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The last few weeks have seen the far-right separately mobilise several thousand people - in London this weekend and Manchester a couple of weeks back. It's clear that the vast majority of the people marching as the Football Lads Alliance or UK Against Hate aren't hardcore fascists or even...

Boris Johnson, who has a habit of casually using racist slurs, is not a bigot at all, of course.

Has anyone looked at the positive impact Brexit is having on the violin miniturization industry yet?

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Wonder what it is about Diane Abbott that means she gets far more stick for car-crash interviews than Boris Johnson? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/21/hang-on-a-second-boris-johnson-flounders-on-interview-circuit It's a mystery.

Wait 'til you hear about CPO's, Scumbag. Or is the part that's dangerously communist the acquiring of rich people's investments to provide homes for poor people, rather than vice versa?

"Terrorism" and "hate crime" are questions of framing though? The motive of terrorism is to terrorise the people you hate which is also the motive of hate crime. That said, I'm pretty ambivalent about labelling far-right racist violence as terrorism because I'm not sure what purpose that...

It's not good because one man is dead, and several others injured.

This is pretty damning (read the whole thing) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4614534/fears-cut-price-cladding-ignored-Grenfell.html

Thought Crime is a pretty loaded term. I have a problem with Farron's private beliefs because I don't think it's possible the separate them entirely from his actions. Someone's politics isn't just their voting record - it's also who they talk to and listen to. As an elected politician, you...

Protesters have stormed the council offices trying to get answers. If there aren't riots this weekend, I'd be astonished.

Guardian report of the same - the cladding was £2 per square metre cheaper than the fire-retardant version. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/16/manufacturer-of-cladding-on-grenfell-tower-identified-as-omnis-exteriors

I guess this is how people older than me feel or felt about Hillsborough, the New Cross Fire, Aberfan or Gresford. Those folk memories that form a wellspring for a deep-seated loathing of the ruling classes. That point of reference of how little those people responsible for your safety care...

The slow drip feed on information - on casualties, on causes - is like being punched in the gut every hour. I'm so full of rage and hate for the people whose indifference to the lives of working class people has caused this, and seeing them manoeuvre to shift the blame away from their own...

This is worth a read too - on the Labour Right's efforts to sabotage the general election campaign. https://newsocialist.org.uk/a-vow-of-silence-a-chronicle-of/

If anyone wants to read the odious Jason Cowley being hilariously wrong for 2,500 words, this is quite funny. http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2017/06/labour-reckoning

It's a requirement for new tower blocks have to have sprinkler systems installed. It's not a requirement for refurbished tower blocks to have sprinkler systems though.

It sounds like it, though I hope not. It was lucky that this happened during Ramadan - as many residents of the building were up and awake, and able to warn each other - it could have been much worse.

Lots of these buildings employ "stay put" policies in event of fire. The idea is that unless there's a fire on your floor, you're better off staying put and closing your doors and windows and relying on the fire not spreading, than by trying to evacuate. Problem is, that relies on the fire not...

Greenfell had been recently refurbished. Residents have suggested that the cladding contributed to the spread of the fire. The company responsible for the refurb, Rydon, have scrubbed all references to it from their website.