In the news

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/mar/23/toby-young-quits-new-schools-network-citing-media-pressure

I would like to think this means the cunt has quit public life for good.
However we know that these self opinionated blowhards regard public largesse as their birth right.

The turnout for March For Our Lives (especially in Washington DC) is phenomenal.

https://marchforourlives.com/rally-livestream/

And hopefully the end of (what seems to be) the failed free school experiment.

Guns don't go to the bathroom, people do.
https://splinternews.com/an-alarming-number-of-guns-are-waiting-to-be-found-in-c-1823997714

I read somewhere that (potentially) well meaning but out of their depth groups of parents are being outmuscled by existing academy chains who can offer experience and an easily duplicated template of 'instant school'.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cambridgeshire-43547472/richard-frost-double-fatal-117mph-driver-caught-on-cctv

WAC

Twelve years? He got off lightly...

Twelve years? He got off lightly...

You can't get more than 14 years for causing death by dangerous driving.
I feel there's a point beyond which your behaviour with a car becomes so dangerous to others that the Road Traffic Act should no longer apply and some other legal framework should take over.
If I rev up a chainsaw and run straight into a crowd of people it would seem a bit ridiculous if the subsequent court case would be 5 weeks of deliberating whether this was the appropriate use of a chainsaw or not.

"The maximum prison sentence the court can impose for causing death by dangerous driving or careless driving under the influence of drink or drugs is 14 years"

The guilty would knock some off, depending on when it was entered, to a maximum of one third.

Not that 12 is enough.

"Frost fled the scene with a suitcase containing £72,000"

u wot m8?

would it kill that bastard to walk home at least once, all the mobikes are just piling up on his street

Various videos online of Russians stuffing ballot boxes.
Quite funny to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf8T7X-8Gn0

Lols

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They've got the GCSE and A level results day wrong.

Probably because all the bureaucracy has been outsourced to the bloody EU.

Aren't they basing it on the premise that folk like a good pre emptive whinge about grade inflation?

Yeah universities get the results a week early.

But the dates are wrong. And don't GCSEs come after? Where's my UCAS login.....

You know that thing where you don't know someone's name and the longer you talk the more awkward it feels to ask?

So.... what the fuck are the poppies all about? I am aware of the basics references to veterans and WWI. But it also has this right wing, but not exclusively right wing, thing going on that I never quite worked out. Labour politicians wear them too right?
My current understanding is that in the 1970s (?) the pacifist left had a thing about using WWI as a prime example of the futility of war, so in the subsequent decades the poppy became a symbol of the political right, as a kind of counter-reaction to the lefties.
I may or may not have gotten that right.

Something to do with football I think.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41378397
https://www.google.co.uk/search?source=hp&ei=cdG7WtX9CsvHgQbduI-QAw&q=poppies+ban+dailly+mail&oq=poppies+ban+dailly+mail&gs_l=psy-ab.3...4383.13505.0.13989.23.22.0.1.1.0.87.1517.22.22.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.19.1244...0j46j0i131k1j0i46k1j0i22i30k1j0i22i10i30k1j0i13k1j0i13i10i30k1j0i13i5i30k1j33i22i29i30k1j33i160k1j33i21k1.0.KBJArsTNh48

the poppy became a symbol of the political right

It sounds like you might be filtering through your own bias. It's a symbol for commemorating those that have died in service of this country.

That inevitably gets picked up by some for its nationalist connotations - like a St. George flag or a Bull Dog.

In the last few years there's been a few "you're not even allowed to wear Poppies any more" and the "PC brigade are now telling us they're racist" bullshit stories, although Tbh I think these have always been around. Although after the revelations over the last 6 months, you can't help wonder how much of that is Russian troll farms.

Hey,

Poppies do have a right wing nationalist connotation. It’s also a political symbol. Most workplaces prohibit wearing political symbols to work. The types of people that complain that they can no longer wear swastikas rings or BNP hoodies they work are the exact same people that froth at the mouth when told they can’t wear poppies.

If Muslamics can wear their symbols why can’t christian god fearing white people wear their symbols....

We're indigenous, thank you very much.

It's a symbol for commemorating those that have died in service of this country.

That's what it's portrayed as. Really, it's just highly successful marketing by the right to raise money for the soulless meatheads who have joined the British army on its crusades of extermination in countries which have resources we want.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/28/may-considers-banning-city-of-london-from-selling-russian-debt

Only considers?
Just how many Russians who have bought UK passports for £2M have donated to the Tory party.