Meanwhile ….. On the Home Front – politicalbetting.com
Meanwhile ….. On the Home Front – politicalbetting.com
– The government’s continued refusal to issue the necessary guidance following the Supreme Court’s judgment in the For Women Scotland case on women’s rights while at the same time declaring its adherence to international law to be “unbreakable“. How about some commitment to domestic law for a change?
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Ish.
Thank-you for the header, @Cyclefree.
The forthcoming foldable iPhone will be “Ultra” in the sense that it casts a shadow over the rest of the lineup, thanks to its roughly $2,000 price tag, massive inner screen and new technologies like in-display sensors. “Ultra” may be what Apple ultimately calls this device, though it also could use a more literal name
Some Israeli pilots fly to Iran 3 times a day, Ynet reports. That’s more than 10,000 km a day!
Intensity of Israeli airstrikes is 4 times higher than it was in 2025 war, senior officer says
https://x.com/israelradar_com/status/2030214631671619686?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox63eOD9Fxs
https://x.com/scotnational/status/2030651494496604360?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
Had the government’s jury reforms been in force, Mr Coskun would have had no right of appeal.
SFAICS Coskun had a right of appeal to the Crown Court (judge and lay magistrates) by way of complete rehearing, which of course has never been the case in jury trials, and was successful. Good.
What I find hard to believe, even of a modern UK government, is that there could be trials in the future where there is no provision for an appeal on a point of law, procedure or on the point of whether the evidence taken as a whole amounted to the offence charged. Could Cyclefree clarify?
These latest attacks come about an hour after the IDF said it had hit the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Space Force headquarters in Tehran, as well as 50 ammunition bunkers, in earlier strikes today.
Quite apart from the fact that the cost is ludicrous.
Lol
Russia’s president Vladimir Putin was caught struggling to speak and coughing repeatedly in a footage by the Kremlin.
The video was deleted 4 minutes after being posted in the Kremlin's Telegram channel.
Mainly because pineapple is a c*** in fruit form
You make a fair and interesting response, and so much better than trying to close down debate
And I am sure we wish @Cyclefree all the best in her serious health battle
Most seem to be a demented swing to anti-trans, in the style we have seen all too often - a policy so extreme it’s unworkable, based alleged interpretation of law by ignorant arseholes.
See policies that shut down house building in some areas, demented interpretations of H&S that have killed people etc etc.
The duty of government is, in part to provide interpretations of the law for sub government functions/organisations. That, and changing the law.
Staring at the ceiling a whistling off key, doesn’t count.
Sensible to dial down the rhetoric
Our humiliation is almost complere
For most of British history, homosexuality was illegal but slavery was legal - what is *the law* is not the same as what is right or in keeping with societal norms. And an argument that fails to engage with that - repeatedly - is just the boring Sunday afternoon repeat we've heard over and over on this site over and over. For heaven's sake, there are other TERF adjacent sites to publish such (let's say the line) vapid bilge on.
If someone wants to make the case for stripping a bunch of people's rights from them which they have held since the 2004 GRA then make the case for it, morally. Don't just say "it's the law". That is not the locus of political debate.
May the road rise with me
https://x.com/clarkemicah/status/2030602149948788867?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
Will speak again apparently
Ed Davey calls for Charles visit to US to be cancelled
I wonder if some nasty s**tstirring tw@t has been poisoning the well over dinner at Mar a Lago?
*innocent face*
Connecting to the header - the reason that many hate Starmer is that they were sold “competence”. Not issuing guidance on the trans judgement isn’t that.
Either issue guidance or come up with a change in the law. Trying to govern by focus group and ignoring the issue is bad for everyone.
This Government really are a shower of shit - on a par with the previous 3 or 4 administrations. Third rate politicians doing a fifth rate job.
The thing that he is missing, is that the job he has, is to be the chief law maker in the UK.
And Farage may have been saying stupid things too.
It will or would dominate US airways with the Democrats demanding AMW testifies in US
It will or would be very embarrassing
Democrats can hardly talk given the Clinton Epstein connection and after Anne Sacoolas Americans are in no position to ask any UK citizen to testify there on anything
Neck and neck the first leg, a fault for the Cambs, first run, 1:0 to the Sharks
Second run…the dogs are bursting to run…and the Sharks take it, and go through to the final! Beating the speed record setting Cambs team.
Long may it continue
https://x.com/antoguerrera/status/2030676350692884699
NEW. UK forces successfully engaged a one-way attack drone fired from Iran towards Iraq last night. The engagement occurred as RAF Typhoons and F-35 jets continued to conduct defensive sorties across the region.
A Merlin helicopter is due to arrive in theatre, further strengthening our ability to detect aerial threats. The aircraft can fly up to a mile in height, giving advance warning of incoming drones or missiles.
First run…Junkyard - the fastest team at this years earlier rounds - get an early lead, and comfortably take the first round
Second run - a fault from Tails! Junkyard take it 2:0, Tails aren’t winning this year!
So a cracking final is lined up between the Junkyard Dogs and the Sharks, after the obligatory verse of Sweet Caroline with audience participation
The Supreme Court all but told people to do that.
And played back to the voters.
First run…so close,,.Junkyard are ahead on the third leg,,,but the Sharks fourth dog is finishing strong! A photo finish? Officially declared a tie - hardly ever happens!
The re-run, again Junkyard get a lead on the third leg, great changeovers, and this time the Sharks’ fourth dog can’t catch them. 1:0
Second run…Junkyard run fast, and take it clean, 2:0 - the Junkyard dogs are this year’s champions!!!
That's a wonderful case study for A-level politics when it comes to parliamentary sovereignty.
Happily it does seem that the worm has turned, the lawsuits are starting and the doctors that mutilated children and performed these operations on them are being held accountable for profiteering from kids being a bit confused during puberty.
The support for the men in dresses has collapsed everywhere. Even among liberal Americans it's just fallen through the floor which does explain why the supporters are becoming increasingly shrill and angry.
Consider that the DfE is administered and funded by Parliament…
The government clearly has no intention of changing the law - a hornet's nest - but can't provide sensible guidance without changing the law, precisely because it is an ass
On Government definition of islamophobia, I don't see a problem given it has the same for anti-Semitism. But maybe we don't need either?
And after all that excitement, Crufts takes a short break before we move on to the small/medium agility finals, the judging for the Gundog group, and then this year’s nail-biting final judging for best in show.
Hard to believe that, after just few hours’ time, there’ll just this years World Cup Final to look forward to, before Crufts 2027 comes around again.
Remember the proposed law that would have (accidentally) meant publishing the truth about the Thing We Can’t Talk About Because Of @SeanT illegal?
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2030656129768796663
Madness. Just sheer madness.
Things that interest me: Digital ID, the Online "Safety" Act, trial by jury (as noted above) leasehold reform, income tax, UBI.
I reply to Cyclefree's guff simply because nobody else on this forum bothers to point out that other views, and lived experiences, are available. It's not a topic I'd care to drone on about while literal drones are blowing up oil fields. It's almost like there are more important things going on.
It genuinely mortifies me that my partner's mere existence was something to be debated or argued about. Something that Max the Fash and Richard "Libertarian" Tindall might pontificate on.
It would be an absolute minefield.
In front of and behind the camera.
In public and in private
I also don't think anyone is safe in America right now. Too many utter nutters, too many guns.
God forbid anything happened and Trump sought to blame the UK Government for not bending over backwards and it was some sort of reciprocal message.
He is beyond crazy enough to pull any stunt.
Furthermore I think British Royalty should avoid the World Cup.
We have been there many times but even if we could travel, not anymore
But it’s a toxic debate, as are all debates about identity and competing rights.
But immediately beaten by Sara running Trend, finishing clear on 36.1
Next up, Phoebe, bronze medalist at last year’s world championship in Sweden, running fast and clear, but faults on the dog walk, jumping before the touch zone, five faults.
Last up, Crufts veteran Banana, last years winner, running fast…Banana runs clear and wins on 35.6 - a stunning run, and a deserved win. Banana rules supreme!
Next up, the large dogs agility finals….
It also raises an interesting question: how would you feel if you found out that there was a genetic sequence that people who identified as trans typically had, and those who did not, didn't?
As noted a few days ago, opinion over there on the Iran escapade seems to be universally negative across the spectrum. Never seen my US colleagues from left and right so united.
So the dogs that follow have to push..the next dog runs straight into five faults
Next dog, beats the time, but ten faults,
Fourth dog, from Poland…a great run but still five faults
https://x.com/McFaul/status/2030688218405097630
Bonkers.
Law and politics are pretty good at regulating questions of "thou shalt" and "thou shalt not". They are much less able to regulate "thou art" questions like this. There's no trans-friendly law that can, or should, stop gender criticals criticising the idea of gender. And there's no trans-unfriendly law that can stop trans people having the self-understanding they have of who they are. And somewhere in the space between those two points is where we all have to live together.
Guess what it is about?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP_rr859r8w