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Tuesday 26 December: Even the mountain gorillas have politics. Do they have a republic?

09:00
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10:10
There's no evidence that elephants are afraid of mice or anything at all.
11:01
Britain is fast becoming a police state. New cars and cattle prods abound. Riots pervade the fabrique in France. Give it thirty years and it'll be time for another Abrahamic ethnic cleanup.
Politics puts too much pressure on people to conform. Republics are for homogeneous powers. En France, power is fragmented between la Republique and la rule of the street. Even the mountain gorillas have politics. Do they have a republic?
They're wise.
12:59
Another bloody weekend of slaughter on the roads and on the radio. It turns out then that 78% of people want to licence migrants from the EU accession states. Fuck that, that's not the way it works. You had your chance to say no to EU and you did. You had a second chance and you didn't. Take it baby, take it hard.