In Brexit news tonight, May orders a charm offensive, and officials complain that they are being denied access to water so the EU can gain an advantage.
...in cabinet terms losing Carrington...and having to promote Pym in exchange (who was not only a wet but hated her guts) could have weakened her control over the cabinet considerably had it not been for the personal popularity she gained following the war.
As previously mentioned I'm plowing thru Max Hastings's books at the moment. One of them is 'Battle for the Falklands', co-authored with Simon Jenkins. Hastings makes the point that Carrington's resignation was ill-timed and selfish: it could have been easily left until after the war and made the PM's life more difficult than it needed to be at a time of great stress, forcing her to spend time (unsuccessfully) persuading him to stay on when she had far better things to do.
In Brexit news tonight, May orders a charm offensive, and officials complain that they are being denied access to water so the EU can gain an advantage.
If I were a Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Christian or atheist Asian I wouldn't be happy with that description
If Roman Catholic immigrants were constantly gang raping young Asian girls in an Islamic country, I think I would find it unfair if the press of that country described the perpetrators as "Europeans", tarring Jews, Anglicans, atheists et al with the same brush. These "Asian" rapists who collude together in Northern towns rarely seem to come from Indian origin do they?
The BBC article does give the national origins of the perpetrators.
I find it utterly bewildering why any man would do what these men did. How can one possibly enjoy sex with a drugged drunk unwilling frightened child? How does one not feel disgusted at oneself?
There is a scene in Marathon Man (book) that perhaps explains this.
Babe is being tortured by Szell, the Nazi dentist, and asks him how he can do this to anyone. Szell thinks about it and replies that to him, Jews will never really seem human.
If I were a Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Christian or atheist Asian I wouldn't be happy with that description
If Roman Catholic immigrants were constantly gang raping young Asian girls in an Islamic country, I think I would find it unfair if the press of that country described the perpetrators as "Europeans", tarring Jews, Anglicans, atheists et al with the same brush. These "Asian" rapists who collude together in Northern towns rarely seem to come from Indian origin do they?
The BBC article does give the national origins of the perpetrators.
I find it utterly bewildering why any man would do what these men did. How can one possibly enjoy sex with a drugged drunk unwilling frightened child? How does one not feel disgusted at oneself?
There is a scene in Marathon Man (book) that perhaps explains this.
Babe is being tortured by Szell, the Nazi dentist, and asks him how he can do this to anyone. Szell thinks about it and replies that to him, Jews will never really seem human.
It's that, I reckon.
Thanks. That explains why the victim is treated in the way they are. It does not explain to me what enjoyment the man gets from such sex. Part of the enjoyment of sex is the pleasure you are giving your partner and the pleasure they are actively giving you.
I can't see how forcing yourself onto a child who is vomiting from being drunk can involve any pleasure at all. It's just sadism. Or am I hopelessly starry eyed or maybe just lucky?
If I were a Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Christian or atheist Asian I wouldn't be happy with that description
If Roman Catholic immigrants were constantly gang raping young Asian girls in an Islamic country, I think I would find it unfair if the press of that country described the perpetrators as "Europeans", tarring Jews, Anglicans, atheists et al with the same brush. These "Asian" rapists who collude together in Northern towns rarely seem to come from Indian origin do they?
The BBC article does give the national origins of the perpetrators.
I find it utterly bewildering why any man would do what these men did. How can one possibly enjoy sex with a drugged drunk unwilling frightened child? How does one not feel disgusted at oneself?
There is a scene in Marathon Man (book) that perhaps explains this.
Babe is being tortured by Szell, the Nazi dentist, and asks him how he can do this to anyone. Szell thinks about it and replies that to him, Jews will never really seem human.
It's that, I reckon.
Thanks. That explains why the victim is treated in the way they are. It does not explain to me what enjoyment the man gets from such sex. Part of the enjoyment of sex is the pleasure you are giving your partner and the pleasure they are actively giving you.
I can't see how forcing yourself onto a child who is vomiting from being drunk can involve any pleasure at all. It's just sadism. Or am I hopelessly starry eyed or maybe just lucky?
I've no idea. I can imagine how they can stand to do it but not how they could find it pleasurable.
If I were a Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Christian or atheist Asian I wouldn't be happy with that description
If Roman Catholic immigrants were constantly gang raping young Asian girls in an Islamic country, I think I would find it unfair if the press of that country described the perpetrators as "Europeans", tarring Jews, Anglicans, atheists et al with the same brush. These "Asian" rapists who collude together in Northern towns rarely seem to come from Indian origin do they?
The BBC article does give the national origins of the perpetrators.
I find it utterly bewildering why any man would do what these men did. How can one possibly enjoy sex with a drugged drunk unwilling frightened child? How does one not feel disgusted at oneself?
There is a scene in Marathon Man (book) that perhaps explains this.
Babe is being tortured by Szell, the Nazi dentist, and asks him how he can do this to anyone. Szell thinks about it and replies that to him, Jews will never really seem human.
It's that, I reckon.
Thanks. That explains why the victim is treated in the way they are. It does not explain to me what enjoyment the man gets from such sex. Part of the enjoyment of sex is the pleasure you are giving your partner and the pleasure they are actively giving you.
I can't see how forcing yourself onto a child who is vomiting from being drunk can involve any pleasure at all. It's just sadism. Or am I hopelessly starry eyed or maybe just lucky?
The key to understanding the motivation for rape is to understand its violent nature. While rape is defined by the sexual act, it is primarily an act of violence. There are any number of simpler and less risky ways of achieving male orgasm.
Rape varies with context but is primarily an act of male power, generally from men who feel their maleness under threat. It is an act of violent social inadequates.
"The Isle of Skye is so overrun with tourists that police have now warned people not to come if they haven't booked somewhere to stay.
Desperate visitors are using the local police force to help them find accommodation - but they say they cannot act as travel agents for hapless holidaymakers.
Visitors are "regularly" arriving at the station with no hotel organised asking officers to help them find a bed for the night, Police Scotland said."
"The Isle of Skye is so overrun with tourists that police have now warned people not to come if they haven't booked somewhere to stay.
Desperate visitors are using the local police force to help them find accommodation - but they say they cannot act as travel agents for hapless holidaymakers.
Visitors are "regularly" arriving at the station with no hotel organised asking officers to help them find a bed for the night, Police Scotland said."
...in cabinet terms losing Carrington...and having to promote Pym in exchange (who was not only a wet but hated her guts) could have weakened her control over the cabinet considerably had it not been for the personal popularity she gained following the war.
As previously mentioned I'm plowing thru Max Hastings's books at the moment. One of them is 'Battle for the Falklands', co-authored with Simon Jenkins. Hastings makes the point that Carrington's resignation was ill-timed and selfish: it could have been easily left until after the war and made the PM's life more difficult than it needed to be at a time of great stress, forcing her to spend time (unsuccessfully) persuading him to stay on when she had far better things to do.
That is a wonderful read! Eye-opening as to how close it was. Have just started "Catastrophe"...great so far.
Interesting article, Stodge. Galtieri invaded the Falklands to shore up his regime and ended up saving the government of his enemy. A point I hadn't really taken on board before. What ifs of history are never very profitable discussions but we can be fairly sure Thatcher's prospects of survival were poor without that war happening when it did.
...in cabinet terms losing Carrington...and having to promote Pym in exchange (who was not only a wet but hated her guts) could have weakened her control over the cabinet considerably had it not been for the personal popularity she gained following the war.
As previously mentioned I'm plowing thru Max Hastings's books at the moment. One of them is 'Battle for the Falklands', co-authored with Simon Jenkins. Hastings makes the point that Carrington's resignation was ill-timed and selfish: it could have been easily left until after the war and made the PM's life more difficult than it needed to be at a time of great stress, forcing her to spend time (unsuccessfully) persuading him to stay on when she had far better things to do.
That is a wonderful read! Eye-opening as to how close it was. Have just started "Catastrophe"...great so far.
Just wait until you get to "Armageddon" (Germany 1944-45). It's heartbreaking: at that point everybody had just given up all attempts at restraint and were just slaughtering left, right and centre, and by that time they were really good at it.
If I were a Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Christian or atheist Asian I wouldn't be happy with that description
If Roman Catholic immigrants were constantly gang raping young Asian girls in an Islamic country, I think I would find it unfair if the press of that country described the perpetrators as "Europeans", tarring Jews, Anglicans, atheists et al with the same brush. These "Asian" rapists who collude together in Northern towns rarely seem to come from Indian origin do they?
The BBC article does give the national origins of the perpetrators.
I find it utterly bewildering why any man would do what these men did. How can one possibly enjoy sex with a drugged drunk unwilling frightened child? How does one not feel disgusted at oneself?
There is a scene in Marathon Man (book) that perhaps explains this.
Babe is being tortured by Szell, the Nazi dentist, and asks him how he can do this to anyone. Szell thinks about it and replies that to him, Jews will never really seem human.
It's that, I reckon.
Thanks. That explains why the victim is treated in the way they are. It does not explain to me what enjoyment the man gets from such sex. Part of the enjoyment of sex is the pleasure you are giving your partner and the pleasure they are actively giving you.
I can't see how forcing yourself onto a child who is vomiting from being drunk can involve any pleasure at all. It's just sadism. Or am I hopelessly starry eyed or maybe just lucky?
The key to understanding the motivation for rape is to understand its violent nature. While rape is defined by the sexual act, it is primarily an act of violence. There are any number of simpler and less risky ways of achieving male orgasm.
Rape varies with context but is primarily an act of male power, generally from men who feel their maleness under threat. It is an act of violent social inadequates.
+1.
The men derive their pleasure not from the sex, but from the control, the dominance. They are imposing their will on an "other". The orgasm is an irrelevance.
Makes me sad to be male.
I would also point out that there are plenty of white men who behave like this. They tend not to group and organise to such an extent.
My partner has worked with several of the Rotherham girls and reports that Police and other authorities show signs of having learned lessons in this case, and acted much better.
"The Isle of Skye is so overrun with tourists that police have now warned people not to come if they haven't booked somewhere to stay.
Desperate visitors are using the local police force to help them find accommodation - but they say they cannot act as travel agents for hapless holidaymakers.
Visitors are "regularly" arriving at the station with no hotel organised asking officers to help them find a bed for the night, Police Scotland said."
"The Isle of Skye is so overrun with tourists that police have now warned people not to come if they haven't booked somewhere to stay.
Desperate visitors are using the local police force to help them find accommodation - but they say they cannot act as travel agents for hapless holidaymakers.
Visitors are "regularly" arriving at the station with no hotel organised asking officers to help them find a bed for the night, Police Scotland said."
Election news: Does anyone know what is the highest number of votes cast for a single candidate in a UK Parliamentary constituency ever ? Also highest majority.
Election news: Does anyone know what is the highest number of votes cast for a single candidate in a UK Parliamentary constituency ever ? Also highest majority.
Sir Cooper Rawson: 75,205 votes in Brighton in 1931. It was a 2 member division. Highest votes in a single member division: 69,762 — Reginald Blair in Hendon in 1935. Largest majority was also Rawson in 1931.
"UKIP worked because everyone knew what it stood for – a referendum on UK membership of the European Union in which UKIP would campaign for a vote to Leave."
Not true. UKIP's main purpose was to get the UK out of the EU. Ideally, no referendum would be needed.
The last time there was an attempt to create a self-important new centre party was when a couple of outgoing deselected former Conservative MSPs set up the "New Party", assuming that it was going to be a great new force in politics just because it had some MSPs in it. Within weeks it had promptly changed its name to the equally self-important and booliakterous "People's Alliance", before disappearing into a black hole of self-nincompoopism. The two names were of course quasi-fascist and quasi-communist respectively.
The breathtaking arrogance of this week's proposal is that the proposer has the nerve to call it "The Democrats" despite advocating the imprisonment of its opponents and despite being based on a profoundly anti-democratic position.
P.S. On checking Wikipedia, it seems that the two names were the other way round. The "Peoples Alliance" changed to become the "New Party". Any party calling itself the "New Party" is adopting an inherently ultra-silly name which is bound to become redundant and anachronistic within half an electoral cycle.
would be a slightly less silly name for a new party than "New Party" or "The Democrats" or "Self-Deluded Self-Important Popular People's New Democratic Change Renewal Alliance Rally Focus Alliance Movement Party"
The article is correct that the SDP were unlucky with the Falklands war.In retrospect the SDP were offering a ` better yesterday`.A difference with today is that the likes of George Osborne,David Milliband appeal is not remotely comparable with Roy Jenkins or Shirley Williams although possibly it is with David Owen. There is space for a new centre party as the fears of Britain crashing via the combination of a bad brexit followed by a Corbyn govt are real.For a new centre party to take off it would need someone with David Cameron`s personal charm but combined with patriotic seriousness.
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http://www.politico.eu/article/britain-launches-brexit-charm-offensive-dexeu/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/09/britains-brexit-negotiators-denied-water-brussels-divorce-talks/
https://twitter.com/JayMitchinson/status/895399115340828672
Babe is being tortured by Szell, the Nazi dentist, and asks him how he can do this to anyone. Szell thinks about it and replies that to him, Jews will never really seem human.
It's that, I reckon.
I can't see how forcing yourself onto a child who is vomiting from being drunk can involve any pleasure at all. It's just sadism. Or am I hopelessly starry eyed or maybe just lucky?
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-Ideological-Echo-Chamber.pdf
What's the favourite Indian dish on Tyneside?
Pelaw Rice
Rape varies with context but is primarily an act of male power, generally from men who feel their maleness under threat. It is an act of violent social inadequates.
Desperate visitors are using the local police force to help them find accommodation - but they say they cannot act as travel agents for hapless holidaymakers.
Visitors are "regularly" arriving at the station with no hotel organised asking officers to help them find a bed for the night, Police Scotland said."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/09/dont-come-skye-unless-have-room-night-say-police/
https://twitter.com/thomasknox/status/895407008572166144
The men derive their pleasure not from the sex, but from the control, the dominance. They are imposing their will on an "other". The orgasm is an irrelevance.
Makes me sad to be male.
I would also point out that there are plenty of white men who behave like this. They tend not to group and organise to such an extent.
My partner has worked with several of the Rotherham girls and reports that Police and other authorities show signs of having learned lessons in this case, and acted much better.
http://news.sky.com/story/north-korea-will-have-plan-to-strike-guam-by-mid-august-10981683
http://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/
Not true. UKIP's main purpose was to get the UK out of the EU. Ideally, no referendum would be needed.
The breathtaking arrogance of this week's proposal is that the proposer has the nerve to call it "The Democrats" despite advocating the imprisonment of its opponents and despite being based on a profoundly anti-democratic position.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Party_(UK,_2003)
would be a slightly less silly name for a new party than "New Party" or "The Democrats" or "Self-Deluded Self-Important Popular People's New Democratic Change Renewal Alliance Rally Focus Alliance Movement Party"
There is space for a new centre party as the fears of Britain crashing via the combination of a bad brexit followed by a Corbyn govt are real.For a new centre party to take off it would need someone with David Cameron`s personal charm but combined with patriotic seriousness.