AWOL - random thoughts
Monday, July 18th, 2011 06:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tamaranth- Have been offline / news-blind for days, it was lovely.
- I see that unemployment figures are on the rise, especially in the media and police sectors.
- Did you know you can only complain to the IPCC about the conduct of individual officers? (i.e. a complaint about a particular force's handling of an international property fraud, just f'rexample, will be rejected because no single person accountable).
- Melanie Phillips still indescribably batshit (spluttering is my own fault: I wondered why she was trending on Twitter)*
- 'It's raining in Paris' used to be a stealth way of telling someone that their petticoat was showing. (I have no idea what 'It's raining in Cambridge just when I'm finally psyched up for gym' might indicate.)
- horrific and sobering article about male rape as a weapon of war:
*If Miliband is such a hero, why won't he tackle the REAL threat to our way of life - the BBC?, or executive summary here
- I see that unemployment figures are on the rise, especially in the media and police sectors.
- Did you know you can only complain to the IPCC about the conduct of individual officers? (i.e. a complaint about a particular force's handling of an international property fraud, just f'rexample, will be rejected because no single person accountable).
- Melanie Phillips still indescribably batshit (spluttering is my own fault: I wondered why she was trending on Twitter)*
- 'It's raining in Paris' used to be a stealth way of telling someone that their petticoat was showing. (I have no idea what 'It's raining in Cambridge just when I'm finally psyched up for gym' might indicate.)
- horrific and sobering article about male rape as a weapon of war:
Ignoring male rape not only neglects men, it also harms women by reinforcing a viewpoint that equates 'female' with 'victim'...silence about male victims reinforces unhealthy expectations about men and their supposed invulnerability."
*If Miliband is such a hero, why won't he tackle the REAL threat to our way of life - the BBC?, or executive summary here
