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- Comment on Andy Burnham defends Home Office booklet urging asylum seekers not to rape women 2 weeks ago:
It says
Do not photograph or film people in public
In the UK, you should not take pictures of videos of someone without their permission.
It’s not confusing, it’s trying to simplify a nuanced law, but coming out with something much more restrictive.
- Comment on Andy Burnham defends Home Office booklet urging asylum seekers not to rape women 2 weeks ago:
Everything in the information is fine, except the bit about “you’re not able to photograph people without their permission”.
While in the context of the topic that’s true, in general you are allowed to photograph people in public. It’s what you do and the intent behind taking the photos that matters.
The big concern is that people will think this strict “you can never photograph without permission” take from the Home Office is accurate, and then use it to justify harassment of anyone with a camera that they don’t like.
- Comment on Third arrest in murder probe after cyclist punched 2 weeks ago:
The arrests are on conspiracy to commit murder, sounds like the police found messages on their phone about them targeting this guy.
- Comment on Birmingham exodus as 80,000 people flee city 2 weeks ago:
That site is a cancer.
Firefox + ublock origin.
- Comment on Thousands of sex offenders in England and Wales could get libido-suppressing drugs 2 weeks ago:
The point is to put them on medication and release them from prison.
However, ministers are re-evaluating whether to press ahead with Shabana Mahmood’s pledge to explore mandatory chemical castration of serious sex offenders, such as paedophiles and rapists.
This part is the cruelty is the point part.
Not to defend rapists and paedophiles, but chemical castration was what they did to Alan Turing. The government and the legal system cannot be trusted to implement such harsh punishment and not inflict it on innocents.
And more poignantly, Turing’s castration was voluntary as a condition of his early release.
- Comment on ‘BarclayS 5’ Palestine activists will not be tried as terrorists 2 weeks ago:
But after the judge will tack on a terrorism designation and sentencing anyway.
- Comment on Asylum seekers told rape and harassment illegal in UK in new Home Office booklet 2 weeks ago:
Ignorance of the law is not a valid defence, anyway.
- Comment on Asylum seekers told rape and harassment illegal in UK in new Home Office booklet 2 weeks ago:
… but it’s not illegal to take photos of people in public?? Not inherently, anyway. What matters is your intent and what you do with the photos - publishing the photos could be an offence. But generally, you don’t have an expectation of privacy and being photographed or recorded in public is legal.
- Comment on A pattern of negative posts about the BBC 2 weeks ago:
Too many bigots have gained too many supporters
How did they get so much support? In no small part it is because they were promoted on the BBC.
- Comment on Count Binface: My Clacton Victory Speech! 3 weeks ago:
In his downtime I think he should consider touring with Angine de Poitrine. They’re black and white/white and black, he’s grey, they’re all aliens; it would be a mash up made in heaven.
- Comment on Tributes paid to Jason Arday after ex-Cambridge professor found dead 3 weeks ago:
Hopefully he’ll be kicked out of the university of Ghent, just like he was at Cambridge.
- Comment on One million sign petition to keep PC Harper's killers in jail 3 weeks ago:
youtube.com/watch?v=sqBAjGVruKw
Your link, without tracking.
- Comment on Reform UK unveils massive £50bn welfare overhaul to scrap PIP 3 weeks ago:
You’re exactly right.
Writing in The Telegraph, Mr Jenrick said: “We will not pretend this is painless.
He won’t be the one feeling the pain, he is openly admitting that he is setting out to cause pain to British citizens.
- Comment on The Telegraph killed Jason Arday 3 weeks ago:
They’re so evil
- Comment on Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row 3 weeks ago:
I think there were other institutions that he had been associated with that also cleared him. Cambridge will likely only look at work he’s done while with them, and defer to Liverpool or others for work he did elsewhere.
- Comment on Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row 3 weeks ago:
even if this poor guy did plagiarise blatantly
From what I understand, he didn’t.
- Comment on Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row 3 weeks ago:
Most of the investigations into his plagiarism, the ones that have concluded, determined that he did not plagiarise.
- Comment on Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row 3 weeks ago:
Did he actually get found guilty of plagiarism? I thought most if not all investigations put him in the clear for that.
- Comment on Benjamin Netanyahu describes UK as ‘first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon’ 3 weeks ago:
Tbf, generally the UK on the whole is much more accepting than a lot of other places. There are noisy and growing fringe movements, but the quiet majority of Brits just want everyone to queue up and get on with it.
- Comment on Benjamin Netanyahu describes UK as ‘first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon’ 3 weeks ago:
Lmfaooo fucking Chabad…
Literally one of the main reasons Russian invade Ukraine in 2022 was to prevent the Ukrainian civil trial against the former owners of PrivatBank, who had been laundering shit tons of Russian money, and much of it went to Chabad charities in the UK, Europe, and south-east US (particularly Delaware). They bought up loads of land. There were other trials in Delaware and the UK, these were postponed in lieu of the Ukrainian trial (where discovery would surely uncover more details than anywhere else) - billed to be the trial of the year, if not the decade - which was scheduled for summer 2022.
- Comment on Benjamin Netanyahu describes UK as ‘first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon’ 3 weeks ago:
Relations between the UK and Israel have been increasingly strained in recent months, especially since Andy Burnham took over in No 10. Shortly before becoming prime minister, he apologised for Labour’s initial response to Israel’s military action in Gaza, saying the party “didn’t get it right” and needed to “do better” under his leadership, signalling a significant shift in the UK’s approach to the Middle East.
This line literally made me tilt my head. The Guardian can’t make up their mind whether Burnham is the reason the relationship with Israel is strained, or whether Barnham becoming PM is going to make it better.
- Comment on Emergency Alert About Wildfires 3 weeks ago:
I had a second fucking alert a few hours later.
- Comment on Banksy works cost public almost £150,000 4 weeks ago:
And they each charge ten grand a day.
- Comment on Banksy works cost public almost £150,000 4 weeks ago:
on the other hand, it reveals their irresponsibility: They are willing to spend such a large sum to silence criticism of their actions
It’s even worse than that, they basically poured the public purse into their favourite contractors’ hands, all so they could then pin liability for that expense onto the artist who criticised them.
£50k to clean a small section of wall. Even with it being a listed building and even if they couldn’t figure out how to clean it off right away, that’s a ridiculous figure for what likely amounted to little more than 2 skilled workers over 3 days.
- Comment on Banksy works cost public almost £150,000 4 weeks ago:
Hey now, they only paid £50k.
- Comment on Banksy works cost public almost £150,000 4 weeks ago:
Seeing as the BBC is basically trying to sensationalise this, I’ll break down the figures.
- First, it’s across two works, not just the protestor one but the statue with the guy marching holding a flag that’s blowing in his face.
- For the judge & protestor the government spent £50k trying to remove it, and £35k in overtime and securtity.
- For the flag guy the government spent £60k on fencing and security.
£95k of their “£150k” (actually £145k, I can only assume they rounded up to sensationalise as it’s literally the same character count) was spent on security, which no one and nothing called for. £50k on cleaning is also crazy, even for a listed building.
The government’s careless spending should not be blamed on activists criticising them.
- Comment on Welsh Man Arrested After Standing on a Hospital Roof Dressed as the Grim Reaper 4 weeks ago:
The UK is full of these public decency laws that have a lot of vagueness to them, meaning they can be broadly applied even in situations where they shouldn’t.
The ridiculous thing is that “making a youtube video” or something similar could potentially be considered a “reasonable excuse”. Probably easier to get away with it if you’re a network TV show, at least that’s generally been the case over the last few decades…
- Comment on Only 1 out of over 740,000 UK Parliament petitions has ever directly succeeded in changing government policy 4 weeks ago:
Sack all the politicians, they fail at the key part of their jobs: representing the voters. Instead, they represent the biggest donors to the party LLC.
Let everyone vote on everything an MP votes on themselves, directly. We don’t need a “representative” to travel to Westminster and vote on our behalf, communication technology makes them obsolete.
- Comment on Only 1 out of over 740,000 UK Parliament petitions has ever directly succeeded in changing government policy 4 weeks ago:
The original criticism of the .gov petitions was that it was a distraction from meaningful social action that forced the government to change.
- Comment on [Video] British granny in a wheelchair escorted by a gang of police officers for supporting Palestine Action, risking a 14 year prison sentence for supporting terrorism. 5 weeks ago:
Lmfao the irony of posting an imgur link about the UK to a UK forum, when imgur blocks itself from the UK because it was doing shady financial shit.
