ohulancutash

@ohulancutash@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK to lower voting age to 16⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  So that’s Farage a lock for PM then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Speed limits are based on medical case histories on survivabilities. Sorry you think you have more right to live just because you go around in a metal box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  30 is for built up areas. Also key is that jaywalking isn’t a thing in Britain. Pedestrians always have right of way and can cross the street at any point so in urban areas motorists must be prepared to stop at any time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We should be able to legally have a different name just for work for better work/life separation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tim Davie insists he is still right person to lead BBC after series of scandals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The BBC is very very big.

  22,000 direct employees, thousands more freelancers and subcontractors. It’s one of the biggest broadcasters, cultural institutions and tech companies.

  BBC News is the largest newsgathering organisation in the world, with content produced in around 45 languages and employs people in 73 bureax across 59 countries, as well as paying the salaries of journalists at dozens of local newspapers in the UK.

  BBC Studios, the commercial and production arm, employs people in Canada, the US, Australia, India, NZ, Netherlands, Germany, France, Poland, Brazil, Singapore, China, Taiwan, UAE, SA and S Korea.

  So it’s a city-sized corporation with cultural and language barriers. It’s also the largest public service broadcaster in the world, with £3.8bn of its budget paid for by the licence fee. This subjects it to more scrutiny than almost any other broadcaster.

  It publicly publishes its annual report and accounts, a listing of its top salaries, and a summary of recent paid external events undertaken by journalists and top executives, where there’s always material for the tabloid press, who resent the power the BBC has.

  BBC News does nothing more zealously than report on the BBC’s controversies and missteps. At any commercial broadcaster most of that stuff would be behind locked and bolted doors, with only a terse statement by the press office.

  And it’s a media organisation. The public is fascinated by TV and radio. They are more interested in a harrassment investigation at the BBC than they would be at British Steel.

  So, due to its size then, you’d expect more incidences than in most media organisations. Due to its sector, you’d expect more public fascination with incidences than almost anywhere outside politics, and due to its funding model it always has a target on its back from the likes of the Murdochs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Legacy Act halted investigations into 202 Troubles-related killings of British soldiers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re imagining lots of cross-border raids occurring then?

  There’s a lot to investigate. But the political and social reality is that it isn’t possible to investigate one way, it would have to be investigate everything. It would drag things up again, and NI is trying to move forward, so there is limited scope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeremy Corbyn confirms new ‘socialist alternative’ before next election to fight Starmer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Socialism is mutually exclusive to democracy however, and I’m not sure people would willingly give away their voting rights. The furthest Britain went was the post-war labour regime which was careful not to be “socialist”, but which nevertheless formed the NHS and BTC (with variable results).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it’s not relevant at all that Americans keep insisting on thinking that everyone else is just like them. Never caused any issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Spain? Federal? Must be the victim of that American “education”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨english snaccs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Swizzels Matlow and a range of high-end chocolatiers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owen Jones: This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Their organisiation’s US leader is fond of spouting pro-Kremlin anti-Ukrainian nonsense. Maybe they were used as useful idiots by Putin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeremy Corbyn confirms new ‘socialist alternative’ before next election to fight Starmer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The British electorate have little taste for socialism. That’s why it’s Blair, Brown and Starmer who have been electable, while Kinnock and Corbyn haven’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government will send a test Emergency Alert to mobile phones across the UK at around 15:00 on 7th September 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There have been regional tests but only one national test, and that was a part failure because the Three Network didn’t set up their config properly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeremy Corbyn confirms new ‘socialist alternative’ before next election to fight Starmer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  • Tories: Leader dependent. Austerity fatigue. Watered down reform. In a fundraising rut.

  • Lib Dems: Memeable but no-one actually knows what they are about.

  • SNP: Losing ground to Starmer’s Labour anyway.

  • Greens: Still the impression of a single-issue party. A few bizarre policies too.

  • Reform: Have the man, have the PR machine, have the whipping-boy. Weakness in candidate vetting may limit seats contested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK airport staff get bonuses for spotting easyJet oversize bags, email shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people check in online these days on something called the internet, grandma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Public ownership of water in England and Wales is best way to improve industry, people’s commission finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the hope

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Labour police state⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They weren’t fighter jets, they used crowbars as well, and even a tiny bit of paint in a jet engine can cause catastrophic damage at the sort of RPM and temperature they operate at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Labour police state⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You didn’t disappoint. You shifted the goalposts so far they’ve reached the opposite end of the pitch, and I’m now expected to act as Palestine Action’s PR representative. Bravo.

  I have no idea why they chose those planes. Maybe they’re imbeciles who can’t look simple things up on Wikipedia. Maybe they’re hotheads who wanted an adrenaline high. Maybe they have an ulterior agenda. Hopefully more will come out during the trial.

  I will say though, if we allow a bit of wild speculation, that their US arm is run by Fergie Chambers, a massive fan of Putin and supporter of the invasion of Ukraine. These tankers are utterly pointless in Gaza, but quite vital in the event of a state actor like Russia putting military pressure on Britain. And such an attack would embarrass the RAF, the MoD, the Government and affect public confidence in national security. Russia has operated many times in Britain in recent years, such as the railway sabotage a while ago that caused travel chaos at an embarrassing moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Labour police state⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed. If they are a well-organised group with rational people, it would seem odd and uncharacteristically incompetent that they managed to pick literally the most inappropriate target in the entire RAF inventory. Assuming their motives are as they say they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Labour police state⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I said these planes were used to bomb Palestinians. And that’s exactly what these mid-air refuelers have been used for, even if they didn’t carry any bombs themselves.

  Verifiably false. The RAF has not been bombing Gaza. And before you bring it up, no, the RAF has not been refuelling Israeli planes either. The British use an entirely incompatible air-to-air refuelling system. And even if they magically didn’t, they wouldn’t be parking the planes in rural Oxfordshire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Labour police state⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But then they won’t be able to impress their basement friends with their edginess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Labour police state⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Two neo-Nazi groups were proscribed at the same time…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Labour police state⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Suffragettes did nothing to advance the cause, quite the opposite. They poisoned centrist politicians against suffrage, confirmed the claims of the opponents talking about “mad women”, and made it hard for supporters of suffrage to make progress.

  It’s very likely women would have got the vote sooner if the militants just… didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Labour police state⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They threw paint into jet engines, which now have to be stripped down and rebuilt. They also went at the planes with a crowbar, and damaged security barriers at the perimeter. The damage is estimated at £7 million.

  The army has nothing to do with any of this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Labour police state⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Aircraft that are being used to bomb innocent civilians should be vandalized.

  These planes are not bombers, and carry no weapons.

  Setting fire to a UK plane that is being used to genocide people

  These planes are not being used for that in any capacity.

  I look forward to your moving the goalposts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Labour police state⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  / air tankers, unrelated to any genocide

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Labour police state⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah “liar”. They were tankers, not fighter jets. And paint thrown in an engine requires the engine to be completely stripped down for parts to be inspected and cleaned because it’s a plane not a lawnmower. They also went at the planes with a crowbar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Labour police state⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Suffragists were a group of men and women including MPs who worked within the political system of peaceful negotiation and consensus-building over many years, and had made some gains.

  The Suffragettes were a paramilitary organisation tightly controlled by Emmeline Pankhurst, and rejected the involvement of men (and working-class women).

  The cause of women’s suffrage was advanced by the Suffragists, but once the Suffragettes started burning, bombing and racially harassing Jewish MPs, those gains were fatally undermined, and public opinion turned against women’s suffrage.

  The cause was only revisited after WWI, based on the actions of women on the home front and the new demographic realities. It had little to do with the suffragettes who were still poorly received on either side.

  It was a rewriting of history by a couple of propaganda books in the 1930s (largely ex-suffragettes trying to whitewash their crimes) that eventually led to the modern confusion between suffragettes and suffragists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Labour police state⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s over 20 years ago, before 7/7 changed strategy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Labour police state⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So the beheading of Lee Rigby wasn’t terrorism? Your definition doesn’t match the law or the dictionary.