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Christ, word's worst subeditors letting grammar like that through in the headline.

Zac stands on the brink of a humiliating defeat more like.

Desperate, pathetic mud-slinging is how to win over the electorate for sure.

as it stands, goldsmith is allowed to get away with the inference that s.khan is a supporter of terrorist organisations but Labour are racist. what a time to be alive.

Infact my only serious and recurring thoughts are where and how to escape. Death is a way.

Yay, America!
http://linkis.com/www.nydailynews.com/GK08H

Worth reading all of this: http://crookedtimber.org/2016/05/01/antisemitism-in-the-labour-party-whats-going-on/

Very good indeed (I rarely read it, but CT generally is).

I can't work out if this is Satire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq-pDjrs-FA

I had to turn the sound off.
It makes it much better if you read the subtitles and imagine it as a North Korean marching song.

It swings both ways, there were accusations of anti-semitism following the DM smear article on daddy Milliband. Until it turned out the article was written by two chaps of Jewish descent.

#worldcupofarseholes on Twitter is giving me a chuckle.

What happened to the old and always good phrase #FuckThisSystem

Someone turned out into a hashtag and it lost its edge.

Heroic translator who served British Army in Afghan war 'kills himself after being told he would be deported'

Not a lot of journalistic effort made around the point that he already had asylum in Italy. Not that I don't think he should have been offered at least some leave to remain in the UK. However, the story seems a little unbalanced without further examination as to why the decision was made to refuse his application. What actually is the root cause of the tragedy being reported here?

It's very simple, Seldom, the root is the British authority working in the name of the Tories flag.

Theresa I think it's her name. One of the main glands.

The policy is that asylum seekers must seek asylum in the country where they first reach Europe. He thought that, having been a translator for the British, the UK might help him instead of applying that rule dogmatically. The UK applied the rule dogmatically.

The rules for interpreters in Afghanistan and Iraq are very tough, and not consistent between countries. All of our interpreters were desperate to work for the Americans, because they get an automatic green-card after a certain time of service. They knew that they wouldn't get the same treatment from the UK.
Some of them were pretty dodgy. We had one who had been sacked by the yanks for stabbing a prisoner to death. Lovely bloke though.

Lovely bloke, just a bit stabby.

I get what actually happened, I just felt that journalistic balance would demand that they actually go into this.

Rather shocking display of loyalty as translators for foreign armies risk their lives.

But the current tories don't care about "their own"* either.

*the catch all xenophobia term even though sections of UK born society loathe each other, suddenly they are one when immigrantion come up ;)

Sure, agreed.

The real problem with that article from a journalistic point of view is that it makes the usual mistake of attributing the reason behind the suicide to one obvious factor, when the reality is that the causes of suicide are nearly always numerous and complex.

They should go away and read the Samaritans guidelines, paying particular attention to number three:
http://www.samaritans.org/media-centre/media-guidelines-reporting-suicide/advice-journalists-suicide-reporting-dos-and-donts

Surprisingly some of the comments seem to be from quite balanced individuals for once!