It is a criminal offence to make, distribute etc indecent images and pseudo-images (including computer generated) of a child. [Section 1 Protection of Children Act 1978 as amended.] The legal defences are in Section 1B and sentencing powers Section 6.
Anyone interested in looking at what insurance-based systems cost should go on the internet and have a look at such a system - e.g. that in the USA. Get a quote from a US health insurance company. Draw your own conclusions about whether you can afford to buy anything close to the NHS that we have.
I was not aware of it. I will add it to my reading list! Thank you.
That is interesting. I had read that the Condor legion commander - Von Richthofen - was instrumental in the Blitzkrieg campaigns in 1939-40. Do you think that, if not tactically, the psychological impact of Guernica etc helped to formulate the role of the Luftwaffe?
Bergen-Belsen shortly after liberation. Smoke drifts across the camp and the rubbish over the site.
80 years ago #OTD British troops liberated #BergenBelsen. What they found and what they had to do to try and save the inmates would haunt many liberators and survivors for the rest of their lives.
How much of the Food and Drug Administration is going to survive the DOGE axe? At least in the example you give, they were able to identify the issue.
There is an urgent need (in all Western democracies) for civics lessons to explain to people how their countries are designed and are meant to work.
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How a false Net Zero claim became ‘news’
…a tweet by Reform MP and GB News presenter Richard Tice caught my eye. He was claiming that Net Zero was the cause of the Heathrow shutdown, and that the issue was a “refusal to have diesel generators”.
The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...
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It was not the proposal to deploy that force while Russia was continuing to attack/invade Ukraine. It was proposed as a force to be deployed if a peace agreement could be reached.
You know that is inaccurate. That proposed troop deployment is for peacekeeping purposes - it is clearly not all of the forces available to defend the continent.
If everything is transactional these days, how much is the USA going to pay England to use English? www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Does anyone use the French-based Deezer music streaming service?
Agreed - and he doesn’t even do the present day.
It is precisely issues like this that justify a re-consideration of whether the UK should seek to return to the EU.
This is increasingly looking like Roland Freisler’s ‘people’s court’ is coming…
That is not the purpose of the European reaction.
They have been fairly right-wing until this. Anyone that wants to understand the UK should see this as a significant shift.
