Thanks for the second source. The Telegraph is a right wing rag.

Hey now! The Americans have done far more than that, they’ve peacefully wandered around the neighbourhood and played some acoustic guitar. If that doesn’t attract the attention of politicians, what will?

/s

https://youtu.be/2SsOmjwZKrI

What are you talking about? I’ve been keenly following UK politics for about 15 years now and can’t think of any examples off the top of my head.

John Prescott got a reputation but that’s because someone threw an egg at him in the street so he punched the guy. Other than that I can’t think of any famous examples of politicians fighting.

I’ll take wasps any day over midgies.

Wasps will usually leave you alone, midgies will eat you alive!

https://youtu.be/ebE7wdsHXX8

That’s not exactly how it works though. Diplomatic immunity doesn’t have to be extended to anyone you don’t wish to extend it to. Ambassadors are regularly made to leave countries when those countries have disagreements. Diplomatic immunity is a courtesy, not a requirement.

If Putin steps foot in most European countries he should, by law, be arrested. There is no diplomatic immunity for him. This only happened because America isn’t signed up to the ICC and doesn’t give a fuck about basic decency, human rights, or war crimes.

They extended an invite to a war criminal, to supposedly resolve a conflict, without inviting the other side of the conflict. That’s not how diplomacy works. That’s corruption.

Also, England didn’t do shit. The UK did. Westminster. I should know, I live here. And I don’t live in England.

And it isn’t pro-Palestine speech, it’s pro a very specific group. I disagree with it heavily and view it as authoritarian, but let’s make sure we’re not spreading misinformation here. Support of Palestine Action is banned, not Palestine.

That’s fan ih wee beastie bastard midgies cim oot though!

The term you’re looking for is an egalitarian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egalitarianism

Do you think Hitler would have been granted diplomatic immunity if he visited?

This is not a normal diplomat. This is a person who has committed multiple, documented, crimes against humanity. He is wanted by the International Criminal Court, commonly known as The Hague. If arrested they are likely to hang him until he is dead for the mass suffering he has caused around the world. That is the punishment the Nazis received.

Legitimate negotiations are impossible without inviting Zelensky and yet they have declined to do so. To claim negotiations require diplomatic immunity for Putin, a war criminal, but not to invite Zelensky is ridiculous.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court_arrest_warrants_for_Russian_leaders

Edit: I’m aware America isn’t signed up to the ICC, that doesn’t change the point though

So the Republicans have TACO and the Democrats have NACHO?

And this is why ACAB regardless of whether they’re a “good one” or not.

As long as police forces ignore the right of expression and protest, in favour of the whims of the government of the day, they are bastards.

Oh winter is coming.

It’s just going to take a while, but it will come.

And it will either be a nuclear winter or an ice age. Yay!

More than 100 BBC employees are accusing the corporation of providing favourable coverage toward Israel and are calling on the broadcaster to “recommit to fairness, accuracy, and impartiality” over its reporting on Gaza.

In a letter sent to Tim Davie, signed by more than 230 members of the media industry, including 101 anonymous BBC staff, the corporation is criticised for failing its own editorial standards by lacking “consistently fair and accurate evidence-based journalism in its coverage of Gaza”.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bbc-israel-gaza-letter-tim-davie-bias-palestine-b2636737.html

In 2006, shortly after this study was published, research commissioned by the BBC’s Board of Governors and carried out by Loughborough University confirmed many of its key findings. In addition, the BBC’s independent panel report highlighted the corporation’s “failure to convey adequately the disparity in the Israeli and Palestinian experience, reflecting the fact that one side is in control and the other lives under occupation” and stressed the BBC’s need “to fill in the gaps, most obviously in respect of context and history”.

Despite this, emerging research on BBC reporting since 7 October 2023 has produced similar findings, such as a lack of historical context, and differential use of language in relation to Palestinian and Israeli victims. Imbalances in coverage appear to be a long and consistent feature of BBC reporting.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/bbc-impartiality-trust-israel-gaza-media-experts/

They are most definitely bias. They’re only changing their tune now after months of pressure and because the government, since Lammy visited, is changing their tune too.

This isn’t their first explicit bias either:

So, on the objective evidence presented here, the mainstream TV coverage of the first year of the independence referendum campaigns has not been fair or balanced. Taken together, we have evidence of coverage which seems likely to have damaged the Yes campaign.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/bbc-bias-and-scots-referendum-new-report/

Except by definition it is a democracy.

Barely.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index#List_by_country

But why? News agencies can do that if they wish, for the viewers, but why would a government agency releasing video evidence touch it up in any way? That’s just asking for questions.

To save those, like me, that don’t know what Zapruder is, a search:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapruder_film

It’s a recording of JFK getting shot

What’s the reasoning for mandatory voting?

Sweet, ta! I listened to The History of Rome a few years ago so I’ll check this one out.

Aye, true progress was being made and that couldn’t be allowed to happen. Germany’s Blitzkrieg tactics were practised on Spain before they began their expansion.

I tried but I have an unfortunate case of bees in my brain so I didn’t finish it. Need to give it another go. The portion that I read was interesting though!

Who’s the revolutions podcast by?

Edit: https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/ this?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Spain

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homage_to_Catalonia

The Spanish are a great bunch of lads

Fada beò an Spàinn!