Had It in Holland Park

 

Straits in America: ‘We Are Never Going Back to the Closet Darkness’

I recall the very day and hour, at age 6, that I knew I was strait, although I wouldn’t know what that meant for many years. On my first day of kindergarten, at recess, as I was running around the schoolyard with all the other students in my class, I stopped suddenly and said: “Wow! Girls are cool!”

I didn’t actually come out as straight for 8 years, but when I did it was such a relief. I could finally be true to myself and what I really wanted. I didn’t care what the LBGTQ+RF or trans communities thought of me. I was finally free.

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This couple think they are seriously entitled.

Now n-word found in official immigration documents
The earliest recorded use of the term "Negroid" came in 1859.
In 2010, the Oxford English Dictionary said "Such terms are associated with outdated notions of racial types, and so are now potentially offensive and best avoided."
       So just when did neg***d become a racist slur?
       This refers to a case that was published in 2005? Was neg***d considered racist then?

GOP Senator Tuberville’s military blockade over abortion jeopardises national security
Yes, but that is just America's National Security.
What is that compared to making political points in the culture war against women?
Now the royal family is dragged into the n-word race row

America sets horrifying 17-year record for mass killings

It is a price both sides of congress are willing to pay for their campaign contributions.

The American people don't want it, but who cares?

Tucker Carlson and Mike Pence clash in heated exchange over Ukraine
Traitor Carlson is at it again. He, like Trump and Putin, wants the Ukraine to go under.

Anger in House as Republican uses ‘racist and repugnant’ term to refer to Black Americans
People of Colour and Coloured People: one is racist and offensive and the other is......well, racist and offensive. Is People of No Colour also racist and offensive?

The BBC presenter scandal – and the cracks in The Sun’s story

How much is The Sun paying "the family" for this silly-season beat-up.

Tabloid  paid a 16-year-old girl to quit school and pose for topless photos remains straight-faced while trying to expose BBC presenter who paid a 17-year-old for photos

The Sun newspaper today remains entirely straight-faced, despite a long and distinguished career spent paying vast amounts of money to potentially vulnerable teenagers to take their clothes off and be photographed.

The Sun newspaper, which has somehow managed to position itself as the moral voice of the nation amongst its readership, is calling for the BBC presenter to be named and shamed, despite doing much the same thing for decades. Sub-editor at the ‘newspaper’, Simon Williams, told us, “This BBC presenter is an absolute disgrace, and the BBC as a whole is as guilty as he is for not doing more about it. Any organisation that condones buying explicit photos from teenagers who should still be in school deserves to go bust and see its executives in prison.

“Well, no. That’s different. When we did it with Sam Fox, it was so EVERYONE could perv over the breasts of a really hot 16-year-old girl. This bloke did it in private, which makes it MUCH worse. “Yes it does. Shut up.” Meanwhile, some have explained that it’s possible to think both acts are pretty despicable, even if neither of them initially appears to be technically illegal.

BBC in crisis as presenter accused of paying teenager for explicit pictures is suspended
The Sun knows who has been suspended from the BBC and so does any journalist worth his salt. But they won;;t publish it because they like the sensationalist headlines: a BBBC presenter paid thousands of pounds for sexually explicit pictures.
    Incidentally, why did "the family" not contact the police? Did they trust the BBC better than the police?
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Trump's Record
First President in history to serve a full term and increase the deficit every year he was in office.
Maintained a debt to GDP ratio over 100% for his entire term
Highest annual budget deficit
Most added to the national debt in a single term
Most new unemployment claims
Largest single day point drop in the history of the Dow

First President in almost a century to lose jobs in his first term
First major party candidate in half a century to lose the popular vote twice
Longest government shutdown in history (while controlling both chambers of Congress)
Maintained a net negative approval rating for his entire term (that's a first)

First President to be impeached twice, with have bipartisan support for his conviction 
Most indictments, guilty pleas, and criminal convictions of members of an administration

He flatlined a strong economy even before the pandemic.
He wasted millions on golfing (with much of that going back to into his own pockets).
He wasted millions more rebranding part of the Air Force to look like Star Trek cosplayers.
He wasted billions more on an idiotic vanity wall that’s already falling over.
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He violated the Emoluments Clause and the Hatch Act more times than I can remember.
He sabotaged our operations in Afghanistan, by releasing all the Taliban

DWP guidance on benefit assessments forced to be withdrawn over n-word slur
"...to Black people as being of the “N*****d race.”
So Negriod is a slur, now. I guess, with use, Black will also come to be a slur, as will Afro.DeSantis immigration law causes exodus of migrant workers from Florida agriculture and construction

Dutch King Apologizes for His Country’s Role in the Slave Trade

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