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- Comment on Brand will face 'hell on earth' in Wandsworth prison, says former inmate 1 day ago:
Man who served time for Fraud gets his 5 minutes in the fame spotlight, probably for a couple of quid.
- Comment on You have until 17:00GMT on 2026 on Monday 16 November 2026 to submit evidence to the Parliamentary Committee considering the Conversion Practices Bill 2 days ago:
Are you just copying facebook posts?
- Comment on UK ministers look at quick ways to limit NDAs after Walliams allegations 2 days ago:
Was going to agree with you and then I read other peoples thoughtful replies, and they’re right.
Mine, and your kneejerk reaction doesn’t solve the current situation - and there are already laws around NDA’s and criminal activity, see here.
If a company is hiring in a celebrity and the celebrity is working for that company then perhaps make sure that the company is wholly responsible, with proper repercussions, financially, commerically and criminally if neccessary. Also make it that the company is still responsible if the Celeb is hired through third parties and through different hiring structures - the responsibility still heads up recursively to the top.
The only way to prevent this is to make sure that heads of the companys bare the responsibility for hiring someone known for this sort of behaviour.
- Comment on You have until 17:00GMT on 2026 on Monday 16 November 2026 to submit evidence to the Parliamentary Committee considering the Conversion Practices Bill 2 days ago:
Ideally I would support freedom of religion but in reality, it’s always Religion that muscles its agenda into politics and interferes with other peoples lives.
And so, I can’t support it.
Religion is an after-school club, a weekly social event in hall somewhere - for me, it does not have place in Governing a country of many Creeds, Colours and Cultures.
- Comment on Water industry bonus ban to be tightened as Ofwat warns of ‘damage to public trust’ 2 days ago:
Tightened?
As repeatedly demonstrated, the Water Industry can’t even find a leak, let alone the stop valve, so tightening is kind of redundant.
- Comment on You have until 17:00GMT on 2026 on Monday 16 November 2026 to submit evidence to the Parliamentary Committee considering the Conversion Practices Bill 2 days ago:
Can we just ban religion from having a say in anything?
Why can’t the government just leave it alone?
Trans rights are so important to such a tiny minority and yet have such an inconsequential impact on the vast majority who are not Trans.
All this Conversion Therapy is being brought on by Religious Zealots pushing their agenda - I feel, mostly from US influence.
I can only hope that people produce a staggering amount of evidence about how detrimental it is to Trans people and ends up prohibiting Religious groups and medical staff from referring or doing any Conversion Therapy.
- Comment on U.K. Lawmakers Call for Ban on Camming, 'E-pimping' 3 days ago:
This is going to need some seeeerious explaining.
These sites now all need some form of ID to access so what is wrong with a contract between two adult people to supply video on demand of a consenting adult do much of the ‘for the kids’ argument goes out the window.
By saying it’s all ‘pimping’ and sex exploitation, you’re effectively bracketing the entire internet sex work into Tracy Gilberts vision in the hopes of tarnish everyone either perverts or deviants.
This really need some pushback.
And since we’re talking about perverts and deviants, there some sick filth out there which will still be LEGALLY available and cause more harm to society, but you do fuck all about this… Image
- Comment on Lanarkshire AI datacentre to fully rely on National Grid despite renewables claim 6 days ago:
Exactly the same bullshit as housing.
Gets permission to build a new estate with 25% social housing. Once a single workman is on site, ‘Oh, we can only do 5% now and if you complain we’ll just leave the project’.
Its all lies and deceit with these people and there being no punative action to prevent this happening again.
They said they could do it with renewables, they can’t. They lied. They built on false promises and I don’t accept the ‘we going to invest in Solar and wind the future’.
Watch how they rinse normal people’s supply to blackout while they still have all the lights on.
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This is ‘Yes Minister’ level of farcical.
- Comment on Control of Britain’s 39m smart meters passes to non-profit startup 1 week ago:
Oh that’s good.
Shame more people aren’t around to read that!
- Comment on Control of Britain’s 39m smart meters passes to non-profit startup 1 week ago:
It’s out of the hands of Capita, if anything that sounds like a really good thing.
Into the hands of a non-profit? Another reason to celebrate.
Maybe someone more in the know can correct but it seems like the whole point of Capita has been to extort and strongarm as much money out of the public purse as possible to create a barely functional service.
I don’t trust that idiotic company TrustPilot, but when your company is getting basically all 1 star reviews in website practically built for companies to game the system and astroturf - you know you’re in trouble.
- Comment on Palantir AI tech unused or little used by 29 NHS trusts said to be benefiting from it 1 week ago:
The more I hear about Palantir, the more I think it was a deal to appease the demented diarrhetic Orange.
There’s also no doubt in my mind that Palantir will misuse the data in the future.
- Comment on Is time up for backyard fireworks? UK ministers weigh partial ban over noise concerns 1 week ago:
OK so you are talking Europe-wide then, right? You are saying that major cities throughout Europe allow people to throw fireworks in the street and they somehow do it responsibly and no one gets hurt?`
Why are you trying to aggrandise what I said? I said there are places all over Europe that manage to host and allow people to throw fireworks.
I didn’t say Europe-wide. These are my experiences, whether you believe them or not is ok, you haven’t seen it. I get that you’d find it hard to believe. I was looking at throwing up some pictures or stills from footage which I’ve taken over the years but with AI and what not, I’m not sure you’d believe that either.
Because I’m just trying to point out that that’s not actually right. I’m confident that every major urban area where there are events where the public freely throw fireworks in the street has a massive injury problem and property damage associated with it.
Quite a few places in Spain throw fireworks around, just like the Chinese do in festivals. People get do get injured, it’s not a perfect science - they don’t call for banning because someone got injured. It’s not all over the news every year calling for a ban because little Muffin is scared of the noise, or how Keith blew his knackered off for a viral video.
Germany is where I have most experience with this, having lived there for several years. They go absolutely mental with fireworks every new year. From about 6pm until 2am, in most major cities, fireworks are set off willy-nilly. People launch them from empty beer bottles, which not surprisingly often fall over. I’ve seen countless fireworks exploding in crowds, one time a firework skittered across the street and blew up right underneath a baby buggy. Needless to say, the baby was distraught. I’ve also seen someone run into the middle of a crossroads, put a large drum thing on the road and light it, it exploded with the most stupendous bang right as a car went past it. I was drinking outside one time when a firework went through an upstairs window down the street and set the apartment on fire. It is absolutely crazy and there is nothing responsible about it.
Witnessed similar events, but again, noone is calling for a ban. Usually with kids throwing fireworks at each other, there are designated places where people can do that, but kids just letting off normal fireworks - that’s done in the street.
I don’t know if France or Spain tolerate people setting off fireworks in the street like they do in Germany and the Netherlands. I suspect it’s not tolerated in Spain, I don’t recall anyone letting fireworks off in the street the one time I was there for NYE.
Let me help you forfeit your suspicions. I’ve been there when Police have been right next to fireworks exploding, I’ve not witnessed police throwing any on active duty but I’m 100% sure they’re normal people with kids and they do the same. It most certainly is tolerated. I’ve been in South America and Central America and they’ll set fireworks off for birthdays, weddings. People do release fireworks, some places more than most, but generally it’s accepted without the fuss that I’ve seen in the UK press. Admittedly, I only understand a few of the European languages but generally the Press don’t seem to go on the warpath every year and people generally seem more responsible.
I’m afraid I don’t believe it’s any different in any large cities where this happens. The UK isn’t a reckless outlier amongst a sea of responsible and yet pyromaniac European countries. Either the public do not routinely let off fireworks in the street - like in the UK for instance - or they do, and it’s absolute chaos and many people are injured and thousands of pounds of damage is caused.
Here’s this from Trip advisor on Bastille Day in Paris, France. Does that consistute a large city to you?
I was in Paris for Bastille Day several years ago and also in front of the Eiffel Tower to ring in the Millenium. On both occasions people did have fire crackers but they weren’t throwing them at people. Most of the time, they cleared a space in the crowd to set them off. Be forewarned though that European firecrackers aren’t like the little Black Cat crackers here in the U.S. They’re more like massive cherry bombs and they’re REALLY loud…like gunshot loud.
Look, I absolutely love fireworks and combustion is an amazing science. I’ve been to so many firework festivals that I’ve lost count and I will continue going - they’re pretty special. I’ve seen some absolute dicks (generally men and boys) but for the majority of the time, people take care of the issue themselves and don’t go to the press or police to gripe about everything the day after. It’s mostly an accepted risk during the festivals.
- Comment on Is time up for backyard fireworks? UK ministers weigh partial ban over noise concerns 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t called France, Spain (numerous festivals), Germany, Malta small (well, maybe Malta).
I was talking about one specific festival as it’s one of the worlds largest and because I’ve been there quite a few times so know it better than the others but there are others which allow people to throw fireworks without too much reported incidents or complaints.
- Comment on Is time up for backyard fireworks? UK ministers weigh partial ban over noise concerns 1 week ago:
Pretty sure we have laws against people setting off fireworks at 3 in the morning already - it’s just they aren’t well policed.
- Comment on Is time up for backyard fireworks? UK ministers weigh partial ban over noise concerns 1 week ago:
I’m reluctant to say too much for fear of the place filling up with English tourists on boozy trips getting burnt and just plain ruining it for everyone else.
What I will say is they have fireworks during the day and in the evening for consecutive days and very rarely are there accidents that makes the news cycle.
- Comment on Is time up for backyard fireworks? UK ministers weigh partial ban over noise concerns 2 weeks ago:
There are places all over Europe that manage to successfully host and allow people to throw fireworks.
The parents teach their kids how to handle them properly, there’s age limits like here, the police crack down hard on people who don’t abide, - and it’s not even that the rules are really strict. Little ones kids can use on the pavement, big ones are thrown in the road, really big ones - do it away from people altogether.
And EVERYONE throws them, from grannys to toddlers.
Not even just for a night…some are a week long!
How come they can manage the responsibility and yet England can’t?
- Comment on Parents fined for employing teen son in food trailer 2 weeks ago:
In this current climate its only fair they fine them.
The job should have been tendered out so that all children could have applied.
Not a single leaflet in a school, not a newsagents posting, nothing.
Sheer Nepotism!
- Comment on HMRC puts 200 billionaires on UK tax crackdown hitlist 2 weeks ago:
You just need to take down a few big fish with no ifs, no buts and no ‘mea culpas’…fine and claw back.
The will fall in line with enough financial force.
- Comment on Ofcom outlines ways social media can verify ages of users 2 weeks ago:
You’re putting your trust in the WEAKEST part of the chain here, on the companies to use this data in a trustworthy manner.
You can’t even put this down to naivety, it’s just pure recklessness and destruction of privacy rights.
Will you close down whole social media sites if they break the rules? No you won’t. What’s your answer if these companies, who function outside of the UK, steal all the information, sell it to data brokers or leak it?
It will be absolutely fucking nothing because it falls outside of UK borders.
This is the LEAST responsible action possible. Out of all outcomes, this will lead to the worst ending.
- Comment on Toblerone owner sues British vegan chocolate brand over chunky shape 2 weeks ago:
All information is greatly appreciated.
Yeah, I just read about Poundland recently and how they are trying to buying it back from the owner.
- Comment on Toblerone owner sues British vegan chocolate brand over chunky shape 2 weeks ago:
B&M used to sell a bar called ‘Twin Peaks’ that was astonishingly like Toblerone but did much better flavours and variety (at the time). It was lush and at Christmas I always chose those over Toblerone.
The only place anyone buys a Toblerone anymore is in an Airport on the way home because they forgot to get a gift.
This bar bears absolutely no resemblence. I hope Mondelez gets eaten alive by their own greed.
- Comment on Tommy Robinson faces up to 10 years in jail after being found guilty of harassing journalists 2 weeks ago:
Now that’s an Avenger storyline I can buy into.
Sold!!
- Comment on Chris Brown sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended for a year, over London nightclub attack 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely disgusting.
A repeat violent offender allowed near people like this.
It boggles the mind how many he’ll groom into believing its normal.
- Comment on ‘Realistic and reassuring’: UK public ‘responding calmly’ to Be Ready campaign 2 weeks ago:
Quick! All the Toilet Paper and Sanitiser…now!
- Comment on The bombshells from the undercover sting operation which plunged Reform into crisis 3 weeks ago:
All it tells me is that I should be a shoe-in as a Councillor for Bromley if I just turn up with a ‘I’m certainly not him’ emblazoned on it with a picture of Dean.
These people are just dumb psycho’s - I just can’t fathom how people really don’t think through the consequences.
Honestly, I think anarchy would be better than having these people responsible for us
- Comment on Barclays cutting 5,000 jobs as it increases reliance on AI 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t even bother with the hard delete. It seems to do a damn fine job of wiping everything without needing to tell it, by all accounts.
- Comment on Masts removed from bomb-laden WWII ship in Thames in bid to avoid explosion 3 weeks ago:
Exactly this.
Cant’ touch it for fear of exposing white phosphorous to water and causing an explosion.
There was a plan to put a concrete bund over it but that’s been kicked down the road for what now, at least 40 years and they probably don’t want to do that for fear of giving first time buyers hope that they’ve started building projects. 🤣
- Comment on Thames Water hosepipe ban to continue through autumn amid drought 4 weeks ago:
It needs to if we’re going to have water. Unless we have a month of torrential downpours where some other villages in the Devon wash away, we’re going to be so low on water.
The summer was absolutely brutal, but what I don’t get is why they didn’t sound the alarm loudly at the start of the summer?
I didn’t hear anything about water shortages until about mid August and I swear that we’ve have less hot summers where we’ve had warning far in advance.
- Comment on Pornography showing strangulation and incest to be banned in UK from early November 4 weeks ago:
The solution to problems with the internet is not a fucking surveillance state.
That ship, has sailed.
Set aside the complete obliteration of any online privacy, and the fact that these bans are completely ineffective (piracy streaming websites are already illegal in basically every western country. Still watched a movie on one yesterday), the internet is also a valuable and important resource for many things, including studying and finding support encouragement, nformation and safe spaces on issues particularly for children and teens growing up queer.
Nothing I disagree with there but I never said it would take it away from children. I suggest it would ringfence to acceptable sites so children can now find out about Homosexuality and Gender fluidity without being linked to a video on how to shoot up fentanyl with a knitting needle and a Maccie D’s straw (other straws are available and other restaurants).
You’re throwing out the baby entire god damn family with the bathwater.
I feel that ship has sailed. The government hasn’t listened yet, only to extremely old and sanctimonious other politicians.
All these bans do is push teens and children into LESS safe spaces on the deep web that don’t care about enforcing UK regulations, and banning those sites is literally just playing an infinite game of whack a mole.
That’s why it would be ringfenced.
Banning children and teens from everyday life activities has never worked and never been a solution, just how “abstinence only” doesn’t work to prevent teen pregnancy. The solution is to teach children early and comprehensively how to engage with these systems safely and responsibly, how to recognise warning signs of unsafe situations or fake information, and how to react appropriately to those.
100% completely agree with not banning teens and working with them, but the Internet is an actively and pervasively hostile place towards children. They are being groomed (not always sexuality), and most social media is just predatory grooming. If they’re not being told what to think, they’re being told what to buy. It’s pretty disgusting.
Parents have their place in all of this too. Perhaps if more of them actually engaged with their children we wouldn’t be in this sorry state of affairs, but then the way things are now, Parents don’t even have the time because they’re working just to pay bills.
The big Kaiju of the internet likes it this way (FAANG), they have the control. How do you stop that? It doesn’t seem legislation against them is working.
We are currently now at the state where ID is required for certain access. It’s absolutely shitty, it’s terrible and shameful, but it seems the government and the zealots have built a brick wall around this issue about as much as talking honestly about the Israel / Palestine situation. They have shut down almost all dialogue with ordinary citizens - most likely because it serves more of a purpose of shutting out foreign actors and helps to combat terrorism.
It’s not an excuse, it’s just the way it is…and it’s all one big mess where you’re damned no matter what you do.
