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Archive for June 16th, 2006

Mill Communication # 1

We at the People’s Republic are huge fans of those full-page Trago Mills adverts that regularly appear in the local rags.

Our favourite bit is, of course, the little section given over to political comment from UKIP.

But who wants to wade through a block of bile-ridden text to find the comedy gold within? Answer: Nobody.

So that’s why we’re gonna do the hard work for you, in the first of an occasional series called Mill Communication (y’know, like the Beastie Boys – oh, please yourselves).

Here’s today’s not-so-bon mot:

MILL COMMUNICATION # 1
“We have the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly and (if the IRA can stop murdering people for long enough) a Northern Ireland Assembly.”

Fin.

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June 16th, 2006

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Mentor arithmetic

If you already know that next week is Refugee Week, you can award yourself 10 pinko points. Hooray!

As for the rest of yous… well, you should probably take the opportunity to brush up on your leftish credentials with Time Together’s sexy online quiz.

Visitors to the website will be asked questions about their attitudes to issues such as minority faiths, interests and cuisine; tolerance when it comes to helping someone in need and in dealing with differences of opinion.

But here’s the clever bit: after each poser an interesting statistic or bon mot will pop up to tell you how tolerant you really are.

Basically it’s like having a particularly right-on Yoda locked in your PC. Great, huh? And let’s face it, those Time Together bods have every right to feel smug.

Since it was launched four years ago, the scheme has matched over one thousand refugees with volunteer mentors, aiming to challenge misconceptions and help refugees integrate into British society.

Of course, quite why refugees would want to integrate into a society obsessed with football and Big Brother is another question entirely.

Posted by Thin White Duke

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June 16th, 2006

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