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- Comment on 93 murders in London in 12 months to October. The city's murder rate is now lowest for decades 1 day ago:
Curious about the adult figures because I’d guess they are lower but obviously can’t say anything for sure.
- Comment on 93 murders in London in 12 months to October. The city's murder rate is now lowest for decades 1 day ago:
You’ll get cheffed up and put in a spliff if you set foot in central London
- Comment on 'Multiple people' stabbed on train in Huntingdon 2 weeks ago:
Why would these doctors and engineers commit a random act of violence?
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 3 weeks ago:
It’s a business: They want to avoid controversy and this musician is controversial.
Sucks, because he is probably right or at least not wrong in his views, but this is the society we’ve all built together.
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 1 month ago:
Admittedly it is a pretty funny nickname but personally I find it amusing because he’s so non-threatening
- Comment on Record breaker Starmer is the 'most unpopular PM since polling began' 1 month ago:
Pretty safe to say he’s over-hated. Even like colleagues of mine whom I suspect do not follow politics closely refer to him as things like “Kier Stalin”.
Maybe I’m old fashioned but a PM is essentially an admin role – why do we expect that they be inspirational too.
- Comment on Lauren Southern accuses Tommy Robinson of lying to protect alleged 'rapist' Andrew Tate 1 month ago:
To be fair, she could have kept quiet about this and avoided another round of people calling her names online, which would have been the easier path. Most people in this thread might know “Robinson” is dodgy but we’re not the target audience.
- Comment on Lauren Southern accuses Tommy Robinson of lying to protect alleged 'rapist' Andrew Tate 1 month ago:
Totally agree with you. I think society/politics has become polarised to the extent that we’ve all grown colder towards perceived “enemies”; at the same time people shouldn’t be victim blamed for abuse, no matter how dumb they are.
Additionally, what we perceive as “dumb” can sometimes be other people struggling with mental illness or disability.
- Comment on UK: Chinese agents ‘given licence to spy’ on parliament as failure to prosecute suspects in Westminster spy case opens door to foreign agents, lawmaker warns 1 month ago:
I went to school with Chris Cash. His dad was my family GP and he was my cousin’s first kiss.
His HS yearbook has “most likely to end up in jail” on his entry.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk killing invoked to bolster UK’s largest far-right rally in decades 2 months ago:
I am so sick of US politics being transposed into the UK
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 2 months ago:
Killzone on PS2 was the first game I played that wasn’t inverted and it took me several hours to figure out why aiming was so hard
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 2 months ago:
If you just imagine that the right stick is their neck you don’t need to postulate a Parasaurolophus horn
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 2 months ago:
I care more about the vertical inversion than the horizontal one. Not certain why. Have played with horizontal inversion on before and it didn’t bother me much after a minute or two.
- Comment on You donkey 2 months ago:
Her name is Jeanie though, which I’d pronounce differently to Jenny… unless it’s one of those awful new age spellings of a classic name.
Fwiw Jennifer is a fine name and people can figure out the best way to shorten it for their circumstances. Maybe living in a rural community with a lot of donkeys would affect it.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 2 months ago:
Yes, both of those and their sequels - Future Perfect and Perfect Dark - were by far the most played FPS games for me as a kid.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 2 months ago:
It’s more like the analogue stick is representing your characters neck. IRL you pull your neck down to look up, and vice versa.
- Comment on JK Rowling slams Graham Linehan’s arrest at Heathrow 2 months ago:
Hope his hand was ok afterwards!
- Comment on JK Rowling slams Graham Linehan’s arrest at Heathrow 2 months ago:
I disagree with a lot of what Linehan says but I didn’t see his tweets as breaching the theshold for inciting violence. I think a threat needs to have the maker/sender of it claim that they, or those close to them, are credibly about to enact the violence.
The tweet I saw, not sure if it’s the one that got him in trouble, was similar to how people put “punch nazis” in their twitter bio. To me, that is non-specific and not a credible threat.
- Comment on Created a lemmy community for Your Party 2 months ago:
Can someone check if the lemon party domain is taken?
- Comment on Not stealing 2 months ago:
200 IQ child thief
- Comment on Labour to abolish most short prison sentences in England and Wales 2 months ago:
It sounds like the prison system is at capacity but idk if this is the right move for them politically.
We don’t need to do Broken Window Theory but there has to be a repercussion for low level crime, otherwise the perception amongst the public is going to be that crime has got much worse. Most serious crime is going to be invisible to the general public so even if we throw the book at those criminals the perception won’t change.
- Comment on ‘A dangerous moment’: the emboldening of Britain’s far right 2 months ago:
Unfortunately this is in tune with the public sentiment. Reform are probably the most in tune with polling on the issue and Labour are half-heartedly going along with it.
I’m generally quite pro immigration but the perceived unfairness of people skipping the queue has become a hot button issue / small fire which politicians can’t reframe. I think they’ll have to cut the gordian knot at some point and leave the ECHR. The asylum laws were great for the 20th century but don’t fit for the 21st century migration patterns, which only seem to get worse with climate change becoming more of a problem.
In Australia they had their off shore processing system in Papa New Guinea which was absolutely brutal and I think people are still stuck in those internment camps despite the policy ending more than a decade ago. On the flip side of that the Australian public are the consistently most pro-immigration Western countries in the world in polling. If people feel that the govt has control of immigration then they will accept migrants.
- Comment on Do you have a high street full of gambling shops breeding poverty and addiction? I have a way to fight back 2 months ago:
I work in that industry and it’s really not thriving in the UK from what I’ve seen. I work for a US brand and that’s really where all the money is. In the UK younger people are (sensibly) not picking up the habit, additionally the new (sensible) government safeguards are making people prove they can afford to gamble over a certain amount. I don’t know if they’ve introduced this proposal yet but it’s being discussed making gamblers submit bank statements to prove they can afford it if they gamble more than £1000 in a month - which seems like a great idea.
- Comment on ‘Don’t call this racist’: row grows over motives behind England flag campaign 2 months ago:
It’s not like Scotland has a flawless track record! Part of the reason why we unified with England was that our experiment being colonialists was an expensive mistake. Managed to make some of that back being involved in the
triangular trade routesugar industry. - Comment on UK inflation rises by more than expected to 3.8%, largely driven by air fares 2 months ago:
Fascinating. Thanks for explaining!
- Comment on ‘Don’t call this racist’: row grows over motives behind England flag campaign 2 months ago:
It’s weird in Scotland where we have “cuddly nationalism”, you see saltires everywhere. My wife is from England and one of the things she remarked on moving up here was how the St George’s Cross would look mental hanging in all the places the saltire is.
- Comment on UK inflation rises by more than expected to 3.8%, largely driven by air fares 2 months ago:
One thing I was interested in about this news story is that “airline ticket” cost increases have been a major factor. I know that they use a weighted basket of goods, but I thought the basket was relatively static, as in it is a fairly big event when they change the goods/services in it.
Do we have flights as a year-round feature in the basket of goods? I think they make sense in summer but less so in winter.
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- Comment on Iceland offering £1 reward scheme for customers who report a shoplifter 2 months ago:
This policy sounds dumb, in particular the insultingly small amount of money involved. That said, there is a problem with shoplifting in the UK where the police aren’t treating it as a serious problem and often refuse to get involved. High streets are already dying with predatory retail unit rents and losing stock ontop of that might end up being the nail in the coffin.
- Comment on The Brits who want to overthrow the state 2 months ago:
IMO these commentators got addicted to swashbuckling, revolutionary language during Brexit and now can’t switch it off.
Labour party can’t call them out because the real politik is that it would be spun as them minimizing concerns about immigration.