The, err, quality of Reform candidates suggests a higher rate of shithousery a priori. But yes, in general the average quality of local councillors is poor & my family’s experience suggests that … (View Post)

Based on the court case, anyone would reasonably conclude that Letby was probably guilty. If you based your opinion on having attended the case, you’d draw the same conclusion that the jury did. The … (View Post)

No, the reason is that the defence’s own witnesses supported the claim that 2 babies were overdosed on insulin at the time. That’s the reason they weren’t called - the defence could see that they wou… (View Post)

Indeed. Asking Letby to draw conclusions based on the insulin evidence was arguably an abuse of the court system - she simply wasn’t qualified to give answers to those questions. It was the legal equ… (View Post)

US East 1 is the original & first AWS datacentre. Many companies have ended up with a dependency on US-East 1 because they started there & never built out geographic redundancy. On top of tha… (View Post)