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    2023 Israel - Hamas war

    It'd be pretty remarkable if the Torah said anything specific about a religion that started around 1000 years after it was written!
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    Generational Smoking Bans

    There are already laws against littering though?
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    Keir Starmer and the Labour Party

    All those pledges that Sir Kier made and then has broken?
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    Generational Smoking Bans

    Even New Zealand, which first proposed this extreme and authoritarian policy, has since backend down. I fear that given the support on the Labour benches, we're in for the next parliament being one of continuation of broken Neoliberal economic policies, and an interventionist state trying to...
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    2023 Israel - Hamas war

    Who would have thought that bombing a population would cause them to support those who suggest fighting back?
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    Potential up to 2,000 job losses at Alstom Derby

    More cost effective in the long run doesn't provide tax breaks to your donors in the short-run.
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    I know that the economy is pretty bad, but does Ben Bradley really need four jobs to make ends meet?
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    Passport Rules

    The expiry date of the document is clearly noted upon it, it is reasonable to expect that a passport be deemed valid until the date inscribed upon it by the issuing authority.
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    Perhaps we should go for "Remainiac"? For those hard-remainers that want to joinn Schengen and the Euro; I'n not sure they exist outside of Nigel Farrages wildest fantasies though!
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    Keir Starmer and the Labour Party

    Of course, not for any of the good reasons to be against voter ID, but because of an easily fixable administrative error.
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    Keir Starmer and the Labour Party

    Why do I get the feeling that the Daily Mail journalists aren't going through the tax affairs of Conservative politicians with such as fine-toothed comb?
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    ASLEF website suffers cyber attack

    I would imagine the intent is more for if they are lost, than to allow early acquisition.
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    There has never been a vote to leave the European Economic Area, as such there was no deomocratic mandate to leave it.
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    Eurostar E300 replacements?

    From what I remember, they were looking to build a new single decker platform, the Zefiro, but then the EU competition commission ruled that they needed to sell off the platform, as they had acquired Bombardier. So despite having Japanese name plates, the Zefiro is a very French train. I...
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    How much innovation is there to be had in what is basically an appointment booking system? It's such a common and generic technology that I struggle to see what sorts of developments could lead to benefits that outweigh the costs of developing multiple systems, and the ongoinng training costs of...
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    I think the typical term used was "Islamic Extremist", which clearly indicated that this was not the ubiquitous view of the majority of Muslims. Whereas it feels like the more modern "Islamist", which until recently I had only ever heard obvious racists use as a derogatory term for Muslim, seems...
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    What exactly do people mean by an "Islamist" I've only heard it used as a pejorative term for a Muslim?
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    BT and EE annual increase of RPI +3.9%

    If loyalty to a supplier is not rewarded, why have multiple suppliers?
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    BT and EE annual increase of RPI +3.9%

    If all the companies do the same thing, and put their prices up by the same amount, what is the point of having all the companies. My understanding from proponents of the free-market is that it is supposed to bring around competition to provide the best price and services. However, much like...
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    Donald Trump and the aftermath of his presidency

    On theother hand, that money on building/maintaining our own deterrent would be staying in our economy, rather than going to the US.

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