UK General Discussion: Rishecession
Torrain:
Greens essentially rule out Corbyn defecting to them:
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Guess the project will get rebranded as a party?
EastAnglianLefty:
Quote from: Filuwaúrdjan on March 29, 2023, 11:30:43 AM
Quote from: Senator NewYorkExpress on March 28, 2023, 12:19:41 PM
The owner of the Guardian apologized for the role the paper's founders played in the transatlantic slave trade.
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The owner of the Guardian has issued an apology for the role the newspaper’s founders had in transatlantic slavery and announced a decade-long programme of restorative justice.
The Scott Trust said it expected to invest more than £10m (US$12.3m, A$18.4m), with millions dedicated specifically to descendant communities linked to the Guardian’s 19th-century founders.
It follows independent academic research commissioned in 2020 to investigate whether there was any historical connection between chattel slavery and John Edward Taylor, the journalist and cotton merchant who founded the newspaper in 1821, and the other Manchester businessmen who funded its creation.
The Scott Trust Legacies of Enslavement report, published on Tuesday, revealed that Taylor, and at least nine of his 11 backers, had links to slavery, principally through the textile industry. Taylor had multiple links through partnerships in the cotton manufacturing firm Oakden & Taylor, and the cotton merchant company Shuttleworth, Taylor & Co, which imported vast amounts of raw cotton produced by enslaved people in the Americas.
It's one thing if there were actual investments in the abominable trade, but quite another if we're talking of a commercial relationship with the results. Those same mills will have employed local children, and will have used (both directly and indirection through e.g. iron and steel in the machinery) coal produced in very dangerous conditions and often, again, featuring children in the production process. Most of the factories will have had slate roofs, and the production of that was also notoriously exploitative at the time. Are we going to get 'apologies' for all that as well, given that there is no obvious moral distinction?
While we're at it, perhaps they could consider the current employment arrangements for subeditors at the paper itself.
CumbrianLefty:
Quote from: Torrain on March 29, 2023, 01:46:48 PM
Greens essentially rule out Corbyn defecting to them:
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Guess the project will get rebranded as a party?
After the Novara gang were getting so excited about this!
Middle-aged Europe:
In sort of a cross German-UK news, I can announce that the King is here!
Charles III. is on tour in Germany and it confirms what I always suspected, that Germans deep down long for a monarchy too. Just not the one with the Kaiser and his weird facial hair, but a more democratic version. Like in Britain, you know.
I'm a bit flabbergasted by that development too, since I seem to remember that Charles used to be frequently mocked around here when he was still a prince.
Part of the new Charlesmania has been fueled by our media after they noticed that the King is more or less fluent in German, a talent which he seems to puts to good use on his visit. He also adressed the Bundestag in a part-German/part-English speech.... which was criticed by the Left Party, which came out as the most anti-monarchist political party in our parliament. They took offense that an "archaic" non-elected head of state was given such a privilege.
Charles also met with Olaf Scholz and then he started to eat himself through some organic food markets and organic farms in and around Berlin. Enjoy.
Secretary of State Liberal Hack:
Quote from: Middle-aged Europe on March 30, 2023, 09:48:02 AM
b]Left Party, which came out as the most anti-monarchist political party in our parliament. They took offense that an "archaic" non-elected head of state was given such a privilege.
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Ultra-rare Left Party W
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