Even if you’re pro-multicultural and race-blind, the appropriate line would be ‘OK, you Sikhs can carry around your kirpans, but if there’s one incident then that’s that’
But they seem to be fine with young white men being hunted for sport
🚨 NEW: The Government will not ban Sikhs from carrying ceremonial knives, one of which was used in Henry Nowak's murder
Home Secretary: "Carrying a knife for the purpose of religious observance is one thing - using it is quite another"
Characterising a Sikh hunting a young white man for sport using his legally-protected lethal weapon as an issue of ‘knife crime’ is like saying gas chambers were a tragic problem of environmental pollution
This an awful, shocking case.
Henry’s loved ones have gone through the trauma of a long trial and endured Henry's killer making up appalling claims about their son who was thoughtful, kind and deeply loved.
It is right that the IOPC is investigating the police’s response to his senseless murder. And we must end the cycle of tragedy by tackling the horror of knife crime.
Henry’s family, friends, his university and the city of Southampton will continue to feel his loss, and our thoughts will always be with them.
@ursine_meeting I think it’s because the exemption allowing small pocket knives is only for folding blades under 3”, so a fixed blade isn’t generally allowed, no matter how small
@uncle_deluge This reminds of the VSauce Michael–Hannah Fry podcast I’ve had recommended on YouTube. Hannah does a good job at making it sound conversational, but it’s really obvious Michael’s doing an act and it just sounds weird
@CptHastings1916 I was in a lovely bookshop yesterday with classical music which I thought at the time was at just a nice level.
The correct volume seems to be ‘noticeable, but quiet enough to fade in and out of conscious perception’
“He already has poor mental health”
Physicalism is incompatible with the discretion regarding mental health when applying justice.
If you can’t separate brain from mind, either everyone’s innocent or everyone’s guilty if they did the action.
@_i0n It’s monstrous unrestrained behaviour
It could have killed or brain damaged him
He’s already got poor MH
The NHS is in the Stone Age when it comes to Mental Health
He probably gets poor support if any at all
I hope his victims will be OK
@UnderSneege Pulling out a clown’s string of multicoloured handkerchiefs from my sleeve and immediately being tackled to the floor by everyone else at the orgy
@CptHastings1916 Or rather, never acknowledged that anything has changed.
“Gammons worrying about Strontium-90, don’t they know that radiation occurs naturally?”
“I bet they don’t even know it’s named after a British village!”
*everyone claps*
@CptHastings1916 It’s like if there’d been a very limited nuclear exchange and everything was still basically fine, you just need to take some extra precautions, but then it was absolutely never mentioned in any comedy or drama
A massive point missed in the ‘young people just need to cut out the lattes to afford a house’ discourse is that house pricing is largely competitive, so if everyone saved like hell, house prices would just go up accordingly
A massive point missed in the ‘young people just need to cut out the lattes to afford a house’ discourse is that house pricing is largely competitive, so if everyone saved like hell, house prices would just go up accordingly