Or, some things are too awful to talk about
Published at 6:12 pm on October 2nd, 2020
Filed under: Political, Feeling Meh.
Very long-term readers, or people who have gone delving around in the archives, might be aware that back when this site started, I used to talk about politics on a reasonably regular basis. Indeed, if you look in the menus (either down below or over on the right), you can see there’s a whole category for it. Since the restart, though, there really hasn’t been anything political that I have wanted to write about, or thought it worth writing about at all.
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Keyword noise: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, David Cameron, pandemic, apathy, authoritarianism, bad news, Tories, Conservatives, Prime Minister, prophecy, xenophobia.
In which we don’t see the difference between genders
Published at 3:18 pm on May 24th, 2007
Filed under: Political.
Yesterday’s Guardian featured a long piece, trailed on the front page, about transgender people, and how some people have, apparently, been pushed into having medical transition operations against their will. A bad, bad thing, of course—people should never be pushed or persuaded into any sort of serious medical treatment.
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Keyword noise: authoritarian feminism, authoritarianism, feminism, Jenny Bailey, Julie Bindel, Sheila Jeffreys, transphobia, LGBTphobia, transgender, trans.
In which we look at ID Card plans
Published at 7:19 am on July 13th, 2006
Filed under: Political.
Some good political news on the way for once: whilst The Guardian is reporting that the goverment ID card scheme is behind schedule with no firm dates set, according to The Register, the scheme is definitely out the window. This is based on a cunning analysis of the various proposals so far, which demonstrates that they can’t possibly be completed by the next election, never mind 2008 as the government has promised.
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Keyword noise: authoritarianism, civil liberties, elections, government, ID cards, identity, Passport Agency.
In which power goes to people’s heads
Published at 5:57 pm on June 24th, 2006
Filed under: Political.
I said yesterday that politics hasn’t been interesting me lately. It’s not so much that I’m feeling a lack of interest, but I’m trying to block out just how authoritarian this government is becoming. As was shown by yesterday’s prime-ministerial speech on Justice: “Justice should mean summary justice” was one of its messages. The other was: “I want to lock up anyone I don’t like, but those nasty judges won’t let me.”
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Keyword noise: authoritarianism, civil liberties, government, holiday, justice, liberty, media, power, travel.
In which we despise the authoritarian instinct
Published at 8:45 pm on November 9th, 2005
Filed under: Political.
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