A truely amazing thread from Leo.

Faceache has never been my thing ... so kudos to Leo for trawling through it ...

Beggars belief how these charlatans get into office, let alone the Lords.
UK really has a liking for voting in idiots who make our lives considerably worse.

He's confidently wrong on everything, every time.

Before the day was out, 94 people were dead. Two days later, a 14-year-old boy had his life-support machine switched off. The death toll would remain at 95 until 1993, when – after four years in a persistent vegetative state Bland's life-prolonging treatment was withdrawn. Tony Mike Bracken, Peter Carney, Da-mian Kavanagh, Peter Rankin, Steve and I were severely trau-matised, and experienced symp-toms associated with post-trau-matic stress disorder for many years. Today, Mike Bracken is chief digital officer for the Co-operative Group. Between 2010 and 2015 he

was executive director of the Gov-ernment Digital Service, and he was awarded a CBE in 2014 for his services to digital transform-ation and his work in develop-ing youth football in Hackney. In 2012, Peter Carney stepped down from his job as a play-development worker, providing after-school and holiday activities for young adults; he now runs Soccer in the City, a minibus tour of Liverpool's foot-ball landscape. Damian Kavanagh has spent his career in insurance; today, he works as a pensions ad-ministrator. Dr Peter Rankin is a consultant paediatric neuropsych-ologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and chair of the British Psychological Soci-ety's Division of Neuropsychology. Steve joined one of Britain's biggest police forces in the early 1990s and became a detective. He has since left the police and is training to be a solicitor. These are the survivors

I know. Football supporters were just like us in the 1980s. But, in 1989, we were something else too. At Anfield's Shankly Gates stands a memorial to the people who died around us and beneath us. It is a list simply of names and ages; there is nothing to indi-cate what those 96 people gave to society, or what they might have gone on to do. On 15 April 1989, they went to a football match and were crushed to death. And in the weeks, months and 23 years that followed, the likes of Mike Bracken, Peter Carney, Damian Ka-vanagh, Peter Rankin, Steve and me would be held responsible for their deaths.

15th April. This is extract from the opening chapter of Hillsborough survivor Adrian Tempany's brilliant book "And The Sun Shines Now" (the whole chapter is an astonishingly good piece of writing)

There's a Mail article from 18th March on this...both the article and the founder of the website admit it has a right wing bias, seemingly as it's mainly promoted on X.

Also there's no check on if participants are even from the UK.

It's basically just more counter-productive noise.

I'm nearly there, so yes to this! /s

I really hope so, working helped mentally, if not physically, but still worth it.
But I'm lucky to have found a great employer who offers flexibility.
The old Remploy system is sorely missed.
But I will hold judgement until it's in place and not penalising people. 👍

Hope this aspect has improved as they will penalise you once you express a desire to work, irrelevant if you can or not, they will stop benefits once you try, or at least did to me.
Still struggling to stay employed in immense daily pain, but worth it for me, personally.

Having been disabled for over 30 years now, cheers arsehole motorist🤬 who hit me, there was no help in place to return to work, just pot luck!
Job Center had someone who's job was solely to help disabled people find jobs, he admitted it wouldn't happen, was extremely lucky a charity gave me a shot.

Important consultation on hunting laws: please take part if you can.

Pay your fucking taxes then!

Nearly right, but think you may have misspelt the second word

She's a great cartoonist

'Never judge a book by it's cover'

But that fails to account for the fact you can tell a wrong un just by it's cover all too often (I know not always).

The loss of the Section 230 shield and the discovery of these internal documents were known to Meta before the trial began. In a way that was when Meta had the problem, for even if it somehow defeated the Kaley GM case on its facts and on causation at trial, the loss of the shield and the discovered documents were still there. In this way, the fact there was even a trial was as much as an adverse precedent for the social media platforms than any award of damages. That was just the follow-through in this particular case. Nonetheless, Meta adopted what could be called an aggressive approach to the trial, disputing that that plaintiff had suffered any damage from her social media use or arguing that if there was damage, it was not caused by its design features. This exercise in victim-blaming was not only unpleasant but also misconceived and counterproductive. It seems the trial strategy turned the jury against the platforms. Other potential lawsuits will not have the exact same facts as those in Kaley GM. Some of these cases will be weaker on the evidence than the Kaley GM case, and some may be even stronger. But it seems there are thousands of other claims across the United States ready to go, after what was effectively a test or “bellwether” claim. The liability and the damages facing the social media platforms will scale up considerably.

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Social media platforms have a serious legal problem

And this problem pre-dates the defeat of Meta and Google in the Kaley GM jury trial

Me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk on why Meta and Google lost this case - months before the actual trial

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

Did u know? The weather has warmed & insects are on the wing. When doing your winter clear-out...don't clear it out. This pile at the back of one of my borders is a broken trellis & spent catmint trimmings. It might look like rubbish to you, but to small souls, that's home. Leave it be.. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🐞🐝🪰

To be fair, if I see any of those three as the official then I don't bother watching, not worth the frustration!

The WRU EGM has been announced. It promises to be the most dismal Monday night Zoom call since the invention of the internet. Here’s why we shouldn’t get our hopes up about the likely outcomes….

Welsh, always Welsh. The act of union, Wales was conquered rather than legally joined like Scotland, has caused this claim. Legally Monmouthsire was added to the English legal system, there are reasons why this occurred, but remained part of Wales. It often crops up but we all are Welsh.

If there is evidence of irregularities at some polling stations at the Gorton and Denton byelection, then that evidence should be properly and promptly investigated in accordance with due process by the proper authorities. And that is what is being done. Any denunciations of the election result should thereby await the result of this process. The losing party spokesperson candidly admitted the day after the election that any irregularities were not enough to have affected the result, which was emphatic. But this did not prevent the losing party’s leader from loudly promoting grave allegations of sectarian voting, corruption and dishonesty. Yet if the irregularities are not upheld on investigation as invalidating the result, it is unlikely that those findings will be shouted about. And such a response is irresponsible. Parts of the United Kingdom have a history of sectarian violence. Parts of the United Kingdom have histories of racial tension. Responsible politicians should not exploit such allegations for partisan advantage. Making such allegations is to play with fire, literally. Responsible politicians should be careful to avoid subverting the very fundamentals on which a functioning democracy rests. Such “poisoning of the wells” is familiar to those following the politics of the United States, and it lay behind the lethal violence that took place in Washington DC on 6th January 2021.

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The poisoning of the wells

Why discrediting election results without waiting for due process is unhealthy for a democracy

This week's Weekly Constitutional by me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

Maybe it will help him pay tax on his school fees /s, maybe!

All the while fans just want less International rugby and a return to meaningful Int fixtures.
The new Nations trophy, or whatever it's called, already under threat if England follow through with the idea to play a second string V Fiji while the firsts travel to Arg!!

Oh yes, despite his many wrong doings, (Indians really not fans of his), still being hailed as the greatest Briton to ever live!!
Suits Dump down to the ground.

Some mountains in Wales are re-naturalising with so few sheep on them, starting to look great.

And deployed troops on the Tonypandy rioters as reported by the press rather than describe them as men on strike.

Diolch

Is it still owned by Zahawi, or was that a different polling platforming?

How can Biden has given everything away if Dumbass rebuilt it all in his first term and stocks are now great!
His confusion keeps growing by the day.