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The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Good to see North Korea on the invite list .
moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
Is mr bad haircut attending?
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Starmer?Is mr bad haircut attending?
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Invited at ambassador level only .Is mr bad haircut attending?
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
USA obviously on the list after recent bombing missions in Syria and Somalia
Best load up on the Ferrero Rocher then.
Jennaonthebeach
What would Picard do?
it was my preferred newspaper around 2002/2003 because the Guardian went so full on pro war at the time, but then at some point it became a disaster and i just stopped buying papers. Can't remember exactly when that happened though.
Edit - just noticed its a very old thread. Ooops
Edit - just noticed its a very old thread. Ooops
moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
It was bought by ex-KGB agent Alexander Lebedev for his son Evgeny in 2010, who turned it quite Tory. They've now got former Mail editor Georgie Greig in the hot seat, although he was largely against the typical Mail line, and mutually despised Paul Dacre whilst there.
Jennaonthebeach
What would Picard do?
i think i stopped buying it before that - might have been when i was homeless for a bit in 2008, and other shit that took me a couple of years to work through - and I failed to notice that the Independent changed ownership, but then at some point i did notice it was completely changed from how i remembered it - probably after 2010.
They advocated for the continuation of the coalition in 2015.
gosub
~#
As opposed to chaos with Ed Milliband
It's not known whether Miliband was offering Lebedev a peerage*.
*Cameron, Miliband's opposition, didn't award the gong, it should said. That was done by Johnson.
savoloysam
Pigman's pigman's ha ha charade you are..
No because I stopped following it's click bait crap although it is frustrating when they actually do have the best lead on a story and you have to fight your way through the adverts.
Some so called news websites only have two or three lines of text between adverts now. When they get that bad I fuck them off.
kenny g
Sheeple Awake!
The independent was described as the Daily Anarchist by the police federation back in the 1990s and was the last remaining quality newspaper excepting the financial times and the racing post. Not being a horse follower I now am left with the Saturday FT and archive.md covering the Times post paywall. The rest of them are utter shite.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Not sure where else this should go but ...
www.independent.co.uk
Wtf - don't they get staff discounts?
Stupid though, that's £10,000 a week that goes to other companies (from government subsidised industry to private industry?). Doubtful that all the train seats are full so it's effectively free for them to travel by rail.
Rail bosses spend £10,000 a week on flights – because it’s cheaper than trains
Network Rail Director Michelle Handforth expensed £8,000 worth of domestic flights
www.independent.co.uk
Wtf - don't they get staff discounts?
Stupid though, that's £10,000 a week that goes to other companies (from government subsidised industry to private industry?). Doubtful that all the train seats are full so it's effectively free for them to travel by rail.
newme
Giant in Pastyland now
Slower also a factor I imagine but the optics are dreadful either way. Use trains! We don't tho cos it's worse.Not sure where else this should go but ...
Rail bosses spend £10,000 a week on flights – because it’s cheaper than trains
Network Rail Director Michelle Handforth expensed £8,000 worth of domestic flights
Wtf - don't they get staff discounts?
Stupid though, that's £10,000 a week that goes to other companies (from government subsidised industry to private industry?). Doubtful that all the train seats are full so it's effectively free for them to travel by rail.
I had a company meet up cancelled for me cos of the strikes. Which was nice as I wasn't exactly looking forward to it. We were flying too for the same reason. Tho people did have some train sections depending on where they were coming from as we have people in N Ireland, Scotland, Wales and down to Cornwall so they just blanket cancelled our team.
Train then a flight was half the price of train the whole way there. The train was also 9 hours with 4 changes lol. I wasn't leaving England, nor was it the overnight. That was 14 hours, oddly only 2 changes but at 2 and 4am...
it's business 101 - eat your own dog food
newme
Giant in Pastyland now
Dog ignored me then rolled on his back and showed me his genitalia and wanted some fuss, not sure how accurate he realised that was.
gosub
~#
Sounds like the ex had a lucky escape
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
True, but they could use the time to work or relax in a way you can't on a plane journey. And if they find it too difficult to work on the train as managers they should find out why and improve things so people can work on the train.
T & P
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I’m watching the second half of Squid Game The Challenge right now, and thought I’d check early comments / reviews online. I know the websites of the gutter press such as the Mail and the other tabloids have liberally used comments from single members of the public to create content, but I’d have hoped the higher brow media would try to refrain from from such aberration to journalism.
So I was sad to see one of the leading search results about the second half of the reality show was an article by the Indy branding it as over emotional, based not on the critical review of their own critic, or at least the median IMDB ratings of many thousands of people, but a handful of randoms on social media. Literally ‘One viewer said on Twitter X whilst another one said Y, and a third one added Z’.
Fuck sakes.
So I was sad to see one of the leading search results about the second half of the reality show was an article by the Indy branding it as over emotional, based not on the critical review of their own critic, or at least the median IMDB ratings of many thousands of people, but a handful of randoms on social media. Literally ‘One viewer said on Twitter X whilst another one said Y, and a third one added Z’.
Fuck sakes.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Welcome to today’s news system. Next step will be articles solely quoting what is said on Twtter, but the Twitter content itself will be AI generated.
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