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I didn’t choose, you guys lost - that is me assuming you were about in the 70s and 80s - and it’s my lot and the younger ones who inherit the mess
This generation versus generation stuff is tired shite, really. I know I joke about being old and everything, but I remember when the kids wanted change regarding the environment back when I was a kid (I was born in 1965).

There won’t be fundamental change until we overturn capitalism.
 
They excelled themselves last week.


The paper said that although a number of high-profile grooming cases, including Rotherham, Rochdale and Telford mainly involved men of Pakistani ethnicity, “links between ethnicity and this form of offending” could not be proven.
“Research has found that group-based child sexual exploitation (CSE) offenders are most commonly white," it added.

They've changed it now but the photo on the front page which was repeated inside but much bigger was of .... the Rotherham grooming gang :facepalm:
 
There’s four of you chipping in to what was at the beginning a totally logical question to ask.

what was wrong with the Independent headline? Plus no analysis to go with the post.
 
Not just yet I am going to stay in Paris for a week I think and just try and enjoy the novelty of it before proceeding onwards towards the alps in some manner or other, depending on what restrictions there are / will be by then
 
who else is in control of the buying of the vaccine?

What's that got to do with the price of cheese? If the government wants to communicate with the public, then they have their own means. Getting chummy with the media is the worst possible way.
 
What's that got to do with the price of cheese? If the government wants to communicate with the public, then they have their own means. Getting chummy with the media is the worst possible way.

I find it neither surprising nor an issue that the government has taken out a public announcement through a daily. Think there’s more to be concerned about.
 
I find it neither surprising nor an issue that the government has taken out a public announcement through a daily. Think there’s more to be concerned about.

The talk of "hope" makes it more than just a plain transmission of factual information. The government is using the media as a PR organ, and that's shit on multiple levels.
 
The talk of "hope" makes it more than just a plain transmission of factual information. The government is using the media as a PR organ, and that's shit on multiple levels.

the idea that we should have any faith in our mainstream media is a bit off key.

the fact we’ve got 1001 more issues going on than the independent running an ad for the government is more of a concern afaiac
 
the idea that we should have any faith in our mainstream media is a bit off key.

the fact we’ve got 1001 more issues going on than the independent running an ad for the government is more of a concern afaiac

Who the hell said anything about having faith in the media? I know that I didn't.

This is a thread about the shitness of the Independent. We cover topics ranging from the grave to the trivial here on Urban, so I'm not sure what your point is.
 
Who the hell said anything about having faith in the media? I know that I didn't.

This is a thread about the shitness of the Independent. We cover topics ranging from the grave to the trivial here on Urban, so I'm not sure what your point is.

just a fucking argument for an arguments sake, clearly
 
I dont normally look at the independent because of all the adverts and pop ups - plus with adblocker Im just blocked from using it etc etc
Its a total mess

clicked on a link today and it looks like its had a redesign and has come back to reality and a new funding model of partial paywalled articles but majority free

ads and autostart videos binned it seems .... a massive improvement

have a go: News | The Independent | Today's headlines and latest breaking news | The Independent
 
Really - how fucking thick do you have to be to write for this paper?


How Boris Johnson went from climate sceptic to eco-warrior​


This should haunt the writer or sub ed to the end of their days. wtf?
 
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