In the news

Apparently 'at least 7' https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18202135.coronavirus-horseman-coaches-will-deep-cleaned-brize-norton-trip/

I don't know why they needed more than 2 coaches for 83 people.

First guy has a waistcoat and a tie.

It seems ties trump Hazmat suits.

https://youtu.be/QVExlaxaweo

To keep people well separated. There by reducing potential cross contamination.

I don't know why they needed more than 2 coaches for 83 people

Keeping the suspect areas apart? After all it's contagious before symptoms appear.

the UK contracting coronavirus

The UK has had a coronavirus for centuries. :)

(Anyone who doesn't get this should look up what 'corona' means in Latin.)

Echoing Drakien. It's very powerful. I must admit I hadn't followed the case much. Everybody should read this.

Also in the news
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/us/politics/khalid-shaikh-mohammed-threat-torture.html

Mr. Mohammed “didn’t scream, grunt or do anything,” Dr. Mitchell said, citing his recollection of the 183 times he waterboarded him in March 2003.

Daily Fail leading this morning not with their triumph over Brexit (although they are giving away a free tea towel so...) but with a nice pic of two foreign looking types in face masks to remind us all that Johnny Otherplace has brought cooties into the UK.

Only interesting because they’re not trumpeting the EU exit.... because that would be to back the experiment having been influential and divisive all along?

Probably more because of the change of editor - Paul Dacre was rabidly anti-Europe - Geordie Greig not so much.

this is the brexit of jokes

I think however that there also needs to be a bit more room for people to admit what they said / wrote was, e.g., racist, without everyone immediately seeing them, i.e. their entire personality / character, as racists and completely writing them off. So basically, people need to be able to recognise sometimes that they did something wrong, reflect on that, and try to improve, but others also need to give them some space to do that.

This segment of the latest episode of ‘On the Media’ has a great conversation about cancel culture and touches on what people were writing here about Alastair Stewart.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/trouble-cancel-culture

Oh thanks, I'll give it a listen. Also, I like the 'Contrapoints' channel.

Man shot dead apparently by police in Streatham:

https://twitter.com/LambethMPS/status/1223976671780450306

Fuck me. Minutes away from us
Sounds like terror attack - multiple stabbings.

It's almost impossible to police against these types of attack. They really are terrifying.

https://twitter.com/Taylor88The/status/1223979661388107777?s=20

(Obviously unconfirmed)

Police BMW either crashed on the way or ran someone off the road by Streatham Common around the same time

https://mobile.twitter.com/mikedohh/status/1223986486695079937

Undercover cops with laptop bags yikes

It's mad.
So many undercover cops.

He was under active police surveillance at the time of the attack, which police believe to be an Islamist-related terrorist incident.

From BBC.

Still the number that were there in the time, it's crackers.

He was under surveillance as the police supposedly thought he was an imminent threat but there was no way to keep him inside. I guess that means there's going to be a couple of cars worth of police keeping an eye on him whilst he's out and about.

That's pretty amazing. It's always busy there on sundays - they must have been right on him. Will be on the lookout for guys with hoodies and manbags from now on.

It's almost impossible to police against these types of attack.

We could develop a prison system that isn't an incubator for terrorist ideology. Maybe put funding into rehabilitation and fit-for-purpose threat assessment rather than cutting everything to the bone to show how 'tough' we area.