@whitesundesert@simon_fawthrop It��s clearly the right penalty for some crimes but I just don’t trust British lawyers to (make even a trivial attempt to) get it right enough for something irreversible.
@blablafishcakes@LutonLuke94 Minor technical correction: “In E&W law …”
Under Scots law, s1 rape can also be committed by trans men as “surgically constructed penis” is explicitly included. I’ve no idea about NI law.
@worstall One of the most <what> cities? Also, on the main point, I want to know who the edjits are. If we ban them from communicating, anyone might be one.
@worstall Hence why UK banks (used to) insist on everybody who has accounts control, or for others just everyone, taking their entire holiday entitlement and, in my day, at least one two-week continuous break.
@DefiantLs HMS Conquerer and the previously USS Pheonix, which survived WW2 and became the ARA General Belgrano, would like to say “typically historically ignorant pillock.”
@MuirMurdoch@LibertyCappy Once. Lass had crashed her car into the wall on the other side of the road and was possibly a wee bit pished. I let my lass deal with her before she was handed over to the traffic wankers.
@LauraPowellEsq Although the USA especially but also other allies assisted us greatly in 1982, there was no expectation that an attack in the South Atlantic triggered Art 5.