Adam 🇺🇦
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The British social policy sector is so desperate to cosplay as Americans that they'll still call a 2 year investigation and a full jury trial at the Old Bailey a "lack of police accountability".
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Taxi indicated and then pulled over to let a fire engine pass, after the siren had been audible for about 5 seconds. Cyclist didn't even have to stop completely, just lost momentum. Just a mad thing to post online and expect people to agree.
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Such is the lack of quality control on @BBCWalesNews at the weekend, we've ended up with a whole industry publicising a flagrant breach of competition law and the national public broadcaster 1) not noticing it's illegal 2) dressing it up as something progressive
Thousands of nail technicians are coming together to collectively raise their prices in what is being labelled ‘National Nail Price Increase Day’
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@AnyaM8_ British schools not allowing vegetables to be salted or buttered in any way won't be helping their perceptions either, a lot of the veg kids in the UK are served is legitimately disgusting.
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@mcandidate You noticed they always have the 'Please do not abuse our staff they are trying their best!!'-signs on the door and counters. It's a card shop?!.
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Just a shambolic intervention from Cat Eccles (@CatEcclesstour), what the hell was that attempt. Words have definitions, and the word 'Suicide' appears in the text of the bill 4 times.
On a point of order, Labour MP objects to Danny Kruger's 'offensive' use of the word 'suicide'. Kruger: "The value of actually have a bill in black and white is that we do need to see what the law really is: what this bill would do, it would amend the Suicide Act of 1961."
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Keir Starmer could hardly ask for a better tableau of his leadership than that. Shouty posh kid tries to disrupt things but he just rolls his eyes and carries on.
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Tellingly, the Guardian simply left Tahir Ali's insane blasphemy question out of the live blog of PMQs. He went between Brewer and Maynard
There is a destructively polite omerta from the usual outlets in the media about an MP from the governing party asking the PM for a new blasphemy law at PMQs. BBC and Guardian simply not covering it
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Young girls need role models to believe in. A flare in the anus isn't just for the boys. This tournament is breaking down so many barriers to participation, it really warms the heart.
If you see me at Wembley with a butt flare, mind your business.
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@catecclesstour Because there are occasions when it's an unhelpful term, but you're debating actual legislation where it needs a definition, what on earth are you doing
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I don't know what's happening with this MP but someone needs to have a word. Doesn't seem to grasp that she's subject to reporting and scrutiny of her public statements.
@Madz_Grant Yes and that's a fact that can be backed up with evidence from Australia. But you're happy to write in a national paper about me.
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A plainly bizarre set of editorial choices by @BBCWalesNews has led to a young girl ONLY having 6 months left to buy a prom dress being put out as the 2nd biggest news item in Wales this morning. Tackling the anxiety of finding a plus size prom dress.
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@jayforeman Usually much weaker areas for manufacturing and heavy industry, so Labour voting didn't take root through the trade union tradition and the Liberals stayed on as the main opposition party.
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Not wanting to combine the discourses, but I tried to go in this pub here (Lower Red Lion in St Albans) on a Monday last month, and it had closed before 9pm.
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@SamuelVimes10 Cyclists could save so much pretence and complicated twitter beefs if they just admitted "it's quite a lot more inconvenient to brake on a bike so we try to never really do it", it's clearly the case but always goes unsaid.
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I'm not completely opposed to the principle of assisted dying, but there's no way parliament should be passing it in this form. A rushed draft, shambolically introduced with insufficient debating time, by an MP who isn't able to cope with scrutiny.
“I welcome debate. I am upset that colleagues are debating my bill”. I mean.
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I went to Cardiff University, so just popping out to do an armed robbery.
Mr Goldspring said there was evidence Edwards' father behaved 'monstrously' within his family. The chief magistrate said Edwards went to Cardiff university rather than Oxford or Cambridge. This contributed to him being perceived as an 'outsider' at the BBC.
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@JolyonMaugham The relative power of 1 (one) author against an energy-rich nation state of 80 million people that desperately wants him murdered? Yes, challenging, thanks.
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It's such a disaster that this undercooked, under-debated Assisted Dying bill is being brought at the start of a parliament with so many new MPs who are expecting a short shelf life. They think this is their one chance to make history and don't care that the bill is a mess.
This is my letter to constituents in Cardiff West which explains my voting decision on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
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@K_Niemietz RIP the World's Inn in Romford that was a Lloyds No. 1 Wetherspoon two doors down from a full. Wetherspoon. With the Angels now.
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@dannyschof81 The tedious old columnists were so happy to wheel out their "Football needs to have a serious conversation about alcohol, ackshually" pieces that they missed that the Qatari Supreme Committee was being given weirdly free rein by Fifa.
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There is a destructively polite omerta from the usual outlets in the media about an MP from the governing party asking the PM for a new blasphemy law at PMQs. BBC and Guardian simply not covering it
During PMQs today, I asked the Prime Minister to introduce measures to prohibit desecration of religious texts and targeted vilification of all the prophets of the Abrahamic faiths. As November marks Islamophobia Awareness Month, it is vital the Government takes clear and
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Some people are going to find this sassy and empowering but it was also how I learned that New Zealand has 2 separate human rights frameworks depending on your race and language 😬.
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High speed London commuting cyclists expecting the whole city to never impede them in their attempts to get home in a PB without so much as tickling their brakes have completely contaminated the cycling vibe for me.
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@Ramsey_Kilani @AnyaM8_ Honestly do a Ctrl+F for 'Salt' through this. It's madness, it's a guaranteed route for nothing to ever taste of anything
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@HugoGye A mate had his 1st jab on Feb 5th, and then last weekend was put in to UHW Cardiff ahead of some surgery. Yesterday while he was recovering, someone from the vaccine programme found him in the hospital to offer the 2nd jab. Amazing levels of organisation going on with it.
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Welsh Labour have dropped an enormous clanger in choosing straight List PR for the next Senedd election. Reform will win a load of seats. If they'd gone for Irish style STV instead a lot of the Reform candidates will fall apart.
Senedd Voting Intention:. LAB: 27% (-3).PLC: 23% (=).CON: 18% (-1).REF: 18% (+6).LDM: 6% (=).GRN: 5% (-1). via @YouGov, 27 Jun-1 Jul. (Changes with 3 Jun).
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@Birdyword Who could forget when a BBC Sassy Local Empowerment story to fill weekend space this year led to all of its participants being slapped down by the Competition regulator the next day .
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You'll never believe it, but the Secret Barrister has come up with a plan where the legal system is left to do whatever it was already doing.
@NotThatBigIan I understand the revulsion. I share it. But what do you want the judge to decide? Almost all judges will, if given the power, direct that defendants attend sentence. The question is what happens when the defendant says no. What, practically, will solve that problem?.
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@alexwickham I know "London - boo!" is usually a hot ticket for some RTs but aren't Londoners the least likely people in Britain to live near their parents?.
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@joncstone @TomChivers 455 cars per 1000 people in Denmark. Basically the same as the UK and Ireland. Did she not wonder what all the cars all over the place were doing? Did she think they were feral?.
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This is really good stuff. The Green Party is for Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall degrowth wombles who hate infrastructure, and who barely bother to pretend otherwise.
Carla Denyer really not happy with Ed Miliband calling out the Green Party's NIMBY hypocrisy!
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@carbdiem A child's death, 2 serious injuries, cannabis possession, failure to give a sample AND racially aggravated public order offence. Likely back out and doing the same thing when he's 27. Honestly, what is the point in having a criminal justice system if it turns out shite like this.
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@ellegist The completely unscrutinised legal elite here have ingested some really awful sub-academic notions about how bad it is to 'criminalise' people and we end up with these stupid farces. Should be in jail with the other criminals.
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@s8mb The properly serious thing to do would be to get the cost and complexity of infra projects down to Dutch/German/Scandinavian levels and then build it immediately after.Not building it is a failure, but building it and not tackling the sources of the cost spiral kind of is as well.
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@maxrushden I can never particularly be arsed being annoyed about the German Bombers song. A huge chunk of our discourse at home is about holding ourselves accountable for our ancestors' sins - the Germans can have some as well.
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@AFraserUrq Was in the 2012 Olympic park this week, a huge chunk of it just doesn't have data coverage any more.
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@trivet1806 Also this 'Finsbury Park' place sounds interesting, I wonder what is going on round there - the police should probably go down and have a look
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The shabbiness of BBC Wales output (like a kind of Mirror Group outlet from 2014 on stilts) has made it into such a soft target for self promoters and grifters.
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The last few days have been fun because the indyWales lads have gone full 'reversal of the Norman conquest or else' from basically nowhere.
Fuming that Welsh gets ‘imposed’ on him but hasn’t got the critical thinking to work out that English was ‘imposed’ on Wales.
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@carbdiem It's a relatively easy thing to not experience because British Pakistanis aren't evenly spread. If it was a Bengali/Hindu practice then way more people would have noticed.
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@roryisconfused @mrianleslie It's not a favourite song of mine but sang Angels along with 3000 others at Ally Pally for the darts recently and the whole crowd was word perfect, it was electric.
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@pursuitofprog Greggs staff lock themselves inside shop as thug pulls hammer on them. (+ assaulting police, unprovoked attack on a receptionist). 14 previous conviction for 25 offences. No time inside. Absurd .
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@hnjsamuels This one from Monday was exceptionally thin. Of course you haven't run out of ways to get from South Wales to Dublin **next June**, you've just booked a flight unusually early and can now book again. Why is the public broadcaster even looking at this?
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@HoumanBarekat On GWR it's labelled in such an illegibly small and irregular way that it might as well not exist. Should have just declared surrender.
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@gabrielmilland So funny that loads of those FBPE accounts liking and sharing 'Rainy fascist island' material are British retirees in French villages which would elect a Le Pen candidate on the 1st round.
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@youngvulgarian And any nice days there have been were completely isolated. Like this Friday looks lovely in the forecast but then the weather falls apart again afterwards, the glimpses of warmth have all been so short.
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@alexkealy Would be a real shame if the main effect of Britain finally cracking city centre living was that the centres had to be silent after 10:30 because anything other than people shuffling silently home is deemed antisocial and unfair on the neighbours.
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@DavidHenigUK We're going to need to YIMBY our way out of this. The poor flow of new homes to market has created abnormal margins for developers and an atrophying of construction skills. Build 400k a year and the margins will drop and the skills ecosystems will stabilise.
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@JonnElledge Oof when the very front carriage on a GWR out of Paddington is red you know it's properly busy, that never happens going to South Wales even if the back half is full
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@cjsnowdon Well if the FBPE comedy writers can't finish their small bottles of lager, we simply must maintain the emergency public health powers.
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The relentless utter moanyness and joylessness is what the republicans do really badly at, makes it very unchic when it shouldn't be.
won’t say a thing about striking workers but happy to go all gooey eyed on camera for the royals? always knew this lad was a fucking wrong ‘un.
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@Birdyword We've passively inhaled so much American discourse lately about healthcare costs, urban poverty, 'flyover states', opiates etc. Changes your perspective when you remember it's all managing to happen in the context of basically-Norwegian median incomes.
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@dank_ackroyd Stephen Bunting is 38 as well. Biologists need to study darts players too see how they've evaded the trend of people looking younger for their age.
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@Birdyword I know you've watched the decline of the BBC website's ability to cover business with some dismay, but they've outdone themselves here.
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@jevershed01 It took BBC Wales News 26 minutes from Mick Antoniw's resignation to getting anything online. 09:34 to 10:00 they didn't publish anything and BBC Radio Wales didn't cut back to news either, it was embarrassing.
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And the food courier cyclists in Cardiff city centre trying to constantly barge through non existent gaps and bully people out of their way. They can all go straight to prison as well.
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The last primordial howl of a dying discourse this. Yes, delivery apps should know who they have working for them to make sure they're appropriate people to be calling to people's houses unsupervised. Really simple stuff.
if you’re so scared of your treat delivery person then maybe get your own treats.
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@vivjones10 @mattuthompson It's outside, cases in every London borough are below 40/100,000 and 90% of the vulnerable have been reached with a dose of a vaccine that also curbs transmission. We can't stay home forever just to keep scolds and hypochondriacs on the internet happy.
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@AyoCaesar @AvaSantina This has done numbers now but if the MP is Welsh it's been allowed for nearly 3 weeks.
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@OliviaFranceska @gabrielmilland @TomMcTague Hillingdon, Sutton, Bexley and Havering all have an outright majority of residents (not just workers) commuting by car I think. They were over 50% Leave too. It's just where the London-ness starts fading.
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@MrPaulStott Yes drag is very much 'The picture that came with the frame' on the BBC homepage now, completely baked in.
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@geofftech Definitely do Walthamstow Central and Brixton. You've probably done the stations before but what a good opportunity to be a food influencer for the day.
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@JackTindale Palin, Hercules of this format, has popped up lately to do something properly interesting. Makes the endless indistinguishable 'Joe Swash in Barcelona'-type shows look a bit limp in comparison
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@HarrySword @hellothisisivan Charlie Brooker said once that he looked like Nicholas Lyndhurst playing a French postman
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@seanbgoneill Powerful 2011 energy. Like people who I know who used to make this observation about neighbours and acquaintances all stopped at least 8 years ago when they were combed out into the workforce.
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@LizTray @HolstaT Average US female aged 25-34 earns about $55k gross (£45k). Far lower taxes than us and that's before adjusting for how many Swift fans are graduates, which will add 30%+ extra. The median American is rich as hell, as much as the Very Online Americans like to pretend otherwise.
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@robotswancowboy @jburnmurdoch *Very NY Times voice* "Europeans defiant, assuaging their anxieties with togetherness and alcohol.".
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@R0bday @stephanieboland @Scientits A couple of years ago I was sat by some construction guys on a TfL Rail train, one telling the other that the only reason that area isn't already carpeted with housing is the drainage 😐.
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@thhamilton People did really care about this already as well. It just wasn't very well strung together into one consolidated moment of anger because it had been dripped out for so long. Masterstroke that it aired in first week of January during awful weather when everyone's bored/skint/mad.
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@adilray @ShelaghFogarty It was. The pro-Palestinian demonstrations were well underway in Western cities before Israel had begun to retaliate the following week. It's been reconditioned into being about the Israeli response later.
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Equating FOOD with tobacco as glibly as this is absolutely wild.
It will send a clear message that there is an intention to regulate the food industry. This is what happened with tobacco, and it must happen with food.
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@jimwaterson Like it's been specifically calibrated to wind up a certain type of very online person.
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@lucaajwatson The word 'suicide' is in the text of the bill 4 times, just an embarrassing display from her.
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Joggers are also unfairly reducing the reaction time of the people coming the other way. They should slow to a walk or get off the pavement if they need to pass people.
In SW London could those relentless joggers please have a care & make an effort to avoid older & child walkers. Do they not realise that they cough, splutter & sweat from every pore, making little effort to avoid others? That's how the germs from this virus can be spread! Thanks.
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@mattzarb My friend went skydiving just in her own clothes. They don't give out the overalls any more 'because of Covid'.
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@kieranhannon @mattuthompson It's outside, cases in every London borough are below 40/100,000 and 90% of the vulnerable have been reached with a dose of a vaccine that curbs transmission. We can't stay home forever just to keep scolds and hypochondriacs on the internet happy.
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@DavidHenigUK There's an unreliable flow of houses to market now so the developers profits are abnormally high for poor work and there's too few projects (and an unreliable flow of them) for workers to upskill on. Knock out another 2 million houses and things will normalise a bit.
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@ZoeJardiniere He was acquitted after a 3 week trial before a jury at the Old Bailey that the CPS+IOPC threw the kitchen sink at despite the thinnest of cases, the state hardly conspired to acquit him. (And there was a conviction for the officer who killed Dalian Atkinson).
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Where does this gradual turning of the screw of 'public health' input into how food is sold end up? Because these lads plainly won't be happy until there's compulsive celery and a national bedtime, we're going to have to stop taking them seriously at some point.
Kinder find a way around bans on aisle end displays. Create an aisle end in-aisle. At children's eye level. Nice work @ferarrouk. Their public position on advertising to children: we market "primarily to adults" and to "young people 12 years or over."
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They're going to foreign owners because our abject failure to build enough housing in Britain has created abnormal margins that people elsewhere with spare cash would be wise to capture. If we built 500,000 houses a year for a decade it would stop.
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@teaforpterosaur A lot of the concerns people had about her (beyond her politics) was how she had this tendency to be really theatrical and overwrought. She gets deselected and spends the next 5 days performatively rending her garments, superb.
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@Sathnam Ep 1 has the amazing moment where someone very helpfully explains to him why curry isn't a particularly useful term, then in the next breath of the narration he says "prawn curry" and then carries on calling everything curry for the rest of the series.
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@AnyaM8_ Epic lawyer-brain ⬇️The 2nd of these cases was 4 years in jail for killing a 6 month old girl while drink driving.
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@ZoeJardiniere They deserve the same treatment as anyone else, the terms under which Benjamin Monk was convicted.The Kaba one was a needless parade through the courts of a prosecution that would never hold up, because the CPS felt obliged to in the political context. That shouldn't happen again.
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