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Funny Ian Blackford didn't mention this on Politics live when he was complaining about the immigration system!

30 minutes in
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000wgsn/politics-live-25052021

It's actually insane how little attention this has gotten in the big Reddit subs. Aus was already pretty draconian to begin with but this shit is mad.

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/australia-surveillance-bill/

>The Australian government has been moving towards a surveillance state for some years already. Now they are putting the nail in the coffin with an unprecedented surveillance bill that allows the police to hack your device, collect or delete your data, and take over your social media accounts; without sufficient safeguards to prevent abuse of these new powers.

I'm far from a lolbert for the record but authorities messing around with personal data with zero oversight is overstepping a shitload of boundaries. And unlike China, I doubt the MPs passing this are doing it with the best interests of Aussies in mind.

Burke's Reflections on Revolution In France is available as a free mp3 download on https://librivox.org/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france-by-edmund-burke/ and I have been listening to it while walking - it's amazing how much of it is still relevant, even prophetic.

I mean, there’s this CRT Reader which looks about as authoritative as you could hope for.

>Conservativism is the assumption that politicians make things worse so they really shouldn't do anything unless they can prove that whatever they are doing objectively won't make things worse.

That's not really the philosophy of Convervatism either.

Read this, it's only 9 quid on amazon:

Edmund Burke's Reflections

Man, Blair was anything but a centrist. He veiled an utterly radical agenda of chopping up British institutions and crafted new loyal, pseudo-neutral ones behind a mask of being "the sensible man in the room". He remains by far the most ideological PM in most of our lifetimes, only Thatcher could be in the same league. Major, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson - by comparison these people hold no core beliefs and will barely be memorable on a historic time scale outside the context of Brexit.

That people could consider him centrist, let alone on /r/tories, is truly remarkable and shows just how much spin and PR can buy you. He was, by the way, utterly correct to pretend to be a moderate from a purely strategic perspective but he eviscerated so much of traditional Britain it's hard to even know where to begin.

Read The Abolition of Britain and tell me he was non-ideological.

Surprised that Raab and Patel would be in this list as they help pen 'Britannia Unchained' - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Britannia-Unchained-Global-Lessons-Prosperity/dp/1137032235/

Unless they've since changed their minds or are letting their hearts rule their heads.. I'm not sure if I believe that one..

It's a quote from her 2021 book Greater: Britain After The Storm. The blerb on Amazon describes it as "A guide for future times". Read of that what you will.

> Can you define this?

The Wikipedia article is pretty fair. I believe Critical Race Theory: a reader contains all the key texts.

I use a vpn which in this day and age is good practice and everyone should be using one alongside anti tracking. Can access anything then, including rt and your isp can’t do anything to stop this. I’d recommend Mullvad vpn if you don’t have one already.

https://apkpure.com/parler/com.parler.parler

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For anybody with an android that still wants to download it. I don't support what happened in the article, but this is a blatant 1984 style attack on freedom of speech. I don't agree with quite a few of the things said, but to have them taken away from us in such a drastic manner is wrong.

Did the study even bother to talk about economic class?

I think that a great benefit of learning how to distinguish causality from the circumstances of parents and children is that you no longer need to worry as much about economic class to work out which policies would most benefit children and provide a new generation of skilled workers and scientists. I would be more than happy to trade shelf-fulls of books on class and the class-based interpretation of history and society for a slim volume on econometrics and the design of experiments and quasi-experiments. (e.g. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mastering-Metrics-Path-Cause-Effect/dp/0691152845/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1639298403&refinements=p_27%3AJoshua+D.+Angrist&s=books&sr=1-2)

There's a really cool storyville on the story of Pepe if anyone is interested, it's a suprisingly deep and multifaceted symbol.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000nwrq/storyville-pepe-the-frog-feels-good-man

>Global pandemic, country needed ventilators.

Again, this is not the point.

Hislop puts it better than I can: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000vckg/have-i-got-news-for-you-series-61-episode-3 (Start at the 10:30 mark)

It's a bit complicated, so let me help you. Firstly, a ten year decline;

https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=GBP&to=USD&view=10Y

Secondly, since 1915 it's dropped from $4.70 to the £, to where it languishes now;

http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/dollhist.htm

All sorts of reasons - abandonment of the Gold Standard, Bretton Woods and various crises. However, right now it's at a 3 year low. Ask anyone you know who's about to venture abroad, to Europe or the USA. Luckily, I've moved to Europe and get paid in €, so I'm doing okay. However, it's not looking good. Making a statement like you did isn't really demonstrating a great grasp of variable exchange rates, I'm afraid. Suffice to say, Sterling is in the shitter right now. A no deal brexit will see it fall further. Some people actually make money out of that though, by betting against the markets. I'll let you guess which UK political party represents those lucky individuals.

Hope that helps.

I mostly mean that I was inclined to respect the criticism in the history textbook because it was rare. A web search finds an example of a book whose criticisms I would heed less, because they appear to be more frequent:

Contrary to nationalist legend and schoolboy history lessons, the British Empire was not a great civilising power bringing light to the darker corners of the earth. Richard Gotts magisterial work recounts the empires misdeeds from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the Indian Mutiny, spanning the red-patched imperial globe from Ireland to Australia, telling a story of almost continuous colonialist violence. Recounting events from the perspective of the colonised, Gott unearths the all-but-forgotten stories excluded from mainstream British histories

(https://www.amazon.co.uk/Britains-Empire-Resistance-Repression-Revolt/dp/1839764228)

OK, I read it looking for facts to separate from the carrier.

The priority is to inform people about celebrated figures with more detail and context online and on the Blue Plaque App. -

Apart form that it's all "But there are fears.." and "...may be under threat."

It's divisive fear-mongering, as I knew it would be from that awful rag.

And anyway, all the people they mention were really controversial people who were involved in horrendous situations. Do you think it's right that we just ignore these events? Why shouldn't we examine the darker side of our history?

I'd really recommend a book called The History Thieves by a guy called Ian Cobain. It's about how the official secrets act has been used by successive governments over the years to destroy huge swathes of our colonial and national history. It's a really fascinating and infuriating read.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Thieves-Secrets-Shaping-Modern/dp/1846275857/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=history+thieves&qid=1623935001&sr=8-1

Honestly, if you want to get angry about your history being erased, start wiht the home and foreign offices.

Particularly if you're Scottish you should read this abridged version of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. It is a cornerstone text for the Anglo-American political tradition. It's a lot more politically charged and philosophical than just a dry book on economics.

This one has great introductions that set it in context.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wealth-Nations-Economics-Selected-Contemporary/dp/0857080776/

If you want to go into this in detail, one of your sources might be https://www.amazon.co.uk/Enemy-Within-Tale-Muslim-Britain/dp/0241276020 - a book by a Muslim former cabinet minister which I remember as fairly critical of a large number of different groups on all sides of the issues involved. Her Wikipedia entry shows there are at least a few British Muslims who are not short of a bob or two https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayeeda_Warsi,_Baroness_Warsi.

The Associations were set up in 1868, a year after the Second Reform Act, which gave the vote to skilled working class, and four years before this speech.

The quote is from Blake's 'The Conservative Party from Peel to Major': https://www.amazon.com/Conservative-Party-Peel-Major-ebook/dp/B007BLOEDK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539809285&sr=8-1&keywords=robert+blake+peel+to+major

I read it because my History A-level, which from what I understand of AP is the UK equivalent, course was about British history. If you are just studying empire in general, there's no need to buy it as most of it would be irrelevant.