1) Yes, and? If it gets overturned on appeal it’s even more egregious because the system has failed in the first instance 2) It’s not an aggravating factor, it’s a different crime. There are people w… (View Post)

I think that we have both very successful privatisation and disastrous privatisation is great because we are forced to discuss the mechanisms rather than revert to ideology. FWIW, I want to see more … (View Post)

The man who did that was rightly convicted of grievous bodily harm. He was not convicted of a terrorism offence, and has been sentenced for that anyway, along with those only (rightly) convicted of c… (View Post)

I think we are in agreement on the driving analogy, and I obviously can't do as good a job as explaining it as you did. I think it's obvious why they didn't charge on that basis - they… (View Post)

In Scotland you often get a choice between, say, careless and dangerous driving or full acquittal. If that were the case for this I think most people would have certainly convicted the sledgehammer g… (View Post)