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Recent content by Ben K.

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    [W:#7426]How will Brexit go?***W:46]***

    Well, they've kinda said that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed in two separate places. One relates to the pasr century of relationship between UK and Ireland, the other relates to many decades of relationship between the UK and the EU. To back out of the stage one promises would be...
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    Did trump do the right thing

    It was the right thing to do regardless of who ordered it. How the follow up is handled will require more difficult decisions.
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    Myopic Scottish National Party

    Its a stolen point I must admit. Hope you're keeping well Andy.
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    Myopic Scottish National Party

    They're not really the same, and no amount of questionable stats and graphs change the reality. Scotland needs permission from Westminster to hold an independence referendum. The United Kingdom didn't need permission from Brussels to do theirs.
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    United Ireland

    I remain unconvinced. Support for reunification has consistently dropped in NI since the GFA. I havent seen any reliable polling indicating a shift back since the Brexit vote. Now, while the DUP losses were substantial one has to consider recent events would sink a governing political party in...
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    Sweden Democrats: Trump was right[W:55]

    Re: Sweden Democrats: Trump was right True, it's come to that these days. We should just believe assertions backed up by no evidence from some guy on the internet.
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    Trump tries to explain remark about Sweden amid confusion [W:17]

    It's just the standard Trump gaff cycle. 1. Trump says something absurdly vague or outright incorrect. 2. Tweets later in attempt to clarify. Twitter turns out not to be a platform for thoughtfulness or nuance. 3. Others (social media, spokespeople etc.) eventually formulate a narrative and a...
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    Brexit: supreme court rules government cannot trigger article 50 without act of parli

    Re: Brexit: supreme court rules government cannot trigger article 50 without act of p Tories and Labour both want to trigger so this only means something in principle rather than anything practical. Seems like YouGov indicates the British public are even more ready for Brexit and tired of the...
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    Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

    I liked the Vader scene? The characters did nothing for me and made me appreciate TFA a whole lot more. The first two thirds of the movie are really disjointed and boring. Whatever Forrest Whitaker was trying to do failed. Vaders costume looked awful in his first scene. CGI charscters were...
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    Brazil football team Chapecoense in Colombia plane crash

    Re: Brazilian soccer team's plane crashes in Colombia; 76 dead Atlético Nacional have asked COMNEBOL to award the South American club trophy to Chapecoense. https://twitter.com/BBCSport/status/803587564112257024
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    Apple holds Europe to ransom: Tech giant threatens to cut jobs in EU after Brussels..

    Re: Apple holds Europe to ransom: Tech giant threatens to cut jobs in EU after Brusse My understanding is that Apple would easily win an appeal, because the Commission doesn't really have the power its claiming. But it's a very difficult argument for a weak Irish government to stand behind at...
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    BLM Claims Pokemon Go is Inherently Racist

    Thing is, no one argued otherwise.
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    BLM Claims Pokemon Go is Inherently Racist

    So it's a variation of the walking while black meme. I'm not sure where the guy reporting on the blog got ideas of aryan avatars and monsters with colored names and the game being racist. Perhaps hyperbolic satire? It's unclear.
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    BLM Claims Pokemon Go is Inherently Racist

    Seems a bit editorialised. The original blog does not accuse the game of being inherently racist unless I missed something.
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    Military coup in Turkey

    Turkey government seemed to have list of arrests prepared: EU's Hahn | Reuters
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