Boneheaded take on #TheSingaporeGrip from the Guardian: this is like criticising apples for not being oranges. It's a book about the idiocy, decadence and venality of the British colonial establishment during the war. I would love to see a drama or documentary series that ...
tells and centres the stories of the Asians who suffered horribly in Singapore during the Japanese occupation: the story of Elizabeth Choy (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth…) would be a good place to start. And a series that does that is long overdue.
But it's missing the point of #TheSingaporeGrip to attack it for being very white: that's the point of it. It was written in the 70s and honestly, read it. I'm not sure this dramatisation really does it justice, tbh: the book is well worth your time.
Anyway, when I am head of the world, it will be compulsory to actually know what you're talking about before you wade in to attack something.
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Been avoiding this but I'll bite: London is not "an unaffordable shit-hole". It's a long way from perfect, but we have great public transport, accessible and free museums and institutions, wonderful art, terrific food etc. If Matt and Charlotte don't like it, then don't come here
Also, I must take issue with Gill's "lack of functional media" bullshit: we have the BBC, which is world-class; we have four other terrestrial channels producing a wide range of stuff for a diverse audience; we have a lively newspaper landscape & endless specialist publications
Not to mention a huge range of radio stations, loads of lively independent commentators publishing their own pieces, podcasts, video-makers - to say there's no functional media is mendacious bullshit.
Bit tired of "ooh bad journalists didn't cover the Post Office scandal". It's been covered for years: there have been two Panoramas, coverage of the court cases going back years, Radio 4 has done a series, Private Eye has been all over it, Computer Weekly has been on it for years
There's an excellent, deeply researched and detailed book by @nickwallis and the newspapers have been covering it off and on for years, and the police investigation has been running since 2020. I'm glad the TV drama has brought it to wider knowledgeable
@nickwallis knowledge, even (autocorrect 🙄), and I hope justice is now sped up. It's not fair to say "it hasn't been covered". It has. You just weren't paying attention. Here's @nickwallis book, btw, which is well worth your time amazon.co.uk/Great-Post-Off…
"Investigators say there is a clear link between illegal streaming services and fraud, scams and organised crime." Citation very fucking needed here, thank you.
"The crackdown comes with the support of major organisations like the Premier League and broadcasters such as Sky, BT Sport and Amazon." Erm, since when were the cops the copyright enforcement arm of the streaming services?
Spent all evening trying to work out why my laptop was suddenly locking really quickly and ignoring my power settings. Turns out it has a presence-sensing function that I couldn't access until I downloaded the consumer version of Lenovo Vantage
- mine has the commercial version.
For some reason the presence sensing had turned itself on after a reboot. It has *never* done this in the couple of years I've had this laptop. Never knew the lappy had this function. Found it by digging through forums.
The moral of this story is: whatever weird issue your laptop is throwing up, someone has had the problem before, solved it and posted the answer in a forum.