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Should Joe Biden be the 2024 Democratic nominee ? for president?Two-thirds of Americans — including 61% of Democrats ? and 76% of Republicans ? — would approve of Biden dropping out of the race, if imagining a scenario in which he had done so.However, only 40% of… pic.twitter.com/IRVAsAakvZ
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What all sites discussing it agree on is that the numbers have been inexorably rising for years.
In the five years after Baby P the number taken into care doubled (2008 to 2013) and since then has continued to rise with a further 50% rise (in England) from 2015-2021
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2517239/CHRISTOPHER-BOOKER-A-terrible-act-inhumanity-shows-justice-secret.html.
https://www.countycouncilsnetwork.org.uk/number-of-children-in-care-could-reach-almost-100000-by-2025-as-county-leaders-call-for-an-unrelenting-focus-on-keeping-families-together/
Sadly Christopher Booker is no longer alive to shine alight on this most Kafkaesque corner of the state and John Hemming is no longer an MP and able to use parliamentary privilege to ignore secret injunctions by mluds.
https://x.com/yashar/status/1814172695166419325
Hard to pardon him with an upcoming election where they are trying to frame the opponent as a shyster so I guess they thought, when ahead in polls, it would be fine to do once second term confirmed.
I have not forgotten our oil debate, but just not had the time to look into it and re find what I originally read.
You are right though that is possible to transform the lighter elements of crude into feedstocks rather than fuel (whether the complexity and energy required to do it is viable is another thing). Mea Culpa.
China and particularly Saudi are developing refineries that use a different process that convert 40% rather than 10% into Petrochemical feedstocks. They hope for 70-80% but are not there.
https://www.icis.com/asian-chemical-connections/2023/11/details-of-how-saudi-aramco-cotc-and-other-advantaged-feedstock-projects-could-redraw-the-petrochemicals-map/
But we won't hear that, and I'm not convinced that all the stuff we're getting from self-important sources is anything more than chaff.
So-over to you Dr Jill. It's not just your country that needs you.
Plagues of them.
1. Punishment
2. Safety (i.e. removing the offender from circulation, and therefore the ability to commit new crimes)
And
3. Rehabilitation
I think this misses 4, deterrence.
But it's also the case, surely, that the order of importance of the four factors depends on the crime.
If someone is very poorly educated, and is prison as a result of a string of incidents of petty theft, then making them a productive member of society is more important than punishment. Otherwise, it's an expensive revolving door where he gets out of prison, and has no skills beyond stealing stuff.
By contrast, if the offender is guilty of premeditated murder, then it's very different. The chances of true rehabilitation are close to zero, and the person has committed an evil act, and it's important that a, they are punished, b, people know the punishment for murder is severe, and c, they are unable to murder other members of the public.
Use of hard cases like this and the "it must never happen again mantra" just leads to widespread injustice and misery. In this case the taking of children from their families on the precautionary principle, just in case they might do something horrible.
A tripling of the number of children in care away from home since 2008 on the precautionary principle because of one unpleasant murder is worthy of Stalins Cheka (as are their secretive processes).
I'm not very happy about it as a council tax payer either.
Somewhere in France there must be a happy medium
Thats a matter for the courts to deal with the parents, not for a standing state inquistion on the parents of the other 12,699,948 children.
Shit happens, people are evil, get over it. We don't live in utopia
Independents are the voters who will decide the presidential election so that is the key figure from the thread header polls
The idea Harris is Churchill is also laughable
We had a little lad and his older sister come to stay with us for a fortnight (on an emergency placement) after a previous foster placement had broken down after a (later confirmed) allegation was made. The children's mother had died of cancer and she was estranged from her husband. The little boy had a small bald patch on the back of his head, apparently after he had been hit by the father and the healed wound was follicle free. Social services were trying to get the children back into a family unit with the estranged father. Obviously he was being assessed for suitability and it was going well as far as social services were concerned, but I wouldn't have let him anywhere near his children. He was described to me by a teacher who was also a friend of the mother that he was a "psycho".
The lower you get the level of unfortunate events the more extreme, disruptive and expensive the measures you need to take to get it to zero. Beyond a certain point you cause far more distress and misery than you save.
The "it must never happen again" brigade won't be happy until we are as spied on and tracked as the Chinese are.
We don't know the full details of the case, but 7 month old children do not just get significant head injuries. These injuries are rightly followed up by further investigation and the child kept in hospital for treatment and investigation, in particular for old unreported injuries and evidence of neglect. If the parents take the child away against medical advice then social workers and police are involved as there is a significant risk to child and sibs. The rights of the child trump those of the parents. Children are not their parents property.
The NSPCC got very cross about media reports around the millenium that the rate had halved in 30 years when no such thing had happened. They were correct.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.familieslink.co.uk/download/june07/Child%20killings.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiI0drPlLaHAxVwT0EAHTJSAG84ChAWegQIDBAB&usg=AOvVaw1E3QTTKm6VFgtj0i_OcsHy.
Of course, like all bureauracracies their solution to thir ideas not working is more control, more intervention and more taxpayers money. Rinse and repeat.
Of course the obvious solution, hanging the parents who do kill their children, pour les encouragement les autres, is anathema.
It will end when the state is bankrupt.
Personally as someone who voted for Biden in March, would object (under current circumstances) to JB endorsing/anointing JH as his successor.
HOWEVER, am also personally in favor of the current VP becoming our POTUS nominee, with caveat that I'm personally gonna vote for the Democratic ticket - who(m)ever is on it & in whatever order - versus Trump/Vance.
And I am NOT alone.
Is it an agent of Harris? Just nod gently if so.
Currently the Conservative Party shadow cabinet team at Westminster accounts for over 40% of all Tory MPs.
Hardly a record however for a political party.
Seeing as how after the 1935 general election, one of the parties that was part of the National government coalition, was National Labour which elected grand total of 8 MPs.
Of whom 7 were members of HMG!
Sole Nat Lab backbencher was former diplomat, writer and diarist Harold Nicholson. Whose diaries 1935-45 provide an informative, insightful and entertaining chronicle of great events in the House of Commons and the world beyond.
I now realise why it was so reasonable. No wifi, no aircon
Fuuuuuuuuuck
I think the next stage of the roadtrip might be northwards, and upwards. Into the cool green Auvergne. I quite fancy seeing Vichy. It is so notorious because of Petain, I want to see it. Has any PBer been?
Just give me opportunity to vet the operative(s)!
The process for corrupting the Supreme Court goes a long way beyond "Trump appointed", afaics. I'd recommend the video I posted previously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T_WPuUCRm0
Labour is preparing to bring forward from September next year a change that may see bills go up by 20%
Parents could have to pay VAT on their children’s private school fees as soon as January as Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, prepares to bring in the policy nine months earlier than expected.
The government confirmed it will remove the 20 per cent tax exemption in last week’s King’s Speech. The change, which ministers expect will raise £1.6 billion a year to fund an additional 6,500 teachers, will be included in Reeves’s first budget this autumn.
It will become law after being passed in Labour’s first finance bill, which means the earliest it could take effect would be in the term starting in January 2025.
It had been widely expected that the policy would probably not come into force until the start of the school year in September 2025.
But senior Whitehall sources have now said the government is preparing to introduce the changes “as soon as possible” and they could take effect as soon as January — nine months earlier.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/vat-on-private-school-fees-expected-as-soon-as-january-rx5wp2p3w
The problem with hanging people is that you are handing to the state the ability to kill people on the say so of other people. Yet you don’t trust the state in any other capacity but you clearly get aroused by the thought of a noose. If someone accused you falsely of a capital crime would you still be a supporter? Because that’s what will happen.
Neither will hanging parents stop kids being killed. It’s not obvious nor is it logical. It will just end in ordinary people being killed.
Bravo to the Labour party for kicking the ladder of social mobility away from all those middle class yobbos whose parents dared to send them to middling private schools.
Now a public school education will actually mean something again. Glad to see the Labour party acting to entrench social privilege in this country. About bloody time someone did.
If they don't see Crossing Wardens with a huge fluorescent lollipop stick on a zebra or uncontrolled crossing, I'm not sure how they'll see a mere man with a red flag 5m in front of the vehicle.
https://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/156686/bodycams-given-to-school-crossing-patrols-after-alarming-child-hitandrun-cases
But best not to give them ideas....
Most families with kids have 2 kids, and paying 2 kids fees alone takes more than the median salary.
I'd like to see ways to make it more affordable, but it being unaffordable for the overwhelming majority is already the case.
Prince Albert’s memorial is “considered offensive” because it reflects a “Victorian view of the world that differs from mainstream views held today”, custodians say.
The 176ft Albert Memorial opposite the Royal Albert Hall in Kensington Gardens, west London, was built to honour Queen Victoria’s late husband in 1872, when the British Empire stretched across the globe.
It includes a golden sculpture of the Prince Consort himself, along with four groups of large statues representing the people and animals of four continents.
Asia is depicted as a woman on an elephant, America as a native American, and Africa as a woman riding a camel. The African sculpture also includes a white European woman reading a book to a black African tribesman.
The Royal Parks website now says that the Albert Memorial’s “representation of certain continents draws on racial stereotypes that are now considered offensive”.
It tells how Victorian guidebooks about the memorial “describe how this ‘uncivilised’ man hunches over his bow. This pose was intended to represent him ‘rising up from barbarism’, thanks to his Western teacher. At his feet lie broken chains, which allude to Britain’s role in the abolition of slavery”.
It adds that “descriptions of the states that represent Asia and America also reflect this Victorian view of European supremacy”.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/20/albert-memorial-considered-offensive-royal-parks/
Allow parents to use that voucher in the state system, or to use it as partial credit towards a private education and top up the fees with their own money.
Marketise the school system, abolish catchment areas, allow anyone to attend any school with the voucher acting as the baseline to ensure a basic education, let parents decide on the value of an education.
Also abolish local education authorites and remove 90% of the staff at the DfE with it basically becoming a regulator.
Luckily as you went to one of the nine public schools you can join us in mocking the private school kids.
https://x.com/brianbeutler/status/1814517879309553898/
We’d be mad to leave it.
P.S. recommendations for underrated Champagnes and Champagne villages also welcomed.
I would repeal both but it is always fun when those who pass fatuous and oppressive acts get upended by their own act,
Your logic is like saying all adults need to work at the nearest employer.
The purpose of the roads and transport is to get people moved about, education is every bit as valuable as employment. I have far more respect for people who care about their kids education enough to drive them to a school that suits them, than just dumping them in any old local school as if school is nothing more than a glorified daycare.