Every year around this time of year I teach the First World War poets and every year I look on as remembrance day is steered further and further away from the messages of Wilfred Owen into some jingoistic performative display. Sickened by it, frankly.
Sorry to repeat myself, but you *really* need to know this.
Under the government's Public Order Bill, anyone who has protested in the previous 5 years can be forced to "submit to ... being fitted with, or the installation of, any necessary apparatus" to monitor your movements.
Wholesale gas now 191p per therm.
It was 702 per therm on August 26
It was 530 per therm on March 7
It was 293 per therm on Oct 5 (2021)
We are being totally ripped off.
They laughed, told him to go home, said he had no authority, the press goaded him with stupid questions and claimed he didn’t know the league. Today we celebrate with Ange when the league trophy is raised high. They couldn’t say his name in June, now they won’t forget it🍀 🙌
Years from now when it is asked how the SNP was led on a path to nowhere for 7 years by an egocentric, promise-breaking under-achiever, a quick look at the role of Unionist-owned @ScotNational in helping promote her personality cult may provide the answer.
A Tory nobody is excoriated because he wore a fake Nazi uniform 40 years ago. Ukrainian soldiers wear actual Nazi emblems, on duty, now - and everybody thinks it's OK. Is this doublethink? https://t.co/XcKTiF8f00