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Sounded like a good idea at the time #562

You’ve a video game called Mercenaries 2: World in Flames. You’ve got themes of Venezuelan economic collapse and petrol-as-currency. Mix it all together and you have the classic ingredients for a Sick Marketing Stunt.
[Game publisher] EA decked out the Last Stop garage, which lies between Stroud Green and Finsbury Park, in military camouflage material [...]

Nice to woodpile, to woodpile nice

Another day, another Tory using an absurd racist phrase. This time it’s Lord Dixon Smith, who used the term “n— in the woodpile” in a debate about the Housing and Regeneration Bill in the House of Lords on Monday. The comment, and his apology, is recorded in Hansard.
Looking at the Hansard excerpt, I noticed something [...]