Dad’s Army will save Brits from doom
Not a gang, a collective of individuals. Sam Buckingham-Jones, The Australian, August 14:
An 18-year-old … has been arrested … after police found (him with) a suspected AK-47 assault rifle … the second AK-47 found by Victorian police in days, after a youth gang … was broken up last week … (following) a spate of armed car-jackings and robberies (in the area) … Detective Inspector Pannell said … while there appeared to be a “level of organisation” in the group … “I wouldn’t call them a gang, no, they’re a collective group of individuals who know each other” … the “million-dollar question” was why the youths had turned to violent burglaries, car-jackings and home invasions.
AK-47s in Heidelberg in the 1960s? Mick Armstrong, Red Flag — A Voice of Resistance, August 15:
The media are absolutely relentless when it comes to demonising the “un-Australian” behaviour of Sudanese youth. The latest threat to the very fabric of white Western civilisation occurred in … Taylors Hill, when a crowd of 50 or so South Sudanese teenagers gathered to watch a fight between four young women. The cops went ballistic … while a hysterical media evoked fears of Armageddon over a so-called brawl in which no-one was injured … When I was a teenager in the 1960s, part of the attraction of the Saturday night dances at Heidelberg Town Hall was precisely the thrill of the fight afterwards.
Kristallnacht or Dad’s Army? Emma Brockes, The Guardian, August 10:
The New York Times has … a terrifying piece about climate change … With 2C warming … the planet faces “long-term disaster” … (with) 5C … the end of human civilisation … There has … been some chatter about whether its gloomy prediction that … we’re doomed, Captain Mainwaring, doomed … will encourage … people to … leave the house with every light burning … Is this, the summer of forest fires and record heatwaves, the climate disaster equivalent to Kristallnacht?
Wages eroded. William Brown, The Conversation, May 24:
There is a risk … Brexit could erode workers’ wages and conditions, particularly if the British government … undercuts EU standards, as various ministers have suggested.
No. The Guardian, August 13:
The number of people moving to the UK from (the) EU … has fallen to its lowest level since 2013 … 101,000. Alex Fleming of … Adecco (said): “In this candidate-short landscape the pressure is on employers to not only offer an attractive salary, but also additional benefits.”
Dad’s Army stamps on. Stephen Moss, The Guardian, June 13:
The Royal Mail has resisted Brexiter calls to issue … (stamps) to mark “Liberation Day” — 29 March 2019, when the proud British cast off the yoke of EU servitude and strike out for … well somewhere or other … issuing a set of Dad’s Army stamps instead … a precise image of Britain’s current predicament. We stand alone … cut off from Europe, a little island filled with people trying to muddle through in an increasingly hostile world. “Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Juncker/Putin/Trump/Xi Jinping?” Capt May, Sgt Hammond and Cpl Davis invent elaborate plans that invariably see May humiliated, Hammond bemused and Davis deposited into a lake, while Andrew Adonis intones “We’re doomed, doomed!” from the sidelines and all manner of Pte Walker-like spivs seek to make a dishonest buck out of the country’s collective misfortune.