Censorship....

[MrGongGong]

One of the things I love about this forum is that there is NO POLITICS.

Do you think that music has nothing to do with politics?

[Conchis]

Platform 3s tagline is ‘the place to talk about anything’ (sic).

Anyone’s definition of ‘anyting’ would include politics, I’d have thought.

[Serial_Apologist]

Platform 3s tagline is ‘the place to talk about anything’ (sic).

Anyone’s definition of ‘anyting’ would include politics, I’d have thought.

Jamaican politics?

[teamsaint]

Call me suspicious, but two nights in a row my satellite signal for BBC has cut out around 10.30 PM , and stayed out for most of the next 45 mins.

All the other major channels were unaffected.
Just saying.........

[cloughie]

Platform 3s tagline is ‘the place...

Take the l out of it and we have a tasty Moroccan dish, rather than tasteless threads!

[LMcD]

Call me suspicious, but two nights in a row my satellite signal for BBC has cut out around 10.30 PM , and stayed out for most of the next 45 mins.

All the other major channels were unaffected.
Just saying.........

You should be grateful - it means you can't watch the dreadful 'Yoof Stream' that now occupies BBC1 after the (sadly shortened) news!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You should be grateful - it means you can't watch the dreadful 'Yoof Stream' that now occupies BBC1 after the (sadly shortened) news!

- I love the idea of ts's telly telling him "This isn't for you, mate: go and make yourself a mug of Horlicks and watch Newsnight"!

[teamsaint]

You should be grateful - it means you can't watch the dreadful 'Yoof Stream' that now occupies BBC1 after the (sadly shortened) news!

Sorry, rather misled you there, it was BBC2 only that conked out.

Probably for the best, all in all.

Horlicks is the very minimum prescription for watching Newsnight these days, I'd say.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

[LMcD]

Sorry, rather misled you there, it was BBC2 only that conked out.

Probably for the best, all in all.

Horlicks is the very minimum prescription for watching Newsnight these days, I'd say.

Well, that's quite clearly a thinly-veiled warning to those over 75s (including Mr & Mrs McD!) who might be thinking of not paying for their TV licence once more as from next June.

[Serial_Apologist]

Sorry, rather misled you there, it was BBC2 only that conked out.

Probably for the best, all in all.

Horlicks is the very minimum prescription for watching Newsnight these days, I'd say.

This has to be what people mean by making a right Horlicks of something!

[Dave2002]

I'm sad that apparently discussions re "current affairs". have led some to leave the forum, but if that's the price to pay for not losing sanity in the whole country, then so be it.

People have the right to be ostriches if they want to, but they don't have to cover the heads of others with sand.

[Conchis]

I'm sad that apparently discussions re "current affairs". have led some to leave the forum, but if that's the price to pay for not losing sanity in the whole country, then so be it.

People have the right to be ostriches if they want to, but they don't have to cover the heads of others with sand.

I don’t understand the thinking of the frail, ladylike souls who have taken flight. Political content tends to be confined to political threads - which they can ignore if they so choose.

There is also the ‘Ignore’ button, which I have found invaluable in the past.

Really: it’s quite insulting to the moderators (for whom I have a lot of time, despite my ongoing disagreements with them) to abandon the forum because people are talking about ‘politics’. It’s not like engagement in these discussions is in any way mandatory, is it?

[Serial_Apologist]

I don’t understand the thinking of the frail, ladylike souls who have taken flight. Political content tends to be confined to political threads - which they can ignore if they so choose.

There is also the ‘Ignore’ button, which I have found invaluable in the past.

Really: it’s quite insulting to the moderators (for whom I have a lot of time, despite my ongoing disagreements with them) to abandon the forum because people are talking about ‘politics’. It’s not like engagement in these discussions is in any way mandatory, is it?

It's impossible to avoid politics - so any outlet for discussing them seems part of the realities we talk about on this forum. Disagreements aren't just about political matters here, and this is supposed to be a society built on freedom of expression.

[Padraig]

It's impossible to avoid politics - so any outlet for discussing them seems part of the realities we talk about on this forum. Disagreements aren't just about political matters here, and this is supposed to be a society built on freedom of expression.

Reminds me of a poem:

Much Madness is divinest Sense -
To a discerning Eye -
Much Sense - the starkest Madness -
'Tis the Majority
In this, as all, prevail -
Assent - and you are sane -
Demur - you're straightway dangerous -
And handled with a Chain -

Emily Dickinson