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- Comment on Hackney shooting: Girl, 9, critical after four shot in Dalston 4 weeks ago:
What’s with the article putting “innocent victim” inside inverted commas?
Sure, they may be quoting a witness, but is there need to quote that specifically? Was anyone thinking that a nine year old child shot having dinner with her family is somehow culpable for the violence done to her?
- Comment on Northern Lights could be visible in England and Wales as severe solar storm to hit overnight 1 month ago:
Mmmmmrrrm. Idk, saw them as a child & though I had not heard of them at the time & therefore had no expectations, not even the most dramatic, high-tech camera footage has come close to those moments.
- Comment on Northern Lights could be visible in England and Wales as severe solar storm to hit overnight 1 month ago:
Overheard a lady tonight claiming they were visible “all around, everywhere, just get outside” on the phone to her friend in the centre of Birmingham. Tried to ask her for tips, but she was too distracted by it all & not looking at the sky in any case.
- Comment on Iraqi refugee's 7-year old daughter who died in the Channel was born in Belgium and lived in Sweden, but has never been in Iraq 1 month ago:
Quite, lol. Nuffink to lose tho’!
- Comment on Iraqi refugee's 7-year old daughter who died in the Channel was born in Belgium and lived in Sweden, but has never been in Iraq 1 month ago:
The article does not suggest that it is.
The guy is appealing to the sympathy of the British government, but also does not suggest it is a British problem, and likely knows he won’t even get a response - he just has nothing to lose by asking.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 2 months ago:
Right, because screeching about trans, non-binary and intersex people as if they’re to blame for a decade & a half of Tory asset-wrecking deathly malfeasance will totally magic this extra NHS capacity into reality.
(Ok, they didn’t mention the latter two, because they never do, but we all know how it goes).
Tbh I think staff on the wards will be able to ignore this, as the demand for care far exceeds availability, but they shouldn’t fucking have to.
- Comment on If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? 2 months ago:
Because Tory cuts mean the money to run these websites has to be found elsewhere.
- Comment on Not just mums go to Iceland: supermarket drops slogan to be more inclusive 2 months ago:
Can recall being a young teenager and being on the one hand struck that they were suddenly including men as consumers of household products, but at the same time that they were depicting these men as bizarre & wildly incompetent.
It took a further TWO DECADES to see an ad with a normal using a normal product like a normal person.
Was splendidly unaware of the substantive issues back then, so that I even noticed this as startling seems telling.
- Comment on Thames Water nationalisation plan could move bulk of £15bn debt to state 2 months ago:
Aye, it is a whole thing.
All of the “safeguards” they used to get the public to accept privatisation back in the day were sleights of hand.
- Comment on Warning after people fined because they used Royal Mail stamps 2 months ago:
Makes one nervous that this will be yet another scandal in which postmasters & postmistresses end up under attack…
- Comment on UK Monarchy Opinion Survey 5 months ago:
Go for it :)
- Comment on UK Monarchy Opinion Survey 5 months ago:
Won’t use the survey as it is on MS. Am sure they know me better than I know myself, but prefer to avoid nevertheless.
Abolish, but if we’re pushing for major reforms, ditching FPTP in favour of STV seems a far greater priority.
If we end up going for ab elected figurehead, the US model seems awfully risky, but that used by Ireland could be ok?
- Comment on England heads for obesity disaster as minister frets about nanny state 6 months ago:
Yeah, but she’s got to consider growing all those donations from the sugar & processed food lobbyists.
- Comment on Ex-minister David Davis intervenes in street attack near Parliament 6 months ago:
Good on him.
Intervening is scary, because it is genuinely risky, and though the article mentions he has training, that was a long time ago.
- Comment on question: in the UK we get alot of boycott calls. But should there be a set period for a boycott? I submit a range of offences should have a period of time. 1) food poisoning: 6 months 6 months ago:
Only if one interprets an apology as a meaningful change of behaviour.
Depending on context, one might, I’d think that would be reserved for matters of simple human error, and even then I think one would still wish to see measures to prevent similar in future.
Hosing down a homeless person doesn’t fall into that category, being intentionally awful, and likely emerging from abusive or highly neglectful management practices. For things like this, one would be seeking changes which go to addressing the core of the offence.
In reality it is hard to assess whether reforms have been implemented, especially with huge multinationals that can deploy heavy PR campaigns, but I don’t know that anyone is going to cry if a boycott persists somewhat longer than is necessary.
- Comment on Here’s how the Tories will continue their war on the less well-off in the King’s speech 7 months ago:
Tories gon’ tear everything that isn’t bad to shreds.
- Comment on Abandoned Commandos: Dozens of Afghans who served in special forces units funded and trained by the UK have been murdered or tortured by the Taliban 7 months ago:
They straight up refused to bother processing their applications once withdrawal began & since then deported the few who’d already made it to the UK (on these visas).
Good luck persuading locals to assist in any future foreign mission!
- Comment on Rwanda can be trusted, Supreme Court told 8 months ago:
Eh, thing is, he doesn’t need to persuade anyone who is against the mistreatment of others that the idea is horrific - they already know this without having to have anyone point it out, and are already firmly against proposals like this.
But he does need to persuade the chunk of the population that are indifferent to the plight of migrants, or who believe that cruelty is an effective tool, or who embrace cruelty for itself, to also reject this proposal. He won’t want to draw their attention to the awfulness of the idea, as this group will be disinterested at best.
Without them on board, it will be considerably harder to force the Tories to back down, and though Labour will win the next election and can end any measure then, that still leaves time for tens of thousands of people to be forcibly removed to Rwanda.
- Comment on Office co-ordinator who took 28 months maternity leave before refusing to return to work loses unfair dismissal claim 9 months ago:
There’s always going to be a handful of people who are either too detached from reality to grasp that they don’t have a case, and another handful who know they don’t have a case but who are willing to chance a ridiculous claim.
- Comment on No More Empty Docks, Offenders Forced to Face Victims 9 months ago:
Populist garbage.
Sentencing already reflects the behaviour of the defendant subsequent to the crime, so that they can get a hefty discount the sooner they plead guilty, whereas if they constantly do things that frustrate the whole process they can see the upper end of what is an allowable sentence. Refusing to appear in court, whether as a defendant or as a convict awaiting sentence makes no difference to the process.