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Apologists for the Netanyahu regime are lining up to justify state sanctioned murder by Trump's MAGA fascists. What a fkng surprise.

"Shot while attempting to escape", has a familiar ring to it.

Cannabis is, of course, a narcotic.

Former Leeds United and Wales midfielder Terry Yorath has died at the age of 75 following a short illness.

Not as a rule, no.

One of the central arguments for decriminalisation is to effectively weaken the grip of drug gangs on the trade. This was shown to be affective in the short lived trial in London 20 years ago but due to political pressure was discontinued. To be clear, this is about legitimising cannabis use...

In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on poverty in America.” (Which is going as well as their 'War on Drugs'; 'War on Terror' or any other war they've gotten into since then.)

Wait til tomorrow old sock.

Advertising smoking was banned over 20 years ago on health grounds. An argument can be made to do the same for alcohol.

That's your epitaph sorted.(y)

A bold claim from someone who 'joined' a couple o' weeks ago. Fast reader, are you?

You're making it difficult for simple folk to pin a label on either one of them. People prefer to pick up on one, or at most two, categories and leave it at that, defining an individual with a closed interpretation that brooks no further argument. Even their idea of an 'argument' will stress...

U got the sun, i got the m00n... We got the Stones The w/ends S.m00n was the brightest i seen for a long while now.

In that case, why shouldn't the UK ban advertising alcohol in case we turn into a nation of alcoholics? Drinking and driving is far more dangerous.

The orange oaf is running scared as he tells the GoP: “Win the midterms” or “I’ll get impeached.”

I watched an episode of Portillo's train journeys recently and he chatted with a woman in Preston* who'd signed 'The Pledge' to abstain from alcohol. She pointed out pure alcohol was a poison to the body. She has a point. Prohibition showed how difficult it is to curtail a habit that can become...

Can you name a far left govt. of this country that's committed atrocities?

The tories/lib dems were pretty much forced into carrying on with more of the same. :?: The Austerity years, anyone?

In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, outlined a goal of “Four Freedoms” for the world: freedom of speech and expression, the freedom of people to worship God in their own way, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. On Jan. 6, 2021, supporters of...

I cannot access the full article and only quote from an extract: the blackshirt career of ex‐socialist Alexander Miles, and the transformation in the fascist movement's leadership illustrates the contradiction between ‘left‐wing’ fascist rhetoric and actions arising from the politics of class...