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I'm pretty certain people in Chester don't want their babies being murdered in hospital regardless of which party they vote for.
What on earth are you on about?
Guilty verdict not a surprise after reading about the case earlier this year. Having a nurse on the wards supposedly looking after the most vulnerable babies in hospital and instead killing them is every parents nightmare.
As a slightly different take I'd recommend SS-GB. Technically it's an alternative history novel whether the Nazis won WWII and conquered the UK.... But that's pretty dystopian in practice, especially when the main character is a policeman.
I don't know if The Trial counts exactly as a dystopia but it certainly conjures up the paranoia and confusion of being caught up in a beruacratic nightmare like you might find in a police state.
High Rise is a great satire on the class system translated to people moving into the then new high rise blocks in the UK - only the rich can afford the apartments at the top and so on. The first sentence involves the hero having to eat a dog to survive.
A Clockwork Orange has been mentioned already, but it's easily my favourite. And very different and more brutal than the film, which is also great but more its own thing. Alex is a much nastier piece of work in the book, and the last chapter of the novel isn't in the film
We is so obviously an influence on 1984 I'm surprised it isn't better known!
I always loved this one!
I saw this yesterday, bought the book straight away for the Kindle, sounds brilliant.
I mean I think this is why it's an interesting scenario - that's very much the view losing side of things but I don't think the politicians have fully grasped that yet. I don't know whether that's because they think the tech companies will ultimately 'come round' - in which case they're badly mistaken - or whether they're really that badly informed.
But politicians organise everything by WhatsApp as we've learned... I honestly don't think they understand the consequences. But I'm just a poor humble member of the electorate, what do I know compared to intellectual titans like Jacob Reece-Mogg and Suella Braveman (who presumably as home sec has an interest in this?)
UK person here - my concern is that the opposition haven't clearly stated that they would repeal the law if they were voted into power (to my knowledge, I'd be delighted to be corrected on this front!)
So letting voters know about it is great but if none of the main parties are actually against the law coming into effect - which is being sold as an anti-paedophile/child abuse measure, which framed like that would be popular with a lot of non-techy voters who don't trust an unregulated internet - a few little messages saying 'yay encryption!' aren't going to do anything.
I think it's very weird he decided he had to put a fake nose on to play a Jewish person... I mean that to me is getting into racial stereotype territory. It's obviously not malicious and the article says the family were happy with it so that's something but still... 'Jewish Person = Big Nose' doesn't sound great.
What does interest me is that a lot of people are very much 'trans people should play trans characters, disabled people should play disabled characters' and it goes without saying that obviously blackface and Yellowface are out. But when there's a case like this there's less cohesion and it tends to end up being more defensive about people being oversensitive about the whole thing.
The oxen have just seen an oxen skull in the desert and thinking maybe this trip isn't going to end well was my take...
There was actually someone similar in the news when I was growing up, Beverly Allit. I remember seeing stuff about that on the local news because it wasn't that far away from where we were. It's pretty terrifying, the idea that you can just be leaving your children in the hands of people like this