Priorities

[mirrorshard]

For a country that's simultaneously in the middle of two wars, a pandemic, and a serious recession, most of the population are really quite relaxed. Or obsessing over something completely different, of course.

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[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

There are also lots of other issues that I care about, but those are the ones I've been obsessing about.

Wrt War in Iraq - Norman Kember is a family friend, and the father of two of my favourite people also visited Baghdad a while back.

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I have to say that most people I know seem to have been relatively unscathed by all of the above, but that's probably because I'm insulated by the Atlantic and don't have a sense of what it's like on the ground.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

One friend of mine has just come home from a tour in Afghanistan and is likely to be sent back shortly. Another friend is currently in Iraq on his fourth tour thus far. reddragdiva lost his job (and his job has now been readvertised for £10K less than he was being paid, which pretty much confirms they were getting rid of him so they could hire someone cheaper). And we're now officially part of the pandemic statistics for London. :-/

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

I have a number of friends and relatives who've lost jobs and in some cases lose their homes due to the recession, on both sides of the Atlantic; arguably it's part of the reason why Chris lost his job as well, but that's debatable, and more likely internal university idiot politics.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

A *lot* of my colleagues are going to be losing jobs around Xmas. I really hope I'm not one of them (I haven't had a vulnerability letter, so hopefully not). We will probably be striking for "no compulsory redundancies", but I'm not hugely hopeful it's going to dissuade our despotic ruler chief exec.