barbicanman

Authoritative ragdoll.

[barbicanman @barbicanman1]

@Starvecrowfeast @Laocailarry That doesn’t follow. The article is full of falsehoods and very clearly demonstrates whoever wrote it, and indeed many of those quoted in it, are totally clueless about the problem or who is responsible, how, and by what mechanism

[barbicanman @barbicanman1]

@Starvecrowfeast @Laocailarry They're being very stupid about it comms-wise and flip-flopping between 'actually the policy doesn't do what you're saying it will' (it does); and 'the policy does say this but we might *wink wink* maybe not follow it all the time'; and 'the policy is good bc residents'.

[barbicanman @barbicanman1]

@Laocailarry There's really no point being angry at stuff like this without making an effort to understand how it's come about, what the actual options wd be even for a chud council, and how to fix them. In this case, it requires minor amendments to guidance and possibly additions to 2003 Act

[barbicanman @barbicanman1]

@Laocailarry Utter bollocks.

Every single one of the things you suggest, done by councillors against officers, will instantly get JRd and WCC will lose.

WCC would have to argue it's behaving *rationally* to achieve the below by ignoring CIA OR that 'harms' have disappeared to abolish CIA

[barbicanman @barbicanman1]

@WalkerMarcus Wrong end of the stick on this one I’m afraid - CIZs once imposed must be followed and reviewed impartially, and impose a strong presumption against further licensed premises. WCC wd risk JR o/wise. blame falls on 2003 Licensing Act and guidance changes in 2018 under Amber Rudd

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

By far the most serious terror threat we face is from Islamists.

They're responsible for the majority of terror plots.

The majority of terrorist murders.

They're the majority of terrorists in prison.

Yet they represent just 8% of Prevent referrals.

[barbicanman @barbicanman1]

@thewealthster @xruiztru Victoria to Brighton is just under an hour on the very fastest trains
Fenchurch street to Leigh on sea or chalk well under an hour

[barbicanman @barbicanman1]

@Birdyword That’s precisely the beauty of it and other commons like it - vast, empty, wide vistas across, very ancient.

Would it be more worthwhile if it had some plane trees and a bandstand? Why? Surely better build over any given mediocre urban park or glorified playing field than this

[barbicanman @barbicanman1]

@s8mb Blackheath’s appeal is literally that it is vast and empty and ancient, with wide vistas and straight paths across. Have some aesthetic imagination, man! Not every open space needs to be made an ‘urban’ park with trees, avenues, and bandstands.

[barbicanman @barbicanman1]

@jazzloaf Could you expand the areas you cover in European cities further? London in particular only covers a small part.

Milton Keynes / other new towns would also be interesting additions

[barbicanman @barbicanman1]

@_night_brain__ Wisbech is in Cambridgeshire, how is it ‘Midlands’?

[barbicanman @barbicanman1]

@bnzchr lol absolutely does. Harebrained schemes cooked up in Rome / Paris / Berlin / Madrid wasting our honesty earned money in [provincial place] a mainstay of politics everywhere

[barbicanman @barbicanman1]

@JoshuaDummer Not sure how old the book is, but the points of comparison for China here might be Russia and communist era Eastern Europe, which would account for the assessment

[barbicanman @barbicanman1]

@WalkerMarcus

[barbicanman @barbicanman1]

@TinyTon_e @MichelleDewbs Technically a criminal offence as it’s a breach of the bylaws. In practice definitely the right thing to do in this situation

[Sebastian Milbank @SebMilbank]

People are very tired of this sort of disingenuous whataboutery — we all know that South Asian cultures have kinship based loyalties that often supersede the rule of law. Of course it’s about immigration and integration, stop insulting our intelligence.

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

@5Pillarsuk Literally leave then. This is a country built on beer and gin. If you don’t like it there’s the door.

[barbicanman @barbicanman1]

@MichaelDnes1 The canopies are very reminiscent of early DLR stations, not coincidentally from the same era

[barbicanman @barbicanman1]

@lfg_uk This is a pathetic bit of incoherent vibecoded slop. All the worse from self declared ‘numerate’ data people.

Several of the train operators literally don’t work and your ‘score’ is just ‘total delay minutes’ regardless of how big / small a station or operator is.

Embarrassing