ohulancutash @ ohulancutash @feddit.uk

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You’re thinking of the failed scheme to build a Paramount theme park near Dartford.

Just a minor correction here, HS1 was not built with public funds. Indeed Thatcher wrote into the Channel Tunnel Act 1987 a clause making it illegal for any public subsidy to reach the tunnel or its connecting line. As a consequence, St Pancras is the only privately owned railway station on the national network, and HS1 itself is owned by a private consortium.

He had one casino that was actually doing ok. He was so happy with it that he opened another one down the street….

Fabbing is limited to keep prices high. Just like OPEC turning down oil extraction when the price gets too low.

They’ve reinvented the Pagoda shelter of 1907, but just more expensive and taking longer to install.

It’ll increase wages.

Yes, a widespread nickname…

Soccer is short for Association Football. If you really want to fixate on club names for some reason, you can take in Wrexham AFC, AFC Bournemouth, AFC Wimbledon, Barrow AFC, but I don’t see the relevance myself.

They couldn’t even host Formula E without the power going out. There’s a serious credibility issue with a SA bid.

I don’t really get your point. You’re expecting a nickname to make it to the club’s formal name?

Found a PDF of a 2014 study by Stefan Szymanski at the University of Michigan. Compares Soccer/Football use in The Times, NY Times, British football bibliography, Guardian, Independent and Time Magazine.

You don’t have to be smart to make money.

The article doesn’t reduce the entire nation to houthis….

As the close relative of a football journalist, I spent my early life surrounded by historical books, journals, fanzines and programmes from around 1900 to the 2000s. Strikingly, pre-1970s, soccer and football were wholly interchangeable in every social grouping, every purpose, every outlet. Dockers down the pub would talk about footy, football, or soccer as if it meant the same thing. It is only with the xenophobia of the 70s that it became an “American” word and a naughty thing to say in certain company.

Parliament has a handy guide to the difference.

Parliament and the Government are different. They have different roles and do different things.

What is the Government?

HM Government consists of the Prime Minister, their Cabinet and junior ministers, supported by the teams of non-political civil servants that work in government departments.

Chamberlain who stalled until rearmament could take place rather than going off half-cocked?

Took a while, but the Kennedys got their revenge on Texas.

Cameron? May? Johnson? Fucking Truss?

He is disappointing on the Middle East, but it’s literally his job to get the best deal for the UK regarding US trade. If that means tickling a fragile ego, sure why not, an easy win. If it’s proper labour you want, he’d have to denounce every US president since FDR as a fascist abomination.

Starmer won’t do much if anything about it. They’ve already sent the sternly-worded email. If anything he’s relieved that there’s a distraction from one of his MPs being arrested for child rape yesterday.

Under the Westminster system, Parliament is a separate entity to the Government, even though members of the government are nearly always members of the parliament. It goes back to the English Civil War and what’s run by Kings and what’s run by the electorate.

It’s the government’s responsibility to ensure the safety of MPs, but it seems they were there on parliamentary or personal business bit government business.