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[zotz]

The weekend was stellar. I´ll probably drone on about it later. First, though, a couple of interesting news items - at the end of this year Britain will finally finish paying off our war loans from the US, and the High Court has said that the Chagos islanders can go home. Result! (Or, at least, Result! pending the inevitable appeal). Oh, and HMG´s finally calling for the Guantanamo camp to be closed. Not going to happen, but nice to hear it said.

While I´m here, does anyone know how to turn off dead keys (the method of mapping extra characters to a standard keyboard rather than any other use of the phrase) under debian (etch, gnome)? I be grateful. It´s annoying me.

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[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Does Goldsmith saying it count as HMG saying it?

[zotz]

More or less, I´d have thought. I wouldn´t expect him to say something that sweeping in public without checking with the PM and cabinet.

[steer.livejournal.com]

I think it's more like the government muttering it quietly in a slightly embarrassed way rather than actually saying it. But they should be bloody shouting it through a megaphone.