@LisaGlass200@MadelaineLucyH My friend and I had a similar experience with Ian Dury and the Blockheads in Belfast. They were so lovely to us, especially Ian Dury himself. An absolute gentleman.
@drinks2muchwine@CDP1882 So a man of Pakistani heritage tried to commit murder on a girl of Pakistani heritage, likely for rejecting him rather than randomly.
Oddly, I'm not all that reassured by the fact that Muslim girls are also at risk. Because the problem here is the cultural attitude to women.
@LizJone55098804@JunusAnna Many transwomen now claim to be biological females, on the grounds that they are not robots. Women have been put out of their own sports facilities for objecting to obviously male TW in women's changing rooms.
@Lindstar24 Where is that information from? The Telegraph says he was IN the Sudanese police before deciding to emigrate to Europe via Libya.
It seems he was born in Saudi Arabia, which oddly didn't make him Saudi, despite sharing their religion. Yet we're told that Shamima Begum is British?
@LizJone55098804@JunusAnna The premice was a WOMEN's locker room though. Not a mixed one. And if the women's changing room has been designated "unisex", as happens a lot these days, has the woman really consented, when her only alternative is to stay home? The return of the urinary leash?
@Ida_Eng@jan_murray@HairyLeggdHarpy@hughlaurie@blablafishcakes To be fair, it didnโt have to be made at all. It didnโt have a crucial message to spread, just entertainment. Why make it shorter? If youโre too busy just donโt watch it at all?
@IrelandMeda@PatrickChristys@JChimirie66677 The parallels with the Stephen Lawrence case are shocking: the police jumped to a wrong conclusion based largely on the victim's skin colour.
Of course one big difference is that SL's family weren't expected to call for unity & supporters weren't accused of politicising his death
@IrelandMeda@PatrickChristys@JChimirie66677 But I don't think the caller came up as "person known to the police" or they would have been a lot less sympathetic towards him. They were very "onside" with the racism allegation. Surely the brother should be charged with assisting an offender for how he set up a fake narrative?
@IrelandMeda@PatrickChristys@JChimirie66677 There's a LOT that's not been made public that's for sure. The full phone call (only a extract was initially released) is very concerning: why on earth didn't the call handler ask to speak to the man they were told was being restrained, knowing he "had fallen" and was injured?
@JennyAbrevalla@Dan44jjk To be clear, I donโt think it was genocide. Iโm just wondering why Egypt didnโt get criticised for not taking in Gazans.
@JennyAbrevalla@Dan44jjk But I thought Palestinians mostly didn't want to leave and it was tantamount to ethnic cleansing to help them do so? I mean, that's what I was told when I asked why Egypt didn't just open its border with Gaza and save them from Israeli "genocide"?
@AjaTheEmpress@supertolerant Well, except the local police started out by criticising her for being out alone at night and said no one in Pak. would allow their sisters and daughters to travel alone so late. So blaming her family too.
If sheโd been a local that likely would have been the end of it.
@Droghedaboy@Dan44jjk Ah come on itโs a fair point: not much use individuals in Ireland doing their best for Ukrainian refugees when our government is literally helping Russia wipe out a whole generation of young men - & a fair few women and children too. While performatively lecturing the world too!