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New UK Passport Sparks Sexism Row After Featuring Just Two Women Compared With Seven Men

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The Passport Office has been accused of having "airbrushed women out of history" and having "a problem with institutional sexism" as a row continues over the new UK travel document.
The design for the new UK passport with the theme “Creative United Kingdom” has sparked backlash as it was revealed that just two women were featured, compared with seven men.
Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace and architect Elisabeth Scott are depicted in the latest version of the document unveiled today.
By contrast, seven men including William Shakespeare, artist John Constable and sculptor Anish Kapoor are represented either in portraits or through their achievements, the Press Association reported.
Official literature said that the new passport features some of the best achievements of the last 500 years in Great Britain and Northern Ireland".
Sam Smethers, Chief Executive of the Fawcett Society, said of the new design: “Instead of being celebrated and remembered great British women are being airbrushed out of history.
 
Klopp kops it said:
New UK Passport Sparks Sexism Row After Featuring Just Two Women Compared With Seven Men

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The Passport Office has been accused of having "airbrushed women out of history" and having "a problem with institutional sexism" as a row continues over the new UK travel document.
The design for the new UK passport with the theme “Creative United Kingdom” has sparked backlash as it was revealed that just two women were featured, compared with seven men.
Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace and architect Elisabeth Scott are depicted in the latest version of the document unveiled today.
By contrast, seven men including William Shakespeare, artist John Constable and sculptor Anish Kapoor are represented either in portraits or through their achievements, the Press Association reported.
Official literature said that the new passport features some of the best achievements of the last 500 years in Great Britain and Northern Ireland".
Sam Smethers, Chief Executive of the Fawcett Society, said of the new design: “Instead of being celebrated and remembered great British women are being airbrushed out of history.
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Rosalind Franklin should be in there and/or on a banknote. So should Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Not Jane Austin though - she was just a proto-Jackie Collins. Agatha Christie - the woman was a bloody genius, up there with Conan Doyle.
 
If the sun were the size of a white blood cell then the Milky Way Galaxy would be the size of the United States.
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Klopp kops it said:
I recently met Pele, so that was the most star struck I've ever been, let alone this season. A friend of mine is his commercial agent so he's always telling me about him although he's a hard man to meet, as you can imagine. But out of the blue recently, my friend called and asked if I wanted to say hello because he had a few hours free. That's a question which has one answer, so I drove down to a hotel and met a living legend

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Aluko met Brazilian legend Pele in a chance encounter.
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Is that you with Pele, dribs?

<yikes>
 
Gov now has access to your complete internet history for a year and don't need a warrant. Nice. theresa may was asked to define extremism as her current definition was so vague, and she avoided defining it for the interviewer. Cameron thinks conspiracy theorists are extremists (non violent extremists), which pretty much means the people who questioned the official line on Hillsborough were extremists, think about it like <doh> Didn't the police also spy on a Hillsborough group?

It's yet another little step folks towards...?
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...ne-and-internet-data-for-a-year-a6720246.html

Thing is GCHQ have hard tapped all the cables so they have anything they want at any time.

Cameron's filter, when you choose to block porn, it also blocks esoteric sites, see what he did there? <laugh> No one notices their society closing around them and the state pretty much use 1984 as a road map. Thanks Orwell!!
 
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Mark my words, the internet will end up like TV and Radio with only state sanctioned broadcasters allowed. One voice, no dissent, bow all before your masters. Dun dun de dun dun de dun dun de dunnnn. <laugh>
 
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They already had access to all that and more. Its just they're honest about it now.
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Actually it means it is legal now, honest? are you kidding me Milk? <laugh>

Total surveillance, dunno about ye but I actually value my privacy, it's not a case of if I am doing something wrong or not, it's just no one elses business what I am or am not doing if I have committed no crimes surely.

How much have we heard about how "evil Putin\Putler controls the internet" and yet we readily accept from our own government the very things we criticise in China Turkey and Russia amonght quite a few other countries.

This is the kind of hypocrisy I am talking about. It's tyrranical in those countries and it is the same thing here, making distinctions is pathetic and not moaning when our own governments do it but bitch about China and Russia doing it.. this is part of why I do what I do <ok> The faux morality has come home to roost.

How that makes me pro Russia I don't even know <laugh>
 
BringBackFootie. said:
Actually it means it is legal now, honest? are you kidding me Milk? <laugh>

Total surveillance, dunno about ye but I actually value my privacy, it's not a case of if I am doing something wrong or not, it's just no one elses business what I am or am not doing if I have committed no crimes surely.

How much have we heard about how "evil Putin\Putler controls the internet" and yet we readily accept from our own government the very things we criticise in China Turkey and Russia amonght quite a few other countries.

This is the kind of hypocrisy I am talking about. It's tyrranical in those countries and it is the same thing here, making distinctions is pathetic and not moaning when our own governments do it but bitch about China and Russia doing it.. this is part of why I do what I do <ok> The faux morality has come home to roost
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Then don't use the internet then, as there's never been privacy on the net ffs. Service providers have always had that info and have been working with the intelligence agencies for years. The new legislation just makes the access easier.

It'll only be an issue for those using the net for reasons that could affect National security.

They're welcome to paw over my dodgy net history if they wish, who's arsed really?
 
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Tobes said:
Then don't use the internet then, as there's never been privacy on the net ffs. Service providers have always had that info and have been working with the intelligence agencies for years. The new legislation just makes the access easier.

It'll only be an issue for those using the net for reasons that could affect National security.

They're welcome to paw over my dodgy net history if they wish, who's arsed really?
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You wouldn't mind them looking at all the Japanese tentacle porn you watch Tobes? :emoticon-0105-wink:
 
BringBackFootie. said:
Actually it means it is legal now, honest? are you kidding me Milk? <laugh>

Total surveillance, dunno about ye but I actually value my privacy, it's not a case of if I am doing something wrong or not, it's just no one elses business what I am or am not doing if I have committed no crimes surely.

How much have we heard about how "evil Putin\Putler controls the internet" and yet we readily accept from our own government the very things we criticise in China Turkey and Russia amonght quite a few other countries.

This is the kind of hypocrisy I am talking about. It's tyrranical in those countries and it is the same thing here, making distinctions is pathetic and not moaning when our own governments do it but bitch about China and Russia doing it.. this is part of why I do what I do <ok> The faux morality has come home to roost.

How that makes me pro Russia I don't even know <laugh>
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That's one thing we agree on. I think it's terrible and should stop. I think people like Snowdon should be applauded not chased out of the country.

Funny thing is... Most of the things he had "outed" had already been said on websites like Slashdot he just gave it authenticity and a name.


The state spies on us. If they wanted to they could track everything we do and everywhere we go. Law Enforcement would love access to what intelligence has. In the US in some states they're putting up dummy cellphone towers so that law enforcement can track your movements too.
 
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You wouldn't mind them looking at all the Japanese tentacle porn you watch Tobes? :emoticon-0105-wink:
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I have about 10 email addresses I alternate. (they all forward to a main account). I use a different "real name" on each email account and none is my real-real name.

I know the government can still track me and link me together but I'm hoping it makes it harder for private institutions.
 
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