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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Rhiannon on January 22, 2018, 06:21:53 PM

Title: Cuts to domestic refuge services
Post by: Rhiannon on January 22, 2018, 06:21:53 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jan/22/why-womens-refuges-cant-afford-more-cuts-life-death
Title: Re: Cuts to domestic refuge services
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 22, 2018, 07:09:38 PM
Stuff like this is rarely taken seriously at high enough levels.
Title: Re: Cuts to domestic refuge services
Post by: Rhiannon on January 22, 2018, 07:14:02 PM
I dont get it. I really don't. Why isn't this headline news?
Title: Re: Cuts to domestic refuge services
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 22, 2018, 07:17:28 PM
Quote from: Rhiannon on January 22, 2018, 07:14:02 PM
I dont get it. I really don't. Why isn't this headline news?
Because Russians are using the internet to give flu to people via Muslim bombs paid for by bitcoin  at the Royal Weddings
Title: Re: Cuts to domestic refuge services
Post by: jeremyp on January 22, 2018, 07:39:10 PM
Quote from: Rhiannon on January 22, 2018, 07:14:02 PM
I dont get it. I really don't. Why isn't this headline news?

Most of the news media in this country have a fairly right wing agenda. This is just one sign that the government is putting social services under extreme stress.
Title: Re: Cuts to domestic refuge services
Post by: Nearly Sane on January 22, 2018, 07:45:26 PM
Quote from: jeremyp on January 22, 2018, 07:39:10 PM
Most of the news media in this country have a fairly right wing agenda. This is just one sign that the government is putting social services under extreme stress.
Yes, but the media are also a reflection as well as an influencer. This sort of stuff doesn't sell.
Title: Re: Cuts to domestic refuge services
Post by: Rhiannon on January 22, 2018, 08:12:25 PM
This does though.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/19/three-people-killed-in-shooting-at-swimming-pool/

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2016/jul/26/womans-murder-called-understandable-lance-hart

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/22/man-mother-sister-killed-father-lance-hart-spalding-leicestershire