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Originally posted by Etienne View PostDmitry Grozoubinski who is pretty sound on this sort of thing says that Botham is basically a goodwill ambassador and that there's no problem with the appointment as long as he doesn't actually start trying to negotiate.
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I total aside here: my earlier post about sending useless people to far-flung corners of empire was a well known thing for late British Empire. It never occurred to me until yesterday that this may well have been the inspiration for the B-Ark.
But the idea had obviously crept into the popular culture around the same time. It clearly shows up in the novels of JG Farrell in the 70s - both the Siege of Krishnapur and The Singapore Grip contain themes of the useless scions of the wealthy going off to do their bit in India or Malaya. But I also recalled a JG Ballard short story on the B Ark theme - it turns out that it's called "Having A Wonderful Time" where a series of postcards are sent back from a trip to the Canary Islands and their flight home gets delayed and cancelled over and over again, while more and more people arrive.
The bizarre thing is the timing. That Ballard short story was first published in spring 1978, which is exactly when HHGTG first appeared on the radio.
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Both Tesco and Iceland warn of a pending supply crisis as Christmas approaches.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58329439
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I mean, you know, the people running the shops say it's Brexit, but what do they know, eh?
https://twitter.com/JeremyVineOn5/status/1430793912898269191?s=19
#DefundTheBBC
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Interesting read...
Fergs (@fergs01) Tweeted: @sturdyAlex here is some #brexit news about Northern Ireland from the Irish magazine The Phoenix, the Irish private eye, you won't find reported in the UK media. https://t.co/wz416yutAm https://twitter.com/fergs01/status/1...647703040?s=20
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Originally posted by Moonlight Shadow View PostInteresting read...
Fergs (@fergs01) Tweeted: @sturdyAlex here is some #brexit news about Northern Ireland from the Irish magazine The Phoenix, the Irish private eye, you won't find reported in the UK media. https://t.co/wz416yutAm https://twitter.com/fergs01/status/1...647703040?s=20
Also apparently last june kicked off with the american charge d'affairs in london dragging David Frost into the embassy and melting his head about the UK govt trying to publicly stir up loyalist terrorism against the northern protocol.
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fascist former fireman has strange ideas about diet
https://twitter.com/abiwilks/status/1432330862138470401?s=21
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@demarionunn has also commented on this.
"i know this tweet is obviously incredibly stupid but there’s also this insidious idea from the likes of embery that anyone from cultures where all these ingredients are commonplace can’t possibly be working class... like i think it’s important to call out this idea of the working class as this incurious mass who have no interest in food, but let’s also be clear who this idea of the “traditional” working class” obviously excludes"
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