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Anybody who has watched the latest Netflix series on Jeffrey Bernstein will be struck how often Prince Andrew features with the US paedophile who committed suicide whilst in prison and, inevitably the police inquiry was going to focus at some stage on the British royal.
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God I hate people who look down on the common person.
There’s a vignette about Prince Andrew’s childhood in this new book by the journalist Nigel Cawthorne that seems telling. The royal family were watching Coronation Street and as the barmaid Bet Lynch had an argument, Andrew cried: “Oh God, look at all those common people.” This two-tiered view of humanity was not something he shed as he aged, the book implies: there’s royalty and the plebs; his daughters and the girls abused by his paedophile friend.
In Prince Andrew, Epstein and the Palace, Cawthorne charts Andrew’s descent from the “royal who could do no wrong” to the “pariah prince”. This is not a book teeming with revelations or even fresh interviews; instead it relies heavily on newspaper reports. However, seeing the scandal laid out in what will be excruciating detail for the palace still hits hard. Even a fervent royalist would be left thinking that Andrew is an egotistical oaf who chose not to see his friend’s abuse, and there are many who feel that the allegations against him should still be tested in court. What a fall from grace for a prince who was once the poster boy for the monarchy, a regal Harry Styles.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/culture/prince-andrew-epstein-and-the-palace-by-nigel-cawthorne-review-the-royal-pariah-b0x0kq0cc
Important to avoid mix-ups of this variety.
Its Golden Hour for Brexiteers.
It does not.
Yep, everyoneone involved was white, yessirree.
This lie is even more blatant than the "outside agitators" line they're using in the US.
For the Tories to ship out a Royal would be normally be unthinkable and the swollen prostates of the Daily Mail Letters Page would be outraged, nay inflamed.
My point was the criticism by the government of thuggery isn't race based or new. Student smashed up London were denounced, same with anti-capitalist.
Remain marches, didn't, because they were extremely well behaved.
Let's have some polling on it. Let's see how different groups feel about it. Let's test the boundaries of public opinion, and hear the pros and cons from all walks of life.
Let's have a royal or independent commission. Let's hear from all sides and parts of the community. Let's understand what really holds people back and how things make them feel, and what does not. Let's hear what their priorities and solutions are. What matters and what does not.
Because so far the language seems to be one of eternal conflict: targeting "all forms" of racism, for example, without saying what these forms are, whether they are, why they should be removed, and what takes its place. There's no sign of a positive proposal of what would represent peace and a new stability, just the rhetoric of the fight.
We still don't know who was involved in pulling this statute down, or why - still less what their motives were, who they purported to represent, and indeed whether they were represent of those the groups they purported to represent.
That's why we have democracy, for the dialogue and understanding. Not mob rule, where the most aggressive and organised win through strength of violence.
It's miserable when you have become utterly irrelevant.
Nor will he take any action against Labour MPs like Whittome who explicitly 'celebrate' illegal acts of vandalism - despite having been the DPP!
Loooooong way to go before Labour is anywhere near deCorbynized...
It's not designed for small screens and is running on a not very powerful server, so I hope it's popular but not too popular.
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The law is not the be all and end all.
What a fucking surprise!
I mean she was a tax dodger until quite recently.
Income taxes were for common people.
https://twitter.com/andrew_lilico/status/1269719196948140037?s=20
Tbh if a statue that burnishes the reputation of a slavery profiteer is being presented as 'a symbol of power', it rather makes my fingers itch for the steel cable and sledgehammer.
Protests and riots like this are a Godsend for the Tories, voters will always look to them rather than Labour on law and order. Starmer will hope it all goes away asap.
Once you adopt a position you refuse to move off it regardless of how the argument subsequently develops. That's a sign of weakness of character by the way, not strength.
I have lost respect for you.
Nothings changed. How is that a sewer? I fundamentally believe in individuals making their own free choices.
"We took a tactical decision that to stop people stop doing the act may have caused further disorder, so the safest thing to do was to allow it to take place," he said.
Supt Andy Bennett said although he was "disappointed, he did understand" as the statue had caused "a lot of angst" for the city's black community.
"We took a tactical decision that to stop people stop doing the act may have caused further disorder, so the safest thing to do was to allow it to take place," he said.
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Are all statues people don't like fair game now and the police will just step back and allow it to happen in the name of community relations. It sets a dangerous prescedent.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1269934704532295681
Brexit, the AV referendum and Better Together show that the Conservative Party long ago stopped caring about nurturing long-term relationships.
https://twitter.com/danbloom1/status/1269921596875169797?s=20
UK coronavirus victims have lain undetected at home for two weeks
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/07/uk-coronavirus-victims-have-lain-undetected-at-home-for-two-weeks
...People have died at home alone of Covid-19 during the pandemic and not been found for up to two weeks, doctors who have investigated such deaths have said.
They have only been discovered after a relative, friend or neighbour raised the alarm and have in many cases gone undetected for so long that their body has started to decompose.
Campaigners for the elderly said the phenomenon highlighted the vulnerability of isolated older people living on their own with little family support and the risks being run by the large numbers of patients who have avoided hospitals and GP surgeries in recent months through fear of coronavirus.
“People have lain undiscovered during the pandemic for seven to 14 days,” said Dr Mike Osborn, a senior pathologist in London and the chair of the death investigation committee at the Royal College of Pathologists.
“I’ve seen plenty of such cases like this, where bodies are decomposed, in the Covid outbreak and also done postmortems in ‘query Covid’ cases [where the disease was suspected].”...
Let's see where this ends up now the zeitgeist has been released. I suspect you won't like it.
https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1269843069974740992?s=20
The law is how we try to compel people to do what we want them to do, but if people really think the law is wrong and are prepared to face up to the consequences of breaking the law then so be it.
The silliest one was Alex Salmon'd "melt in the sun" one at Heriot Watt, but I just found it hilarious as a monument to vanity.
It will seem strange to celebrate the success of a decline in membership.
He knows what he's doing, and he's doing the right thing.
That's because its my choice not to, not because of the law.
If only for the opening couplet, this should be the PB theme song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FofNPkGlI38
2011 was a result of similar factors. The police need to be in as soon as protests aren't peaceful and upholding the law. 2011 they went way too softly softly for the first 2-3 days and then it spread to several cities, as the real scumbags could see the police were going to let them get away with a lot more than usual.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian_statue_of_the_Duke_of_Wellington,_Glasgow
Killer Mike expressed it well:
...I have nothing positive to say in this moment because I don’t want to be here. But, I’m responsible to be here because it wasn’t just Doctor King and people dressed nicely who marched and protested to progress this city and so many other cities...
What you call anarchy I call libertarianism.
Is this rhetorical flourish or do you mean something specific by it?