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Daily review is also your post.
This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
In the 2004 film Downfall (Der Untergang), which portrays Hitler’s last days in a Berlin bunker, he says that if the German people are weak they deserve death. It is a view from philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who argued that conflicts are won by those with the strongest will. ...
Theresa May taking care of climate change, and I mean the mafioso sense of ‘taking care of it’:
“The new prime minister also announced the most radical shakeup in the shape of Whitehall for years, with the Department for Energy and Climate Change being abolished and its responsibilities absorbed into a new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.”
Mmm yes, because fighting climate change and industrial strategy work so well together.
Link:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/14/theresa-mays-decisive-reshuffle-draws-line-under-cameron-era
Just a snip here and a cut there …
I’m particularly thrilled with the appointment of Andrea Leadsom as Environment Secretary…
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/andrea-leadsom-environment-secretary-andrea-leadsom-fox-hunting-selling-off-forests-climate-change-a7137066.html
What a muppet.