Integrate this!

RT have been reporting (in the news bylines anyway) that most Britons feel that Muslims are not doing enough to integrate.

No further details were given, but one really wonders what exactly people have to do to integrate or be British. Bearing in mind most Brits are decended from head-hunters who then moved on to spread-eagling people they don't like, to munching on Jew kebabs while on Crusade, obviously this "feeling" isn't given a great deal of thought.

My haircut is just as crap as Boris Johnson's.

So why can't I be taken seriously as a politician?

The thing is that I would probably make a better Labour leader than Corbyn.
I know I'm not a good speaker but at the very least I would write a speech pointing out that we shouldn't lose the rights being in the EU would have granted us while also criticicing the poor deal the EU gave to Greece.
 
I'd also ask anyone criticicing the EU if:
1) they have ever voted in the Euro elections
2) they understand that both the Queen and the upper house are unelected...
3) they had even heard of the EU ten years ago
4) they think Britain should be a Republic and
5) exactly how being in the EU impacts their life negatively or otherwise

Fan theories (volume six)

Family Guy is a sequel to the Dune saga, which is itself a sequel to the Odyssey saga. I was joking about this at first but it makes perfect sense. Stewie Griffin says "deuce" a lot (as in "what the..") which could be connected with the change in religious sensibilities in the final Odyssey novel 3001:The Final Odyssey i.e., they say "deuce" instead of God.

The war against the monolith machines could be referred to in Dune. Which also has talking toddlers with a killer instinct and advanced technology! 

Family Guy represents a Matrix-like experiment to see how humanity would develop without the influence of the monoliths and space travel. Earth was re-settled and its inhabitants led to believe that it is the early twenty-first century. The population consists entirely of Gholas, who are reborn by human women. These Gholas initially remember their previous lives (those of the clone donor) but forget them as they mature, thus explaining how Stewie can be fully sentient even before being born. Creatures such as Brian Griffin developed during the Spice Famine, which also produced the feline Futars. So he is not actually a dog. Or he might be descended from dogs originally.    

Positive libertarianism?

Assuming actually getting a job means that one is in no need of welfare benefits but allowing young people to live independently, let's say that people under 25 who live alone/ away from home automatically receive £250 per week until they get a job.

Let's call this the Independent Living Allowance. 

In order to have a negative income tax for low earners, as soon as one starts work they receive £80 to £120 a week or around a third the average (mean) wage. For argument's sake lets say 18-21 get £82, 21-25 get £112 and over 25's get £140. This money is paid until the person's death, so effectively acts both as a state pension and unemployment benefit as it is still paid if one is fired from or leaves one's job.

This reasoning is actually consistent with libertarianism in general and Objectivism in particular. It also allows young people to live independently without poverty or exploitation. Under 18's may have to apply but they would receive this if they are without or wish to divorce their parents and live on their own, whereas for 18s and over this is automatic and extended beyond 25 for those with severe learning difficulties.

The only proofs required are age, employment and living status, and the diagnosis of a learning difficulty. Those facing financial difficulties or looking after children or relatives may apply for housing benefit, tax credits and Disability Living Allowance.

As a corporation is not a person, Corporation Tax would be set at 35 to 37% with income tax set at a flat rate of 34% for almost all earners. With the subsidy in the form of the Universal Income slash Permanent Jobseeker's Allowance (I'm not really sure what this would be called) the real tax rate is much lower for workers on below average salaries. Further, to combat inflation the tax rate for very high earners (say half a million a year) could be as high as 98 or even 100% with or without the removal of the subsidy. Having a high income tax also allows for tax evasion.

Obviously, people who still live with their parents or who don't work won't get anything and Jobseeker's Allowance is still available for those who are looking for work (over 25) or studying full-time (over 18) at the same rates as the income tax subsidy.

Addendum: a citizen's income starting at 16 would be simpler at £80 per week, alongside an Independent Living Allowance of the same weekly amount up to the age of 21. Jobseekers Allowance can be applied for afterwards and is the same as the Income Tax Subsidy, again £80 per week, given when a citizen starts paid employment.
Having a private pension could be argued as betting that one will live for another week/month/year, while a state pension technically required the government to bet that one will not live for another week/month/year.
There is also the principle of "no taxation without representation", so if one disagrees with a government one can stop funding that government by no longer working.

Fan theories (volume five)

Pokémon, Stargate, Sanctuary and The Culture:

What if the result of Subliming turns one into a Pokémon? In other words, Culture "heaven" is a Nintendo role-playing game.  

Similarly, the Elder Races include the Dra'azon from "Consider Phlebas" and the Ancients from the Stargate franchise.

What if R2-D2 was a Special Circumstances agent, thus connecting the Culture novels with the Star Wars universe and dating the films? Consider how the films could have ended if one extra plucky droid wasn't there to help or enable the main players.

Similarly again, the characters Helen Magus and Bigfoot could actually be aliens if the programme is set in the same galaxy as the Culture despite claims otherwise. Magus and Bigfoot are simply exiles from the Culture, or other human aliens, living on Earth with claims of "abnormality" as their alibi.

Fan Theories volume four

Fan theory four:

Science fiction television programmes featuring humanoid aliens are all set in the same universe as the Culture. The difference is that these programmes portray aliens as humans would imagine them to look like. The events portrayed are after the Culture makes contact with Earth but Humans can't take there being other humans "out there" that look just like them so, in their minds collectively, aliens look a lot different.

This theory also allows for the Drakh and Vorlons to be offshoots of the Culture, or that Babylon 5 is actually anti-Culture propaganda. This reflects the policies of the two races and the mobile nature of their civilisations.

Fan theories/ Marcus Cole

Fan theory number three/four:
(theory one being http://sciencefictionshownt.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/i-wonder-if-it-is-possible-to-explain.html)

Marcus Cole (Babylon 5) is either:
-His brother
or
-A Deep Cover agent working for Earth Force

Theory three allows for Marcus' apparently short training regime with the Rangers by assuming that Marcus didn't join the Rangers after the death of his brother. Instead, this theory assumes that he was among the first humans to be recruited by Sinclair. His psyche invented the dead brother when Marcus heard about the destruction of his home colony during his ranger training.
This theory allows for a longer, more realistic period for the character to become a Ranger.

Theory four incorporates the above somewhat, but posits that Marcus learned the Minbari language before joining the Rangers. It is possible that he visited Minbar some time after the war as a representative of his family's mining interests and learned the language there, but his online biography strongly implies he learned Minbari when he was drafted into Earth Force in the last year of the Minbari war. 
Marcus could secretly have continued working for Earth Force in an intelligence gathering capacity and this led him to join the Rangers in order to spy on Amassador Sinclair or the Minbari military.

Appendix: It is conceivable that the jump gates in Babylon 5 are actually time portals. When a ship enters "hyperspace" it actually travels back to the beginning of the universe, or at least within the first hundred million years or so before the first stars and galaxies formed. When the ship returns to "normal space" it has covered a considerable distance simply because the universe has expanded in the intervening time period. 

Appendix two: What if Delenn was meant to become Kosh? Evidence for this can be seen in the dress of the Minbari assassin in "The Gathering", Kosh's own apparel as viewed by Lyta Alexander when she scans "him" and Delenn's sleeve in the episode "Babylon Squared", when future Delenn and an aged Sinclair observe present Garibaldi and present Sinclair leaving Babylon 4. This also explains why Dr Kyle recognises Kosh when he opens Kosh's encounter suit and why Kosh says everyone would recognise him. Delenn could become Kosh in order to retroactively create the Vorlon race, assuming Kosh ages backward, in order to prepare for the Shadows' return.