It is the weirdest experience of my life when a South Asian judge weirdly mispronounces my surname as "My-sra." I get that its not a common surname in the UK, but Misra/Mishra is a pretty common surname across North India. I've never heard this variation before either... 🤯
Can anyone explain to me why Britain has such an aversion to the mixed tap? Why is the set up you can have one scalding hot tap and one ice cold tap?
It’s so fascinating to watch the European diaspora turn the logics of European imperialism on Europe. The last time that was done was by Germany in the 1930s. History doesn’t repeat but the rhyme scheme can be seen…
The messaging is now that there is no other "viable" option but for removing trial by jury. How will this solve crumbling courthouses, lack of lawyers and judges, delays in production? The inefficiencies that plague our courts are almost never caused by juries.
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The thing is, ICE is not a symptom of some factual cause like this. It does not matter that 'illegal' migrants are not casting ghost votes. The supporters of ICE and its actions do so irrationally. You cannot attack it with rationality...
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Gentle reminder that when Europeans and/or members of the European diaspora move country, they are *migrants*, not expats.
I keep on saying this. This may shock people. Londoners, in general, *like* London. We are usually proud of the city and enjoy living there. It does, like everywhere, have problems. Running campaigns of “London is god awful” will not win you the mayoralty 🤷🏾♂️.
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Thinking about the libertarians who insisted, prior to the election, that Trump was the "hold your nose and vote for him over Harris" candidate because, among other things, he'd practice more foreign policy restraint.
The big question is, will Venezuela end up forced down the Puerto Rico route or the Hawaii route. #USColonialism
I wonder what the grifty grifters who were all about how the current crop of fascists would drain the swamp and mark a clean break from endless forever wars for regime change and oil theft feel about Venezuela right now...
Good to see that the inaugural FIFA peace prize earn its stripes. After all, does anything say peace quite like unprovoked military strikes on a nation, with no declaration of war and then kidnapping their leader?
Does anyone else find it really weird that the London Conservative leader, Susan Hall, spends half her time telling people that London (still the best City in the world) is just god-awful? Like does she really not understand why she lost the mayoral election?
Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books
Can anyone in the publishing industry explain to me why, in history books, the glossy photo pages are always mid chapter, and not between chapters?
When did people stop taking their backpacks off when standing on the Tube at rush hour? Do they not know that a special place in hell awaits them?
None of this can be remedied by just saying “oh well juries are the problem.” Again, there are no roads to drive on, no drivers to drive and no cars that can be driven. This is the basic truth of our criminal justice system. No amount of “reform” will actually fix those basic realities…
3. Failure to produce defendants. We outsource key public services to private contractors like G4S, Serco and Geoamey. The amount of times I have gone to cells and been told “defendants are in transit” or that they have been delivered to the wrong courthouse is unreal. The delay catastrophic.
2. Lack of courtrooms/judges. We don’t run most courthouses to capacity. The account @idlecourts.bsky.social can show you the extent to which we spend money to maintain empty courtrooms.
1. Lack of prosecution/defence counsel. This is unsurprising given that most wannabe barristers aren’t coming to the criminal Bar. The average age of criminal practitioners is rising, not falling.
However, if there’s no roads and no cars then you can raise the speed limit to 2000mph and it’ll make no difference. Trials get adjourned for all sorts of reasons. The most common reasons my trials get adjourned are as follows:
Every time I see the justifications for the curtailment of jury trials, it includes this estimate that trials will be 20% faster without juries. Maybe that’s true. The thing is, it’s like telling me that raising the speed limit to 90mph will make journeys on the motorway faster. Maybe that’s true:
Bearing in mind this is the same Badenoch who signed off on branding for her pitch to become PM of "Britian" she may have benefitted from more English classes...
Does anyone else find it weird that when you’re flying in Europe (the mainland), the airport staff always ask if you can remove your Kara and always sigh or roll their eyes when you say no? Is it just outright lack of familiarity?
Enjoying the audiobook so far. Though I wish Chapter 1 had outlined the etymology of "Kali Yuga" rather than describing it as a self-described "super fascist's" term for the Dark Age... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Yuga
The thing with painting over zebra crossings to make St George’s Crosses that I don’t understand at all is: isn’t it super disrespectful to your flag to paint it somewhere people will literally trample on it?! 🤷🏾♂️
I am not Batman. I have no desire to be Batman. I will not be stepping in to "protect" goods that the retailer insured...
Like many bookworms, I have a (bad?) habit of buying more books than I can realistically read since my last trip to the bookstore. So it is that over 6 years have passed with “The Luminaries” sitting on my shelf. Having just finished Part 1 - it’s beautifully written. Delicate as the night sky.
God bless the Piccadilly Line train driver who held the northbound train at Finsbury Park for changers from the Victoria when there are severe delays and it was 12 minutes until the next one. #notallheroeswearcapes
Listed for PTPH at 10am. D is serving prisoner. D had his first appearance by CVP. For no discernible reason, listed for all parties to attend. D is serving in the Midlands. Matter listed in Kent. Informed by the cells that the ETA is 15:30.
This could have been avoided by producing D by CVP.
I did not have scores level as my prediction for the end of the first innings there…