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Great read this about the Fox Street apartments and recent fire. https://open.substack.com/pub/liverpoolpost/p/village-of-the-damned-inside-the?r=7i95q&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post Don’t think it’s paywalled, but if it is let me know and I’ll copy and edit a version.

Going round on Telegram apparently.

Culture War? Completed it, mate.

Good stuff mate, thanks for that. Peter Hooton does a Liverpool music tour now visiting old places and talking about the different scenes.

Only heard about this band when the lead singer passed away a while ago. One for some of our more senior posters? Also stumbled across this.

It looked like authentic footage rather than anything from the series. Were they called rhubarbs the fighter sweeps? Anyway, there’s the Paddy Finucane film to look forward to.

Saw a clip on FB off B-17 pilots reacting to the Me 262 turning up. I might be wrong but didn’t the RAF initially give partial cover over the channel into France and Belgium but no further?

There were no Yanks in SAS Rogue Heroes because there weren’t any serving there as they only turned late 1942 in Operation Torch. The 8th Air Force flew from British airfields and would’ve had at some points escorts from RAF squadrons with British and Commonwealth pilots.

“Frakking toasters are skin jobs now?”

To help you get through the day ”I've travelled this old world of ours from Barnsley to Peru, I've had sunstroke in the arctic and a swim in Timbuktu, I've seen unicorns in Burma and a Yeti in Nepal, And I've danced with ten-foot pygmies in a Montezuma hall, I've met the King of China and a working Yorkshire miner, But I've never met a nice South African! (Chorus) No he's never met a nice South African, And that's not bloody surprising man, 'Cause we're a bunch of arrogant bastards who hate black people!”

I’ll link the article below that features the above YouTube report on how Roblox is exploiting child labor and being massively rewarded for it. Videos about 16 minutes long. Didn’t know much about Roblox but there’s been a raft of mergers and layoffs across the gaming industry. Article is a lengthy read but if you even know a little about how big games like Fortnite and CoD work using in game currency and items it’s quite a revelation. https://open.substack.com/pub/peewee/p/the-addiction-economy-seeks-to-create?r=7i95q&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

“the rest of NATO…..they’re a glorified crew”.

Yeah awful company. Like the rest of them delivering public services like SERCO and Atos. 5.5 billion quid spent on Ajax APCs for the Army not one delivered yet. No money though apparently. https://www.forces.net/technology/land-vehicles/trouble-hit-ajax-light-tank-complete-and-utter-disaster-ex-top-brass-says

They outsourced Army recruitment to Capita. You know the rest. https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/14/495m-contract-led-to-army-recruitment-shortfalls-auditors-find

Remember. No Russian.

Hope you’ve got a stash of Speights and pies.

Don’t know if you like podcasts but listened to this recently. Peter Thiel, Musk and so on worship the book The Sovereign Individual. Rees Mogg’s Dad ouevre. An emergent cognitive elite. They know shit is hitting the fan and they’re building bunkers in NZ, Thiel is a massive LOTR fan hence Palantir.

“If you want a jihadi for a neighbour vote Labour”. Coming soon to the Red Wall

Jesus just seen Hancock lounging on the back bench there. The true face of 21st Century British conservatism. Inept, grifting sociopaths bred by the fires of the Thatcherite revolution, wrapping imports in a Union Jack because it’s “packaged” in a free port next to a skint local authority that can no longer provide its statutory duties. Then going on telly and crying about it as a form of public rehab.

They’ve sent Gullis the pit bull in on Politics Live. Councils will fold and the posh boys are circling ready to buy.

Yeah no doubt. Essentially the unemployed and destitute working class of a dying former Imperial city should’ve looked to their own salvation much like Jarrow in the 1930s because “something something Thatcher evil unions you don’t understand economics I am very intelligent.”

I should add that their comments section under the above article is quite revealing, too.