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tamaranth ([personal profile] tamaranth) wrote2011-07-18 06:58 pm
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AWOL - random thoughts

- 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:
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

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2011-07-18 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Welcome back. We should get together sometime soon.

[identity profile] tamaranth.livejournal.com 2011-07-21 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
yes, it would be good to catch up, Real Life permitting -- do you still need that database, by the way?

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2011-07-21 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
We must compare diaries at some point.
The database may turn into a spreadsheet, I think, as that is less confusing!

[identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com 2011-07-18 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Melanie Phillips: I wonder if she's writing that because according to the Information Commissioner the Daily Mail was three times more likely than the News Of The World to use private investigators on stories...

Also, when are you in Kew?

[identity profile] tamaranth.livejournal.com 2011-07-21 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
Kew plans vastly modified due to urgency re: paid employment. *May* be in Kew last full week of August ...

[identity profile] ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com 2011-07-18 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
It's raining in Cambridge - your cycle clips are still attached to you and you are indoors ?

[identity profile] woolymonkey.livejournal.com 2011-07-19 08:15 am (UTC)(link)
I like this thought!

And welcome back, Tamaranth :)

[identity profile] tamaranth.livejournal.com 2011-07-21 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
That works! And is delightfully localised!