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I got redirected to an advert offering private healthcare insurance off that bottom of that Laurie Penny article.
(link broken) https:// www protected co uk/health-insurance/faqs/top-5-health-insurance-secrets-revealed.phtml?dx=1
It's not just the USA dwellers that need to have health insurance in their lives; even with the services of the NHS available to us all, UK residents should consider this valuable cover, too. With growing concerns about the effect that the government is having on the NHS, now is as good a time as ever to consider health insurance so that, should you face an illness or you need some sort of medical treatment, you will have another option.
With approximately 7 million people having already signed up for a health insurance policy1, it's time for you to join. Take a look at these industry secrets that will help you to make the most of your investment.
Intrigued at who Laurie Penny was clickbaiting for I read the "What's this" section at the bottom of the New Statesman website where the links are:
http://www.contentclick.co.uk/links.php
What are these links?
ContentClick provides content links to sites who use our sponsored content widget. ContentClick and the site the links are displayed upon may receive a compensation when readers click and engage.
Now I know LP or the New Statesman don't get to choose what sites ContentClick advertise on their website. But even if they did I doubt they'd care. Money is money.
(link broken) https:// www protected co uk/health-insurance/faqs/top-5-health-insurance-secrets-revealed.phtml?dx=1
It's not just the USA dwellers that need to have health insurance in their lives; even with the services of the NHS available to us all, UK residents should consider this valuable cover, too. With growing concerns about the effect that the government is having on the NHS, now is as good a time as ever to consider health insurance so that, should you face an illness or you need some sort of medical treatment, you will have another option.
With approximately 7 million people having already signed up for a health insurance policy1, it's time for you to join. Take a look at these industry secrets that will help you to make the most of your investment.
Intrigued at who Laurie Penny was clickbaiting for I read the "What's this" section at the bottom of the New Statesman website where the links are:
http://www.contentclick.co.uk/links.php
What are these links?
ContentClick provides content links to sites who use our sponsored content widget. ContentClick and the site the links are displayed upon may receive a compensation when readers click and engage.
Now I know LP or the New Statesman don't get to choose what sites ContentClick advertise on their website. But even if they did I doubt they'd care. Money is money.
Just have a look through some of the adverts in the print copy it's fucking grim.
For instance in the last Christmas ediction, 20th Dec - 9th Jan, which I happen to have a print copy of all but a few pages away from Laurie's article is an advert for the Royal Over-seas League, a highly exclusive private club. "With historic clubhouses in central London and Edinburgh, we offer our members a home away from home. Contact RSOL for more information, quoting New Statesman for special joining discounts."
Also a nice American express Platinum card one at the first few pages:
"As a platinum cardholder, you can find yourself invited to a bespoke range of events that have been curated with you in mind. Discover new culinary hotspots and meet the chef, or taste new vintages with renowned winemakers.
It's all part of leading a Platinum life"
I could go on because there's something that makes me want to puke on just about every other page.
For instance in the last Christmas ediction, 20th Dec - 9th Jan, which I happen to have a print copy of all but a few pages away from Laurie's article is an advert for the Royal Over-seas League, a highly exclusive private club. "With historic clubhouses in central London and Edinburgh, we offer our members a home away from home. Contact RSOL for more information, quoting New Statesman for special joining discounts."
Also a nice American express Platinum card one at the first few pages:
"As a platinum cardholder, you can find yourself invited to a bespoke range of events that have been curated with you in mind. Discover new culinary hotspots and meet the chef, or taste new vintages with renowned winemakers.
It's all part of leading a Platinum life"
I could go on because there's something that makes me want to puke on just about every other page.
She's taking the same approach to science fiction as she does to politics, turns up decades late to the party but is convinced that she and her chums invented it. Rich folk pay good money to have their offspring imbued with that sense of entitlement.
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
You can also add, oddly for a supposedly leftie magazine, the NS's refusal to recognise the National Union of Journlists. A recognition the NUJ has been seeking, and the NS has been ducking, for a number of years now. I don't know if it would be fair, strictly speaking, to describe the NS as union-busting, but it certainly refusies to recognise the NUJ even while employing Toytown Trots and pretend revolutionaries of the Prada-Meinhof persuasion, such as Penny Dreadful.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
That's pretty run of the mill for those kinds of schools. I know of schools with their own boathouses on the Thames, their own climbing walls, i vaguely remember one that had its own cottage in the Cairngorms. Laurie Penny's old head, and inspiration, now leads a school with its own golf course.
These types of school also do sport, seriously, every day...and employ ex-internationals as coaches.
Never wondered why so many sports are dominated by private school kids?
Balbi
Hey, Dean Yager!
Theisticle
Well-Known Member
Say what? I assume by referring to GoT, she is specifically focusing on the TV show. I do not recall a single scene with gang rape (there is attempted male and female rape though). So to imply its riddled with it is stretching credibility. Whilst there are more reasonable points to make about racism in the show she once again misses the entire point.
Christ, I am reminded of that absolutely terrible article she wrote about Game of Thrones. For a such a 'nerd' she really understands little of the show or books.
J Ed
Follow Back Pro Expropriation
In the article she conflated things that only happened in the books and only happened in the TV programme. Probably because she hasn't actually read the books and hasn't watched much of the TV programme and is basing her article off of someone else's work.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
Biggest private school in Edinburgh is not far from where I live and they have gymnasia (plural), a separate games hall, a 'fitness room', a swimming pool, 6 hard tennis courts, a football pitch, a bowling green, a cricket pitch, a rugby pitch and a massive pavilion that serves the last two. My kids' school doesn't even have its own playing field.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
I think the health insurance advert is worse to be honest. It reminds me of the demolition job being carried out against the NHS.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
I once tutored a private school pupil. They had to do two hours of sport every day after school, some were practice sessions, other days were matches with other private school teams, plus all afternoon Wednesdays and Saturday afternoons were competitions or more matches. The pupil was often too exhausted to do homework and quite frankly they should have been doing less sport not more.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Meanwhile over on twitter one of the patron saints of twittersectionalism, Mikki Kendall, the originator of the moderately famous #solidarityisforwhitewomen hashtag, has gone full patriot. It starts with Snowden being a "traitor" and culminates in her stating that her politics were never radical to begin with.
J Ed
Follow Back Pro Expropriation
Looks like Obama wins this round of top trumps!
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
It's some really quite astonishing stuff. It's almost too perfect.
Karnythia is her twitter name if any rubberneckers want to watch the carnage
Karnythia is her twitter name if any rubberneckers want to watch the carnage
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
That article is bad though - it's inconsistent throughout, and whilst the image is indeed of Charlotte Church, it's not of Charlotte Church 'doing a sci-fi show' as the caption helpfully points out, it's a UV light show of Charlotte Church performing her latest EP 'Four'. And Charlotte Church would be the first to point out she's a fairly mainstream artist, so why the picture of her in the first place?
Lo Siento.
Second As Farce
Huh, I wouldn't have thought American nationalist and intersectional feminist were a squareable circle...
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
have you seen the way american nationalists complain about the way they're treated by the federal government?
Lo Siento.
Second As Farce
True enough, but they do at least have an imaginary historical idyll to fall back on.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
yeh one in which feminists did not play a prominent role
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
I suspect that's only true if you think that intersectionalism is inherently radical. Most US liberals are patriotic to some degree or other.
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Buckaroo
Donkey piss and tractors
That's not cricket.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
It will be interesting to see how the British (largely white) twitter intersectionals respond to Kendall's outbursts. Will anyone have the chutzpah to try to defend her with a "racist bullying" card, will they just quietly ignore the whole thing, or will they turn on her?
So far it's largely been Americans responding.
So far it's largely been Americans responding.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
possibly to show the mainstream stealing from sci-fi people.
although if they knew anything about church they'd know that the whole pop thing was her job and that she's a bright lass who knows her stuff, not some vacuous simon cowell machine appropriating cultures.
edited to add: they don't know anything about charlotte church of course, because charlotte church is a) working class; and b) low culture, and so completely beneath the NS radar.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
I will say the photo sort of did fit with the theme of the article overall i.e. it was forced to fit a narrative that is simply wrong. Sci-fi is not mainstream. It has become more acceptable to be a geek ('geek chic' and all that), to be different but I'm the first to admit to pointing at the chap at work who still plays Magic The Gathering and laughing a little at him, whilst clutching a copy of Terry Practhett's 'Steam'.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
sci fi is pretty mainstream now. OK so you aren't going to see people weilding the latest Alistair Reynolds novel much, but as a genre it is fine now. No longer are we basement dwelling serial masturbators the only people who enjoy Battlestar Galactica! the wheel has turned and now my furtive habit is cool once more. Like what it was in the 70s when even playboy would publish sci fi amongst the tits.
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