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What's the verdict on the Jacob Blake shooting - and subsequent riots - in the US? Obviously I don't have all the facts but from the short video clip doing the rounds it looks like he was surrounded by police (the reason for that I guess is open to debate as we don't have the full details), but then decided he was just going to ignore them, walk round the front of his car and get in the driver's door. If that happened in the UK (no matter what colour the person doing it), then it would be highly likely that the police would use their tasers - probably after a bit of a scuffle as tends to be the case in the UK but not so much in the US - to do so in the US though is asking for them to shoot isn't it?

Is there such a thing in the world as 'semi-racist'? Surely this is one of the only things in the world where there is just 'black and white' (excuse the pun) and no 'grey areas'?

They already generate over £3m for the local economy each and every home game, how much more 'kick starting' does it need - unless they lied to the courts...

Wow, who knew, newspapers print stories to sell their product (and in turn increase advertising revenue). Next you'll be trying to convince us that newspaper editors have morals and standards

Not sure there any many propespective employers that pay a blind bit of attention to GCSE results, especially now that education has to continue for two years beyond GCSE results...

No complaints today from the GCSE students who have achieved the best results ever. I'm sure the 'old school Eton boys' will get a pat on the back for their performance, eh?

Good news, the virus has now left Portugal alone but is currently in Croatia.

Are / were they invovled only with the 'communications' aspect rather than devising the algorithm or anything else that determined what results were achieved?

To be fair, American 'humor' is pretty basic.

Good old Demba, he's either a little bit thick or he really does think that "football" will solve political / human rights issues "whatever the financial cost". Perhaps he thought the whole kneeling and patches on shirts thing was something more than bandwagon jumping and virtue signalling? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53801271

To be fair, testing and tracing is so much more effective when you don't worry about people's basic human rights

While the rest of the world worries about social distancing and masks whilst arguing over sending kids to school for an education, Wuhan is party central! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-53816511

Which sounds like excellent news for the argument for opening schools doesn't it?

If you had your heart set on a top institution, the liklelihood is that you will have an unconditional offer from them if you are very bright, or you will be one of the 60% of students that hasn't had their grades altered so will have achieved what you needed anyway. I'm no economist but 60% is a pretty big number isn't it?

'Transmission' is the same whatever age group, given that nearly every person on the planet is able to breathe and touch things! Not really sure what your point is... Here is an article from early May which explains that children are less susceptible to the symptoms, many of whom are asymptomatic. All they had to do was delay the exams for a month or two, not sure why it's set in stone that they absolutely have to be done in May / June! https://coronavirusexplained.ukri.org/en/article/und0008/

Because it's based on a claim, come on Turkish, keep up, we've been through this! For the record, it's you that has stated that claims need to be checked out, but have still failed to answer the question why some do but some don't...

Bless you Egg, all confused once again. It's not a story I raised, it was raised by Turkish. For the umpeenth time, I have never claimed it was anything other than a story. Odd that you would post links to the parable that you have zero interest in

Certainly not all of them. A lot did a great job keeping schools open. A lot wanted a nice long extended holiday whilst being paid. Go figure, some people are lazy, some aren't. The unions didn't help. The kids taking exams this year, 'could' have had the results they deserved if they were kept in schools. I don't recall ANY teachers or teaching unions going on record and demanding that should have happened...

Lol. Your continual debating of the subject suggests otherwise. Perhaps he doth protest too much?

I agree, all that 'could' have happened had it not been for the militant teachers and their militant teaching unions. In fact, at one point, I seem to recall that is exactly what the Government were proposing until they met lots of resistance.

At no point have I ever denied it was a parable, even when Turkish was spouting on and on about stories! There was no 'final acceptance'. It is a story that also makes a pretty magnificent claim - maybe even a non bible study person like yourself can recognise that!

And yet you've spent two days lecturing me that it is a story, a fact at no point have I ever denied.

Some interesting choices for last meals in this article, also interesting how many appear to be seeking forgiveness on their 'death bed' whilst others don't. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-53758533

Not according to Wikipedia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity#:~:text=Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic,chronicled in the New Testament. or the Gurdian : https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2015/apr/03/christianity-when-properly-understood-religion-losers or Britannica : https://www.britannica.com/topic/Christianity

Just to be clear, are you saying that the parable of the good Samaritan is NOT based on a claim written in the bible?