This is a false comparison though. European justice systems have *completely* different approaches at all stages - it is not simply our system but with judges not juries

Sorry if you have already done this but have you tried pressing the metal emergency key against the ignition button (with clutch down) to start it? When the batteries on our keys went, we could still start the car doing that

SGs were 2020. Agree re the offence - we need specific offences for online activity. There are other similar issues eg sending a celeb a racist tweet is obviously horrible, but it’s different to sending a racist letter or making a racist phone call, but it’s the same offence that would be charged

It’s tricky. If an offence is worth 31 months, it would almost be perverse for the CPS not to prosecute. The whole period was very reminiscent of the 2011 riots when all discretion and due process basically went out the window.

I think even asking whether it was right to prosecute, it’s hard to overlook that, in the end, she admits she was trying to incite racial hatred. FWIW I agree the sentence was way too long

Spending any time at all pondering her guilt is time wasted - even she doesn’t say she is innocent

I think a more fundamental problem is that through her plea, *she* accepted it *was* her intention to incite racial hatred and, given what she said, the racial hatred she intended to incite must have been quite serious. If she never really meant it, she should have pleaded not guilty

No one on earth was waiting for a live action SW. The original is awful. I don’t doubt it’s historical significance but when my kids watched it they wandered off, bored. It’s a film everyone has this vague sense of but can’t actually remember and then you watch it and go oh god thank you modernity