Of no insurance? There isn't one. But, prosecution still needs to be in the public interest & I would have hoped that preventing people being defrauded was a higher priority than prosecuting victims of that fraud.
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Of no insurance? There isn't one. But, prosecution still needs to be in the public interest & I would have hoped that preventing people being defrauded was a higher priority than prosecuting victims of that fraud.
I'm genuinely surprised to hear that this could be prosecuted in the USA. I'm far from convinced it's a criminal post here in E&W.
The UK’s approach to prosecutions for social media content is quite different than ours in ways I have criticized. This one is within shouting distance of prosecutable in the U.S. The relevant question is whether it’s sufficiently imminent to meet our incitement standard./1
I have a client accused of no insurance. He's quite obviously been the victim of a fraudulent website. Frustratingly, police are prosecuting him for no insurance & ignoring the website, which is still up and selling fake insurance to people a year later!!
I'm not clued up on inciting violence, but I'd hope it needs something more than an obvious attempt at a joke.
Yes, I've seen some others saying it had something to do with comments about Iranians.
His positions don't even make sense. On the one hand, he likes laws that prevents theft etc but he opposes the entirety of the rule of law if an immigrant benefits from it. You might conclude he's an idiot.
Aussies don't take any shit judging by their media and politicians.
The Aussie press not holding back when it comes to its coverage of neo-Nazis.
I don't particularly agree with his views, but if he has been arrested over these three tweets then that's completely ridiculous. open.substack.com/pub/grahamli...
I hate to be that guy, but nothing about that website screams reliable or trustworthy, especially not the AI image of Farage. This lady was a real person, but it seems she left Reform for Advance UK in July. Is the story true? I'd be interested to hear if it's been verified.
Has this story been verified? I just ask because the website doesn't look like any local paper I've seen and it's using where looks like a bad AI image of Farage, which doesn't suggest reliability.
As Dave Lister quipped to Arnold Rimmer in Future Echos, it seems in Nigel’s Reform Party that “death isn’t the handicap it used to be in the olden days”. These are the people who claim they will fix everything, yet are selecting dead people to stand for election. Good job Nigel.
Swift has always struck me as quite a hard nosed businesswoman despite the content of her songs.
How did we ever make it as a species, when the most transformative and life changing programmes get ignored on the basis either 'meh, nobody gets that now', or alternatively, outright and demonstrated lies? So what now, a few thousand child deaths before the curve starts up again?
So there we are. It only takes 60 years or so to go from relief that your children won't suffer and die as they did before, to thinking it was a lie that that you child might suffer and die (let alone someone else's child because of your choice). www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
I'm convinced that they're really targeting the elderly and vulnerable and, in that respect, are no better than scammers who do the same thing.
I went years without a doorbell but missed one too many deliveries so had to get one. I went for a video doorbell connected to my video alexa thing so I can see who's there and whether they need ignoring or not.
I hate them with a passion. IMHO the list of chugger terribleness goes: 1. The ones who knock on your door. 2. Those who try to get you as you walk in/out of shops. 3. The ones on the street who desperately try to get your attention.
I know this is unpopular because we apparently have an "unwritten" constitution, but my opinion remains that we do not have a constitution at all! It's just jumble of loose 'rules' that people usually play by, but which are mostly unenforceable and ultimately mean nothing if they're ignored.
I somehow missed this story, but the red areas are countries that have stopped shipping parcels to the USA. Apparently DHL has also stopped shipments 🤣 www.newsweek.com/map-shows-co...
The USA is absolutely fecked. This lady was part of a mob rioting against US lawmakers. She tried to force her way past barricades to get to lawmakers themselves as they fled the rioters. The US govt has now paid her family $5M in compo & given her a military funeral! www.yahoo.com/news/ashli-b...
I'm pretty sure every criminal law firm has claimed to be "the best" at some point or other. www.lawgazette.co.uk/practice/sra...
The old Mickey Mouse costumes fascinate me, how tastes and perceptions change so much that that could at any point have been considered fun and not absolute nightmare fuel.
Nigel Farage tells his press conference that his deportations will save the UK "hundreds of billions" of pounds. He knows he can make literally anything up at this point and not be called out for it
Reform Zia's Yusuf says a Farage Government would rip up protections against human rights abuses, torture and trafficking, in order to deport more migrants. Remember that these protections apply to everyone living in the UK. Once they're gone, they're gone for all of us
It’s a serious case involving >£1m damage wherein a vehicle was driven at a building, and injuries were caused to 2 police officers and a security guard. This reporting is deliberately soft and absent on detail. Her ongoing pre-trial remand is subject to the usual judicial oversight in such cases.
I wonder if 40 people turned up outside the Express offices and started shouting “learn how to report” that they would cover it?
This weekend's protests are smaller, even in places such as Nuneaton. Also, fewer women in pink and a bigger proportion of outside activists. I did some interviews in Horley: while there is opposition to the hotels, people's concerns about potential violence stops them going to the protests.
I'll be interested to see if this happens. If it does, expect to see even longer delays in courts as everyone accused of a crime seeks to avoid driving bans. BBC News - Pub and travel bans proposed under sentencing rule changes www.bbc.com/news/article...
I had no idea coke owned Costa, although it does make sense why Costa is the worst coffee shop on the high street.
Farage is no patriot. Patriots don't go abroad to tell lies about the country they love. Farage hates our country, and everything it stands for.
Funnily enough I don't remember reading similar front pages when Jeremy Hunt bought *seven* luxury seaside apartments from a Conservative donor, in breach of his government's own money laundering rules
People convicted and imprisoned for saying or writing things that stir up racial hatred. • Abu Hamza • Abdullah el-Faisal • Lucy Connolly Guess which conviction made the right wing suddenly decide writing or saying things that stir up hatred is okay, actually.
🤬 Woman who admitted incitement to violence and racism on Social Media and in Court was jailed for 2.5 years. Gets released early and British TV and media repeating what she said originally, give her prime spot on TV. Britain wonders why they have a problem which every day is getting more extreme?
Allison Pearson never apologised for claiming that Omar Salem, the man with a sick daughter who confronted Boris Johnson at Whipps Cross hospital, was wearing a microphone. (Sep 2019) Eye witnesses, photographs and audio of the exchange, proved conclusively he wasn't. fullfact.org/online/omar-...
Hang on a minute. What happened to all the yanks telling us Brits that this sort of thing meant we have no freedom of speech or something like that?? Turns out they're doing exactly the same thing!!
These people need to answer a lot of questions. First, how did they find a bank branch?? Second, how did they know the exact five minutes it would be open today??
I didn't vote for Labour and I'm not very impressed by them so far. But, they're far better than the corrupt incompetents they replaced. Pretending they aren't is just bizarre.
Lucy Connolly tried to claim in her appeal that she didn’t know what a guilty plea would mean. Her first lawyer brought *comprehensive* receipts demonstrating that wasn’t true. As Sunder says, she’s repeating claims a court very clearly found to be false.
She'll be standing as a Reform candidate at the earliest opportunity.
I think we can accept Judge Inman has been proven entirely correct on the lack of insight. www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
So Nigel Farage’s ‘new’ plan is in fact… Rishi Sunak’s old plan - which was exactly what caused the explosion in use of asylum hotels in the first place.
All being protected by the same police they were attacking during their riots last year.
"We are Bristol! who are you? We are many, you are few!" Around 40 fascists surrounded by hundreds of counterprotesters
Good on the Mirror for having the bravery to strike out against this bullshit
No Just…NO!!
Our local garden centre usually gets Xmas stuff out in July!!! I've not been there this year so I don't know if they've done it again but they have every other year. I can't work out why anyone thinks this is sensible.
I don't think it's defamatory to state an opinion that you think someone is in the wrong. Even if it were, it doesn't damage her reputation since we can all see it's a moronic and simply wrong opinion.
You just know that this woman - who called for asylum seekers to be burned to death & accepted that made her a racist - is going to be a Reform candidate at the next election.
The laziness and implied bias of the BBC here is extreme - "No 10 did not comment" presumably because the CPS and courts are independent, but there's no attempt to find anyone who would argue the opposite view, just the unchallenged whine of someone who called for asylum seekers to be burnt to death
Farage? Jenrick was out with a nazi the other day. He looks a lot more like Nick Griffin to me. Mind you, Farage is pretty Griffin-y himself.
Genuinely baffled as to what Bertie Jenrick would have to do for any of the one in ten Tory MPs from an ethnic minority to go “steady on”. Turn up at their house in a Klan robe?
I see Farage is pretty much parroting the National Front/BNP's old line of "send 'em back where they came from". I really worry about the future of this country when this stuff doesn't exclude them from mainstream politics.
"When contacted by the BBC, Excel still insisted Miss Robinson was in the wrong". No she isn't - you are, which is why courts keep telling you that you're wrong!! Idiots. BBC News - Excel Parking firm pays £10,240 after losing court appeal - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
In what circumstances can the crown appeal a not guilty verdict there?
The sheer, crass, dangerous stupidity of parroting the nationalist right’s narratives again on display here. It is absolutely not a matter of democracy that the judiciary does as the government says. It is the total opposite. Without an independent judiciary there is no democracy.
You should be mad about the FBI raiding John Bolton’s house not because you love John Bolton but because you’re opposed to Trump using the FBI to intimidate his critics
On Sunday evening, Robert Jenrick proudly attended a xenophobic rally in Epping involving Callum Barker of neo-Nazi group Homeland. Also in attendance: dedicated follower of fascism, Eddy Butler (BNP, Combat 18, For Britain) Butler later posted: “At the Bell Hotel riding shotgun for Robert Jenrick"
If Trump’s sycophants start bullying Zelenskyy about his war zone clothes, this is what Churchill wore when he visited ghe WH during WW2
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Senior Conservative politicians boasting about their support for violent, racist thugs would honestly have been unthinkable even ten years ago. This is where the BNP and National Front have traditionally been. It is not normal for British politics, and we shouldn't pretend that it is.
Ditto Roma and Romanian.
I got the rooms set up, distributed the numbers, and everyone jumped on, only to find that all of the private rooms were the same, everyone as muted, and the only thing anyone could hear is an investment banker saying "MFer." (the real word, though). I panicked and hung up on everyone.
Can’t believe Neil Young outlived him. I always assumed it would be… (puts on sunglasses) ..Neil before Zod.
NEW: Astounding scenes on the streets of Tel Aviv tonight as 300,000 join an anti-war protest. (🎥 Noga Tarnopolsky)
Agreed, I live near Newlyn and the fishing community was gung-ho for Brexit on the basis of lies from Johnson. But fishing always is the sacrificial bargaining chip (cf Thatcher's deal) because it's so small economically. Including processing, it contributes about as much as Harrods to GDP.
Exactly Brexit threw fisherpeople under the bus, and they voted for it. Its called getting what you voted for.
Sky News, "There are many in the industry who feel that Prime Minister Keir Starmer's post Brexit deal with the EU has thrown them (fishermen) under the bus and will hamper the next generation as they head out to sea" Starmer simply extended Boris Johnson's fishermen's Brexit deal from 2026 to 2038
I am a bit of a broken record on this, but are local DAs going to let this continue indefinitely? The ICE agents didn't have any kind of warrant, didn't identify themselves, and then recklessly started firing. Let them argue federal immunity.
Jenrick has spent a great deal of energy on his makeover from boring, forgettable, mediocre Tory into vicious-far-right-nationalist-race-baiter, in his desperate mission to shoehorn himself into power. One of the most repulsive politicians out there.
four days ago the BBC was made to apologise to this guy because someone they had on the radio said he was xenophobic
Rupert Lowe has spotted another boat full of illegal migrants in our waters… 🥺
As a migrant to this country, I’d like to issue a formal apology for the pothole on your road. It was selfish of me to move here, personally prise up the tarmac, and weaken the A-roads with my foreign footsteps. I promise to do better - perhaps next week I’ll only destroy a minor B-road.
It's always been the case. In my GCSE year, one of my friends - a boy - got the highest grades in the school. Photos were taken of one of the girls who, according to the local paper, got the highest grades! This was 30 years ago.
Very poor if they're not. But, then again the number of true crime podcasts I hear where one police force could have stopped or solved a serial killer if only they'd known what was happening 10 miles up the road is quite astounding.
Given that Labour is clearly going to pursue more statist and less liberal economic policies than I would like, I really think it would be helpful if they tried to do something stupid involving property rights, just to underline a) why some in Labour don't like the ECHR b) concentrate Tory minds.
Because Portugal is in the EU and the signatory state of the Dublin Agreement, you bloody idiot from Dubai. #ukpolitics
Not certain which article Tice links to, but this one doesn't say removal after 1 day - it says "within weeks", based on them not applying for asylum and the state of origin taking them back - so obviously irrelevant to small boat asylum seekers coming from France www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Oh yeah for sure you still need to investigate the crime itself to know who you're looking for when you pull people over.
You see solicitors who do something relatively minor getting £10k+ costs orders from the SRA while this guy bankrupted a firm through fraud and they only want £600! www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/practic...
I love Kirsty Wark's suggestion that they just re-film the whole show. I bet the winner and runners up would love to have to take time off work to do the whole thing again with the chance they don't get all the way to the final this time or are we going to rig the re-make & hope everyone comes back.
Good opportunity for experimental television here in which we only see shots of food mysteriously cooking itself as all the people are edited out.
Land of the free.
Yeah JD, we remember. We will never forget your boss was best friends with the guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring. And then that guy was "silenced" forever. And now we will just not talk about anything else until they... #ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files
I reckon if you pulled over everyone not wearing a seatbelt or driving defective cars, you'd end up finding most of the violent criminals you were looking for anyway.
lol well you learn something new everday!! I only go to Covent Garden when its dark and don't really pay much attention to the shops.
This is the most frustrating screen I see in Windows. Literally every program is closed. There are no files open at all.
I've never even seen a Walmart let alone been in one and yet I constantly get spam emails and see online adverts for them - or someone claiming to be them at any rate.
Since when have we thought Carharrt was luxurious? I had to google them but recognised the logo as something I've seen on very generic tshirts.
*bitlocker
Thanks, I'll take a look at bitdefender now.
Fascinating stuff here... Sláva Ukrayíni! ✊🏻 Heroiam Sláva! 👊🏻 #StandWithUkraine 🌻 🇺🇦 🌻 youtu.be/w7Ssbz7kII8?...
So he didn't have a knife pulled on him. He didn't see the knife. Somebody told him there was a guy with a machete behind him who was threatening the people speaking to him, which kinda proves the point about the need for safe routes to the UK that will kill the smugglers business.
It's not the airports fault, but I'm just saying the miserable journey in and the rip off parking charges (or train fare) really don't get people off to a good start.
I was just thinking about bitlocker - I think that requires a password before windows starts? Not sure I can use that as my keyboard doesn't connect until windows is running!
I don't think so. Most of the hardship I saw was the entirely foreseeable and natural consequence of repeatedly ignoring the rules of the road. There are other things, eg I have a client whose hardship isn't about him - it's about his employer & is being entirely pushed & funded by the employer.
lol oops I was really looking at the original comment you re-posted when I typed that out.
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