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A great resource for all who follow UK politics – politicalbetting.com
A great resource for all who follow UK politics – politicalbetting.com
The link to the above from the Commons library is well worth saving because of the mass of information that is available about every single Commons constituency with the new boundaries.
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Which is why I suggest to Mods that, in future, instead of letting PBers toy with the fuckers for a while before banning, to ban them IMMEDIATELY upon discovery.
Why? Because their interactions with actual PBers are HELPING (albeit in small way) the cause of Mad Vlad.
Aaaargh!
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/aug/19/craft-beer-boom-uk-firms-bust-brexit
https://www.newstatesman.com/uncategorized/2023/08/peter-wilby-a-statement
Also previously editor of the Independent on Sunday.
Why is he not in jail?
New job at around twice her current salary beckons!
Our jails are horrendously overcrowded. There’s great outcry whenever the public gets to hear apparently lenient sentences handed out, but very little willingness to fund the prison building program that would house more prisoners:
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn04334/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66559702
Astonishing news. Too late for him to get on a plane now, of course, but this has the potential to turn into a catastrophe for the monarchy if England do by some chance win tomorrow.
Is Sunak still in California? If so, he'd be well advised to hot foot it to the airport in the next couple of hours and make sure he's in the stadium for the start of the match.
BTW (also FYI) check out this pic, of the latest triumph of AI on the streets of San Francisco . . . the "self-driving'' car that drove into a street construction zone . . . and got stuck in wet concrete!
https://www.teslarati.com/cruise-robotaxi-stuck-wet-concrete-san-francisco-photo/
(Not saying this is a good or right position, but it seems to be the reality.)
Errr does nobody in the Grauniad spot an issue with the timeline?
The sad reality of enterprise is that about 9/10 businesses fail. And failed businesses want a scapegoat, rather than admit their business model didn't work, or was mismanaged.
https://quillette.com/2023/08/19/the-lab-leak-illusion/
Warning - it is very long, but you can dip in and out readily.
I can buy more than a pint to drown my sorrows if he does somehow make it then.
"“It just got too much – Brexit,” Karjalainen said. “We were heavily geared for export. We’d be selling to Finland, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Netherlands, Italy, Spain. We had Hungary in the pipeline. And it all disappeared with Brexit.”
Post-Brexit trading arrangements with European Union countries meant that Bone Machine’s craft beers needed to be accompanied by expensive and time-consuming paperwork.
“Everyone was saying ‘it’s too complicated to import anything from the UK any more’,” Karjalainen said. “In terms of pure output, that was about 30% to 40% of what we made. In terms of income, it was probably more than half.”"
Saying "I took drugs 20 years ago" isn't something anyone should be arrested for.
I'm not sure if this is because I have little confidence in my own judgement versus the people I disapprove of, or because I'm a very understanding sort of a person - who knows. On another note - I am still seeking UK sources for cluster munitions.
"As Reid explained it, the dispatches were written in “party speak”—“a secret language of Chinese officialdom”—which he was able to decode but which even native speakers of Mandarin could not be expected to understand. Almost as soon as the article was published, however, a more obvious explanation emerged when a number of Chinese speakers read the dispatches for themselves. As it turned out, they were able to understand them just fine and it was Reid who had made a mess of the translation. The supposedly incriminating passage about a biosafety emergency was in fact just political boilerplate about the willingness and readiness of loyal Party officials to meet the challenges of running a BSL-4 lab."
In my view imprisonment is really only justified by public safety concerns, ie to keep dangerous offenders away from society. Less so as a form of punishment or rehabilitation - unless alternatives to imprisonment have been exhausted.
Seeing as how he made a fucking Feast of Balthazar out of the Lab Leak theory.
There are various groups that should obviously not be such a large group in prison, and some that need to have significantly more in prison.
The biggest obvious group is that in June 2023 a prison population of 85,851, fully 17% or 15,523 are on remand. That was under 9500 in 2018 and 2019. It should be 10% of prison capacity lower.
There are still people in prison from the New Labour Indeterminate Sentences debacle, though perhaps only ~1% of the prison population (My estimate). Yet another one where this Govt has sloped its shoulders.
And there is a group who now get suspended sentences in significant numbers, who should be in custody, which is dangerous drivers who kill with their motor vehicles. The system allows a lot to get off with a guaranteed guilty plea to Causing Death by Careless Driving. Again not a huge number compared to on remand, and admittedly a particular issue I try and keep an eye on.
The huge one is the on remand category, which is a post-Covid thing. Get the Court throughput resolved and the prison population pressure would go away.
Get someone else to read your work: your supervisor, obviously, but also your peers in your class (for whom you can read theirs in return). You get great value from someone coming new to your work.
Make the very beginning and the very end punchy. Just like a novel, you want the opening lines to catch the reader’s attention, and you want the last thing the reader remembers to be some concise statement of what it all amounted to.
Be clear what you’ve done and why. You’ve worked hard on this (hopefully!), but remember that the work you’ve done needs to be visible in the dissertation.
He’s on the sex offender’s register for the rest of his likely lifetime & will be living under fairly onerous parole obligations if my recollection of similar cases is correct. The courts have concluded that this is the best way public safety can be preserved given the resources available to them. They can also only apply the sentencing guidelines for the crimes he was actually charged with.
(I’m a little surprised that “making” child pornography doesn’t carry a mandatory jail sentence personally; is “making” potentially less serious than it sounds?)
I'm still very struck by the case distribution around the wet market. We were talking about the power of simple analusis, dot maps and so on, lately on PB. And the very telling point that those who didn't work at the market biut got covid early lived markedly closer to the market [edit] than those who did. It's like the Shipman dot map (murdering an elderly person conv eniently on the way home) or the Broad Street cholera map.
https://data.justice.gov.uk/prisons/offender-management
Have to admit that "flounce" makes me think of a person leaving in a huff waving a feather duster threateningly in a Bertie Wooster novel.
All went well until I was about where you are now and my father-in-law died which meant I had to take Mrs C to the ‘festivities’ 300 miles away in the week I’d booked off to write-up!
I did graduate, though.
Best of luck!
Actually producing the material will be a different offence, related to the sexual activity with the child.
He lived in Loughton, apparently.
(Or at least, that's how it's been explained to me in the past!)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/dec/06/which-top-uk-politicians-have-admitted-to-drug-use
When the police get it right they deserve our thanks.
2. The only word is his own
3. How do we know any substance was actually cocaine, anyway
Neither England or Wales are going to win the rugby world cup this year.
There probably should be, but I thought that was American.
Interesting, it was fact that this admission/mitigation did NOT derail the Comeback Kid in 1992, which demonstrated that attacking political opponents on ground of former drug usage was generally speaking a waste of time.
This was not long after collapse of Reagan's SCOTUS nomination of Douglas Ginsburg, after the later admitted to smoking marijuana in college AND as a professor. Which led to "Jar Wars" in late 1980s as candidates in tight races pledged to pee into a jar to prove their virtue, and challenged opponents to do the same.
By 1992, voters from sea to shining sea had concluded that this was all a crock of . . .
United Kingdom
Unlike many countries, the United Kingdom has no statute of limitations for criminal offences above summary offences (offences tried exclusively in the magistrates’ court). In these cases, criminal proceedings must be brought within six months according to the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980. To obtain a conviction in "some road traffic offences" (i.e., speeding) the driver must be notified, within 14 days of the offence, of the intention to prosecute them according to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988.
For civil claims, the statute of limitations varies depending on the type of claim. For example, a claim (debt) from a simple contract can no longer be pursued after six years.
NOT penciling in date of World Cup final, in case England's women made it (as indeed they have) is kind of own-goal Harold Wilson made sure NOT to commit in 1966.
Kimberly Guilfoyle: "John Gotti never even had four indictments at once"
https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1691483242497552392
Nine years before I was born, so I'm going off what Dominic Sandbrook says.
FWIW, the last football match my Dad went to was, I think, Portugal against Hungary at Old Trafford in the 1966 World Cup. He was clearly interested enough to watch a match, but didn't even watch the final on telly, apart from a few minutes at the end in the window of a television shop in Keswick, where he was on holiday. I know we can't generalise from one man, but this doesn't strike me as an event which had the universal buy-in we might assume.
Calling the police against the wishes of management who’ve threatened you with career ending shit requires some serious stones.
What’s significant about this metro station?
Go on, stick your neck out.