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Gendered Tea

Tea is more complicated than I thought...

Products on a shelf: Men's Tea/Women's Tea

Interview with Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu

Michael Meacher's letter

I saw this letter on Twitter this morning:

The annual Sunday Times Rich List yields four very important conclusions for the governance of Britain (Report, Weekend, 28 April). It shows that the richest 1,000 persons, just 0.003% of the adult population, increased their wealth over the last three years by £155bn. That is enough for themselves alone to pay off the entire current UK budget deficit and still leave them with £30bn to spare.

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Maths how does it work

"We wanted to increase delicious by 200%... so we put two bars in each pack"

Is that even legal?

"To keep the Tube safe you may be approached by Police officers carrying out searches. Your cooperation in this exercise is valued."

Creeeeepy!

Stalker is dead. Long live Vostok Games.

GSC Game World, the recently closed-then-reformed Ukrainian development team behind the first-class Stalker series, has announced that they won’t be continuing development on Stalker 2.

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Oh, good idea

"Reduce File Size"

Wait, what?

Ed Brayton's new podcast

I was delighted yesterday to discover that Ed Brayton, who used to host one of my all-time favourite political podcasts, Declaring Independence Radio, has recently started hosting a new show: Culture Wars Radio.

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Police suppression of peaceful pro-NHS protest, March 17th 2012

Here’s what happened when me and a few friends went to London to show our opposition to the atrocious Health and Social Care Bill 2011. The one currently being forced through parliament with a middle finger to all who look on.

I feel it’s important to document what I witnessed at this demonstration since, as many have noted, there has been little-to-no coverage of this protest by the BBC and other UK mass media. A deeply worrying trend for anti-government protests, but one others are better placed to comment on than me.

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Letter to the government: drop the Health and Social Care Bill 2011

Everyone knows the shocking scale of the Tory-led coalition government’s proposed changes to the NHS and degree to which they disregard public and expert concerns.

If you care about public healthcare in the UK, write to your MP. NOW.

Below the fold is the letter I have sent to my MP and to various members of the House of Lords, complete with references.

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