Murder / Police mention
This comes shortly after a law was passed giving UK police complete legal freedom to commit any crime including murder and rape without consequences.
Perfectly normal country
Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System
We knew it was coming but this is still awful. We need some leaks to get more information on the implementation.
White on one side, red on the other, this neck-wrapping garment features not only one of the Three Lions cruelly handcuffed by the United Kingdom's anti-English, dinner party munching, liberal, celtic, Londoncentric metropolitan elite that you have hallucinated into existence, but also the Monopoly board policeman sending you to the prison cell where, in your fevered imagination, you are set to spend the rest of your miserable life.
Got one of these arriving soon. Plus the Streatham Rovers one. Can’t wait:
These Days You Get Arrested & Thrown In Jail If You Say You're English scarf | Bastardo Sports
UK politics, Tory tactics
Negative Class Consciousness
http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2021/03/negative-class-consciousness.html
Rishi Sunak's Two-Nation Toryism
http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2021/03/rishi-sunaks-two-nation-toryism.html
Keir Starmer is a Long-Time Servant of the British Security State | Novara Media
National Security Risks of Late Stage Capitalism
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/03/national-security-risks-of-late-stage-capitalism.html
How xenophobic media bullshit becomes truth
The Sordid State of The Most Successful Political Party in the World
Good article, although technically wrong because prior to 2019 the tories hadn't won an election since 1997.
Don’t Trust the Rightwing Press – Their ‘Green Revolution’ is Just Eco-Nationalism
Microsoft has silently added their GPG key and their VSCode repository to Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian)
Even if you don't install anything from their repos it still pings MS every time you apt update, plus allows them to possibly override packages you install.
Long covid
This chap had long covid for 9 months. It killed him yesterday
https://edrooksby.wordpress.com/2021/01/09/nine-months-in-the-long-limbo-of-long-covid/
Web Dev, General Annoyance