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or CarrickmoreY0kel said:
Hasnt been to Belfast then.Floater said:
ex policeman on Sky admitted only London could respond as promptly with armed officers.TwistedFireStopper said:
Their fixation with London helps the security forces, plus all the hard security furniture. You drive a car down Loughborough Marketplace on a Thursday and you'd run out of petrol before enough tooled up coppers could be scrounged up. It's a scary thought, but nothing we can do about it really.Andrew said:
We're definitely fortunate that most of our home-grown brigade seem to be thick as pigshit, and thus rather lacking in imagination when it comes to mass murder.SeanT said:It's slightly reassuring that it's Brooks, in a bizarre way. He's been linked to terror and ISIS for many years. He's a bigwig in the bearded loony brigade.
Awfully easy to dream up much more effective methods.0 -
Simon Israel was blinking at a hundred miles an hour throughout that statement.SeanT said:The most calamitous news reporting in a decade. Wow.
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I have pointed out this out rather a lot. Trump doesn't throw a grenade without evidence. Trey Gowdy on Monday only asked questions in Congress he appeared to know the answers to.
Carry on thinking they're all morons.
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I thought Channel Four were hot on Fact Checking!0
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Hard for him to claim for any damage to his reputation. It has probably increased his 'value'RobD said:
They couldn't have libeled a nicer bloke, could they?SeanT said:Wow, Channel 4 News backtracking
Huge fuck up.
It would be horrendous to see the libel laws being used to force media outlets to pay damages that would arguably be used to fund terrorism...0 -
Fake News. Channel 4 News won't recover.SeanT said:Wow, Channel 4 News backtracking
Huge fuck up.0 -
I suspect he was only talking about the mainland :-)Y0kel said:
Hasnt been to Belfast then.Floater said:
ex policeman on Sky admitted only London could respond as promptly with armed officers.TwistedFireStopper said:
Their fixation with London helps the security forces, plus all the hard security furniture. You drive a car down Loughborough Marketplace on a Thursday and you'd run out of petrol before enough tooled up coppers could be scrounged up. It's a scary thought, but nothing we can do about it really.Andrew said:
We're definitely fortunate that most of our home-grown brigade seem to be thick as pigshit, and thus rather lacking in imagination when it comes to mass murder.SeanT said:It's slightly reassuring that it's Brooks, in a bizarre way. He's been linked to terror and ISIS for many years. He's a bigwig in the bearded loony brigade.
Awfully easy to dream up much more effective methods.
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Odd how you haven't linked to this:PlatoSaid said:I have pointed out this out rather a lot. Trump doesn't throw a grenade without evidence. Trey Gowdy on Monday only asked questions in Congress he appeared to know the answers to.
Carry on thinking they're all morons.
Wikileaks
BREAKING: U.S. House Intelligence Committee confirms U.S. spies intercepted Trump team communications "on numerous occasions" #Vault7 https://t.co/hPV5cOxCcO
Trump ex-aide Paul Manafort 'offered to help Putin'
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Why is that good for Trump ?PlatoSaid said:I have pointed out this out rather a lot. Trump doesn't throw a grenade without evidence. Trey Gowdy on Monday only asked questions in Congress he appeared to know the answers to.
Carry on thinking they're all morons.
Wikileaks
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Thought I could trust Channel 4 News on something like this.0
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Let me rephrase that. In the course of foreign intelligence monioting, members of Trump team communicating with those foreign Intelligence people were scooped up.PlatoSaid said:I have pointed out this out rather a lot. Trump doesn't throw a grenade without evidence. Trey Gowdy on Monday only asked questions in Congress he appeared to know the answers to.
Carry on thinking they're all morons.
Wikileaks
BREAKING: U.S. House Intelligence Committee confirms U.S. spies intercepted Trump team communications "on numerous occasions" #Vault7 https://t.co/hPV5cOxCcO
It is NOT the same as any claim from the Russian front organisation that is Wikileaks who have every reason to fire out talk.
Let me be clear and I've been banging on about this for months. Trump is in over his head with the Russians and he now knows it.0 -
I simply clicked on the tweet and saw it was ABC journalist. How can C4 not do a simple check like this?TwistedFireStopper said:I thought Channel Four were hot on Fact Checking!
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What a clusterfuck!dr_spyn said:0 -
It has been years since I read "I, Clavdivs". Heavy going though, Mills & Boon it was notMorris_Dancer said:Utterly off-topic aside: just discovered that Graves nicked the 'drills were bloodless battles and battles were bloody drills' line (spoken in I, Claudius by Drusus to Tiberius, describing how the army saw the latter as a commander) from Josephus.
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Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear.dr_spyn said:0 -
There were "eye witness" reports that the assailant was black. Then, hey presto, C4 got their man. If this is a false report, then it shows how competitive news has become and they have to be first - even with the wrong news!dr_spyn said:C4 might be backtracking re Trevor Brooks. Simon Israel on now.
Let's wait until tomorrow. The police will tell us his identity.0 -
Breaking: Channel 4 News in critical condition.0
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multiple media outlets naming the individual named by C4 / Independent
Including US / Italian and arabic services.0 -
Tackle it at source. We know where the funding for hate preachers comes from. Economic cowardice has prevented it so far.TwistedFireStopper said:
Yeah, but it'll pop up elsewhere, and that doesn't stop our own homegrown crazies. This won't be resolved anytime soon.dixiedean said:
So what can be done then? Death cults end when their adherents are dead, and any potential recruits see it as pointless. ISIS is on its last legs in Syria and Iraq.TwistedFireStopper said:
You can't compare the IRA with Islamic terrorism. The Death Cult want us dead.dixiedean said:Not entirely sure what can be done other than remember the victims and continue to go about our business with heightened vigilance and resolve. Eventually it will come to pass that such actions are seen for what they are. Utterly futile. N Ireland learned that lesson. Sadly we are not there yet.
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Oh dear indeedoxfordsimon said:
Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear.dr_spyn said:0 -
Some of these people are a bit dim. However are you suggesting that it's a sort of Emperor's new clothes thing? So the establishment has been so rotten, for so long, that you need someone that's both a fool and incredibly brave to highlight it?PlatoSaid said:I have pointed out this out rather a lot. Trump doesn't throw a grenade without evidence. Trey Gowdy on Monday only asked questions in Congress he appeared to know the answers to.
Carry on thinking they're all morons.
Wikileaks
BREAKING: U.S. House Intelligence Committee confirms U.S. spies intercepted Trump team communications "on numerous occasions" #Vault7 https://t.co/hPV5cOxCcO
I'd like to be pointed towards a non-foolish but incredibly brave person in that case. Just a couple to leaven the mix.
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Mrs C, I've never read it, but I did very much enjoy the BBC version of it. Absolutely stellar cast.0
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Salutory warning to all those who sought to make political capital out of what appears to be one of the most serious fake news stories in the UKoxfordsimon said:
Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear.dr_spyn said:0 -
Saudi Arabia ? Even Trump did not include that country in his six countries.dixiedean said:
Tackle it at source. We know where the funding for hate preachers comes from. Economic cowardice has prevented it so far.TwistedFireStopper said:
Yeah, but it'll pop up elsewhere, and that doesn't stop our own homegrown crazies. This won't be resolved anytime soon.dixiedean said:
So what can be done then? Death cults end when their adherents are dead, and any potential recruits see it as pointless. ISIS is on its last legs in Syria and Iraq.TwistedFireStopper said:
You can't compare the IRA with Islamic terrorism. The Death Cult want us dead.dixiedean said:Not entirely sure what can be done other than remember the victims and continue to go about our business with heightened vigilance and resolve. Eventually it will come to pass that such actions are seen for what they are. Utterly futile. N Ireland learned that lesson. Sadly we are not there yet.
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More than embarrassing for Channel 4 to jump the gun and get fact-checked by an American journalist.0
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It is a good read - but it does work better in adaptation. There was a R4 version a few years back that made a good job of it.Morris_Dancer said:Mrs C, I've never read it, but I did very much enjoy the BBC version of it. Absolutely stellar cast.
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I'd suggest now might be a good time for a new thread with this one consigned to history.0
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Vol 2 - Claudius the God - is even tougher. I bought the books when the BBC series came out - still not read them both cover to cover in spite of several attempts.Beverley_C said:
It has been years since I read "I, Clavdivs". Heavy going though, Mills & Boon it was notMorris_Dancer said:Utterly off-topic aside: just discovered that Graves nicked the 'drills were bloodless battles and battles were bloody drills' line (spoken in I, Claudius by Drusus to Tiberius, describing how the army saw the latter as a commander) from Josephus.
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breitbart have a classic line dropping shit all over C4
"(insert name here), the man Channel 4 News believed to be the suspect "
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You would have thought C4 would have got a proper source before naming him.dr_spyn said:0 -
Is this C4's Al Capone Vault?0
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So, is I, Claudius (the book) harder or easier than Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?0
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I wonder whether Channel 4 has thought about their +1 hour channel coverage?0
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Shorter.Morris_Dancer said:So, is I, Claudius (the book) harder or easier than Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?
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Fortunately they have little reputation to lose…MonikerDiCanio said:
Fake News. Channel 4 News won't recover.SeanT said:Wow, Channel 4 News backtracking
Huge fuck up.0 -
See. People know without having to have it spelled out. We all know where the root of the problem is. We also know why no government will say so.surbiton said:
Saudi Arabia ? Even Trump did not include that country in his six countries.dixiedean said:
Tackle it at source. We know where the funding for hate preachers comes from. Economic cowardice has prevented it so far.TwistedFireStopper said:
Yeah, but it'll pop up elsewhere, and that doesn't stop our own homegrown crazies. This won't be resolved anytime soon.dixiedean said:
So what can be done then? Death cults end when their adherents are dead, and any potential recruits see it as pointless. ISIS is on its last legs in Syria and Iraq.TwistedFireStopper said:
You can't compare the IRA with Islamic terrorism. The Death Cult want us dead.dixiedean said:Not entirely sure what can be done other than remember the victims and continue to go about our business with heightened vigilance and resolve. Eventually it will come to pass that such actions are seen for what they are. Utterly futile. N Ireland learned that lesson. Sadly we are not there yet.
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Thanks to the @PBModerator for deleting my comments!ThreeQuidder said:
You would have thought C4 would have got a proper source before naming him.dr_spyn said: 0 -
Simon Israel's bio on the Channel 4 website says, 'He's broken a number of exclusives...'
https://www.channel4.com/news/by/simon-israel0 -
I thought I'd missed it. Clearly not.
Paul Joseph Watson
Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, a city attacked over 5 hours ago, has not appeared once on camera to reassure the public. Where is he?0 -
And the EU blinked
Barnier warned of queues of lorries at Dover, a complete lack of certainty for citizens and custom controls on trade from day one of the UK’s withdrawal. “A no deal scenario is not what we want,” he said.
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Well played sir..... perhaps the redundant BBC test card might be better?JackW said:I wonder whether Channel 4 has thought about their +1 hour channel coverage?
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Reluctant correction from Jon Snow ?0
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It's Michael Fish on steroids, Channel 4 will never live down this fiasco.PlatoSaid said:Is this C4's Al Capone Vault?
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What did he saysurbiton said:Reluctant correction from Jon Snow ?
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Are those more or less prestigious than a PB first?williamglenn said:Simon Israel's bio on the Channel 4 website says, 'He's broken a number of exclusives...'
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Mr. Z, I should bloody well hope so, given Gibbon's work is nearly 4,000 pages long!
I was referring to ease of reading rather than length.0 -
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I lived in London during the first half of the 1970s, worked in the City when the IRA bombing campaign was in full swing, so I saw my fair share of sirens and police actions.
If I lived there now I would raise a glass this evening in tribute to the response of the police and emergency responders - they came through big time when needed: and in memory of the police officer who died in the line of duty.
It doesn't matter how long I've lived in the US and been a US citizen - on days like today there is a part of me that will always be a brit, and proud of it. I felt this one personally. I knew the area around parliament almost 50 years ago - I still remember standing in Downing Street opposite the door of No. 10 watching Wilson move out and Heath move in back in 1970. In those days Downing Street was a public street, with steps at the back down to Horseguards, a thoroughfare open to the public. Hard to believe that today.0 -
Yes he has. https://twitter.com/SadiqKhan/status/844633197191335936PlatoSaid said:I thought I'd missed it. Clearly not.
Paul Joseph Watson
Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, a city attacked over 5 hours ago, has not appeared once on camera to reassure the public. Where is he?0 -
I'm reading Edward Empire's Decline and Fall of the Roman Gibbon on my Kindle. In small chunks it's great reading.Morris_Dancer said:Mr. Z, I should bloody well hope so, given Gibbon's work is nearly 4,000 pages long!
I was referring to ease of reading rather than length.0 -
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Sky (Kay) reporting police have identified the attacker0
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They're wonderful books. I do think that they're best read with a certain experience of life under your belt though. I'm not sure I'd have liked them if I had read them 10 years prior. I plan to read War and Peace again for roughly those sorts of reasons - I found it hard the first time.Tim_B said:
Vol 2 - Claudius the God - is even tougher. I bought the books when the BBC series came out - still not read them both cover to cover in spite of several attempts.Beverley_C said:
It has been years since I read "I, Clavdivs". Heavy going though, Mills & Boon it was notMorris_Dancer said:Utterly off-topic aside: just discovered that Graves nicked the 'drills were bloodless battles and battles were bloody drills' line (spoken in I, Claudius by Drusus to Tiberius, describing how the army saw the latter as a commander) from Josephus.
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I had to double check that someone hadn't written an epic parody.Tim_B said:
I'm reading Edward Empire's Decline and Fall of the Roman Gibbon on my Kindle. In small chunks it's great reading.Morris_Dancer said:Mr. Z, I should bloody well hope so, given Gibbon's work is nearly 4,000 pages long!
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I will remind people of the quote I gave in the previous thread, from a PR bod:
"In that situation, there is not a great deal you can do to make things better, but there is a lot you can do to make things worse. And spreading gossip definitely makes things worse."0 -
Right, so Channel 4 will be writing a man convicted of terrorist fundraising a cheque tonight.
Great.0 -
Ooopps - Channel 4 News do it again on +1 hour ....0
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Clearly he forgot to inform Plato.Paristonda said:
Yes he has. https://twitter.com/SadiqKhan/status/844633197191335936PlatoSaid said:I thought I'd missed it. Clearly not.
Paul Joseph Watson
Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, a city attacked over 5 hours ago, has not appeared once on camera to reassure the public. Where is he?0 -
Mr. B, how does it work with the copious footnotes?
I've got Dodge's biography of Gustavus Adolphus on Kindle (wasn't available as a proper book). May return to it when I've finally worked my way through some other stuff.
Mr. Omnium, I feel that way about Shakespeare. Whilst I do think it's good the plays are taught in schools, more is gotten from them with greater experience and knowledge.0 -
You couldn't make it up!TheWhiteRabbit said:Right, so Channel 4 will be writing a man convicted of terrorist fundraising a cheque tonight.
Great.0 -
Here: https://twitter.com/SadiqKhanPlatoSaid said:I thought I'd missed it. Clearly not.
Paul Joseph Watson
Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, a city attacked over 5 hours ago, has not appeared once on camera to reassure the public. Where is he?0 -
A bit of levity.
Current score in the football is Scotland 0 - Canada 10 -
and everybody elsesurbiton said:
Clearly he forgot to inform Plato.Paristonda said:
Yes he has. https://twitter.com/SadiqKhan/status/844633197191335936PlatoSaid said:I thought I'd missed it. Clearly not.
Paul Joseph Watson
Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, a city attacked over 5 hours ago, has not appeared once on camera to reassure the public. Where is he?
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Channel 4 has just pulled their +1 coverage (after already repeating the claim in the intro)...0
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Oversimplification. Vehicle-based terrorism is either cheap or (if you hijack it) free. Ideas, even very bad ones, have a life of their own and spread themselves without the need for paying "hate preachers" (who in any case are generously supported in this country by the DWP). If funding is needed, ISIS has a GDP as large as some countries (not, admittedly, including Saudi Arabia).dixiedean said:
See. People know without having to have it spelled out. We all know where the root of the problem is. We also know why no government will say so.surbiton said:
Saudi Arabia ? Even Trump did not include that country in his six countries.dixiedean said:
Tackle it at source. We know where the funding for hate preachers comes from. Economic cowardice has prevented it so far.TwistedFireStopper said:
Yeah, but it'll pop up elsewhere, and that doesn't stop our own homegrown crazies. This won't be resolved anytime soon.dixiedean said:
So what can be done then? Death cults end when their adherents are dead, and any potential recruits see it as pointless. ISIS is on its last legs in Syria and Iraq.TwistedFireStopper said:
You can't compare the IRA with Islamic terrorism. The Death Cult want us dead.dixiedean said:Not entirely sure what can be done other than remember the victims and continue to go about our business with heightened vigilance and resolve. Eventually it will come to pass that such actions are seen for what they are. Utterly futile. N Ireland learned that lesson. Sadly we are not there yet.
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"We are temporarily unable to show the scheduled content on +1 at this moment"
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Channel 4 pull their +1 hour coverage ....
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Mr. Glenn, you blasphemer!
Mr. Rabbit, fake news! Sad.0 -
be fair canada are down to nine menTheScreamingEagles said:A bit of levity.
Current score in the football is Scotland 0 - Canada 10 -
Linky?Scrapheap_as_was said:0 -
Sometimes patience is a virtue in the reporting game.TwistedFireStopper said:It must drive the likes of Sky News and the BBC nuts that posters on twitter can post what they want, like naming the attacker, and they have to be far more circumspect.
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That's the point - there has been no damage to his reputation so there would be no monetary amount.oxfordsimon said:
Hard for him to claim for any damage to his reputation. It has probably increased his 'value'RobD said:
They couldn't have libeled a nicer bloke, could they?SeanT said:Wow, Channel 4 News backtracking
Huge fuck up.
It would be horrendous to see the libel laws being used to force media outlets to pay damages that would arguably be used to fund terrorism...
I can say Gary glitter interfered with a.n.other and even if it's not true it hasn't damaged his reputation so he can't sue me for libel.
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If this really turns out to be a lone wolf attack, this must have been an extremely badly planned attack. Did he really think he will get into Parliament ?0
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It might owe something - along with Stanley Stamp's Gibbon catalogue - to "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again", one of whose favorite songs was "stuff that gibbon"williamglenn said:
I had to double check that someone hadn't written an epic parody.Tim_B said:
I'm reading Edward Empire's Decline and Fall of the Roman Gibbon on my Kindle. In small chunks it's great reading.Morris_Dancer said:Mr. Z, I should bloody well hope so, given Gibbon's work is nearly 4,000 pages long!
I was referring to ease of reading rather than length.
Just search for 'gibbon'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_Sorry,_I'll_Read_That_Again
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On the Mayor of London twitter feed he released a statement 3 hours agoPlatoSaid said:
Linky?Scrapheap_as_was said:0 -
he hasnt really got the grasp of this media stuffScrapheap_as_was said:
On the Mayor of London twitter feed he released a statement 3 hours agoPlatoSaid said:
Linky?Scrapheap_as_was said:
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The individual in question doesn't have convictions for violence - so he could claim that calling him a murderer is damage.danielmawbs said:
That's the point - there has been no damage to his reputation so there would be no monetary amount.oxfordsimon said:
Hard for him to claim for any damage to his reputation. It has probably increased his 'value'RobD said:
They couldn't have libeled a nicer bloke, could they?SeanT said:Wow, Channel 4 News backtracking
Huge fuck up.
It would be horrendous to see the libel laws being used to force media outlets to pay damages that would arguably be used to fund terrorism...
I can say Gary glitter interfered with a.n.other and even if it's not true it hasn't damaged his reputation so he can't sue me for libel.0 -
I've had Sky on since PMQs - no mention at allAlanbrooke said:
he hasnt really got the grasp of this media stuffScrapheap_as_was said:
On the Mayor of London twitter feed he released a statement 3 hours agoPlatoSaid said:
Linky?Scrapheap_as_was said:
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Yes, I think he will sue and he will win.oxfordsimon said:
The individual in question doesn't have convictions for violence - so he could claim that calling him a murderer is damage.danielmawbs said:
That's the point - there has been no damage to his reputation so there would be no monetary amount.oxfordsimon said:
Hard for him to claim for any damage to his reputation. It has probably increased his 'value'RobD said:
They couldn't have libeled a nicer bloke, could they?SeanT said:Wow, Channel 4 News backtracking
Huge fuck up.
It would be horrendous to see the libel laws being used to force media outlets to pay damages that would arguably be used to fund terrorism...
I can say Gary glitter interfered with a.n.other and even if it's not true it hasn't damaged his reputation so he can't sue me for libel.0 -
I prefer hearing from the police what's going on basically - as we've seen media can be trying to scoop and politicians can't win re grandstanding / hiding coin.Alanbrooke said:
he hasnt really got the grasp of this media stuffScrapheap_as_was said:
On the Mayor of London twitter feed he released a statement 3 hours agoPlatoSaid said:
Linky?Scrapheap_as_was said:
why isnt he on the telly0 -
Trump responds https://mobile.twitter.com/POTUS/status/8446385948788572170
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I read them both. I think once in a lifetime was enoughTim_B said:
Vol 2 - Claudius the God - is even tougher. I bought the books when the BBC series came out - still not read them both cover to cover in spite of several attempts.Beverley_C said:
It has been years since I read "I, Clavdivs". Heavy going though, Mills & Boon it was notMorris_Dancer said:Utterly off-topic aside: just discovered that Graves nicked the 'drills were bloodless battles and battles were bloody drills' line (spoken in I, Claudius by Drusus to Tiberius, describing how the army saw the latter as a commander) from Josephus.
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Possibly an over simplification, but ISIS did not grow out of a vacuum. It developed after years of well funded evangelism of Wahhabism on the back of mostly Saudi oil money.Ishmael_Z said:
Oversimplification. Vehicle-based terrorism is either cheap or (if you hijack it) free. Ideas, even very bad ones, have a life of their own and spread themselves without the need for paying "hate preachers" (who in any case are generously supported in this country by the DWP). If funding is needed, ISIS has a GDP as large as some countries (not, admittedly, including Saudi Arabia).dixiedean said:
See. People know without having to have it spelled out. We all know where the root of the problem is. We also know why no government will say so.surbiton said:
Saudi Arabia ? Even Trump did not include that country in his six countries.dixiedean said:
Tackle it at source. We know where the funding for hate preachers comes from. Economic cowardice has prevented it so far.TwistedFireStopper said:
Yeah, but it'll pop up elsewhere, and that doesn't stop our own homegrown crazies. This won't be resolved anytime soon.dixiedean said:
So what can be done then? Death cults end when their adherents are dead, and any potential recruits see it as pointless. ISIS is on its last legs in Syria and Iraq.TwistedFireStopper said:
You can't compare the IRA with Islamic terrorism. The Death Cult want us dead.dixiedean said:Not entirely sure what can be done other than remember the victims and continue to go about our business with heightened vigilance and resolve. Eventually it will come to pass that such actions are seen for what they are. Utterly futile. N Ireland learned that lesson. Sadly we are not there yet.
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I bet he is saying a few "Allah Akhbars" in his cell tonight!tlg86 said:
Yes, I think he will sue and he will win.oxfordsimon said:
The individual in question doesn't have convictions for violence - so he could claim that calling him a murderer is damage.danielmawbs said:
That's the point - there has been no damage to his reputation so there would be no monetary amount.oxfordsimon said:
Hard for him to claim for any damage to his reputation. It has probably increased his 'value'RobD said:
They couldn't have libeled a nicer bloke, could they?SeanT said:Wow, Channel 4 News backtracking
Huge fuck up.
It would be horrendous to see the libel laws being used to force media outlets to pay damages that would arguably be used to fund terrorism...
I can say Gary glitter interfered with a.n.other and even if it's not true it hasn't damaged his reputation so he can't sue me for libel.0 -
I thought you normally watched Fox News.PlatoSaid said:
I've had Sky on since PMQs - no mention at allAlanbrooke said:
he hasnt really got the grasp of this media stuffScrapheap_as_was said:
On the Mayor of London twitter feed he released a statement 3 hours agoPlatoSaid said:
Linky?Scrapheap_as_was said:
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maybe, but part of his job is to be the focal point of London in times of crisisScrapheap_as_was said:
I prefer hearing from the police what's going on basically - as we've seen media can be trying to scoop and politicians can't win re grandstanding / hiding coin.Alanbrooke said:
he hasnt really got the grasp of this media stuffScrapheap_as_was said:
On the Mayor of London twitter feed he released a statement 3 hours agoPlatoSaid said:
Linky?Scrapheap_as_was said:
why isnt he on the telly
he's taking a back seat0
