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If I was working on that door, I am not sure that I would place my life on the line for the benefit of the shareholders of Apple.

I am not sure I agree. Certainly it was a very good response by the Met in this case, but I can't help but wonder why the gang thought it plausible that they might get away with it. Is there a feeling amongst thieves that such acts are easy pickings nowadays? Community policing, regular foot patrols and high visibility policing are all deterrents in my book.

Not even remotely close to being correct; proactive laws can prevent you from doing something which might have undesirable consequences, such as the ban on owning an automatic weapon or laws requiring companies to provide their employees with appropriate PPE to do their job. In the same way that you are not allowed to walk about with a lion or tiger in public - prevent the animal from being in public. This is the list from Wikipedia of dog attacks in the uk since 2020 (I have ordered by breed): Date Victim's age Victim's gender Dog type (Number) 02-Apr-21 85 Female American Bulldog 03-Oct-22 65 Female American Bulldog 22-Jul-24 33 Female American Bulldog 08-Nov-21 10 Male American Bully XL 22-Dec-21 55 Male American Bully XL 21-Mar-22 1 Female American Bully XL 23-May-22 62 Male American Bully XL 10-Aug-22 34 Male American Bully XL 12-Jan-23 28 Female American Bully XL 19-May-23 37 Male American Bully XL 14-Sep-23 52 Male American Bully XL 04-Oct-23 54 Male American Bully XL 03-Feb-24 68 Female American Bully XL 20-May-24 50s Female American Bully XL 20-Aug-24 53 Male American Bully XL 21-Aug-24 32 Male American Bully XL 01-Nov-24 10 Female American Bully XL 07-Dec-24 41 Female American Bully XL 15-Jun-22 43 Female American Bully XL or Italian Mastiff 20-Dec-22 83 Female American Bully XL x Cane Corso cross 04-Dec-24 42 Male American Pit Bull Terrier 16-Jun-24 7 months Female Belgian Shepherd of the variety Malinois 10-Jan-22 68 Male British Bulldog (3) 30-Jul-24 34 Female Bullmastiff 15-May-22 3 Male Cane Corso 22-Apr-23 51 Male Cane Corso cross 13-Sep-20 12 days Male Chow Chow x German Shepherd cross 06-Mar-22 3 months Female Husky 25-Nov-23 77 Male Multiple, including his friend's Bernese Mountain Dog 28-Mar-22 2 Male Rottweiler (1 to 3) 03-Sep-23 40 Female Rottweiler (2) 05-Feb-21 21 Female Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross (1) 29-Jan-20 35 Male Staffordshire Bull Terrier x Mastiff cross (1) 31-Jan-23 4 Female Unknown [179] 02-Jun-23 75 Female Unreported, but not a banned breed[188] Not many labradors there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_dog_attacks_in_the_United_Kingdom I think it is clear what I propose - a ban on owning dogs which are proven, through experience, to be a threat to society. So I ask again, which laws are already in place but not being enforced, which has led to the alarming rise in dog attacks?

I can't really see what sort of task these types of dogs could be used for - they are owned solely for show, to project an image that the owner wants others to have of him/her.

Bonnie Prince Billy - West Palm Beach

Indeed, the UK is lacking a credible answer to their policing policies and a credible alternative to the rancid options for government.

Maybe this has something to do with the shocking state of affairs across all countries in the UK? Shock figures reveal 23,500 police staff cut under the Tories The Conservatives talk tough on crime but they are failing to keep the public safe, says GMB 23,500 police staff jobs have been lost in England and Wales since 2010, figures from GMB, the union for police staff, reveal. ... The most affected region is London, which has lost almost half (47 per cent or 9,000 jobs) of its police staff since 2010, including 72 per cent of PCSOs. The worst of the cuts were inflicted in the Metropolitan Police during Boris Johnson’s term as Mayor of London. https://www.gmb.org.uk/news/shock-figures-reveal-23500-police-staff-cut-under-tories

To which laws are you referring? This one? It is illegal for a dog to be dangerously out of control in public or private spaces. This includes injuring someone, making someone fear injury, or attacking someone’s animal. Owners can face an unlimited fine, up to six months in prison, or both, and may be banned from owning a dog in the future. That is a reactive law that requires the animal to be out of control before it can be acted upon. Would you not agree that it is better to remove the possibility of a potentially volatile animal from doing harm rather than addressing the end result of it doing harm? That is the reason that certain breeds are banned - these represent a level of danger that most dog breeds do not present.

Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami - I always find I need to push myself to get through his books and this one is no different, but for all its lack of pazazz or page-turning intrigue, there is a constant warmth and humanity in his writing that makes the effort worthwhile.

How sour and dull life must be if you see everything within the prism of right-wing umbrage. Why not just say that you have no other ideas? It would have been easier on your blood pressure and on your keyboard.

So what are your proposals?

Sabre rattling at its finest. Apache operates Forties and Beryl, both fields which have been in production since the 70s; the fields are massively depleted and the very out of date infrastructure requires increasing amounts of maintenance. Back In the 90s I worked for a company which held a 0.15% stake in Forties. Being young and naïve, I could not understand why we would bother with such a small shareholding in such a minor producer, given the administrative and regulatory costs of doing so. I discussed it with one of the senior analysts and he explained to me that it was used as a write-off location for expenditure carried out on other facilities, because the Forties, being so old, gave massive tax benefits to its owners. It has been operating as a tax sink for decades. Interestingly. Apache's own website says this: "During the second quarter of 2023, as part of the Company’s focus on capital allocation to optimize investment returns, it suspended all new drilling activity in the North Sea. The Company’s investment program there is now directed toward safety, base production management, and asset maintenance and integrity." So that means no infill drilling and no reserves replacement - just produce as is until it can produce no more. I guess it has reached that point already.

Indeed, but nobody wins in this situation, all because of one small dictator.

Further bad news for the Russian economy - 4 out of 5 main gas export routes to Europe now closed.

A patriot? If he is considered to be a patriot of my flag I would denounce it immediately. Thankfully most British people see him for what he is. That's why decent British people despise him and his followers.

Not only were the tories turning a blind eye to rapists Muslims, they were actively protecting the child abusers among their own ranks. From Thatcher to May, they did their damndest to protect tory child abusers. Just like Yaxley Lennon protects his own favourite child molesters. The sad fact is that child abuse is rampant in every area of society, but these right wing nuts pretend it's an imported horror whilst ignoring the fact that the very people they lionise are every bit as bad.

Traditional values such as beating up women, bank fraud, drug use and racism?

You could do, but I can also help you. His name isn't actually Tommy Robinson. It's Steven Yaxley Lennon. He has convictions for assault (he attacked a policeman who was trying to stop him from beating up his then girlfriend), mortgage fraud, perverting the course of justice (he refused to obey a reporting ban put in place to prevent risk of mistrial). He also lied on social media about a schoolboy, putting the boy at real risk of harm from the nazi thugs Yaxley Lennon grifts off. Thankfully the boy had the courage to stand up to the cocaine addled bully and took him to court and won substantial damages. Oh and he isn't the champion of children he tries to paint himself as. While he creates outrage at Muslim grooming gangs, he is remarkably supportive of the pedos who surround and support him. I guess they are the right coloured pedos.

Those must have been some mighty sharp beaks on those birds to do so much peppered damage to the back end of the plane.

British? A St George's Cross is not a representation of Britain.

Now you are inventing scenarios because... well, I have no idea why. Nobody has said Russians are evil. I will say, however, that their military is underfunded and badly trained. The old maxim of 'don't put down to malice what you can put down to incompetence' probably holds true here.

The Palestinians are already in their own country. Why would they want to leave?

American proxies in either Azerbaijan or southern Russia? No, you have the monopoly on ludicrous statements on this thread thus far. If it walks like an ytka and it squwaks like an ytka, in Russia its probably an ytka.

It's not as if Russia doesn't have form in shooting down civilian airplanes - and it increasingly looks like they've done it again.