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  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,839

    Carnyx said:

    Leon said:

    Leon said:

    Sean_F said:

    Commemorative you can’t escape the legacy of Arthur Donaldson tweet. Quite shocking that the rancid old **** was allowed to return to the Commons as if nothing had happened. Mind you, he’d probably be the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party in its current iteration.



    https://twitter.com/otto_english/status/1628709274976153601?s=61&t=t6v9Ta4h-SMABSvwj2rQFg

    John Amery was white, male, upper class. William Joyce was white, male, middle class.

    That did not save them from being executed, in the aftermath of WWII, for acting similarly to Shamima Begum.
    Similar yes, but I think objectively, Begum was groomed. She was under 16 when she left to join ISIS, and by her admission, did not believe what she thought was Western propaganda about ISIS.

    I'd rather see her tried for crimes that she has committed, but I don't think thats easy. How much evidence is there? Where should a trial be? Its not as if we have a Nuremberg style trial system going for ISIS.
    Just drone her
    Stop being an attention-seeking twat just for the sake of it
    We drone our Islamist enemies all the time. She is one of them. What’s the difference with her?

    The alternative - which I prefer - is that we pay the Syrians or Iraqis or Yazidis - her victims, remember - to try her. I imagine they will execute her. Being an ISIS bride is a capital offence. Oh well
    You don't think that she was 15 years of age at the inception of her crimes might count for just a teensy weensy little something?
    Age and “grooming” are mitigations for an offence. Not a shield against being prosecuted.

    My grandfather fought in WWI

    In his Glasgow pub, they would have lock-ins were the old soldiers would drink with the men on leave in WWII. Think decompression from the horror. Quite a few stories about encountering Hitler Youth, apparently.
    Yes, she should be prosecuted. In the UK.
    I agree - the problem is that the law has apparently been “improved” to the point where prosecution isn’t possible.

    Mind you, my grandfather caused a moment, according to his diary. He was a bit of a spotter type - read everything he could find on the war. So when someone mentioned they shot out of hand people in black uniforms (SS), he pointed out they were probably tank crew.
    The point presumably being that they were Wehrmacht tank crew too, not just Waffen-SS.
    Yup. The forgotten bit of WWII and WWI were the… conventions the soldiers added on as their version of the laws of war.

    “Too late, chum”

    Etc
    Also anyone wearting a spotty camouflage smock. As a few more Wehrmacht found. I do wonder about anyone in a British Para Denison smock, too.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 50,268

    Carnyx said:

    Leon said:

    Leon said:

    Sean_F said:

    Commemorative you can’t escape the legacy of Arthur Donaldson tweet. Quite shocking that the rancid old **** was allowed to return to the Commons as if nothing had happened. Mind you, he’d probably be the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party in its current iteration.



    https://twitter.com/otto_english/status/1628709274976153601?s=61&t=t6v9Ta4h-SMABSvwj2rQFg

    John Amery was white, male, upper class. William Joyce was white, male, middle class.

    That did not save them from being executed, in the aftermath of WWII, for acting similarly to Shamima Begum.
    Similar yes, but I think objectively, Begum was groomed. She was under 16 when she left to join ISIS, and by her admission, did not believe what she thought was Western propaganda about ISIS.

    I'd rather see her tried for crimes that she has committed, but I don't think thats easy. How much evidence is there? Where should a trial be? Its not as if we have a Nuremberg style trial system going for ISIS.
    Just drone her
    Stop being an attention-seeking twat just for the sake of it
    We drone our Islamist enemies all the time. She is one of them. What’s the difference with her?

    The alternative - which I prefer - is that we pay the Syrians or Iraqis or Yazidis - her victims, remember - to try her. I imagine they will execute her. Being an ISIS bride is a capital offence. Oh well
    You don't think that she was 15 years of age at the inception of her crimes might count for just a teensy weensy little something?
    Age and “grooming” are mitigations for an offence. Not a shield against being prosecuted.

    My grandfather fought in WWI

    In his Glasgow pub, they would have lock-ins were the old soldiers would drink with the men on leave in WWII. Think decompression from the horror. Quite a few stories about encountering Hitler Youth, apparently.
    Yes, she should be prosecuted. In the UK.
    I agree - the problem is that the law has apparently been “improved” to the point where prosecution isn’t possible.

    Mind you, my grandfather caused a moment, according to his diary. He was a bit of a spotter type - read everything he could find on the war. So when someone mentioned they shot out of hand people in black uniforms (SS), he pointed out they were probably tank crew.
    Jus\t reading a book by a Chieftain loader in the Royal Tank Regiment. Very proud of their black uniforms for formal dress. 1980s garrison in Germany in an old SS barracks. Discovered the locals really, really did not care for their walking-out dress of an evening.
    What I don't understand is though a black uniform is entirely understandable in context of a mucky old thing like a tank, why the Nazis insisted on a version of the Totenkopf for Wermacht crews.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totenkopf

    There was a long history of it before the Nazis - who made it into a symbol of crime.
  • Nigelb said:

    Fun list from the Guardian, with a few spoilers. Some there I haven’t seen and might look up.
    Can anyone improve on their suggestions ?
    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/feb/23/the-20-best-time-travel-movies-ranked

    As others have said: no Twelve Monkeys? no Groundhog Day? no Donnie Darko? And they have Timecop and The Tomorrow War in there - pfft. Flight of the Navigator should be way higher, Avengers Endgame and Interstellar lower. Not sure how good the film is, but if it's anywhere near the book, then Time Traveller's Wife should be in the top 10. And the best on-screen time travel is the German series Dark, from Netflix: sumptuous
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,839
    edited February 2023

    Carnyx said:

    Leon said:

    Leon said:

    Sean_F said:

    Commemorative you can’t escape the legacy of Arthur Donaldson tweet. Quite shocking that the rancid old **** was allowed to return to the Commons as if nothing had happened. Mind you, he’d probably be the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party in its current iteration.



    https://twitter.com/otto_english/status/1628709274976153601?s=61&t=t6v9Ta4h-SMABSvwj2rQFg

    John Amery was white, male, upper class. William Joyce was white, male, middle class.

    That did not save them from being executed, in the aftermath of WWII, for acting similarly to Shamima Begum.
    Similar yes, but I think objectively, Begum was groomed. She was under 16 when she left to join ISIS, and by her admission, did not believe what she thought was Western propaganda about ISIS.

    I'd rather see her tried for crimes that she has committed, but I don't think thats easy. How much evidence is there? Where should a trial be? Its not as if we have a Nuremberg style trial system going for ISIS.
    Just drone her
    Stop being an attention-seeking twat just for the sake of it
    We drone our Islamist enemies all the time. She is one of them. What’s the difference with her?

    The alternative - which I prefer - is that we pay the Syrians or Iraqis or Yazidis - her victims, remember - to try her. I imagine they will execute her. Being an ISIS bride is a capital offence. Oh well
    You don't think that she was 15 years of age at the inception of her crimes might count for just a teensy weensy little something?
    Age and “grooming” are mitigations for an offence. Not a shield against being prosecuted.

    My grandfather fought in WWI

    In his Glasgow pub, they would have lock-ins were the old soldiers would drink with the men on leave in WWII. Think decompression from the horror. Quite a few stories about encountering Hitler Youth, apparently.
    Yes, she should be prosecuted. In the UK.
    I agree - the problem is that the law has apparently been “improved” to the point where prosecution isn’t possible.

    Mind you, my grandfather caused a moment, according to his diary. He was a bit of a spotter type - read everything he could find on the war. So when someone mentioned they shot out of hand people in black uniforms (SS), he pointed out they were probably tank crew.
    Jus\t reading a book by a Chieftain loader in the Royal Tank Regiment. Very proud of their black uniforms for formal dress. 1980s garrison in Germany in an old SS barracks. Discovered the locals really, really did not care for their walking-out dress of an evening.
    What I don't understand is though a black uniform is entirely understandable in the context of a mucky old thing like a tank, why the Nazis insisted on a version of the Totenkopf for Wermacht crews.
    Standard elite cavalry badge of many units in Gt War and long before, also the Stosstruppe. Even the Reichswehr in Weimar times had a cav unit with the Totenkopf. Possibly that's where the Panzer Division one comes from rather than through the Freikorps and the NSDAP [edit] which last was the source for the WAffen ss. But not a great idea when you get captured, for sure. "Achtung, this is a badge of the 19th Brunswick Hussars, bitte!"
  • Carnyx said:

    Carnyx said:

    Leon said:

    Leon said:

    Sean_F said:

    Commemorative you can’t escape the legacy of Arthur Donaldson tweet. Quite shocking that the rancid old **** was allowed to return to the Commons as if nothing had happened. Mind you, he’d probably be the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party in its current iteration.



    https://twitter.com/otto_english/status/1628709274976153601?s=61&t=t6v9Ta4h-SMABSvwj2rQFg

    John Amery was white, male, upper class. William Joyce was white, male, middle class.

    That did not save them from being executed, in the aftermath of WWII, for acting similarly to Shamima Begum.
    Similar yes, but I think objectively, Begum was groomed. She was under 16 when she left to join ISIS, and by her admission, did not believe what she thought was Western propaganda about ISIS.

    I'd rather see her tried for crimes that she has committed, but I don't think thats easy. How much evidence is there? Where should a trial be? Its not as if we have a Nuremberg style trial system going for ISIS.
    Just drone her
    Stop being an attention-seeking twat just for the sake of it
    We drone our Islamist enemies all the time. She is one of them. What’s the difference with her?

    The alternative - which I prefer - is that we pay the Syrians or Iraqis or Yazidis - her victims, remember - to try her. I imagine they will execute her. Being an ISIS bride is a capital offence. Oh well
    You don't think that she was 15 years of age at the inception of her crimes might count for just a teensy weensy little something?
    Age and “grooming” are mitigations for an offence. Not a shield against being prosecuted.

    My grandfather fought in WWI

    In his Glasgow pub, they would have lock-ins were the old soldiers would drink with the men on leave in WWII. Think decompression from the horror. Quite a few stories about encountering Hitler Youth, apparently.
    Yes, she should be prosecuted. In the UK.
    I agree - the problem is that the law has apparently been “improved” to the point where prosecution isn’t possible.

    Mind you, my grandfather caused a moment, according to his diary. He was a bit of a spotter type - read everything he could find on the war. So when someone mentioned they shot out of hand people in black uniforms (SS), he pointed out they were probably tank crew.
    Jus\t reading a book by a Chieftain loader in the Royal Tank Regiment. Very proud of their black uniforms for formal dress. 1980s garrison in Germany in an old SS barracks. Discovered the locals really, really did not care for their walking-out dress of an evening.
    What I don't understand is though a black uniform is entirely understandable in the context of a mucky old thing like a tank, why the Nazis insisted on a version of the Totenkopf for Wermacht crews.
    Standard elite cavalry badge of many units in Gt War and long before, also the Stosstruppe. Even the Reichswehr in Weimar times had a cav unit with the Totenkopf. Possibly that's where the Panzer Division one comes from rather than through the Freikorps and the NSDAP [edit] which last was the source for the WAffen ss. But not a great idea when you get captured, for sure. "Achtung, this is a badge of the 19th Brunswick Hussars, bitte!"
    'Bloody SS, they've ruined the Totenkopf for everyone!'
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 32,557
    "Britain Elects
    @BritainElects
    Westminster voting intention:

    LAB: 45% (-)
    CON: 31% (+3)
    LDEM: 9% (-1)
    REF: 4% (-1)
    GRN: 3% (-1)

    via
    @Savanta_UK
    , 17 - 19 Feb"

    https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1628739539500994563
  • Nigelb said:

    Fun list from the Guardian, with a few spoilers. Some there I haven’t seen and might look up.
    Can anyone improve on their suggestions ?
    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/feb/23/the-20-best-time-travel-movies-ranked

    As others have said: no Twelve Monkeys? no Groundhog Day? no Donnie Darko? And they have Timecop and The Tomorrow War in there - pfft. Flight of the Navigator should be way higher, Avengers Endgame and Interstellar lower. Not sure how good the film is, but if it's anywhere near the book, then Time Traveller's Wife should be in the top 10. And the best on-screen time travel is the German series Dark, from Netflix: sumptuous
    Thanks, hadn't heard of Dark, sounds right up my Strasse.
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,485
    Regan continues to slide slowly in.

    Now 5.1
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 35,990

    Not sure how good the film is, but if it's anywhere near the book, then Time Traveller's Wife should be in the top 10.

    The book is brilliant

    The film is not

    They are currently making a stage version...
  • Andy_JS said:

    "Britain Elects
    @BritainElects
    Westminster voting intention:

    LAB: 45% (-)
    CON: 31% (+3)
    LDEM: 9% (-1)
    REF: 4% (-1)
    GRN: 3% (-1)

    via
    @Savanta_UK
    , 17 - 19 Feb"

    https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1628739539500994563

    Must be an outlier :lol:
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,358

    Leon said:

    Commemorative you can’t escape the legacy of Arthur Donaldson tweet. Quite shocking that the rancid old **** was allowed to return to the Commons as if nothing had happened. Mind you, he’d probably be the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party in its current iteration.



    https://twitter.com/otto_english/status/1628709274976153601?s=61&t=t6v9Ta4h-SMABSvwj2rQFg

    Like the way he describes her actions as a "mistake" as if joining an organisation that beheaded people and burnt them alive, and watching gay men being thrown to their deaths, was comparable to not paying a parking ticket. Some of the Hitler Youth should have had this chap on board.
    Otto English is a nasty, detestable c8nt
    Begum took active part in the enslavement of people. Real, actual slavery.

    Also - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Amery
    At least the government of the day had the balls to try Amery and Joyce, dubiety in the trial of Joyce notwithstanding.
    A different age. In 1945, no lawyer would have tried to get the treason laws thrown out as archaic or immoral or whatever. Begum would have got John Amery’s fate.

    The practise of law has been steadily “improved” since then, under various governments. Until we have, apparently, no way to prosecute.

    What I find interesting is the horror with which my proposals for a treason law get, when I put them in front of some lawyers. Why is that?
    It's an extreme form of individualism which holds that one has no duties to the State or one's fellow citizens. Earlier generations had no difficulty with the idea that there are reciprocal obligations between state and citizen.
  • Carnyx said:

    Leon said:

    Leon said:

    Sean_F said:

    Commemorative you can’t escape the legacy of Arthur Donaldson tweet. Quite shocking that the rancid old **** was allowed to return to the Commons as if nothing had happened. Mind you, he’d probably be the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party in its current iteration.



    https://twitter.com/otto_english/status/1628709274976153601?s=61&t=t6v9Ta4h-SMABSvwj2rQFg

    John Amery was white, male, upper class. William Joyce was white, male, middle class.

    That did not save them from being executed, in the aftermath of WWII, for acting similarly to Shamima Begum.
    Similar yes, but I think objectively, Begum was groomed. She was under 16 when she left to join ISIS, and by her admission, did not believe what she thought was Western propaganda about ISIS.

    I'd rather see her tried for crimes that she has committed, but I don't think thats easy. How much evidence is there? Where should a trial be? Its not as if we have a Nuremberg style trial system going for ISIS.
    Just drone her
    Stop being an attention-seeking twat just for the sake of it
    We drone our Islamist enemies all the time. She is one of them. What’s the difference with her?

    The alternative - which I prefer - is that we pay the Syrians or Iraqis or Yazidis - her victims, remember - to try her. I imagine they will execute her. Being an ISIS bride is a capital offence. Oh well
    You don't think that she was 15 years of age at the inception of her crimes might count for just a teensy weensy little something?
    Age and “grooming” are mitigations for an offence. Not a shield against being prosecuted.

    My grandfather fought in WWI

    In his Glasgow pub, they would have lock-ins were the old soldiers would drink with the men on leave in WWII. Think decompression from the horror. Quite a few stories about encountering Hitler Youth, apparently.
    Yes, she should be prosecuted. In the UK.
    I agree - the problem is that the law has apparently been “improved” to the point where prosecution isn’t possible.

    Mind you, my grandfather caused a moment, according to his diary. He was a bit of a spotter type - read everything he could find on the war. So when someone mentioned they shot out of hand people in black uniforms (SS), he pointed out they were probably tank crew.
    Jus\t reading a book by a Chieftain loader in the Royal Tank Regiment. Very proud of their black uniforms for formal dress. 1980s garrison in Germany in an old SS barracks. Discovered the locals really, really did not care for their walking-out dress of an evening.
    What I don't understand is though a black uniform is entirely understandable in context of a mucky old thing like a tank, why the Nazis insisted on a version of the Totenkopf for Wermacht crews.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totenkopf

    There was a long history of it before the Nazis - who made it into a symbol of crime.
    The Swastika says ,,Guten Tag''.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 50,268

    Carnyx said:

    Carnyx said:

    Leon said:

    Leon said:

    Sean_F said:

    Commemorative you can’t escape the legacy of Arthur Donaldson tweet. Quite shocking that the rancid old **** was allowed to return to the Commons as if nothing had happened. Mind you, he’d probably be the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party in its current iteration.



    https://twitter.com/otto_english/status/1628709274976153601?s=61&t=t6v9Ta4h-SMABSvwj2rQFg

    John Amery was white, male, upper class. William Joyce was white, male, middle class.

    That did not save them from being executed, in the aftermath of WWII, for acting similarly to Shamima Begum.
    Similar yes, but I think objectively, Begum was groomed. She was under 16 when she left to join ISIS, and by her admission, did not believe what she thought was Western propaganda about ISIS.

    I'd rather see her tried for crimes that she has committed, but I don't think thats easy. How much evidence is there? Where should a trial be? Its not as if we have a Nuremberg style trial system going for ISIS.
    Just drone her
    Stop being an attention-seeking twat just for the sake of it
    We drone our Islamist enemies all the time. She is one of them. What’s the difference with her?

    The alternative - which I prefer - is that we pay the Syrians or Iraqis or Yazidis - her victims, remember - to try her. I imagine they will execute her. Being an ISIS bride is a capital offence. Oh well
    You don't think that she was 15 years of age at the inception of her crimes might count for just a teensy weensy little something?
    Age and “grooming” are mitigations for an offence. Not a shield against being prosecuted.

    My grandfather fought in WWI

    In his Glasgow pub, they would have lock-ins were the old soldiers would drink with the men on leave in WWII. Think decompression from the horror. Quite a few stories about encountering Hitler Youth, apparently.
    Yes, she should be prosecuted. In the UK.
    I agree - the problem is that the law has apparently been “improved” to the point where prosecution isn’t possible.

    Mind you, my grandfather caused a moment, according to his diary. He was a bit of a spotter type - read everything he could find on the war. So when someone mentioned they shot out of hand people in black uniforms (SS), he pointed out they were probably tank crew.
    Jus\t reading a book by a Chieftain loader in the Royal Tank Regiment. Very proud of their black uniforms for formal dress. 1980s garrison in Germany in an old SS barracks. Discovered the locals really, really did not care for their walking-out dress of an evening.
    What I don't understand is though a black uniform is entirely understandable in the context of a mucky old thing like a tank, why the Nazis insisted on a version of the Totenkopf for Wermacht crews.
    Standard elite cavalry badge of many units in Gt War and long before, also the Stosstruppe. Even the Reichswehr in Weimar times had a cav unit with the Totenkopf. Possibly that's where the Panzer Division one comes from rather than through the Freikorps and the NSDAP [edit] which last was the source for the WAffen ss. But not a great idea when you get captured, for sure. "Achtung, this is a badge of the 19th Brunswick Hussars, bitte!"
    'Bloody SS, they've ruined the Totenkopf for everyone!'
    Reminds me of the little old lady selling brass boxes in Nepal. All but one design were selling well.

    Yes, all the swastikas.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,358

    Sean_F said:

    Commemorative you can’t escape the legacy of Arthur Donaldson tweet. Quite shocking that the rancid old **** was allowed to return to the Commons as if nothing had happened. Mind you, he’d probably be the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party in its current iteration.



    https://twitter.com/otto_english/status/1628709274976153601?s=61&t=t6v9Ta4h-SMABSvwj2rQFg

    John Amery was white, male, upper class. William Joyce was white, male, middle class.

    That did not save them from being executed, in the aftermath of WWII, for acting similarly to Shamima Begum.
    Similar yes, but I think objectively, Begum was groomed. She was under 16 when she left to join ISIS, and by her admission, did not believe what she thought was Western propaganda about ISIS.

    I'd rather see her tried for crimes that she has committed, but I don't think thats easy. How much evidence is there? Where should a trial be? Its not as if we have a Nuremberg style trial system going for ISIS.
    She has publicly stated, in several TV programs that she took part in war crimes. Specifically the process of enslavement of Yazidi women. The avowed (by ISIS) intention of this process was to wipe out the Yazidi people by destroying the next generation.
    Did she have legal representatives at that point? She can always say that she was lying
    I think she is guilty of lots of things but was also groomed. Life isn't black and white. To use the Nazi example a 20 year old German committing atrocities in 1945 had been under the Nazis for 12 years. Twelve long years of indoctrination. Not an excuse, but context.
    We still hanged Irma Griese at that age.
  • Nigelb said:

    Fun list from the Guardian, with a few spoilers. Some there I haven’t seen and might look up.
    Can anyone improve on their suggestions ?
    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/feb/23/the-20-best-time-travel-movies-ranked

    As others have said: no Twelve Monkeys? no Groundhog Day? no Donnie Darko? And they have Timecop and The Tomorrow War in there - pfft. Flight of the Navigator should be way higher, Avengers Endgame and Interstellar lower. Not sure how good the film is, but if it's anywhere near the book, then Time Traveller's Wife should be in the top 10. And the best on-screen time travel is the German series Dark, from Netflix: sumptuous
    Thanks, hadn't heard of Dark, sounds right up my Strasse.
    Be prepared to draw up some family trees to keep track of who's who, and who's when...
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 37,358

    Sean_F said:

    Commemorative you can’t escape the legacy of Arthur Donaldson tweet. Quite shocking that the rancid old **** was allowed to return to the Commons as if nothing had happened. Mind you, he’d probably be the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party in its current iteration.



    https://twitter.com/otto_english/status/1628709274976153601?s=61&t=t6v9Ta4h-SMABSvwj2rQFg

    John Amery was white, male, upper class. William Joyce was white, male, middle class.

    That did not save them from being executed, in the aftermath of WWII, for acting similarly to Shamima Begum.
    We had capital punishment on the statute at the time.

    Were Amery or Joyce rendered stateless?
    Joyce would certainly have wished that he was.

    IMHO, her trial should take place in one of the countries where she committed her alleged offences.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 50,268
    Sean_F said:

    Sean_F said:

    Commemorative you can’t escape the legacy of Arthur Donaldson tweet. Quite shocking that the rancid old **** was allowed to return to the Commons as if nothing had happened. Mind you, he’d probably be the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party in its current iteration.



    https://twitter.com/otto_english/status/1628709274976153601?s=61&t=t6v9Ta4h-SMABSvwj2rQFg

    John Amery was white, male, upper class. William Joyce was white, male, middle class.

    That did not save them from being executed, in the aftermath of WWII, for acting similarly to Shamima Begum.
    Similar yes, but I think objectively, Begum was groomed. She was under 16 when she left to join ISIS, and by her admission, did not believe what she thought was Western propaganda about ISIS.

    I'd rather see her tried for crimes that she has committed, but I don't think thats easy. How much evidence is there? Where should a trial be? Its not as if we have a Nuremberg style trial system going for ISIS.
    She has publicly stated, in several TV programs that she took part in war crimes. Specifically the process of enslavement of Yazidi women. The avowed (by ISIS) intention of this process was to wipe out the Yazidi people by destroying the next generation.
    Did she have legal representatives at that point? She can always say that she was lying
    I think she is guilty of lots of things but was also groomed. Life isn't black and white. To use the Nazi example a 20 year old German committing atrocities in 1945 had been under the Nazis for 12 years. Twelve long years of indoctrination. Not an excuse, but context.
    We still hanged Irma Griese at that age.
    Age, coercion etc can be used in mitigation of sentence, but aren’t generally a shield against prosecution, IIRC

    @PBLawyers?
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,485
    Sean_F said:

    Sean_F said:

    Commemorative you can’t escape the legacy of Arthur Donaldson tweet. Quite shocking that the rancid old **** was allowed to return to the Commons as if nothing had happened. Mind you, he’d probably be the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party in its current iteration.



    https://twitter.com/otto_english/status/1628709274976153601?s=61&t=t6v9Ta4h-SMABSvwj2rQFg

    John Amery was white, male, upper class. William Joyce was white, male, middle class.

    That did not save them from being executed, in the aftermath of WWII, for acting similarly to Shamima Begum.
    We had capital punishment on the statute at the time.

    Were Amery or Joyce rendered stateless?
    Joyce would certainly have wished that he was.

    IMHO, her trial should take place in one of the countries where she committed her alleged offences.
    But, he wasn't.
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,662
    So have we had 4 polls this week?

    2 with an increase in Lab lead

    2 with a narrowing of Lab lead

    28 pt lead with YG only 14 with Savanta

    Something very strange going on
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,329
    Humza getting a roasting at FM Questions, how embarrassing a Tory can slap you stupid:
    Douglas Ross on Humza Yousaf's time in office: "He was transport minister who drove without a licence, he delayed the dualling of the A9, and he clapped like a seal when Nicola Sturgeon launched a ferry with painted-on windows.
    https://twitter.com/HolyroodDaily/status/1628747308778024960
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,485

    lol

    Margaret Hodge
    @margarethodge

    At least when Liz Truss was Prime Minister there were fresh vegetables to measure her time in office.

    https://twitter.com/margarethodge/status/1628737437265694720

    In one of my former lives, I often attended events with Margaret Hodge. She had a razor wit then, as now.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 42,957
    I hope "delivery focused cross-cutting mission boards" becomes a PB thing.

    Is not nonsensical as far as eg @Nigelb is concerned.
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,485

    So have we had 4 polls this week?

    2 with an increase in Lab lead

    2 with a narrowing of Lab lead

    28 pt lead with YG only 14 with Savanta

    Something very strange going on

    Not really, just natural variation between polling methods, and MOE.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 50,268

    So have we had 4 polls this week?

    2 with an increase in Lab lead

    2 with a narrowing of Lab lead

    28 pt lead with YG only 14 with Savanta

    Something very strange going on

    No change?

    Tory vote is probably down to core, edges of the core etc.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 50,268
    TOPPING said:

    I hope "delivery focused cross-cutting mission boards" becomes a PB thing.

    Is not nonsensical as far as eg @Nigelb is concerned.

    Depends what it actually means in practice.

    Could be the structure of the Manhattan Project after Gen. Groves got going.

    Or could be quangos that stop things happening.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,839

    Sean_F said:

    Sean_F said:

    Commemorative you can’t escape the legacy of Arthur Donaldson tweet. Quite shocking that the rancid old **** was allowed to return to the Commons as if nothing had happened. Mind you, he’d probably be the deputy chairman of the Conservative Party in its current iteration.



    https://twitter.com/otto_english/status/1628709274976153601?s=61&t=t6v9Ta4h-SMABSvwj2rQFg

    John Amery was white, male, upper class. William Joyce was white, male, middle class.

    That did not save them from being executed, in the aftermath of WWII, for acting similarly to Shamima Begum.
    We had capital punishment on the statute at the time.

    Were Amery or Joyce rendered stateless?
    Joyce would certainly have wished that he was.

    IMHO, her trial should take place in one of the countries where she committed her alleged offences.
    But, he wasn't.
    As noted below, bit shit being hanged on the grounds of being a UK subject when his passport was as bent as a 7d piece.
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 21,298
    edited February 2023
    I don’t mind the fact that Keir is focusing on 5 things.

    I do mind the fact that it’s waffly bollocks.

    Unimpressive.
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 21,298
    Shamima should obviously be repatriated to the UK to face trial and, hopefully, lifelong imprisonment.

    Otto English is a twat, his race-baiting attempts to conjure up Archibald Maule-Ramsay don’t withstand the slightest examination.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 54,585

    I don’t mind the fact that Keir is focusing on 5 things.

    I do mind the fact that it’s waffly bollocks.

    Unimpressive.

    Compare that waffle to Blair’s somewhat more SMART objectives in 1997. Now, the election is probably 18 months away, but even so there’s no substance there.
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 21,298
    David Lammy is not unimpressive in the new Campbell/Stewart podcast.
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,662

    So have we had 4 polls this week?

    2 with an increase in Lab lead

    2 with a narrowing of Lab lead

    28 pt lead with YG only 14 with Savanta

    Something very strange going on

    No change?

    Tory vote is probably down to core, edges of the core etc.
    Just checked 5 polls this week. Lab lead is

    28 YG
    27 R&W
    22 Deltapoll
    17 Kantar
    14 Savanta

    Average 21.6
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 42,957

    I don’t mind the fact that Keir is focusing on 5 things.

    I do mind the fact that it’s waffly bollocks.

    Unimpressive.

    Are you saying that "delivery focused cross-cutting mission boards" is waffly?!
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 50,268

    I see, “let them eat turnips” is the new “sunlit uplands”.

    Malcolm, presumably, is delighted.

    He’ll be horrified.

    If you eat all the turnips, where will the cask strength turnip juice come from???!!!
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 54,585

    So have we had 4 polls this week?

    2 with an increase in Lab lead

    2 with a narrowing of Lab lead

    28 pt lead with YG only 14 with Savanta

    Something very strange going on

    No change?

    Tory vote is probably down to core, edges of the core etc.
    Just checked 5 polls this week. Lab lead is

    28 YG
    27 R&W
    22 Deltapoll
    17 Kantar
    14 Savanta

    Average 21.6
    Has there ever been 14 points’ difference in the two-party lead, between polls in the same week before?
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 9,871

    Shamima should obviously be repatriated to the UK to face trial and, hopefully, lifelong imprisonment.

    Otto English is a twat, his race-baiting attempts to conjure up Archibald Maule-Ramsay don’t withstand the slightest examination.

    On what charge....you are all so sure she should stand trial.....what is it you think she can be charged with?
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 21,298
    edited February 2023
    TOPPING said:

    I don’t mind the fact that Keir is focusing on 5 things.

    I do mind the fact that it’s waffly bollocks.

    Unimpressive.

    Are you saying that "delivery focused cross-cutting mission boards" is waffly?!
    It’s a pile of wank.
    Not fit for public consumption.
    And it speaks badly of Labour’s actual ability to focus.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 50,268
    TOPPING said:

    I don’t mind the fact that Keir is focusing on 5 things.

    I do mind the fact that it’s waffly bollocks.

    Unimpressive.

    Are you saying that "delivery focused cross-cutting mission boards" is waffly?!
    The verbiage described, has at its core, an undefinable risk of miss understanding, inate in its terminological inexactitude.
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,662
    SKS claims the leadership pledges weren't the reason he won, and that 'the vast majority of Labour members and supporters really like these missions'
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 21,298
    edited February 2023
    Sandpit said:

    I don’t mind the fact that Keir is focusing on 5 things.

    I do mind the fact that it’s waffly bollocks.

    Unimpressive.

    Compare that waffle to Blair’s somewhat more SMART objectives in 1997. Now, the election is probably 18 months away, but even so there’s no substance there.
    I don’t mind them unto themselves.
    I accept for the moment that the election is still some time away.

    I take exception to the supporting guff.
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 21,298
    I see that notorious wet Jacob Rees-Mogg actually agrees with me on Shamima.
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 41,962
    edited February 2023
    Pagan2 said:

    Shamima should obviously be repatriated to the UK to face trial and, hopefully, lifelong imprisonment.

    Otto English is a twat, his race-baiting attempts to conjure up Archibald Maule-Ramsay don’t withstand the slightest examination.

    On what charge....you are all so sure she should stand trial.....what is it you think she can be charged with?
    https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/terrorism-guidance-relation-prosecution-individuals-involved-terrorism-overseas

    'D. Potential offences

    Potential Terrorism Act offences include:

    Sections 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006 - preparation for acts of terrorism;
    Section 6 and 8 of the Terrorism Act 2006 - providing and receiving training;
    Section 11 of the Terrorism Act 2000 – membership of a proscribed organisation;
    Sections 15 to 18 of the Terrorism Act 2000 - fundraising offences;
    Section 54 of the Terrorism Act 2000 - providing and receiving weapons training;
    Section 57 of the Terrorism Act 2000 - possession of articles for terrorist purpose;
    Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 - possession of information likely to be useful to a terrorist.


    Where there is the necessary extra-territorial jurisdiction, potential other offences include:

    Kidnapping
    Murder/conspiracy to murder
    Conspiracy to cause explosions
    War crimes or crimes against humanity

    The Counter Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019 introduces a new offence, as section 58A of the Terrorism Act 2000 of entering or remaining in an area outside the UK that has been designated in regulations by the Secretary of State in order to protect the public from a risk of terrorism.'

    Apparently none of this can be applied to Begum.
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,485

    So have we had 4 polls this week?

    2 with an increase in Lab lead

    2 with a narrowing of Lab lead

    28 pt lead with YG only 14 with Savanta

    Something very strange going on

    No change?

    Tory vote is probably down to core, edges of the core etc.
    Just checked 5 polls this week. Lab lead is

    28 YG
    27 R&W
    22 Deltapoll
    17 Kantar
    14 Savanta

    Average 21.6
    JBC fans please explain
  • TazTaz Posts: 14,385

    lol

    Margaret Hodge
    @margarethodge

    At least when Liz Truss was Prime Minister there were fresh vegetables to measure her time in office.

    https://twitter.com/margarethodge/status/1628737437265694720

    In one of my former lives, I often attended events with Margaret Hodge. She had a razor wit then, as now.
    She’s certainly a shining wit.
  • ChrisChris Posts: 11,749
    Noteworthy features of that poll:
    (1) Amazing that as many as 9% are favourable to Liz Truss. (Or is it just that 'Lucky Guy' has voted 10,000 times?)
    (2) No 'leading politician' of any party achieves a favourability rating of one third or more. Sortition is an idea whose time has come.
  • SelebianSelebian Posts: 8,727

    SKS claims the leadership pledges weren't the reason he won, and that 'the vast majority of Labour members and supporters really like these missions'

    He seems commited to his missionary position, so to speak
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 21,298
    edited February 2023
    Keir is also quite cowardly to back down or “change his mind” about Shamima.

    Of course the idea of repatriating her is deeply unpopular, but I take the unfashionable view that there are some principles worth defending.

    (And the likes of Rees-Mogg, and, one imagines, David Davis, would give him cover).

    A stalwart defence of British justice and liberties is not necessarily unpopular. Cavilling and hemming and hawing is.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 9,871

    Pagan2 said:

    Shamima should obviously be repatriated to the UK to face trial and, hopefully, lifelong imprisonment.

    Otto English is a twat, his race-baiting attempts to conjure up Archibald Maule-Ramsay don’t withstand the slightest examination.

    On what charge....you are all so sure she should stand trial.....what is it you think she can be charged with?
    https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/terrorism-guidance-relation-prosecution-individuals-involved-terrorism-overseas

    'D. Potential offences

    Potential Terrorism Act offences include:

    Sections 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006 - preparation for acts of terrorism;
    Section 6 and 8 of the Terrorism Act 2006 - providing and receiving training;
    Section 11 of the Terrorism Act 2000 – membership of a proscribed organisation;
    Sections 15 to 18 of the Terrorism Act 2000 - fundraising offences;
    Section 54 of the Terrorism Act 2000 - providing and receiving weapons training;
    Section 57 of the Terrorism Act 2000 - possession of articles for terrorist purpose;
    Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 - possession of information likely to be useful to a terrorist.


    Where there is the necessary extra-territorial jurisdiction, potential other offences include:

    Kidnapping
    Murder/conspiracy to murder
    Conspiracy to cause explosions
    War crimes or crimes against humanity

    The Counter Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019 introduces a new offence, as section 58A of the Terrorism Act 2000 of entering or remaining in an area outside the UK that has been designated in regulations by the Secretary of State in order to protect the public from a risk of terrorism.'

    Apparently none of this can be applied to Begum.
    And the witnesses to all that are in the UK, oh thats right they arent so any trial will be a farce with the defence going prove it and the prosecution only able to show her videos and poor little shamima crying her eyes out claiming she was forced to make them or some such tosh.

    If she got back to the UK she would be walking the streets free as a bird in a matter of months and we all know it
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 42,957
    Shamima Begum should be repatriated to the UK and tried here for whatever offences she is deemed to have committed.

    imo she was a child when she went overseas and was then groomed which evidently had some degree of success.

    Get her back, try her here and throw in some rehabilitation and counselling while you're at it.

    Of course Shamima is one of those subjects that @Leon loves because he goes off on one and enjoys the outrage he hopes to provoke.

    Shamima is a sad case. @Leon's response to her is also a sad case for that matter.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 9,871
    TOPPING said:

    Shamima Begum should be repatriated to the UK and tried here for whatever offences she is deemed to have committed.

    imo she was a child when she went overseas and was then groomed which evidently had some degree of success.

    Get her back, try her here and throw in some rehabilitation and counselling while you're at it.

    Of course Shamima is one of those subjects that @Leon loves because he goes off on one and enjoys the outrage he hopes to provoke.

    Shamima is a sad case. @Leon's response to her is also a sad case for that matter.

    Shamima is an evil woman with no redeeming qualities, most of the country agrees with that statement.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 50,268

    Keir is also quite cowardly to back down or “change his mind” about Shamima.

    Of course the idea of repatriating her is deeply unpopular, but I take the unfashionable view that there are some principles worth defending.

    (And the likes of Rees-Mogg, and, one imagines, David Davis, would give him cover).

    A stalwart defence of British justice and liberties is not necessarily unpopular. Cavilling and hemming and hawing is.

    Can anyone tell me what is wrong with proposing an updated treason law?

    Define treason as aiding, abetting, etc list of organisations and states.

    Said list to be voted on in parliament for updates.

    Would sort this out for the future….
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,839

    I see, “let them eat turnips” is the new “sunlit uplands”.

    Malcolm, presumably, is delighted.

    Hmm, you do need haggis and potatoes as well, or mutton and potatoes as well, or carrots and potatoes as well. Mind, there's this catchy tune from Vichy France that might come in useful for Ms Coffey.

    Tous les jours à la table, bouilli, réduit en purée ou en soupe, le rutabaga envahit tout, des halles des marchés aux cuisines bourgeoises en passant par les chansons populaires (Vive le rutabaga !). L'ingrédient principal du régime de Vichy n'est alors pas l'eau pétillante, mais ce gros radis jaunâtre qui donne même son nom aux «comités rutabagas», les ancêtres des comités d'entreprises, qui s'occupent notamment du ravitaillement des cantines.

    https://www.liberation.fr/cahier-ete-2015/2015/08/14/rutabaga-du-vilain-navet-au-classique_1363534/

    And see also
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnip_Winter

  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 42,839

    Keir is also quite cowardly to back down or “change his mind” about Shamima.

    Of course the idea of repatriating her is deeply unpopular, but I take the unfashionable view that there are some principles worth defending.

    (And the likes of Rees-Mogg, and, one imagines, David Davis, would give him cover).

    A stalwart defence of British justice and liberties is not necessarily unpopular. Cavilling and hemming and hawing is.

    Can anyone tell me what is wrong with proposing an updated treason law?

    Define treason as aiding, abetting, etc list of organisations and states.

    Said list to be voted on in parliament for updates.

    Would sort this out for the future….
    The legislation would get bogged down with the PArliamentary allies of a certain PBer demanding execution by H, D and Q for breaking wind when KCIII is within 100 metres, sorry one furlong.
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,485
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/21082815

    The late, great Motty – all you need to watch.

    RIP.
  • Keir is also quite cowardly to back down or “change his mind” about Shamima.

    Of course the idea of repatriating her is deeply unpopular, but I take the unfashionable view that there are some principles worth defending.

    (And the likes of Rees-Mogg, and, one imagines, David Davis, would give him cover).

    A stalwart defence of British justice and liberties is not necessarily unpopular. Cavilling and hemming and hawing is.

    Unfortunately Labour has form in this area, IIRC the whole stripping of citizenship BS started with them. I understand Starmer's position but it is a sad reflection on him as indeed the whole episode has been a sad reflection on the country as a whole.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 50,268
    Carnyx said:

    Keir is also quite cowardly to back down or “change his mind” about Shamima.

    Of course the idea of repatriating her is deeply unpopular, but I take the unfashionable view that there are some principles worth defending.

    (And the likes of Rees-Mogg, and, one imagines, David Davis, would give him cover).

    A stalwart defence of British justice and liberties is not necessarily unpopular. Cavilling and hemming and hawing is.

    Can anyone tell me what is wrong with proposing an updated treason law?

    Define treason as aiding, abetting, etc list of organisations and states.

    Said list to be voted on in parliament for updates.

    Would sort this out for the future….
    The legislation would get bogged down with the PArliamentary allies of a certain PBer demanding execution by H, D and Q for breaking wind when KCIII is within 100 metres, sorry one furlong.
    Within 2 rods, shirley?

    Suspect the problem would be more the negative nationalist types.
  • Northern_AlNorthern_Al Posts: 8,380

    Keir is also quite cowardly to back down or “change his mind” about Shamima.

    Of course the idea of repatriating her is deeply unpopular, but I take the unfashionable view that there are some principles worth defending.

    (And the likes of Rees-Mogg, and, one imagines, David Davis, would give him cover).

    A stalwart defence of British justice and liberties is not necessarily unpopular. Cavilling and hemming and hawing is.

    I agree with you.
    I wouldn't be surprised, however, that if the court had ruled the opposite, Starmer would have agreed with that instead.
    In playing safe, I think he's reluctant to publicly criticise the judgement of a UK court. He should show more courage.
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,662
    Selebian said:

    SKS claims the leadership pledges weren't the reason he won, and that 'the vast majority of Labour members and supporters really like these missions'

    He seems commited to his missionary position, so to speak
    By the time the right wing press have run the, SKS is a liar narrative dont trust a word he says, day after day at the next GE he will be buggered
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,485
    Pagan2 said:

    TOPPING said:

    Shamima Begum should be repatriated to the UK and tried here for whatever offences she is deemed to have committed.

    imo she was a child when she went overseas and was then groomed which evidently had some degree of success.

    Get her back, try her here and throw in some rehabilitation and counselling while you're at it.

    Of course Shamima is one of those subjects that @Leon loves because he goes off on one and enjoys the outrage he hopes to provoke.

    Shamima is a sad case. @Leon's response to her is also a sad case for that matter.

    Shamima is an evil woman with no redeeming qualities, most of the country agrees with that statement.
    Says Blobfish 2 – grumpy old twat on the internet, international judge and paragon of justice and virtue
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 42,957
    Pagan2 said:

    TOPPING said:

    Shamima Begum should be repatriated to the UK and tried here for whatever offences she is deemed to have committed.

    imo she was a child when she went overseas and was then groomed which evidently had some degree of success.

    Get her back, try her here and throw in some rehabilitation and counselling while you're at it.

    Of course Shamima is one of those subjects that @Leon loves because he goes off on one and enjoys the outrage he hopes to provoke.

    Shamima is a sad case. @Leon's response to her is also a sad case for that matter.

    Shamima is an evil woman with no redeeming qualities, most of the country agrees with that statement.
    I can live with that. But she is our evil woman with no redeeming qualities.
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 21,298
    edited February 2023

    Keir is also quite cowardly to back down or “change his mind” about Shamima.

    Of course the idea of repatriating her is deeply unpopular, but I take the unfashionable view that there are some principles worth defending.

    (And the likes of Rees-Mogg, and, one imagines, David Davis, would give him cover).

    A stalwart defence of British justice and liberties is not necessarily unpopular. Cavilling and hemming and hawing is.

    Unfortunately Labour has form in this area, IIRC the whole stripping of citizenship BS started with them. I understand Starmer's position but it is a sad reflection on him as indeed the whole episode has been a sad reflection on the country as a whole.
    Labour has form. That’s one of the reasons I have not voted Labour. But I think Keir should do better.

    (I think the original citizen stripping was actually the Tories, but Labour turbo-charged it).
  • SelebianSelebian Posts: 8,727

    Keir is also quite cowardly to back down or “change his mind” about Shamima.

    Of course the idea of repatriating her is deeply unpopular, but I take the unfashionable view that there are some principles worth defending.

    (And the likes of Rees-Mogg, and, one imagines, David Davis, would give him cover).

    A stalwart defence of British justice and liberties is not necessarily unpopular. Cavilling and hemming and hawing is.

    I agree with you.
    I wouldn't be surprised, however, that if the court had ruled the opposite, Starmer would have agreed with that instead.
    In playing safe, I think he's reluctant to publicly criticise the judgement of a UK court. He should show more courage.
    I was thinking along those lines earlier, but then reflected that it's quite possible to accept the court's judgement that this was legal, while still arguing that it's wrong. Afterall, he - presumably - has many criticisms of indisputably legal government actions.
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,329

    I see, “let them eat turnips” is the new “sunlit uplands”.

    Malcolm, presumably, is delighted.

    Turnips are great , a winter treat.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 42,957
    edited February 2023
    Chris said:

    TOPPING said:

    Shamima Begum should be repatriated to the UK and tried here for whatever offences she is deemed to have committed.

    imo she was a child when she went overseas and was then groomed which evidently had some degree of success.

    Get her back, try her here and throw in some rehabilitation and counselling while you're at it.

    Of course Shamima is one of those subjects that @Leon loves because he goes off on one and enjoys the outrage he hopes to provoke.

    Shamima is a sad case. @Leon's response to her is also a sad case for that matter.

    Isn't that point about this case that Shamima Begum is not deemed to have committed any offence whatsoever, but that the court simply confirmed that the law allows the Home Secretary to remove someone's citizenship purely on his/her own opinion, without any due process of law or right of appeal?

    If that's what the law really says, then the court had no option to rule otherwise.

    But equally if that's what the law says, it places the UK on a par with the worst of banana republics. That's 800 years plus after Magna Carta.
    AIUI the court ruled that, on a far from clear cut decision, that ultimately they accepted the SoS's national security argument.
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,485

    Selebian said:

    SKS claims the leadership pledges weren't the reason he won, and that 'the vast majority of Labour members and supporters really like these missions'

    He seems commited to his missionary position, so to speak
    By the time the right wing press have run the, SKS is a liar narrative dont trust a word he says, day after day at the next GE he will be buggered
    I'm shocked – shocked! – that you would say that
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 9,871

    Pagan2 said:

    TOPPING said:

    Shamima Begum should be repatriated to the UK and tried here for whatever offences she is deemed to have committed.

    imo she was a child when she went overseas and was then groomed which evidently had some degree of success.

    Get her back, try her here and throw in some rehabilitation and counselling while you're at it.

    Of course Shamima is one of those subjects that @Leon loves because he goes off on one and enjoys the outrage he hopes to provoke.

    Shamima is a sad case. @Leon's response to her is also a sad case for that matter.

    Shamima is an evil woman with no redeeming qualities, most of the country agrees with that statement.
    Says Blobfish 2 – grumpy old twat on the internet, international judge and paragon of justice and virtue
    Sorry but its people like you that make the law an arse most people in this country are pretty fed up with excuses being made for criminal scum and them being let off with excuses like they are poor, from a broken home, only 15.....news so are a lot of people but most of them know right from wrong.

    Now if at 16 she had renounced ISIS and their acts and expressed remorse for her actions I might be more willing to concede maybe you have a point. She hasn't instead she has double downed time and time again and expressed no remorse....well she doesn't like being in a camp tough shit she made her bed and she can lie in it.
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,329

    I see, “let them eat turnips” is the new “sunlit uplands”.

    Malcolm, presumably, is delighted.

    He’ll be horrified.

    If you eat all the turnips, where will the cask strength turnip juice come from???!!!
    Malmesbury, I will just have to make do with Malt whisky till UK learns how to grow/buy salads again.
  • Northern_AlNorthern_Al Posts: 8,380
    edited February 2023
    Selebian said:

    Keir is also quite cowardly to back down or “change his mind” about Shamima.

    Of course the idea of repatriating her is deeply unpopular, but I take the unfashionable view that there are some principles worth defending.

    (And the likes of Rees-Mogg, and, one imagines, David Davis, would give him cover).

    A stalwart defence of British justice and liberties is not necessarily unpopular. Cavilling and hemming and hawing is.

    I agree with you.
    I wouldn't be surprised, however, that if the court had ruled the opposite, Starmer would have agreed with that instead.
    In playing safe, I think he's reluctant to publicly criticise the judgement of a UK court. He should show more courage.
    I was thinking along those lines earlier, but then reflected that it's quite possible to accept the court's judgement that this was legal, while still arguing that it's wrong. Afterall, he - presumably - has many criticisms of indisputably legal government actions.
    A former DPP criticising upper court judgements is trickier than for most politicians. He'd be better off saying 'okay, the court made the right judgement - so we need to change the law'.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 55,298
    Ok compromise. Lend a drone to the Yazidi. Give them Shamima’s what3words coordinates -

    ///genocidal.rapey.witch

    Then let them decide what to do. Sorted. Now we can all move on

  • GhedebravGhedebrav Posts: 3,860
    Pagan2 said:

    TOPPING said:

    Shamima Begum should be repatriated to the UK and tried here for whatever offences she is deemed to have committed.

    imo she was a child when she went overseas and was then groomed which evidently had some degree of success.

    Get her back, try her here and throw in some rehabilitation and counselling while you're at it.

    Of course Shamima is one of those subjects that @Leon loves because he goes off on one and enjoys the outrage he hopes to provoke.

    Shamima is a sad case. @Leon's response to her is also a sad case for that matter.

    Shamima is an evil woman with no redeeming qualities, most of the country agrees with that statement.
    Most of the country likes Ed Sheeran and Mrs Brown's Boys. So what?

    Anyway, law doesn't determine 'evil', even where a judge uses that word in summations or whatever. As has been stated downthread, I'm not fond of the notion that a state can strip citizenship in this way. Its a principle thing.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,103

    Selebian said:

    SKS claims the leadership pledges weren't the reason he won, and that 'the vast majority of Labour members and supporters really like these missions'

    He seems commited to his missionary position, so to speak
    By the time the right wing press have run the, SKS is a liar narrative dont trust a word he says, day after day at the next GE he will be buggered
    It will have some effect. But if people are angry enough at the Tories they won't mind he is a liar, not enough of them.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 42,957
    The court said it was a matter of "great concern and difficulty...with finely balanced judgements..."

    The fact that she was trafficked could have been a mitigating factor but the SoS (Javid) decided not to take this into account (as was his prerogative) and in the end his concern over national security meant that depriving her of her citizenship was not unlawful.

    There was a good piece on this yday on PM.
  • GhedebravGhedebrav Posts: 3,860
    malcolmg said:

    I see, “let them eat turnips” is the new “sunlit uplands”.

    Malcolm, presumably, is delighted.

    Turnips are great , a winter treat.
    Love a turnip myself. Takes well to roasting with maple syrup.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 9,871
    Ghedebrav said:

    Pagan2 said:

    TOPPING said:

    Shamima Begum should be repatriated to the UK and tried here for whatever offences she is deemed to have committed.

    imo she was a child when she went overseas and was then groomed which evidently had some degree of success.

    Get her back, try her here and throw in some rehabilitation and counselling while you're at it.

    Of course Shamima is one of those subjects that @Leon loves because he goes off on one and enjoys the outrage he hopes to provoke.

    Shamima is a sad case. @Leon's response to her is also a sad case for that matter.

    Shamima is an evil woman with no redeeming qualities, most of the country agrees with that statement.
    Most of the country likes Ed Sheeran and Mrs Brown's Boys. So what?

    Anyway, law doesn't determine 'evil', even where a judge uses that word in summations or whatever. As has been stated downthread, I'm not fond of the notion that a state can strip citizenship in this way. Its a principle thing.
    I am not happy particularly with it either however I also don't believe she would end up tried and convicted here so I take the view

    She can come back and be free to walk the streets
    or
    We can strip her of her citizenship

    The second option to me is the lesser of two evils
  • LeonLeon Posts: 55,298
    TOPPING said:

    Shamima Begum should be repatriated to the UK and tried here for whatever offences she is deemed to have committed.

    imo she was a child when she went overseas and was then groomed which evidently had some degree of success.

    Get her back, try her here and throw in some rehabilitation and counselling while you're at it.

    Of course Shamima is one of those subjects that @Leon loves because he goes off on one and enjoys the outrage he hopes to provoke.

    Shamima is a sad case. @Leon's response to her is also a sad case for that matter.

    Tell you what. YOU can pay for this:


    “throw in some rehabilitation and counselling while you're at it”


    You actually want to spend UK taxpayers money on “rehabilitation and counselling” for this Islamo-Nazi hag?

    Spend your own. Let us give our money to her thousands of victims
  • TazTaz Posts: 14,385
    TOPPING said:

    Pagan2 said:

    TOPPING said:

    Shamima Begum should be repatriated to the UK and tried here for whatever offences she is deemed to have committed.

    imo she was a child when she went overseas and was then groomed which evidently had some degree of success.

    Get her back, try her here and throw in some rehabilitation and counselling while you're at it.

    Of course Shamima is one of those subjects that @Leon loves because he goes off on one and enjoys the outrage he hopes to provoke.

    Shamima is a sad case. @Leon's response to her is also a sad case for that matter.

    Shamima is an evil woman with no redeeming qualities, most of the country agrees with that statement.
    I can live with that. But she is our evil woman with no redeeming qualities.
    Yes she is and the state stripping British citizens of their nationality really is something that should concern us all
  • ChrisChris Posts: 11,749
    TOPPING said:

    Chris said:

    TOPPING said:

    Shamima Begum should be repatriated to the UK and tried here for whatever offences she is deemed to have committed.

    imo she was a child when she went overseas and was then groomed which evidently had some degree of success.

    Get her back, try her here and throw in some rehabilitation and counselling while you're at it.

    Of course Shamima is one of those subjects that @Leon loves because he goes off on one and enjoys the outrage he hopes to provoke.

    Shamima is a sad case. @Leon's response to her is also a sad case for that matter.

    Isn't that point about this case that Shamima Begum is not deemed to have committed any offence whatsoever, but that the court simply confirmed that the law allows the Home Secretary to remove someone's citizenship purely on his/her own opinion, without any due process of law or right of appeal?

    If that's what the law really says, then the court had no option to rule otherwise.

    But equally if that's what the law says, it places the UK on a par with the worst of banana republics. That's 800 years plus after Magna Carta.
    AIUI the court ruled that, on a far from clear cut decision, that ultimately they accepted the SoS's national security argument.
    On the contrary, as I understand it (based on press reports) they ruled that legally it was a matter for him to decide and not them.

    Are you sure your understanding is correct?
  • CookieCookie Posts: 13,799
    I assume we've already done Motty, but I must admit to a rare tear in my eye when I read his obituary. Partly because he seemed a genuinely decent man. And partly because the passing of that generation of commentators who were the voice of their sport - Motty, Bill McLaren, Murray Walker, Eddie Waring, Harry Carpenter - represent the loss of - well, the 80s had their ups and downs, but Saturday afternoons in front of Grandstand with my dad were as close to an idyll of childhood as I can give you.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,103

    TOPPING said:

    Pagan2 said:

    TOPPING said:

    Shamima Begum should be repatriated to the UK and tried here for whatever offences she is deemed to have committed.

    imo she was a child when she went overseas and was then groomed which evidently had some degree of success.

    Get her back, try her here and throw in some rehabilitation and counselling while you're at it.

    Of course Shamima is one of those subjects that @Leon loves because he goes off on one and enjoys the outrage he hopes to provoke.

    Shamima is a sad case. @Leon's response to her is also a sad case for that matter.

    Shamima is an evil woman with no redeeming qualities, most of the country agrees with that statement.
    I can live with that. But she is our evil woman with no redeeming qualities.
    Yes. There seems to be a conflation of “she is guilty/evil” with “it is right that she have her citizenship removed”.

    Personally I presume she is as guilty as sin, with zero redeeming features. But I don’t think the Home Sec should have the power to strip her (or my!) citizenship.
    That's true, but there is also a counter narrative of "I don't think the Home Sec should have that power" with "Therefore the decision should have been deemed unlawful". That is, they shouldn't have that power, therefore let's argue they don't.

    I haven't read through the decision itself yet, but from the reporting it sounds like a call of 'A reasonable person could have reached a different decision on the facts, but it was not a requirement to make a different decision, and so it was not unlawful for the Home Secretary to make that particualr decision'.

    I would be happy for this power to be removed, and obviously challenges are acceptable, but until the law is changed it is what it is and essentially exile remains within the range of reasonable decisions. So it is a sad, twisty tale (involving someone who should be culpable for acts they must have known was wrong, notwithstanding anything else), but the only 'fix' is for a government to change things.

    And I'm not convinced Starmer actually would do so once in power, despite his own position on this - I think government rarely likes to give power back.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 42,957
    Pagan2 said:

    Ghedebrav said:

    Pagan2 said:

    TOPPING said:

    Shamima Begum should be repatriated to the UK and tried here for whatever offences she is deemed to have committed.

    imo she was a child when she went overseas and was then groomed which evidently had some degree of success.

    Get her back, try her here and throw in some rehabilitation and counselling while you're at it.

    Of course Shamima is one of those subjects that @Leon loves because he goes off on one and enjoys the outrage he hopes to provoke.

    Shamima is a sad case. @Leon's response to her is also a sad case for that matter.

    Shamima is an evil woman with no redeeming qualities, most of the country agrees with that statement.
    Most of the country likes Ed Sheeran and Mrs Brown's Boys. So what?

    Anyway, law doesn't determine 'evil', even where a judge uses that word in summations or whatever. As has been stated downthread, I'm not fond of the notion that a state can strip citizenship in this way. Its a principle thing.
    I am not happy particularly with it either however I also don't believe she would end up tried and convicted here so I take the view

    She can come back and be free to walk the streets
    or
    We can strip her of her citizenship

    The second option to me is the lesser of two evils
    It's not "walk the streets". There are options available to the HS, apart from charging her if there are any offences suspected, or place a control order on her. There are plenty of returning ISIS members who are under control orders.

    The judgement also puts the UK at odds with most of the rest of the world in terms of its repatriation policy and means that it is likely only "Brits" left in these camps.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,070
    Chris said:

    TOPPING said:

    Shamima Begum should be repatriated to the UK and tried here for whatever offences she is deemed to have committed.

    imo she was a child when she went overseas and was then groomed which evidently had some degree of success.

    Get her back, try her here and throw in some rehabilitation and counselling while you're at it.

    Of course Shamima is one of those subjects that @Leon loves because he goes off on one and enjoys the outrage he hopes to provoke.

    Shamima is a sad case. @Leon's response to her is also a sad case for that matter.

    Isn't that point about this case that Shamima Begum is not deemed to have committed any offence whatsoever, but that the court simply confirmed that the law allows the Home Secretary to remove someone's citizenship purely on his/her own opinion, without any due process of law or right of appeal?

    If that's what the law really says, then the court had no option to rule otherwise.

    But equally if that's what the law says, it places the UK on a par with the worst of banana republics. That's 800 years plus after Magna Carta.
    That was the significance for me, too .
    The court ruling, as I understand it, says that the HS can make that decision, stating that it is on grounds of public safety, and the courts then have no standing to consider any of the circumstances, however threadbare any justification might be.
    Classic example of hard cases making bad law.
  • SHOCKED

    A crypto investment firm with links to two all-party parliamentary groups (APPGs) appears to have disappeared, leaving some investors fearing they have lost tens of thousands of pounds.

    The episode is likely to raise further questions about the role of APPGs in parliament. Phoenix Community Capital established itself last year as a cryptocurrency project and investment scheme, which it said at one point was valued at $800m (£665m).

    It was a sponsor of one APPG and its co-founder, Luke Sullivan, spoke at an event for a second APPG , as well as appearing as a panellist for events hosted by peers in parliament.

    However, the company appears to have vanished in September last year, with its website going offline and the investment portfolios, known as “nests”, inaccessible to an estimated 8,000 investors after that date.

    Some investors, including a former Premier League footballer, claim to have lost tens of thousands of pounds each.

    Some of the firm’s assets and its name appear to have been sold to a new company run by an individual called “Dan”, who has told investors it has no obligation towards them, but that it would still try to make them some returns.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/23/crypto-firm-with-links-to-parliamentary-groups-appears-to-have-vanished?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 42,957
    Chris said:

    TOPPING said:

    Chris said:

    TOPPING said:

    Shamima Begum should be repatriated to the UK and tried here for whatever offences she is deemed to have committed.

    imo she was a child when she went overseas and was then groomed which evidently had some degree of success.

    Get her back, try her here and throw in some rehabilitation and counselling while you're at it.

    Of course Shamima is one of those subjects that @Leon loves because he goes off on one and enjoys the outrage he hopes to provoke.

    Shamima is a sad case. @Leon's response to her is also a sad case for that matter.

    Isn't that point about this case that Shamima Begum is not deemed to have committed any offence whatsoever, but that the court simply confirmed that the law allows the Home Secretary to remove someone's citizenship purely on his/her own opinion, without any due process of law or right of appeal?

    If that's what the law really says, then the court had no option to rule otherwise.

    But equally if that's what the law says, it places the UK on a par with the worst of banana republics. That's 800 years plus after Magna Carta.
    AIUI the court ruled that, on a far from clear cut decision, that ultimately they accepted the SoS's national security argument.
    On the contrary, as I understand it (based on press reports) they ruled that legally it was a matter for him to decide and not them.

    Are you sure your understanding is correct?
    As per my subsequent post - the fact that she was trafficked could have been a mitigating factor but the SoS (Javid) decided not to take this into account (as was his prerogative) and in the end his concern over national security meant that depriving her of her citizenship was not unlawful.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,070

    TOPPING said:

    Pagan2 said:

    TOPPING said:

    Shamima Begum should be repatriated to the UK and tried here for whatever offences she is deemed to have committed.

    imo she was a child when she went overseas and was then groomed which evidently had some degree of success.

    Get her back, try her here and throw in some rehabilitation and counselling while you're at it.

    Of course Shamima is one of those subjects that @Leon loves because he goes off on one and enjoys the outrage he hopes to provoke.

    Shamima is a sad case. @Leon's response to her is also a sad case for that matter.

    Shamima is an evil woman with no redeeming qualities, most of the country agrees with that statement.
    I can live with that. But she is our evil woman with no redeeming qualities.
    Yes. There seems to be a conflation of “she is guilty/evil” with “it is right that she have her citizenship removed”.

    Personally I presume she is as guilty as sin, with zero redeeming features. But I don’t think the Home Sec should have the power to strip her (or my!) citizenship.
    Precisely so.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 42,957
    edited February 2023
    Leon said:

    TOPPING said:

    Shamima Begum should be repatriated to the UK and tried here for whatever offences she is deemed to have committed.

    imo she was a child when she went overseas and was then groomed which evidently had some degree of success.

    Get her back, try her here and throw in some rehabilitation and counselling while you're at it.

    Of course Shamima is one of those subjects that @Leon loves because he goes off on one and enjoys the outrage he hopes to provoke.

    Shamima is a sad case. @Leon's response to her is also a sad case for that matter.

    Tell you what. YOU can pay for this:


    “throw in some rehabilitation and counselling while you're at it”


    You actually want to spend UK taxpayers money on “rehabilitation and counselling” for this Islamo-Nazi hag?

    Spend your own. Let us give our money to her thousands of victims
    You do you, sweetie.
  • ChrisChris Posts: 11,749
    TOPPING said:

    Chris said:

    TOPPING said:

    Chris said:

    TOPPING said:

    Shamima Begum should be repatriated to the UK and tried here for whatever offences she is deemed to have committed.

    imo she was a child when she went overseas and was then groomed which evidently had some degree of success.

    Get her back, try her here and throw in some rehabilitation and counselling while you're at it.

    Of course Shamima is one of those subjects that @Leon loves because he goes off on one and enjoys the outrage he hopes to provoke.

    Shamima is a sad case. @Leon's response to her is also a sad case for that matter.

    Isn't that point about this case that Shamima Begum is not deemed to have committed any offence whatsoever, but that the court simply confirmed that the law allows the Home Secretary to remove someone's citizenship purely on his/her own opinion, without any due process of law or right of appeal?

    If that's what the law really says, then the court had no option to rule otherwise.

    But equally if that's what the law says, it places the UK on a par with the worst of banana republics. That's 800 years plus after Magna Carta.
    AIUI the court ruled that, on a far from clear cut decision, that ultimately they accepted the SoS's national security argument.
    On the contrary, as I understand it (based on press reports) they ruled that legally it was a matter for him to decide and not them.

    Are you sure your understanding is correct?
    As per my subsequent post - the fact that she was trafficked could have been a mitigating factor but the SoS (Javid) decided not to take this into account (as was his prerogative) and in the end his concern over national security meant that depriving her of her citizenship was not unlawful.
    You're agreeing with what I said, then - that they ruled it was a matter for him to decide?

    They didn't accept his argument, but they accepted he was the sole arbiter, so that they had no right to dispute it?
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,664

    SHOCKED

    A crypto investment firm with links to two all-party parliamentary groups (APPGs) appears to have disappeared, leaving some investors fearing they have lost tens of thousands of pounds.

    The episode is likely to raise further questions about the role of APPGs in parliament. Phoenix Community Capital established itself last year as a cryptocurrency project and investment scheme, which it said at one point was valued at $800m (£665m).

    It was a sponsor of one APPG and its co-founder, Luke Sullivan, spoke at an event for a second APPG , as well as appearing as a panellist for events hosted by peers in parliament.

    However, the company appears to have vanished in September last year, with its website going offline and the investment portfolios, known as “nests”, inaccessible to an estimated 8,000 investors after that date.

    Some investors, including a former Premier League footballer, claim to have lost tens of thousands of pounds each.

    Some of the firm’s assets and its name appear to have been sold to a new company run by an individual called “Dan”, who has told investors it has no obligation towards them, but that it would still try to make them some returns.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/23/crypto-firm-with-links-to-parliamentary-groups-appears-to-have-vanished?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

    How long before a council pops up to say 'we have invested council tax payers money in this fund'?
  • LeonLeon Posts: 55,298
    Let’s have a referendum on it

    Let this rapey evil genocidal unrepentant Britain-hating gay-hating Yazidi-slaving Islamo-fascist BITCH rot to death in her squalid self-made hell

    OR

    Bring her back at vast expense and give her lots of “rehabilitation” and “counselling” as desired by @TOPPING and @Anabobazina and as she deserves, the poor wee lamb

    Let the British people decide

  • So according to @Leon, every Brit who is a rapist/murderer should be stripped of their citizenship?
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 42,957
    edited February 2023
    Chris said:

    TOPPING said:

    Chris said:

    TOPPING said:

    Chris said:

    TOPPING said:

    Shamima Begum should be repatriated to the UK and tried here for whatever offences she is deemed to have committed.

    imo she was a child when she went overseas and was then groomed which evidently had some degree of success.

    Get her back, try her here and throw in some rehabilitation and counselling while you're at it.

    Of course Shamima is one of those subjects that @Leon loves because he goes off on one and enjoys the outrage he hopes to provoke.

    Shamima is a sad case. @Leon's response to her is also a sad case for that matter.

    Isn't that point about this case that Shamima Begum is not deemed to have committed any offence whatsoever, but that the court simply confirmed that the law allows the Home Secretary to remove someone's citizenship purely on his/her own opinion, without any due process of law or right of appeal?

    If that's what the law really says, then the court had no option to rule otherwise.

    But equally if that's what the law says, it places the UK on a par with the worst of banana republics. That's 800 years plus after Magna Carta.
    AIUI the court ruled that, on a far from clear cut decision, that ultimately they accepted the SoS's national security argument.
    On the contrary, as I understand it (based on press reports) they ruled that legally it was a matter for him to decide and not them.

    Are you sure your understanding is correct?
    As per my subsequent post - the fact that she was trafficked could have been a mitigating factor but the SoS (Javid) decided not to take this into account (as was his prerogative) and in the end his concern over national security meant that depriving her of her citizenship was not unlawful.
    You're agreeing with what I said, then - that they ruled it was a matter for him to decide?

    They didn't accept his argument, but they accepted he was the sole arbiter, so that they had no right to dispute it?
    I'm agreeing with what I have been saying all along (perhaps clumsily).
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 42,957
    Leon said:

    Let’s have a referendum on it

    Let this rapey evil genocidal unrepentant Britain-hating gay-hating Yazidi-slaving Islamo-fascist BITCH rot to death in her squalid self-made hell

    OR

    Bring her back at vast expense and give her lots of “rehabilitation” and “counselling” as desired by @TOPPING and @Anabobazina and as she deserves, the poor wee lamb

    Let the British people decide

    Excellent - your posts are far more effective with randomised CAPITALS - breaks it up a bit.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,070

    SHOCKED

    A crypto investment firm with links to two all-party parliamentary groups (APPGs) appears to have disappeared, leaving some investors fearing they have lost tens of thousands of pounds.

    The episode is likely to raise further questions about the role of APPGs in parliament. Phoenix Community Capital established itself last year as a cryptocurrency project and investment scheme, which it said at one point was valued at $800m (£665m).

    It was a sponsor of one APPG and its co-founder, Luke Sullivan, spoke at an event for a second APPG , as well as appearing as a panellist for events hosted by peers in parliament.

    However, the company appears to have vanished in September last year, with its website going offline and the investment portfolios, known as “nests”, inaccessible to an estimated 8,000 investors after that date.

    Some investors, including a former Premier League footballer, claim to have lost tens of thousands of pounds each.

    Some of the firm’s assets and its name appear to have been sold to a new company run by an individual called “Dan”, who has told investors it has no obligation towards them, but that it would still try to make them some returns.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/23/crypto-firm-with-links-to-parliamentary-groups-appears-to-have-vanished?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

    Some Peers appear to have been very stupid in giving the appearance of lending approval to what looks a total scam.
    I don’t think it’s suggested any Parliamentarians are directly involved ?
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,664
    edited February 2023
    Cicero said:

    On the eve of Estonia´s independence day, we are hearing news that the Ukrainian Armed Forces may have broken further Russian units, Seems like the Russians have not been able to regroup and a significant push back might be underway. Russian reserves are now fully committed and yet they seem to be in real trouble close to Vuhledar.

    Uplifting if it proves to be true.

    Two weeks ago I went to a talk by Professor Geoffrey Till on the Ukraine war. It was a good talk, I posted about it here at the time.

    I am struck, though, by Professor Till's feeling at that point (10th Feb) that the Russian spring offensive was already underway and that we should expect them to make significant gains.

    He also acknowledged that he and all the other military strategists had been pretty much wrong about everything in this conflict to date; here's hoping his prediction that evening is another one that won't be ever realised.
  • AlistairMAlistairM Posts: 2,005
    Cicero said:

    On the eve of Estonia´s independence day, we are hearing news that the Ukrainian Armed Forces may have broken further Russian units, Seems like the Russians have not been able to regroup and a significant push back might be underway. Russian reserves are now fully committed and yet they seem to be in real trouble close to Vuhledar.

    Fingers crossed! Just out of interest, where do you get to hear the news from?
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