If anyone wants a pure dopamine hit of exquisite quality, try teaching Buddhism to several monks and nuns, fifteen regular attendees and half a dozen newbies on a Saturday morning. Paying. Then having a Q+A afterwards. Without mentioning politics even if they do. It's a delicious hit. Am doing tranquil abiding next.
Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump · 1h Trump: “They gave me a list of names. Sir, pick the name you like, sir! The name of what? The name of the attack on Iran, sir. They gave me like, 20 names. I'm like, falling asleep, I didn't like any of them.
Sure its farcical but its a long sight better than Trump actually picking the bombing targets as LBJ did in Vietnam.
For every horror from Donald Trump you are somehow able to reach back into history and find something from the Dems to compare it favourably with. It really is pretty impressive.
True though isn't it.
Landslide Lyndon going through the photos with his magnifying glass.
At least with Trump's short attention span we are spared that.
The right to a jury trial is a non-negotiable red line for me and *could* potentially see me voting REF at the next election, even though long-term PB'ers will know I've never liked Farage going back to 2010 and even before it but if a REF government is what it takes to bring back the right to trial by jury I'll probably hold my nose...
Hopefully it won't come to that!
Any excuse to go full racist.
It's being restricted, not abolished.
Currently 3% of prosecutions go to trial by jury, MOJ estimated that under the proposals 25% of those wouldn't.
So reducing from 3% to 2.25% going to trial by Jury.
If this had been the law, none of the subpostmasters would have been able to opt for trial by jury. If this had been the law, protesters who have been let off by sympathetic juries after committing offences would have been convicted. The 97% currently heard by magistrates are minor offences such as minor assault, motoring offences, shoplifting, criminal damage, etc. This change dramatically expands the scope of offences where the accused cannot opt for a jury trial and, at the same time, reduces the chances of the innocent getting justice when wrongly accused of such offences. It is pretty much guaranteed that this change will see many more miscarriages of justice. And it is being sold to us on a false premise. It will not make any significant dent in the backlog in the criminal courts.
As I've posted below, I don't agree with the change and I don't think it will achieve the objective. They got an expert to review and recommend, there are no alternative recommendations, the system is failing currently so they're implementing the recommendation they have. The LDs and Conservatives created the problem and then the Conservatives did nothing to resolve it. Labour want to resolve it, other parties could engage constructively to find the best solution. It's not really a partisan issue, presumably all parties want more trials completed.
Except they have gone well beyond what the expert recommended. And bear in mind there are a huge number of other experts who deal with the courts on adaily basis - judges, barristers and others - who say this will not achieve the time savings that ahve been claimed and will lead to more miscarriages of justice.
The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes.
This is the definition of woke.
The precise animals haven’t been chosen yet.
Are they interviewing or just going off C.V ?
I hope they will be thoroughly vetted.
They better be indigenous. Any fucking grey squirrels or signal crayfish get on and we riot
Surely it has to be a bulldog?
Sounds like an elegant compromise.
(Amongst all the hooh and hah, worth noting(!) that Churchill has only been on a banknote since 2016, and we're probably due a change anyway. Without looking, does anyone remember who came before him?)
There's a change every few years for security reasons apparently.
Animals will be selected down to a short list by "experts" and then public will vote.
This avoids the public voting on masse for the dodo or gungan for example.
Nah, the public would vote for a shag or a tit.
Thank god this is not New Zealand. Or it would be Leucocarbo carunculatus- the rough-faced shag.
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Paying.
Then having a Q+A afterwards.
Without mentioning politics even if they do.
It's a delicious hit.
Am doing tranquil abiding next.
I was in the Gardeners Arms 1987-90.
He never reciprocated. Bastard.
Landslide Lyndon going through the photos with his magnifying glass.
At least with Trump's short attention span we are spared that.
It will stop.