Public culture shouldn’t be accessible to only those with means. Someone’s country of origin has no bearing on that.

Half of the exhibits in these museums are of foreign origin as well, stolen during imperialism. So charging foreigners to see stolen items that could very well be from their own country is again ridiculous.

Thirdly, how many museums and art galleries have you been to that are clearly struggling for cash? I’ve been to many, and 9 times out of 10 they’re in exquisite condition. Money isn’t the fix for everything. Charging to enter museums could even backfire and result in a reduction in footfall and therefore donations.

I’m sure Baroness Margaret Hodge knows all about keeping culture afloat for the public good though and only has the public’s best interests at heart…

The family moved to Orpington, Kent (present-day Greater London), where they started their family-owned steel-trading corporation, Stemcor.[7] It is now one of the world’s largest privately held steel companies, with an annual turnover of over £6 billion in 2011.[8] Hodge is a major shareholder

She went on to study at the London School of Economics, graduating in 1966 with a third-class honours degree in government studies.[12] After working briefly on television political programmes, she began, but did not complete, a master’s degree in philosophy at Bedford College, London.[13]

In 2015 there was considerable controversy about her benefiting, to the tune of £1.5 million, from assets repatriated from a Liechtenstein family trust in 2011 using the Liechtenstein disclosure facility, that reduced penalties and removed the risk of prosecution for Britons moving undeclared assets back to the UK. Coverage focused on the apparent hypocrisy in her condemnation of the use of tax havens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hodge

What a shower of bastards.

A village. Community. Something increasingly disappearing in the hyper individualised UK.

Help. Help to raise the child(ren) that doesn’t cost money for every minute used.

The abolition of capitalism. The root cause for the destruction of our communities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_takes_a_village

That whole article is infuriating.

BUt wE hAVe nO mONeY FOr puBlIC sERvIcES

How do you boycott a service you already boycott?

I think this post could go in NotTheOnion!

High speed rail to travel at low speed…

Twenty Lessons For Fighting Tyranny

1. Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.

https://www.carnegie.org/our-work/article/twenty-lessons-fighting-tyranny/

Airstrip One, for instance, had not been so called in those days: it had been called England, or Britain, though London, he felt fairly certain, had always been called London.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_geography_of_Nineteen_Eighty-Four

The important part, despite BBC’s childish questions about being PM:

Asked whether he could see himself as prime minister, Polanski - who is also a London Assembly member - initially dismissed the idea outright, saying “that really isn’t the target right now”, before adding that he was asked about it a lot.

He said: “It’s definitely on my mind because I get asked about it all the time, but my burning ambition really is to have a wealth tax, action on climate change, and proportional representation.”

Pressed further, he said whilst it was tempting to be drawn into thinking about occupying No 10, he was focusing on the next step, which was "to win a lot more MPs and potentially hold the balance of power in a hung parliament after the next general election.

“Then I think that’s really interesting, because then you’re having conversations about proportional representation, a wealth tax, climate action, and various other policies to reduce the cost of living and make life better for everyone in the country.”

We would, but unfortunately in the lowlands we’ve too many people that haven’t got any shovels. They’re douglas!

^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Douglas}

New migrants aren’t eligible for social housing except in very limited circumstances. Most people who come to the UK on visas to work or study have “no recourse to public funds” and can’t receive benefits or get help with their housing. Asylum seekers cannot apply for council housing at all.

Bollocks.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbXPD_aG8o0dA_S-7x7VmPuGid6DMyu96

Sunday 8th March

Ofcom has received 24 complaints, but has not yet decided whether to investigate.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/make-a-complaint

Make your voice heard.

Related post: https://lemmy.world/post/44339991

Exactly, mismanagement.

If your business plan is to generate profit based entirely on land assets, and you choose not to own those assets, then look what happens.

Most businesses rent their premises, because the premises aren’t the essential part of their business. They could set up in another location if need be.

But that’s not the case for NCP, their “premises” are their means of revenue. Presumably there was some short term profit made in the process, some senior managers got a fat bonus for reducing overheads and increasing profits for 2 quarters. But that’s bugger all use when you need to wind down the business a few years later.

They could have had a trickle of free money streaming in for the rest of their lives but instead chose a wave for a short few years.

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of robbing bastards.

How do you fuck up generating free money? There’s fuck all buildings maintenance or staffing costs compared with pretty much any other industry.

Covid is a lame excuse for mismanagement.

Police say they are investigating which crimes they can make up to justify suppression of those they dislike.