UK Political Thread, part the second

…which is way, way, more information than I ever wanted about their sex life but I can’t help feeling that you’re correct, and that it will be according to some archaic law.

Given how weirdly clinical and generally debasing the royal family is to its female members, I wouldn’t be in any way surprised if it emerged that there is some (hereditary, naturally) little-known title that has existed for several hundred years that is something along the lines of Keeper of the Royal Speculum.

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Moi8Rpr

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Up until this moment, her abrupt step-down felt like it held several unanswered questions.

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The speeded-up process for selection of the next leader now makes more sense.

Not so much if you followed the numerous reports in Private Eye – there are still answers to be found.

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I was going to shrug this off but actually I don’t think I will: are you trying to imply that I have some kind of weird incel agenda for using the (grammatically correct in this sentence) adjective “female”? If not, then what?

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Yep, I’ve been following it for a while and it always looked like Sturgeon trying to distance her troubles from the party.

Also, let me be the 94th person to say that Private Eye is fantastic for reporting.

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Steady on; it’s only been published since 1961. I think “94” is probably a fair estimate of its total number of subscribers in that whole span of time, sadly…

94 is theme throughout PE articles that are to be continued are described as continued on page 94
It is also the name of the podcast

The letters page often carries the phrase May I be the 94th person to…

Bravo

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I haven’t actually read it in such a long time that I had entirely forgotten about that. Maybe I should be the 94th person to get a subscription…? :thinking:

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It’s tradition. When referring to human women as “females” a quark gets posted… :woman_shrugging: No one said incel here, but you.

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sarcastic willy wonka GIF

Getting the Quark from Mindy is a badge of honor!

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Sorry for being defensive and thanks for explaining.

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Since we’re on the eve of the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, signed on April 10, 1998, how about a throwback interview with Bernadette Devlin on Firing Line when she was MP:

And an article about the connections between Devlin (later MacAlinsky) and Angela Davis…

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Yeah, rap is the real problem up there right now.

The FT had a much better article last week.

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Handy link.

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Was anyone else’s first reaction to immediately go and check out Kneecap before they even finished reading the article? Count me a fan.

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