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My City lives under a Labour Mayor. On the map it is red and proud. They will oversee ever deepening cuts, the loss of our local music venues and an unaffordable housing bubble. How are labour spooling your local area?

This makes me fucking sick. 40% percent of Council houses sold over the years are now in the hands of Private Landlords who charge twice the rent that the local housing authorities charge. Council housing has not been replaced, homelessness rising every year and private renters being squeezed...

I wanted to create a thread where we can discuss our struggles in work and to share ideas on how we can self organise. It's quite clear the unions are now largely ineffective and are in the pockets of big business. It's also clear that our battles won't be won via Unions or the ballot box so we...

Under house arrest by the Army. It's increasingly looking like the reign of one of the most infamous leaders of our time is coming to an end. I always thought he had enough power to die in the roll, but it seems his push to have his wife replace has resulted in a coup. Pretty big moment on the...

Thought I'd start a general Africa thread for those that may be interested. I've been following the story of the Gambian presidency election since Yahya Jammeh was firstly voted out and then looked like he was actually going to concede power to Barrow. Predictably he then changed his mind and...

Are there meant to be Adverts after every single message in the thread? It's slowing down my phone massively.

The Philippines appointed a seriously troubled man as president a couple months ago and he has given the Police Carte Blanche to murder anyone who they think might be involved in Drugs. Pretty harrowing and the report does contain some nasty images but you can skip through it. I was going to...

This is an interesting proposal. They plan to give every citizen €800 per month and to scrap benefits altogether. Initial reaction by some might be that it will give people less reason to work but it will still only be €200 a week. What's the cost of living like there and I'm not to sure what...

Case going on in Bristol at the moment. http://m.bristolpost.co.uk/Transgender-woman-sent-Bristol-Prison-assault/story-28056764-detail/story.html She's not had removal of the penis yet and this issue has come about because she didn't legally change her sex to female. Thoughts' on this?

I must admit I have a soft spot for dreary depressing vocals, especially male vocals. I don't listen to it much now but when I was 15-19 I absolutely loved Damien Rice etc. Was wondering what other stuff people can recommend. Found this song on Scrubs the other day: Classic Damien Rice...

I read the other day that 29,000 people die every year that are linked to Pollution in the UK. I'm not sure how they can prove the link so I'd advise caution but even if its considerably less then that its still an extremely high number. World wide the numbers are high to...

We are looking to buy a Tablet and I was wondering what you lot would suggest at the moment? My partner mainly wants it so she can talk easily over webcam with her family, I've always seen them as a bit of a waste of time as I love my laptop but after playing with the "Galaxy tab A" a bit in the...

Anyone watch this over the weekend? Thoughts? Average start for me but it will pick up I'm sure. No idea what the pool room was all about.

Thought I'd start a thread for this as I've just been to see "The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time" and it was brilliant. I really recommend it if it's in your local area. The story follows a 15-Year old boy who has aspergers syndrome and his complicated homelife with a father...

So Nick Clegg has come out and said it will be a part of Liberal Democrat policy to decriminalise drug use in the UK. Unfortunate for the pro campaign is that his word means very little. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31716217 Still it's a positive step and this is being spoken about...

When I try to post in the football manager thread it says "The following error has occurred: Please enter a message with no more than 10000 characters." I wanted to post the following: I had an image in the post so I wondered if it was that but when I removed it the error still occurred. I...

This forum would be rubbish without somewhere for me to dump new tunes that I like. :) Hopefully if I post some hardcore it will attract back some of the old members. ;) All dance music styles welcome not just heavy stuff.