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Three council by-elections tonight. One Conservative defence, one Labour, one UKIP.
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Boris won't quit (IMO)
However Theresa has to be careful with this speech... The fact she is delivering it away from the UK means there will be a "window" of opportunity while she is out of the country for the Tory Party to move against her.
She might fly back in to Heathrow to find she's out of a job if she's not careful...
I really hope she does achieve her Falklands moment - we will see
A JURY foreman who ignored strict rules about not making internet searches was jailed for four months.
Lionel Tweed not only researched aspects of the murder trial on the web, he also told his fellow jurors about his findings.
The painter and decorator, 54, looked up the information during the trial of Piotr Olejarczyk, who stabbed a man to death. Olejarczyk was found guilty of murder and jailed for life in December at Manchester crown court.
https://www.metro.news/jury-foreman-is-jailed-for-internet-search-about-case/744868/
I didn't realise at the time that 30 years later I would visit these remote and interesting islands
And it was made clear to me that doing internet searches was absolutely forbidden.
Interesting anecdote!
You might not know the defendant, but you might be friends with someone who has them on their friends list.
Or Facebook algorithms whose news feeds brings up all the news articles about the trial.
https://twitter.com/passantino/status/908452298208063492
We were told not to research the case, which only lasted two days and no one appeared to have done so when we retired to consider our verdict. What I found interesting was that we were split 6-4 to acquit because the prosecution didn't try to disprove the defendants alibi, presumably because they thought what they had given would result in a conviction. When it became apparent in the Jury Room that no-one was going to change their view we decided to acquit with a unanimous verdict as it was nearly the end of the day and none of us wanted to carry on discussing this case! I suspect the Judge had already written what he was going to say as his face when our Foreman stood up and said "Not Guilty and that is the view of us all" suggested some surprise. (We never saw our Foreman again which led to us generating lots of stories/rumours regarding his fate)
After the trial verdict I did Google the defendants name and was mildly relieved to find there were no references to it (as I was one of the six). However had anyone done that during the trial and revealed that they had found a previous conviction for something then the outcome would have been different and a possibly innocent person, of that crime anyway, would have been facing jail sentence.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41274743
According to the article the 'sensible offer' is to get a three year transition and to defer any long term financial commitments. Somehow I don't think this will be seen as making progress.
My point being that "face" is involved. Japan doesn't have a high regard for Korea and Koreans (in fact Korean descendants from the annexation period still resident in Japan are regarded as second class), while the North Koreans get home brownie points for annoying the Japanese.
I would be very surprised if the Japanese government, going through back channels, had not made it abundantly clear to Beijing that if there is a third missile going over Japan, then there will be all hell to pay.
http://www.asj.upd.edu.ph/mediabox/archive/ASJ-13-03-1975/king-japanese-colonialism-korean-economic-development.pdf
Wasn't a very impressive process all told. Wouldn't want to be on the wrong side of it.
Allusions to Nazi Germany are generally overwrought, but this is no exaggeration: Prime Minister Theresa May does not have an absolute majority in the British Parliament, just as Hitler didn’t in the Reichstag in 1933, which is why she has been forced to resort to his strategy. If the withdrawal bill is passed as it stands, May will be able to make laws by decree and reverse and adapt primary legislation without consulting Parliament. It is the greatest attack on the British constitution in at least a century. Parliamentary sovereignty—the very thing that Brexiteers said they were voting for in leaving the E.U.—may be about to be vastly reduced by a cabal of right-wing Conservatives who say they are obeying the people’s will. Such power grabs, of course, are always done in the name of the people. The full title of the 1933 Enabling Act was “The law to remedy the distress of the people and the state.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/theresa-may-takes-her-darkest-most-desperate-turn-yet