You can be furious about illegal migration. You can believe the small-boats crisis has been catastrophically mishandled. You can demand tougher borders.
But what exactly is achieved by taking a knife to an inflatable dinghy in the middle of the Channel while a rescue worker is still standing on it?
Hampshire Police say they are now conducting enquiries into footage relating to damage to the boat by Danny Tommo - or as his mum calls him, Daniel Thomas.
@andy_dundon@CliveWismayer That’s so obviously nonsense. It’s a member of the UN. Of course it’s “a legitimate state” - you’d know this if you had any knowledge of the Latin root of the word “legitimate”. The state of Israel is a permanent, sovereign international entity. Government is different.
It’s here as well - nearly a year old. And originally sent to @VeraBaird. It seems, (see Malkinson) that the wheels of justice grind interminable slow, and then suddenly, all the wheels spin faster than anyone thought possible. I hope that is the case for Lucy Letby too.
@VeraBaird Re Letby: I am a retired Consultant Vascular Surgeon who worked alongside Dewi Evans. I understand cardiovascular physiology. I am certain that none of the babies died from air embolism from the presentation and autopsies. The court has been deliberately misled by Evans and co.
There are decent arguments but “proportionate attack” is an indecent one. More than 1100 West Bank Palestinians have been killed since October 7th! Do the math on that! Was 9/11 not as big a tragedy after all because ‘only’ 2,977 people died - a tiny proportion of the population?
I met @EdwardJDavey soon after he won Kingston & Surbiton in Summer 1997. I voted for him (Maj:56) - thought he was a transformative politician. Now he’s intellectually blunt. He let down wrongly convicted postmasters because he’s lazily incurious. Now it’s women! @SexMattersOrg
@DailyMail Here’s Ed Davey’s explanation, and it’s worth listening to. But he isn’t thinking of it from a woman’s point of view is he. He doesn’t seem to get it at all.
@Joanna__Hardy I think men have traditionally identified objects as female, particularly machines like cars that used to be unreliable. Ships are female in honour presumably of Goddess Amphitrite, & have godmothers, except for Bismark, whose captain insisted on “he”. It was sunk of course.
@SVPhillimore Yet @KathrynSamsonC4 said this when she joined C4 - “This is a great opportunity to tell people’s stories and to hold those who represent them to account”.
@andy_dundon@CliveWismayer He precisely disavowed this. The last six seconds. Always worth listening to the last six seconds of an 18 second clip because it’s fully one third of the content.
@CliveWismayer Specifically, he said “against the ongoing threats….Iran” - so that would be direct attacks and funding of its proxies - including Hamas.
@MichaelRosenYes In Wales in the 70s Max Boyce sang about commiserating with an English rugby fan “We sympathised with an Englishman whose team was doomed to fail, so we gave him that old bottle, that once held bitter ale”. They didn’t care what colour he was or where his ancestors were from. 1/2