently, quietly, moved away from outright denial, which I thought was fulcral to...
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    An essay on education, language and class

    Few things in life are as depressing as Bernie Sanders 'fans'.
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    An essay on education, language and class

    His book on poetry is singularly free of insight, really quite trite.
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    Pointless But It Makes Me Chuckle to Myself

    The kiddywinkle Hitler Youth also have a thing about milky-wilky: http://forward.com/fast-forward/362986/got-nazis-milk-is-new-symbol-of-racial-purity-for-white-nationalists/
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    how much do you drink in a normal week?

    Since we have a newborn baby I restrict myself to one beer a day. At 10am.
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    Is voting for the far-right a form of gambling?

    Fair point well made.
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    Stock, Aitken, Waterman

    The Donna Sumner songs were great.
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    Is voting for the far-right a form of gambling?

    This might be incoherent or bleeding obvious, it's just some observations tied together to make one big generalisation. I'm always very interested in thoughtful feedback https://infinite-coincidence.com/2017/04/21/is-the-rise-of-the-far-right-a-form-of-gambling/
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    Jeremy Corbyn

    His outright refusal to countenance an anti-Tory alliance amounts to suicide. I always appreciated his conviction and good sense on platforms in solidatiry with Latin America etc, but as a party leader he is a fucking womble.
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    HP Lovecraft: Misanthropy and the Anthropocene

    Thanks for your comments and sorry for the delay in replying. I hadn't thought about Barlow so will look him up. I know what you mean about bourgeois being the wrong word word to describe UK sitcoms but I was stuck for another term, I meant that they show everyday life in a society constructed...
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    HP Lovecraft: Misanthropy and the Anthropocene

    http://wp.me/p86l64-2Av A rambly thing I wrote which is currently under attack in the Lovecraft facebook group from the kind of HPL fans who prefer that nobody talk about his racism, even though the piece in question isn't about his racism, it just mentions it in passing, for how could one not.HP
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    I try to interest my two-month-old daughter in the music of The Fall

    http://wp.me/p86l64-2sl
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    The Big Hello Thread

    Kill Jester.
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    Kate Tempest, Sleaford Mods, Modern Toss, Brexit and the 2011 riots

    Their big compendium book is my favourite possession by far. We had a baby a few weeks ago, she's number 2.
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