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Apologies, I always thought it was about maintaining law and order by enforcing rules. Maybe they should swap out their pepper spray for a delightful pot pourri air freshener.

To be fair, on this occassion they were in a no win situation. The 'right' to peaceful protest (during a pandemic lockdown) was argued in the High Court, which clearly ruled that public safety had to come ahead of that right and denied the organiser's request for it to go ahead. The Police were duty bound to enforce High Court judgement and the organiser's abandoned their plans to stage a vigil in public and asked people to protest remotely by standing outside their front door. Anyone attending Clapham Common on Saturday night would have known that the High Court had ruled that their attendance was unlawful. The Police had already confirmed how they would police the event so it shouldn't have come as a surprise to anyone!

Refurbished my old Mekk Poggio to give it new life as the 'crap weather bike'. Worked well today on its first outing - even if I did have a brake block stuck on for the first 8 miles (the only time I had a tailwind!). Riding into 40mph gusts was a splendid experience!

That doesn't seem very fair to those that have worked so hard to have one added.

Shockingly, where a cause of death is mentioned in that list, one involves an old lady being beaten to death with a walking stick but all the rest were 'stabbed' or died of stab wounds.

There is an opportunity to do that every five years. So, you're happy that she is doing a cracking job and nothing has gone wrong on her watch, that's fine.

Apologies, I should have used the word 'accountable' rather than 'responsible'. If a private company screws up and ends up in court, would it be the managers explaining their actions to the beak or the CEO? As GM has previously pointed out, this isn't the first 'failing' that has happened on her watch and that she is accountable for. At what point do you draw the line and start to question the head of the organisation?

As the head of the Met Police isn't she responsible for the way the force runs and operates? In which case, isn't she responsible for not investigating previous (alleged) crimes committed by the same police officer? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56368531

It's almost as if the EU are jealous... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56347716

Jesus wept In the same week that we have International Women's day, you are trotting out this complete bollocks. Frankly, it's this mysogyny that has kept women and girls repressed for centuries. You should be ashamed of your outdated attitudes - especially the ones where you arbitrarily assign a gender to those wishing to become princesses. I only wish you'd tell us more about how a mixed race person growing up in California couldn't possibly know anything about the British Royal Family, that one was a classic.

She's full of shit! Growing up, she always wanted to be a princess : https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2018081361135/meghan-markle-princess-old-blog/ And as for Timmy's " If you're a mixed race American growing up in California why the fuck would she?", that's a pile of horseshit as well! From the same article linked above : So she knew full well what the media attention would be like without having to Google Harry! About as far from Timmy's idea of a mixed race, know nothing growing up in a hick town in California as you can get. She was a reasonably succesful actess in her previous life so would have had an inkling as to media attention FFS!

I think you've missed... Adolf - as in Hitler. 18 - as in a=1, h=8 as in the initials for Adolf Hitler. No idea what the 3 is for, but presumably he miss counted and thought it was a 'd' for 'das'.

Shouldn't this discussion have happened yesterday when women were being celebrated?

No. There was lots of faux anger when Brexit was being blamed a month or so ago (tariiffs). Nobody seems to care now though, now that Brexit isn't to blame...

"adolfdas183" seems like a perfectly reasonable fella to me. Definitely no racism ties in his twitter handle

Not sure where all the crocodile tears have gone now that the British Steel industry is facing an actual crisis. Seems no-one really gives a shit unless they can pin the blame on Brexit...

You say that like it is beyond the realm of possibility. Would it be more or less probable than a woman who is married to a man, who launched his own campaign to end the stigma around mental health, being 'refused' by the 'institution' when she asked for help because she was on the verge of killing herself. That's some Hollywood shit there....

What if it was one of the kids asking an innocent kid type question? Would that still be as racist as it has been portrayed?

Mike Tindall?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-56319187

Fancy him not telling her that she wouldn't need to carry keys around (the driver sorts out the car and the butlers let them into the house) or worry about losing her passport either. It seems to have been a genuine surprise to them both that when the Royal Family said they wouldn't support them if they left the family then that meant they wouldn't get any money.

Not something I thought I'd ever say, but I've really enjoyed the front page of the Daily Star the last few weeks (it features on the BBC website 'Paper Talk' section most days).

Pretty much the same as I do for 'Grandparents' day

Oh dear! Treating people on Covid wards is essentially the role of the NHS isn't it? Do you have anything concrete to back up your claim that the NHS was treating people without the correct PPE? As far as I recall, there was a shortage of PPE in care homes (not part of the NHS), but the NHS itself has never actually run out. Maybe if NHS staff were using the incorrect PPE that would be a training issue? "watching their colleagues die" - again, anything concrete that suggests that NHS staff have died at rates that defy the trends for age groups / ethniicity in the UK? Pretty disingenous to imply that other people around the country haven't also withnessed their colleagues dying as a result of covid. "working round the clock" - absolute horseshit! The standard working week for NHS staff is 37.5 hours per week ( https://www.rcn.org.uk/employment-and-pay/nhs-conditions-of-employment ). Anything more than that is voluntary as no-one can be forced to work overtime and even when they do they are very well compensated for it! This may be different for Junior Doctors but that is not specific to covid. "dealing with so much death". Only a small proportion of the 1.2 million NHS employees will be working on the 'front line' and they will be the same ones that were doing so before covid. Sadly, death is part and parcel of the job! "many are suffering from PTSD" - another headline you've swallowed hook, line and sinker!

Is that on top of the pay deal agreed in 2018 which still has its final step to run at the end of this month? "War"