Zombie
@Zombie@feddit.uk
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
- Comment on UK to hold off on deal ceding Chagos Islands amid US opposition 4 days ago:
So much for voting Brexit for sovereignty, ay?
Can’t even decide what to do with our own land without America bullying its way instead!
- Comment on Stella McCartney granted permission for £5m home in Scottish Highlands 2 weeks ago:
Ew.
- Comment on Foreign tourists could be charged to visit UK museums - including top London sites 2 weeks ago:
Public culture shouldn’t be accessible to only those with means. Someone’s country of origin has no bearing on that.
Half of the exhibits in these museums are of foreign origin as well, stolen during imperialism. So charging foreigners to see stolen items that could very well be from their own country is again ridiculous.
Thirdly, how many museums and art galleries have you been to that are clearly struggling for cash? I’ve been to many, and 9 times out of 10 they’re in exquisite condition. Money isn’t the fix for everything. Charging to enter museums could even backfire and result in a reduction in footfall and therefore donations.
I’m sure Baroness Margaret Hodge knows all about keeping culture afloat for the public good though and only has the public’s best interests at heart…
The family moved to Orpington, Kent (present-day Greater London), where they started their family-owned steel-trading corporation, Stemcor.[7] It is now one of the world’s largest privately held steel companies, with an annual turnover of over £6 billion in 2011.[8] Hodge is a major shareholder
She went on to study at the London School of Economics, graduating in 1966 with a third-class honours degree in government studies.[12] After working briefly on television political programmes, she began, but did not complete, a master’s degree in philosophy at Bedford College, London.[13]
In 2015 there was considerable controversy about her benefiting, to the tune of £1.5 million, from assets repatriated from a Liechtenstein family trust in 2011 using the Liechtenstein disclosure facility, that reduced penalties and removed the risk of prosecution for Britons moving undeclared assets back to the UK. Coverage focused on the apparent hypocrisy in her condemnation of the use of tax havens.
- Comment on Foreign tourists could be charged to visit UK museums - including top London sites 2 weeks ago:
What a shower of bastards.
- Comment on Minister claimed thousands of pounds on expenses for promotional videos 3 weeks ago:
That whole article is infuriating.
BUt wE hAVe nO mONeY FOr puBlIC sERvIcES
- Comment on Im pan so anyone can apply 3 weeks ago:
Do you mean this RHCP?..
Kiedis acknowledges in his autobiography Scar Tissue that he
had sexual relations withraped a 14-year-old girl when he was 23, before and after learning of her age, in the 1980s. This inspired him to write the song “Catholic School Girls Rule”.[121] - Comment on Matt Brittin: Ex-Google boss confirmed as new BBC director general 3 weeks ago:
How do you boycott a service you already boycott?
- Comment on UK agrees to let US use British bases to strike Iranian sites targeting Strait of Hormuz 3 weeks ago:
Airstrip One, for instance, had not been so called in those days: it had been called England, or Britain, though London, he felt fairly certain, had always been called London.[9]
- Comment on A name more fitting 3 weeks ago:
For the curious:
The second incident occurred in 44 BC. One day in January, the tribunes Gaius Epidius Marullus and Lucius Caesetius Flavus discovered a diadem on the head of the statue of Caesar on the Rostra in the Roman Forum.[5] According to Suetonius, the tribunes ordered the wreath be removed as it was a symbol of Jupiter and royalty.[7] Nobody knew who had placed the diadem, but Caesar suspected that the tribunes had arranged for it to appear so that they could have the honour of removing it.[5] Matters escalated shortly after on the 26th, when Caesar was riding on horseback to Rome on the Appian Way.[8] A few members of the crowd greeted him as rex (“king”), to which Caesar replied, “I am not Rex, but Caesar” (“Non sum Rex, sed Caesar”).[9] This was wordplay; Rex was a Latin title meaning ‘king’. Marullus and Flavus, the aforementioned tribunes, were not amused, and ordered the man who first cried “rex” arrested. In a later Senate meeting, Caesar accused the tribunes of attempting to create opposition to him, and had them removed from office and membership in the Senate.[8] The Roman plebs took their tribunes seriously as the representatives of the common people; Caesar’s actions against the tribunes put him on the wrong side of public opinion.[10]
- Comment on A name more fitting 3 weeks ago:
Yes and no. They were tasked with fixing a particular problem or threat, and had absolute authority only in the scope of fixing that problem. They were then meant to step down once the problem was fixed.
The full extent of the dictatorial power was considerable, but not unlimited. It was circumscribed by the conditions of a dictator’s appointment, as well as by the evolving traditions of Roman law, and to a considerable degree depended on the dictator’s ability to work together with other magistrates. The precise limitations of this power were not sharply defined, but subject to debate, contention, and speculation throughout Roman history.[46]
In the pursuit of his causa, the dictator’s authority was nearly absolute; however, as a rule he could not exceed the mandate for which he was appointed; a dictator nominated to hold the comitia could not then take up a military command against the wishes of the Senate.[f][g] Dictators could carry out functions which fell outside the scope of their initial appointments, but only at the direction of the Senate; this included the drawing of funds from the public treasury, which a dictator could only do with the Senate’s authorisation.[29]
- Comment on World's longest coastal path opens in England to the public 4 weeks ago:
We would, but unfortunately in the lowlands we’ve too many people that haven’t got any shovels. They’re douglas!
- Comment on Dumb glasses 4 weeks ago:
Like respecting others’ freedom to a reasonable degree of privacy.
- Comment on GB News faces complaints after commentator claims ‘genocide’ against white people in UK 4 weeks ago:
Sunday 8the March
- Comment on GB News faces complaints after commentator claims ‘genocide’ against white people in UK 4 weeks ago:
www.ofcom.org.uk/make-a-complaint
Make your voice heard.
- Comment on Car park firm NCP collapses with nearly 700 jobs at risk 4 weeks ago:
Exactly, mismanagement.
If your business plan is to generate profit based entirely on land assets, and you choose not to own those assets, then look what happens.
Most businesses rent their premises, because the premises aren’t the essential part of their business. They could set up in another location if need be.
But that’s not the case for NCP, their “premises” are their means of revenue. Presumably there was some short term profit made in the process, some senior managers got a fat bonus for reducing overheads and increasing profits for 2 quarters. But that’s bugger all use when you need to wind down the business a few years later.
They could have had a trickle of free money streaming in for the rest of their lives but instead chose a wave for a short few years.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
seems like
You clearly know what you’re talking about, Professor.
- Comment on Car park firm NCP collapses with nearly 700 jobs at risk 4 weeks ago:
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of robbing bastards.
How do you fuck up generating free money? There’s fuck all buildings maintenance or staffing costs compared with pretty much any other industry.
Covid is a lame excuse for mismanagement.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
But heaven knows I’m miserable now
I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
And heaven knows I’m miserable now - Comment on What does the acronym MAGA stand for? (wrong answers only) 4 weeks ago:
Non-Christians
Also Christians, because nothing they stand for is Christian. Christo-fascism however…
- Comment on Migration minister fails UK citizenship test question 5 weeks ago:
I think that’s what they’re trying to highlight by asking him it
- Comment on Peter Mandelson asked Foreign Office for £500k severance payment, files show 5 weeks ago:
Is it a sacking if you get £75k?
That sounds more like a very comfortable redundancy to me.
- Comment on No 10 to release hundreds of files on Mandelson’s US ambassador appointment on Wednesday 5 weeks ago:
Specifically timed to come out after Prime Minister’s Questions.
To allow maximum time to pass before he can be grilled by MPs about it? In the hope something more pressing will come up by next Wednesday? Arsehole.
- Comment on 'I was punched in the face for driving at 20mph' 5 weeks ago:
“The judge said because he was employing people as a roofer they didn’t send him to jail.”
Note to self: get some employees and I can break the law as I wish.
- Comment on UK Society of Authors launches logo to identify books written by humans not AI 5 weeks ago:
Want my
Books
Pay me?
The end.I can see why authors need typographers
- Comment on Meirl 5 weeks ago:
Obligatory Limmy’s Show
- Comment on Remembering the good times 5 weeks ago:
To make this abomination worse. Those beans must be cold or the chocolate would be melting.
- Comment on Leak from secret UK meeting on US attacks on Iran an ‘absolute travesty’, says Lammy 5 weeks ago:
Keir Starmer suggested allowing the US to use the bases to carry out defensive strikes against Iranian targets at the meeting last Friday but was met with opposition from Ed Miliband, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper and Shabana Mahmood
Shows you the power one single minister, albeit the Prime minister wields over the cabinet. Of 8 members, 4 opposed aiding an illegal war and yet it happened anyway. Such a shit system of governance for an entire nation of 65 million people.
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 5 weeks ago:
Y use mny ltrs wen few ltrs do trik?
- Comment on The three archetypes 5 weeks ago:
