Is it just me, but I wasn’t impressed by Mahmood saying she “pulled all the levers” to get him deported.
It should have been ordinary course and not required the involvement of the home secretary at all
Indeed.
And will he find his way back here inside 6 months, only for this to start all over again?
In this case I don't think they will. Given how he didn't appear to really try and hide after being incorrectly released (in fact reported asked 4-5 times for the prison to take him back), I think it sort of ties in with claims from his lawyer that he just wants to go back home.
Probably 15-17" screen. Solid state (if disk drives are still a thing.) Touch screen. Windows. Routine usage up to video editing, watching films and video calls - not gaming. The current one is about 6 years old.
Budget: I'd be happy towards £1000, but he last one was more like £399.
I'm very happy with my One Plus Chromebook. Don't miss Windows at all.
I ran a £700 Chromebook for 18 months. Managed at first, increasingly incapable of doing what I needed. Had to switch to Windows for a client project, hated it, went Mac, won't go back.
Chromebook is worth considering if all the following hold for you:
1. Your main communication device is an Android phone 2. You mostly use a browser for your activities 3. You don't need specific Windows applications - most likely Office 4. You don't need to link it to a corporate network.
The advantages it gives over Windows are a less resource hungry operating system (although this is less of an issue than before); you avoid the Windows upgrade pain; you automatically share data between phone apps and desktop. Chromebook can be clunky sometimes, which may put people off.
Macs at twice the price of Windows machines and Chromebooks are normally only worth it if you also run an iPhone, for the same reason as Chromebook and Android. For everyone else, it's Windows.
You should not that the most technically literate people on here are all saying - get a Mac.
Heck my client’s laptop has adverts on it and that’s running Windows 11 Enterprise - it’s shittification in action
Depends on your requirements. You can buy a 15 inch Mac Air for £1500 or a Windows or Chromebook equivalent for about £600 if you shop around. The screen won't be quite as sharp but still decent overall and good enough for most people. A lot of those people will be happy to save the thick end of a thousand pounds.
Probably 15-17" screen. Solid state (if disk drives are still a thing.) Touch screen. Windows. Routine usage up to video editing, watching films and video calls - not gaming. The current one is about 6 years old.
Budget: I'd be happy towards £1000, but he last one was more like £399.
I'm very happy with my One Plus Chromebook. Don't miss Windows at all.
I ran a £700 Chromebook for 18 months. Managed at first, increasingly incapable of doing what I needed. Had to switch to Windows for a client project, hated it, went Mac, won't go back.
Chromebook is worth considering if all the following hold for you:
1. Your main communication device is an Android phone 2. You mostly use a browser for your activities 3. You don't need specific Windows applications - most likely Office 4. You don't need to link it to a corporate network.
The advantages it gives over Windows are a less resource hungry operating system (although this is less of an issue than before); you avoid the Windows upgrade pain; you automatically share data between phone apps and desktop. Chromebook can be clunky sometimes, which may put people off.
Macs at twice the price of Windows machines and Chromebooks are normally only worth it if you also run an iPhone, for the same reason as Chromebook and Android. For everyone else, it's Windows.
Lenovo, Dell or HP. for longevity. You should be fine with I5 processor. I have a 6 year old Lenovo think book that is going to and from office in a bike bag, no issues. Colleagues have dell and hp, all similar. Got eldest an Asus, same £800 price point, 2 years younger, sits on the desk and now has overheating issues.
Not Roger, but this looks like the state doing its job effectively.
Clearly there was an omnishambles last Friday. But since then, this guy has been tracked down and deported, and a process introduced which should reduce the chances of a repeat. An inherited problem fixed.
Boring competence and incremental improvement, in other words. Repeat it a few thousand times and we might start to be getting somewhere.
"An inherited problem fixed". You really don't think that there will not be another mistaken release within the next 10 days? It is utterly inevitable with such an overwhelmed system being operated by relatively low paid staff and an ever changing discount regime trying to keep the lid on the prison population. The Home Secretary has been able to act decisively in relation to this case and is due credit for that but "fixed" borders on delusional.
OK, fixed may be going too far. But it's a problem that's been creeping up on us since 2019 or so- steadily increasing from about one a week to nearly one a day.
The basic act of making people sign off on "are you sure this is the person you think it is?" and "are you sure you are right about where they are going next?" is likely to help a lot and doesn't seem to have been happening recently.
Doesn't mean that the justice system doesn't need more money, but we don't have any right now.
After the views he expressed about @BlancheLivermore's hospital experience last night I am not sure I care. Completely uncalled for.
His views about Mr Kebatu, basically he was the victim of a misunderstanding and all he did was tell a risqué joke
I know but he has always had a different view on sex offenders. Polanski and Assange come to mind.
I don't agree with roger that this was just a joke, but do think a 12 month custodial sentence for a non-violent attempt to kiss a 14 year old and a lewd suggestion is excessive. Maybe it had to be custodial because of his housing situation, and deportation appropriate.
Speak to any 14 year old girl, or anyone who was once a 14 year old girl and you will find that they get these sorts of suggestions regularly from dirty old men. I am not saying it should be tolerated, indeed very much the opposite, but the moral panic over this man was completely overboard. Or perhaps most men do belong in jail?
Is it just me, but I wasn’t impressed by Mahmood saying she “pulled all the levers” to get him deported.
It should have been ordinary course and not required the involvement of the home secretary at all
Indeed.
And will he find his way back here inside 6 months, only for this to start all over again?
In this case I don't think they will. Given how he didn't appear to really try and hide after being incorrectly released (in fact reported asked 4-5 times for the prison to take him back), I think it sort of ties in with claims from his lawyer that he just wants to go back home.
So then the only people we can keep out are the ones who don't want to be here.
Got to ask why you need it replaced though as nothing much has changed in the past 6 years - you can still buy machines less powerful than the one you currently have
My current machine is a Lenovo YOGA 530-14ARR (ie AMD chip) - which I think is technically some variety of "not a full laptop" but has done what I need adequately, and various things have occasionally complained about compatibility. It's basically wearing out - I've already replaced the keyboard once.
Video editing is key, from what you say. You need something with enough memory, enough GPU grunt, and compatibility with whatever video software you use. For everyday use apart from editing, even the cheapest machines can now cope (indeed, many are ditching laptops not for tablets, as had been predicted, but for phones).
Is it just me, but I wasn’t impressed by Mahmood saying she “pulled all the levers” to get him deported.
It should have been ordinary course and not required the involvement of the home secretary at all
Agree. She’s just trying to sound important but making the system appear chaotic.
If the HS has to intervene on every deportation to actually make it happen, it’s no wonder that it’s become almost impossible in practice to physically deport anyone.
Nobody much seems to give a fuck their democracy has been taken from them by charlatans and chancers and a bunch of weird, absolute obsessive reactionary slave owner wanting nutjobs who have spent their lives in basements in underpants.
Still, there's always shits and hoots on Facebook of cute cats or liberals covered in shit to keep the mind from doing anything stupid like wonder why the american revolution happened.
It's because opponents of Trump have outrage fatigue. Everything he does, or that is done on his behalf, is worthy of outrage, but it's pretty tiring to be angry all the time.
And for Republicans they've been convinced that their biggest enemy is the Democrats, and so as long as Trump is, "annoying all the right people," then it's secondary that he's openly corrupt, selling himself to foreign states, and generally acting as a traitor who is trashing the Constitution. He's owning the libs, so none of that matters.
What's the point of "owning" the Libs if you end up destroying everything you and your party believed in?
eg. yesterday's row about Ronald Reagan.
The enemy are the libs who are going to turn your children transgender and flood the country with illegal immigrants (who are also voting in record numbers across the country).
All that matters is the fight against the libs, and if we need to burn down the rule of law and the separation of powers to do it, then so be it.
Not being funny, but until recently there was a contingency of "Libs" who didn't ask too many questions before referring dysmorphic kids to Tavistock and the country sort of is being flooded with illegal immigrants.
The trouble is there's a grain of truth in it, as there is in the centrist Dads who brush it all off - and thus help fuel it.
Not being funny, but how many transgender kids have you actually come across ?
The reality for the ones I know is that they got next to no help from the NHS - with a multiyear waiting list for an appointment with a gender identity clinic.
TBF, I've never met anyone referred to the Tavistock. But I do know two completely estranged from their parents, who refused to accept that transgender individuals existed.
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You should be fine with I5 processor.
I have a 6 year old Lenovo think book that is going to and from office in a bike bag, no issues. Colleagues have dell and hp, all similar.
Got eldest an Asus, same £800 price point, 2 years younger, sits on the desk and now has overheating issues.
The basic act of making people sign off on "are you sure this is the person you think it is?" and "are you sure you are right about where they are going next?" is likely to help a lot and doesn't seem to have been happening recently.
Doesn't mean that the justice system doesn't need more money, but we don't have any right now.
Speak to any 14 year old girl, or anyone who was once a 14 year old girl and you will find that they get these sorts of suggestions regularly from dirty old men. I am not saying it should be tolerated, indeed very much the opposite, but the moral panic over this man was completely overboard. Or perhaps most men do belong in jail?
What about those who do?
The reality for the ones I know is that they got next to no help from the NHS - with a multiyear waiting list for an appointment with a gender identity clinic.
TBF, I've never met anyone referred to the Tavistock.
But I do know two completely estranged from their parents, who refused to accept that transgender individuals existed.