@tayorbell@musicafman@Irina_exh I'm offended by morons who don't understand NORMAL skin to skin bonding that is appropriate for ANY father. He's not pretending to have given birth. And how many single mothers rob their children of a father.
@ZirraTGK@tommorris32@1116sen As I understand it (I'm not in law) it's not hearsay if it's the police. If it is an officer vs one other, the police officer is believed. And a group of others with you don't count unless they are neutral.
Not long ago I was flying back from Poland after my first visit to Auschwitz, and mulling the horror of what I had seen - the hills of children’s shoes and suitcases, the tonnes of human hair. What struck me was the sheer scale of the operation and the obvious truth that the Nazis had not done this on their own. The rounding up of innocent people and packing them into trains : this greatest ever act of mass murder was committed with the active complicity of huge numbers of European civilians in every occupied country.
On my plane back from Warsaw I happened to meet the daughter of an old colleague who told me that she no longer felt safe to wear a Star of David round her neck in London. I was furious and ashamed at the failures of policing and political leadership that have allowed her to feel so unsafe. Anti semitism is alive again in Britain, Europe and around the world. The old virus is awake. We must never be so arrogant and so conceited as to believe that our civilisation cannot fall again. We must remember the logic of this hateful prejudice and where it leads.
The sad truth is that today’s Holocaust Memorial Day is the most vital for decades.