RuamRudy

15 years minimum, one would hope. The streets will be better with those knuckle-draggers locked up for a very long time. As we have recently seen, the law takes a very dim view on even peaceful protesting. These thugs will pay a very high price for their naïve willingness to believe the lies fed to them by drug dealing fraudsters like Yaxley Lennon.

Nonsense. They are all of a particular era where such things were, while not necessarily acceptable, tolerated. Bill Wyman, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Stephen Tyler - the list pedophile celebrities extends far beyond the BBC. And no doubt the list of people you have never heard of who were doing the same is many times greater again.

If holding a sign over a motorway gets you 9 years, let's hope we can send these low grade racist scum away for much, much longer.

But you stated that in Sweden everyone is issued with an id number as if its a unique phenomenon. I pointed out that the UK also issues an id number but just not the same format. Neither are an argument for compulsory id cards.

And in the UK everyone has a National Insurance number. It's not paired up with your other registrations, but we aren't nebulous, undefined entities.

Fair enough - I grew up in a tiny town in the Scottish Highlands so drunk drivers were the biggest hazard I faced in my youth. I watched a clip on YouTube a few weeks ago of two undercover cops apprehending a guy on a high street somewhere in England. A crowd formed who were hostile to the cops, jeering them and telling them to let him go. One of the cops turned to show the crowd this evil looking knife that must have been a foot long, which they had taken off the guy, and suddenly everything changed. Jeers turned to cheers. The public in general are sick of this knife culture.

Something is wrong, Tranny - last week you agreed with me. This week I agree with you. Knives scare the hell out of me in general; when we see on TV some of those knives that thugs carry and use in the uk, I can't muster an ounce of sympathy for them. The penalties for carrying a knife in public need to be stronger because it seems that there is no deterrent now.

Because carrying id would make those thugs think twice??? Is that the magic bullet to curb violence?

The US doesn't seem to have followed your 'logic'.

For me, growing up in the UK in the 70s, he was one of the most famous entertainers of all. I still find it hard to accept the sheer scale of the abuses he perpetrated, partially because of the mind boggling extent of it, but also because he was so entrenched in society. Saville was like Epstein without the money - the great and the good loved to be with him, Thatcher and Charles Windsor being two of his staunchest allies and protectors. But apparently there was lots of chatter about his behaviour - it wasn't a total secret. It's just that he could rely upon his powerful friends to protect him.

It gets complicated though... Margaret Thatcher conducted covert war against BBC Thatcher 'Turned Blind Eye' To Paedophile MPs Thatcher lobbied for Savile knighthood despite warnings

Kazakhstan is a fascinating country - massive in size and abundantly rich in natural resources but tiny in population and bracketed by two of the least trustworthy superpower neighbours one could wish for. It's interesting to note that Astana really only owes its prominence as a city to its location in the north East of the country. Previously this area was pretty sparsely populated but Nazerbayev felt that it was vulnerable to Chinese occupation so he decided to build a city there and relocate the capital from Almaty. That seemed to spark a rush for Norman Foster inspired architectural abominations in both locations. But my feeling is that the young are increasingly modern facing in attitude. Whether that comes from China or the West is not really important to them, I think, but Russia is definitely seen as a relic of the bad old days. It's worth noting that the riots you mention on your second article were all of internal origin and the government of the day (early 2022) did ask Moscow to assist. There is still resentment about those events today, and while the new president is trying to show that he is cleaner than the old guy, I am not sure many are buying it.

Can we all show some sympathy for this true British patriot who suffered for his country yesterday? No sniggering please - it's a serious business defending our 'culture'.

Possibly stereotyping, but pensioners more likely to vote tory; public sector workers more likely to vote Labour.

I guess I was holding the Guardian to a higher standard...

British values? In what way do they differ from other countries' values? What is British culture? I don't believe it exists now or ever.

I believe that the threshold is around £235 a week - receive a penny more than that and you lose out. I don't think I would feel financially secure on £235 a week in the UK at the moment.

While Putin has no qualms about showboating some of his deeds abroad, I can't imagine that the West is any less engaged in undercover operations - I just think that they are much more discreet about it. Of course, that a military bigwig is advocating for more robust action isn't surprising nor is it necessarily a bad thing, but I am sceptical as to whether we are really so behind the curve.

My Filipino pharmacist other half confirms Ativan is avaliable but regulated so not all pharmacies will carry it. All the drugs mentioned will require a prescription. Edit: I don't want to teach to OP to suck eggs, but if they bring these drugs into the country, be sure to carry a doctor's note to explain why you have them.

I appreciate all that to be fact, but the headline gave the impression that he was arrested in connection with a terrorist offence. The headline would have been more accurate if it said that he was arrested for refusing to follow a lawful police instruction. But the Guardian is no better than the Mail in chasing all that lovely ad revenue.

But the headline is unnecessarily sensationalist.

It's a bit dispiriting to see the Guardian go down the click bait path with their misleading headline. He wasn't arrested because of suspected terrorism offences, but because he refused to comply with a lawful request for a search. That this request was made lawful by the Terrorism Act 2000 is irrelevant to the issue. The police have the right to search him; for one so keen on others to follow British norms, this Irishman doesn't seem to think they apply to him.

So your wife is British and Yaxley Lennon is Irish. She can be a British patriot but he is a foreign scammer, no different to those other non brits he whips up hatred towards.

So the problem is not gender related, but the dire state of the prison service in general, and the failure of successive governments to implement an effective strategy to rehabilitate offenders and reduce recidivism while satisfying the wider public's need to see justice being served.