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And I want to give you an example of that.

Over in the UK, Boris Johnson has announced his intention to renege on key points of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement that his government signed with the EU.

Part of this Withdrawal Agreement is ensuring that a "hard border", that is a walled and manned border with checkpoints, isn't erected between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

The lack of a hard border is a key part of the 1997 Good Friday Agreement, a peace treaty that ended several decades of civil war in Northern Ireland.

The reason why Johnson is breaking this agreement with the EU is because he wants a trade deal with the US, a trade deal that Trump has stated he will not give to Johnson unless he removes some product safety laws.

These product safety laws are also enshrined in the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement, because the EU doesn't want sub-standard products entering the EU marketplace, and the only way to avoid checks on goods for these safety standards at the Ireland/Northern Ireland border is to have the UK to continue to uphold these standards.

But Johnson so badly wants this deal with the US, in order to "prove" the UK isn't dependent on EU Trade, that he's willing to break two legally-binding international treaties.

To compound this, both Democrats and Republicans have repeatedly stated that if Johnson breaches the Good Friday Agreement, he will not get a trade deal with the US.

Because Irish Americans make up 10% of the US population, and that is a group both sides want to appeal to. And Irish Americans generally like the idea of peace on the island of Ireland.

But Johnson knows that Donald Trump is willing to go against his party, and that the Republicans will fall in line with Trump's wishes. He knows the Republicans' threat of "no trade deal if you violate the Good Friday Agreement" is a shockingly empty one.

He knows that so long as Trump is in power, he can get what he wants, even if he breaks international law in doing so.

And this is just one of many examples of how US internal politics heavily affects the internal and international politics of other nations. Like it or not, the effects of your vote go well beyond your borders.

Donald Trump is not just bad for your country, he is bad for the entire human race.

12: Oh, that was embarrassing. I hate being wrong in public. Twice!

Kate: I didn’t think that embarrassment was even possible for you.

12: Of course I get embarrassed !

Kate: Oh ? Name one.

12: Last week I arrived at Clara’s school a bit too early. I rounded the corner and bumped straight into her. Caused her to fall over, books and all.

12: She looked so angry that I panicked and couldn’t decide between “Are you okay ?” and “I’m sorry”. So I said something else...

Kate: What did you say ?

[ Cut to 12 leaning over Clara on the floor ]

12: ARE YOU SORRY ?!

but scottish nationalism is very much because we want a more PROGRESSIVE nation, a more open nation, and whilst stuck under tory rule of the united kingdom we get the exact opposite of that

even people who are leftists but not part of the scottish independence movement don’t understand that at all

How right from the very beginning of Deep Breath (and even before, right from the second he was born), Twelve knows. Knows that at some point, Clara’s phone will ring, and that it will be him. Knows just how heartbroken she’ll sound. He already came into the world with the memory of Clara’s voice sounding like she’s a second away from shattering as she says, “Why? Why would you do this?”

So Twelve knows how much it hurt, both for her and for him. And then he has to live through it all again, this time from the other side. And he spends the whole episode knowing what’s still coming during every single interaction he has with her. Sits in the restaurant and probably remembers how sad she’d sounded on the phone as he goes, “If I hadn’t changed my face, would you be cross?” 

At the beginning of their story, he wished one thing from her, “Please just, just see me.”.

Sometimes it’s hard to get your point across!

Wheeew, new part! These things are taking longer to get out both because I’m busy with my job, and also because the parts themselves just keep getting longer and more complicated! But hey, at least this one I finally got to try drawing Roulxs Kaard!

Aaaand more will be along sometime in the future!

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Clara: Doctor, language!

12:…

12: Whom the fuck?!

The Doctor has had Missy in the vault for what, a few centuries? And they have regular little chats?

Missy didn’t have her memory wiped. She doesn’t know the Doctor had his wiped. Surely she’d bring up Clara at some point, either to push his buttons or appear concerned, right?

I find it difficult to believe that the Doctor would be able to resist asking Missy about Clara once he knew she knew her. Yeah, maybe he has an inkling his memory was wiped for good reason, but this is not a man who leaves things be out of caution nor who respects his past self enough to always listen to him (just look at any multi-Doctor story). You’d think it would be like having something stuck in your teeth you can’t get out or having a word on the tip of your tongue that won’t quite come, to know you knew someone and had those adventures but never be able to quite picture who they were or what precisely they did. I’m surprised the Doctor would be able to resist.

And Missy knows plenty about Clara to tell him. Not only has she had a couple adventures with her herself, but she put them together in the first place and watched over them through “Death in Heaven”.