Rishi Sunak has another car crash collision with a member of the public: a group he is trying to avoid at all costs. Worse it was a young person asking abt compulsory national service asking:
Hmm. Any child who, with reference to volunteering, says “why do I HAVE to do it again” needs a slap.
He has a point though. If a teenager is public spirited to volunteer on an ad hoc basis in their youth without being forced to, but when they turn 18 wants to use their time to do other things, it's surely fair enough. Especially ifthey help them further their life plans.
Why should they be forced to put them on hold and do forced labour every other weekend or so just because the government wants the votes of people who barely remember the 1950s but have developed a boner for it?
who they intended to vote for in the general election.
Seats tally
CON: 66 LAB: 476 LD: 59 Reform: 0 Green: 2
This accounts for tactical voting.
Shitting hellfire!
We can’t ignore these polls any more. We must be wary of Normalcy Bias
Just because it hasn’t happened before does not mean it’s not happening now. The Tories are - as things stand - headed for sub-100 seats, maybe way under 100. Extraordinary
Not really a politics post, but I'm going to use my quota.
You don't really go to the Yorkshire Dales much when you grow up in Greater Manchester. They're not far away, but the Lake District is easier to get to - and what can compete with that? - and the Peak District is closer still. So I've managed to go 49 years before today finally getting around to seeing Malham Cove. (I took the daughters as a half-term activity to get them off screens, but really it was for me.) There's a long circular walk you can do. Along the stream and through the wood to Janet's Foss (named after the fairy who dwells behind the waterfall - apparently Janet is a not uncommon name for fairies in the North); up the frankly astonishing Gordale Scar (which was unascendable - the path that climbs up beside the waterfall also being a waterfall); back and up onto the plateau, and among big skies and rockscapes and distant misty views to Malham Tarn, then back to the limestone pavement above Malham Cove and down to the Cove itself. It's hard to say exactly why a cliff should be astonishing, but it's astonishing. It's like a cathedral. I couldn't stop looking at it. I could have looked at it all day. It glows. One of the wonders of the North. Definite noom.
Happy to report this was all achieved without disproportionate whingeing.
Sounds great. Only been once in my ten years in Yorkshire and we also found the 'path' next to the waterfall a raging torrent. Had fun finding the alternative route though
The cove is magnificent. No noom for me though, it was too busy that day (at the cove, the rest of our walk was pretty quiet).
'Like a cathedral' is very appropriate. There's a similar escarpment near Llangollen called Eglwyseg, which literally means 'like a church'.
Remember caving at Eglwys faen, 'stone church', apparently because it was a cave once used for conventicles or similar. In Mynydd Llangatwg SE of Brycheiniog.
Not really a politics post, but I'm going to use my quota.
You don't really go to the Yorkshire Dales much when you grow up in Greater Manchester. They're not far away, but the Lake District is easier to get to - and what can compete with that? - and the Peak District is closer still. So I've managed to go 49 years before today finally getting around to seeing Malham Cove. (I took the daughters as a half-term activity to get them off screens, but really it was for me.) There's a long circular walk you can do. Along the stream and through the wood to Janet's Foss (named after the fairy who dwells behind the waterfall - apparently Janet is a not uncommon name for fairies in the North); up the frankly astonishing Gordale Scar (which was unascendable - the path that climbs up beside the waterfall also being a waterfall); back and up onto the plateau, and among big skies and rockscapes and distant misty views to Malham Tarn, then back to the limestone pavement above Malham Cove and down to the Cove itself. It's hard to say exactly why a cliff should be astonishing, but it's astonishing. It's like a cathedral. I couldn't stop looking at it. I could have looked at it all day. It glows. One of the wonders of the North. Definite noom.
Happy to report this was all achieved without disproportionate whingeing.
That does look quite noomy! Britain is lucky with noom
I’ve felt a bit of noom here in Moldova but TBH not much. I expected more - not sure why
I’m hoping for Good Noom in Transnistria tomorrow
I discovered a bit of that rare French noom today just 5 minutes from Cluny which has been under my nose for 17 years and I never noticed. The ruined (but slowly being renovated by a collective of reclusive stonemasons) mediaeval chateau de Lourdon in Lournand. Built originally by the abbot of cluny to protect his local holdings.
It looks weirdly like a rock formation from the bottom of the hill. The upright pinnacles have been like that for centuries.
I think I have actually been there!
Also the bare ruins of Cluny on a soft summer night if you’re entirely alone have a hint of Le Noom
The places in France I think most filled with it are the Cathar castles of Corbières and the Fenouilledes. Perhaps it’s the distant echoes of sectarian slaughter juxtaposed with the lonely dry hilltops that do it.
How is Moldovan wine so far? They have a very good rep as vineyard labourers here in England, up there with their Romanian neighbours who dominate the sector.
Rishi Sunak has another car crash collision with a member of the public: a group he is trying to avoid at all costs. Worse it was a young person asking abt compulsory national service asking:
Hmm. Any child who, with reference to volunteering, says “why do I HAVE to do it again” needs a slap.
He has a point though. If a teenager is public spirited to volunteer on an ad hoc basis in their youth without being forced to, but when they turn 18 wants to use their time to do other things, it's surely fair enough. Especially ifthey help them further their life plans.
Why should they be forced to put them on hold and do forced labour every other weekend or so just because the government wants the votes of people who barely remember the 1950s but have developed a boner for it?
Because Brexit. The need for cheap or free labour for the farmers.
Well, it's as good a rationale from the Tory point of view as any.
The question is, as these polls get reported in the press, will people think "actually, I'd rather Labour didn't have such a large majority" or will they think "so what?"
I'm going to feel pretty stupid if I'm wrong about this, but I will be shocked if Labour win North East Hampshire. I'm backing the Tories (4/9) and Lib Dems (33-1) with Bet365.
I doubt that. The line does get held somewhere.
The Tories held over 500 council seats earlier this month, even though they got a drubbing.
I just keep looking at some of these places and thinking "no, there's no way they're voting Labour."
Hamble Valley isn't quite the equivalent of the Conservatives winning Bootle, but it's not far off.
The day after the 1997 election a bunch of us went for a celebratory drink in Quorn. Of "Quorn Hunt" infamy. Part of the Loughborough constituency.
We sat there, looked around, and thought "This is fucking Labour now!'"
So yes, again this year I expect some archetypal Tory areas to turn red.
Sung to the tune of Dire Straits's 'Money for Nothing'?
I imagine that the saving grace for a lot of Hampshire Conservatives is that both Lab and Lib have got enough to be going on with already.
Labour have got to make sure they bag Southampton Itchen, with Aldershot as a left field target based on recent locals. Similarly, the Lib Dems need as many sandals as possible in Winchester, then Eastleigh, then Romsey?
Plus, there's Fareham and Waterlooville, if there's time for pleasure after business.
Which probably helps Penny Mordaunt in Pompey North.
Rishi Sunak has another car crash collision with a member of the public: a group he is trying to avoid at all costs. Worse it was a young person asking abt compulsory national service asking:
Hmm. Any child who, with reference to volunteering, says “why do I HAVE to do it again” needs a slap.
A child "needs a slap"? WTF??? IF this is a joke on your part, it's a damned shitty one.
There may be something lost in the translation here. "Needs a slap" is a fairly common piece of British idiom.
Am wondering IF your daughter would find it "fairly common" if you told her that SHE needs a slap, for something she's said, done or not done?
As one who experienced corporal punishment (not much, but enough) in my own distant youth, personally think its NOT a good thing for anyone to say, be they British or not.
SSI, seriously, it's a common piece of British idiom. It's not meant literally. Eyes maybe rolled, but eyelids would not be batted.
Appreciate your reply, but it doesn't alter my view.
Can remember when Americans (not all, but enough) used to talk about how someone "jewed me down" meaning they drove a very hard bargain, if not worse.
One heard a woman I worked with, say that to a coworker. When he objected and pointed out that his wife was Jewish, she was horrified. "Oh, I didn't mean that!"
But of course THAT was what she'd said . . . probably for the last time.
There was a phrase in the primary school playground "a Jew run" - which apparently was based on the stereotype of Jewish parsimony - and described the action of a boy dribbling the ball from one end of the pitch to the other and not passing it. However, the stereotype wasn't one anyone was particularly aware of, and the assumption spread, reverse engineered from the phrase, that Jews were really really good at football. And someone scoring with a 30 yard volley or casually flicking the ball with the back of his heel would congratulate himself with "Jew skills!" We were quite excited when an actual Jew came to our school, and felt a little let down to find he was actually pretty mediocre at football.
Rishi Sunak has another car crash collision with a member of the public: a group he is trying to avoid at all costs. Worse it was a young person asking abt compulsory national service asking:
Hmm. Any child who, with reference to volunteering, says “why do I HAVE to do it again” needs a slap.
A child "needs a slap"? WTF??? IF this is a joke on your part, it's a damned shitty one.
There may be something lost in the translation here. "Needs a slap" is a fairly common piece of British idiom.
Am wondering IF your daughter would find it "fairly common" if you told her that SHE needs a slap, for something she's said, done or not done?
As one who experienced corporal punishment (not much, but enough) in my own distant youth, personally think its NOT a good thing for anyone to say, be they British or not.
SSI, seriously, it's a common piece of British idiom. It's not meant literally. Eyes maybe rolled, but eyelids would not be batted.
Appreciate your reply, but it doesn't alter my view.
Can remember when Americans (not all, but enough) used to talk about how someone "jewed me down" meaning they drove a very hard bargain, if not worse.
One heard a woman I worked with, say that to a coworker. When he objected and pointed out that his wife was Jewish, she was horrified. "Oh, I didn't mean that!"
But of course THAT was what she'd said . . . probably for the last time.
When we say "F*** you!", we don't literally mean we'll have intercourse
The question is, as these polls get reported in the press, will people think "actually, I'd rather Labour didn't have such a large majority" or will they think "so what?"
Right now, so what.
They won't regret it until they see and feel the consequences downstream.
Sung to the tune of Dire Straits's 'Money for Nothing'?
I imagine that the saving grace for a lot of Hampshire Conservatives is that both Lab and Lib have got enough to be going on with already.
Labour have got to make sure they bag Southampton Itchen, with Aldershot as a left field target based on recent locals. Similarly, the Lib Dems need as many sandals as possible in Winchester, then Eastleigh, then Romsey?
Plus, there's Fareham and Waterlooville, if there's time for pleasure after business.
Which probably helps Penny Mordaunt in Pompey North.
I'll pretty confident Penny will hold on.
She has her own brand and has been working the seat hard for months. There aren't too many grads or students there, it's military and largely WWC, still, and the localised polling recently wasn't too bad for her.
who they intended to vote for in the general election.
Seats tally
CON: 66 LAB: 476 LD: 59 Reform: 0 Green: 2
This accounts for tactical voting.
Shitting hellfire!
We can’t ignore these polls any more. We must be wary of Normalcy Bias
Just because it hasn’t happened before does not mean it’s not happening now. The Tories are - as things stand - headed for sub-100 seats, maybe way under 100. Extraordinary
Possibly. The trouble is, disregarding the NOM nonsense, the recent local elections really didn’t suggest this type of outcome. It suggested a very bad outcome but not a near fatal one. Now there might be a split ticket effect but not to that level. Not saying that the outcome in this poll isn’t plausible but there are good reasons for a degree of scepticism.
who they intended to vote for in the general election.
Seats tally
CON: 66 LAB: 476 LD: 59 Reform: 0 Green: 2
This accounts for tactical voting.
Shitting hellfire!
We can’t ignore these polls any more. We must be wary of Normalcy Bias
Just because it hasn’t happened before does not mean it’s not happening now. The Tories are - as things stand - headed for sub-100 seats, maybe way under 100. Extraordinary
Ed Davey is within a Swinson of MPs of becoming leader of the opposition.
Not really a politics post, but I'm going to use my quota.
You don't really go to the Yorkshire Dales much when you grow up in Greater Manchester. They're not far away, but the Lake District is easier to get to - and what can compete with that? - and the Peak District is closer still. So I've managed to go 49 years before today finally getting around to seeing Malham Cove. (I took the daughters as a half-term activity to get them off screens, but really it was for me.) There's a long circular walk you can do. Along the stream and through the wood to Janet's Foss (named after the fairy who dwells behind the waterfall - apparently Janet is a not uncommon name for fairies in the North); up the frankly astonishing Gordale Scar (which was unascendable - the path that climbs up beside the waterfall also being a waterfall); back and up onto the plateau, and among big skies and rockscapes and distant misty views to Malham Tarn, then back to the limestone pavement above Malham Cove and down to the Cove itself. It's hard to say exactly why a cliff should be astonishing, but it's astonishing. It's like a cathedral. I couldn't stop looking at it. I could have looked at it all day. It glows. One of the wonders of the North. Definite noom.
Happy to report this was all achieved without disproportionate whingeing.
That does look quite noomy! Britain is lucky with noom
I’ve felt a bit of noom here in Moldova but TBH not much. I expected more - not sure why
I’m hoping for Good Noom in Transnistria tomorrow
I discovered a bit of that rare French noom today just 5 minutes from Cluny which has been under my nose for 17 years and I never noticed. The ruined (but slowly being renovated by a collective of reclusive stonemasons) mediaeval chateau de Lourdon in Lournand. Built originally by the abbot of cluny to protect his local holdings.
It looks weirdly like a rock formation from the bottom of the hill. The upright pinnacles have been like that for centuries.
I think I have actually been there!
Also the bare ruins of Cluny on a soft summer night if you’re entirely alone have a hint of Le Noom
The places in France I think most filled with it are the Cathar castles of Corbières and the Fenouilledes. Perhaps it’s the distant echoes of sectarian slaughter juxtaposed with the lonely dry hilltops that do it.
How is Moldovan wine so far? They have a very good rep as vineyard labourers here in England, up there with their Romanian neighbours who dominate the sector.
The wine is SERIOUSLY good. I went to the 170km long wine cellars of Clicova the other day. Now I’m staying in Pucari. Famous for the Negru de Pucari of course
It’s really high quality. They make great sparkling wine as well
What impresses is the widespread chthonic knowledge. Every rural Moldovan makes his own wine and spirits. It’s just what they do. But it preserves this natural native instinct for viticulture and distilling
As a wine maker I think you’d love it. Don’t come for architecture. Or art. Or history. Or anything else really. Most of the country is an impoverished farm at best or an urban Soviet toilet otherwise
But the people are lovely, the food is surprisingly nice, the traditions are real, the quirkiness is engaging and the wine is fabulous
I'm going to feel pretty stupid if I'm wrong about this, but I will be shocked if Labour win North East Hampshire. I'm backing the Tories (4/9) and Lib Dems (33-1) with Bet365.
I doubt that. The line does get held somewhere.
The Tories held over 500 council seats earlier this month, even though they got a drubbing.
I just keep looking at some of these places and thinking "no, there's no way they're voting Labour."
Hamble Valley isn't quite the equivalent of the Conservatives winning Bootle, but it's not far off.
The day after the 1997 election a bunch of us went for a celebratory drink in Quorn. Of "Quorn Hunt" infamy. Part of the Loughborough constituency.
We sat there, looked around, and thought "This is fucking Labour now!'"
So yes, again this year I expect some archetypal Tory areas to turn red.
Loughborough had been Labour in 1974. Those Hampshire and Sussex seats are just off the scale.
The question is, as these polls get reported in the press, will people think "actually, I'd rather Labour didn't have such a large majority" or will they think "so what?"
I think there’s a mixture of reactions to this kind of situation. After all the voting population isn’t uniform.
There’s certainly a bandwagon effect when a party becomes known to be popular or unpopular. We saw it with UKIP and BXP, when one big set of polls or Euro election results spurred them on to higher scores, and with Cleggmania, and certainly with Blair in the months after his victory.
And probably the starkest example of this in reverse was 2010-2015 for the Lib Dems, when the first evidence of a polling slump catapulted them to worse things and it became fashionable to hate them. That was a tough time.
The danger for Tories is a similar post-tuition fees Lib Dem effect, when voting for the party makes you look a bit weird.
Rishi Sunak has another car crash collision with a member of the public: a group he is trying to avoid at all costs. Worse it was a young person asking abt compulsory national service asking:
Hmm. Any child who, with reference to volunteering, says “why do I HAVE to do it again” needs a slap.
A child "needs a slap"? WTF??? IF this is a joke on your part, it's a damned shitty one.
There may be something lost in the translation here. "Needs a slap" is a fairly common piece of British idiom.
Am wondering IF your daughter would find it "fairly common" if you told her that SHE needs a slap, for something she's said, done or not done?
As one who experienced corporal punishment (not much, but enough) in my own distant youth, personally think its NOT a good thing for anyone to say, be they British or not.
SSI, seriously, it's a common piece of British idiom. It's not meant literally. Eyes maybe rolled, but eyelids would not be batted.
I have never heard anyone use it IRL.
I have occasionally heard it used in cockney gangster caper type movies to mean "beat someone up without killing them".
I'd suggest the latter isn't something to aspire to, either literally or figuratively.
I'm not surprised that SSI finds it jarring - if you're not from these shores and have never heard it before I can certainly see that it would be - but I'm genuinely surprised anyone British hasn't heard it used often, and generally as an expression of really-not-that-major exasperation. As I said, maybe it's a regional thing? I don't know where either you or Biggles (who first raised it) are from. Maybe it's one of those things which everyone in the North West thinks is universal but turns out not to be (like Tony Wilson or Frank Sidebottom).
I am willing to accept it's a linguistic quirk some of us haven't heard of. I just don't care for the inherent violence in it, implicit or otherwise. As was pointed out downthread, is "you need a slap" appropriate from a man to a woman? Or to anyone else for that matter? If someone IRL asked me if I needed a slap, I'd ask them if they'd like to see the matter resolved. Outside. I also understand that wasn't the implication here.
I don't believe you or Biggles really want to physically harm anyone. But l personally wouldn't use the language of physical violence to mean something other than physical violence.
who they intended to vote for in the general election.
Seats tally
CON: 66 LAB: 476 LD: 59 Reform: 0 Green: 2
This accounts for tactical voting.
Shitting hellfire!
We can’t ignore these polls any more. We must be wary of Normalcy Bias
Just because it hasn’t happened before does not mean it’s not happening now. The Tories are - as things stand - headed for sub-100 seats, maybe way under 100. Extraordinary
Possibly. The trouble is, disregarding the NOM nonsense, the recent local elections really didn’t suggest this type of outcome. It suggested a very bad outcome but not a near fatal one. Now there might be a split ticket effect but not to that level. Not saying that the outcome in this poll isn’t plausible but there are good reasons for a degree of scepticism.
I suppose there comes a point when a party - like the 1920’s Liberals, stops representing any significant body of opinion. I think the Conservatives’ strategy of talk right, act left, and line your pockets, has simply run out of road.
The question is, as these polls get reported in the press, will people think "actually, I'd rather Labour didn't have such a large majority" or will they think "so what?"
Or will they think, "if everyone else is voting for Starmer I'm probably wrong to worry that he might be a bit of a prat," and vote with the tide?
who they intended to vote for in the general election.
Seats tally
CON: 66 LAB: 476 LD: 59 Reform: 0 Green: 2
This accounts for tactical voting.
Shitting hellfire!
We can’t ignore these polls any more. We must be wary of Normalcy Bias
Just because it hasn’t happened before does not mean it’s not happening now. The Tories are - as things stand - headed for sub-100 seats, maybe way under 100. Extraordinary
Ed Davey is within a Swinson of MPs of becoming leader of the opposition.
Is Swinsoning it the political equivalent of Spursing it?
Rishi Sunak has another car crash collision with a member of the public: a group he is trying to avoid at all costs. Worse it was a young person asking abt compulsory national service asking:
Hmm. Any child who, with reference to volunteering, says “why do I HAVE to do it again” needs a slap.
A child "needs a slap"? WTF??? IF this is a joke on your part, it's a damned shitty one.
There may be something lost in the translation here. "Needs a slap" is a fairly common piece of British idiom.
If not a slap, what are you proposing?
In that idiom? Usually it’s a comic way of saying you find something mildly (emphasis on MILDLY) irritating but not enough to really do anything about it.
E.g. He has a silly haircut and needs a slap.
I don't find it particularly funny.
Do you need a slap?
Are you thick? You’ve had it explained to you that’s it’s a commonly used idiom. Do you know not what that means?
have you been transported from the 1950s? It's 2024.
who they intended to vote for in the general election.
Seats tally
CON: 66 LAB: 476 LD: 59 Reform: 0 Green: 2
This accounts for tactical voting.
Shitting hellfire!
We can’t ignore these polls any more. We must be wary of Normalcy Bias
Just because it hasn’t happened before does not mean it’s not happening now. The Tories are - as things stand - headed for sub-100 seats, maybe way under 100. Extraordinary
Ed Davey is within a Swinson of MPs of becoming leader of the opposition.
Is Swinsoning it the political equivalent of Spursing it?
Rishi Sunak has another car crash collision with a member of the public: a group he is trying to avoid at all costs. Worse it was a young person asking abt compulsory national service asking:
Hmm. Any child who, with reference to volunteering, says “why do I HAVE to do it again” needs a slap.
I'm sure pensioners will be lining up to help. Would they deserve a slap if they don't want to do more volunteering?
Those two age groups are those that volunteer most.
This statistic presents the proportion of adults who had volunteered in the last year in England, between 2014 and 2020, by age. Over each of the survey periods, the 16 to 24 year old and 65 to 74 year old age groups had the highest share of participants volunteering. In 2019/20, around 39 percent of respondents aged 16 to 24 had volunteered at least once in the year prior to survey. https://www.statista.com/statistics/420100/volunteers-uk-england-by-age/#:~:text=Over each of the survey,the year prior to survey.
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Why should they be forced to put them on hold and do forced labour every other weekend or so just because the government wants the votes of people who barely remember the 1950s but have developed a boner for it?
Just because it hasn’t happened before does not mean it’s not happening now. The Tories are - as things stand - headed for sub-100 seats, maybe way under 100. Extraordinary
The fact it’s even throwing up that kind of result though…. Sobering for the Tories.
He’s “very, very busy”! Oh that’s okay then. I’m sure literally everyone else who uses a private jet couldn’t possibly say that!
Perhaps emissions for busy people dont effect climate change
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How is Moldovan wine so far? They have a very good rep as vineyard labourers here in England, up there with their Romanian neighbours who dominate the sector.
Well, it's as good a rationale from the Tory point of view as any.
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We sat there, looked around, and thought "This is fucking Labour now!'"
So yes, again this year I expect some archetypal Tory areas to turn red.
I imagine that the saving grace for a lot of Hampshire Conservatives is that both Lab and Lib have got enough to be going on with already.
Labour have got to make sure they bag Southampton Itchen, with Aldershot as a left field target based on recent locals. Similarly, the Lib Dems need as many sandals as possible in Winchester, then Eastleigh, then Romsey?
Plus, there's Fareham and Waterlooville, if there's time for pleasure after business.
Which probably helps Penny Mordaunt in Pompey North.
We were quite excited when an actual Jew came to our school, and felt a little let down to find he was actually pretty mediocre at football.
Otherwise people might have got really cross and wiped the Tories out entirely.
They won't regret it until they see and feel the consequences downstream.
She has her own brand and has been working the seat hard for months. There aren't too many grads or students there, it's military and largely WWC, still, and the localised polling recently wasn't too bad for her.
It’s really high quality. They make great sparkling wine as well
What impresses is the widespread chthonic knowledge. Every rural Moldovan makes his own wine and spirits. It’s just what they do. But it preserves this natural native instinct for viticulture and distilling
As a wine maker I think you’d love it. Don’t come for architecture. Or art. Or history. Or anything else really. Most of the country is an impoverished farm at best or an urban Soviet toilet otherwise
But the people are lovely, the food is surprisingly nice, the traditions are real, the quirkiness is engaging and the wine is fabulous
I assume you are referring to Modern Railways Pictorial?
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There’s certainly a bandwagon effect when a party becomes known to be popular or unpopular. We saw it with UKIP and BXP, when one big set of polls or Euro election results spurred them on to higher scores, and with Cleggmania, and certainly with Blair in the months after his victory.
And probably the starkest example of this in reverse was 2010-2015 for the Lib Dems, when the first evidence of a polling slump catapulted them to worse things and it became fashionable to hate them. That was a tough time.
The danger for Tories is a similar post-tuition fees Lib Dem effect, when voting for the party makes you look a bit weird.
Nah.
My experience - normally used by blokes that smack their wife about.
I’d avoid in future if I was you.
I don't believe you or Biggles really want to physically harm anyone. But l personally wouldn't use the language of physical violence to mean something other than physical violence.
This statistic presents the proportion of adults who had volunteered in the last year in England, between 2014 and 2020, by age. Over each of the survey periods, the 16 to 24 year old and 65 to 74 year old age groups had the highest share of participants volunteering. In 2019/20, around 39 percent of respondents aged 16 to 24 had volunteered at least once in the year prior to survey.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/420100/volunteers-uk-england-by-age/#:~:text=Over each of the survey,the year prior to survey.