RuamRudy

Reminds me of this from a decade ago: No Visas: Immigration Arrested Honest Couple An international row has erupted over the arrest of a young French couple and their 22-month-old child. The family arrived on a flight at Phuket International Airport and left the terminal without being processed by Immigration... The blunder was only discovered days later when the honest French couple, on their first trip overseas, took the trouble to return to Phuket airport so the error could be corrected.... The couple were later made to appear in court, fined and sentenced to a suspended jail term,

Just imagine what the UK pension retirement age might be if we Brits were not so weak, servile and supine.

But this forum does not encapsulate the total gamut of protest and campaigning in respect to, well, anything. Therefore, the post to which I was initially responding: is clearly false unless one bases one's perspective solely on the topics posited in World News.

This Monty Python sketch seems increasingly relevant these days:

This thread is not about attempts to force 'propaganda' on anyone; rather it's about a country legislating to jail people simply for existing.

How many such topics appear here?

Should all public displays of community be banned, or only those communities of which you, personally, don't approve?

You do - it maybe you just aren't listening.

The fact that some people still vigorously defend his behaviour after a lifetime of his cheating and lying helps explain why we ended up with the disaster that is brexit.

81? The BBC suggest that the number is lower, and some of those are taking steps to decriminalise homosexuality. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-43822234.amp How many of those are recipients of foreign aid? I can't say, can you? However, human rights should be a fundamental basis for all overseas aid considerations.

Are those the reasons you don't like him or are there some possibly valid ones too?

I hope all foreign government aid donors are reconsidering their support for Uganda in light of this. It is a pity that ordinary Ugandans will suffer if this happens, but all levers should be pulled to put pressure on the Ugandan government to block this bill.

So your criticism of him is based on a scenario you devised in your head? Fair enough...

As far as I know, it's not lineker but the government that decides who pays for the TV license. But the nasty party has significant experience in devising and implementing policies which cause pensioners to freeze to death.

It's reassuring to see that despite the years of bank induced pain that cost us all, bankers continue to be bankers... Silicon Valley Bank employees received bonuses hours before government takeover

Left or right is, of course, relative. If you see the BBC as hard left it speaks volumes about your own position...

You should direct that comment to the person to whom I was replying.

Because the Nasty party has always been focused on alleviating the suffering of the masses...

To be honest, I am not sure where the evidence for Nerranam's claim comes from. I think most Scottish umbrage towards English football celebs is still directed at Jimmy Hill.

Evidence that the right supported tax avoidance? You need to stop with these sweeping generalisations, especially when you make such gross mistakes in your comprehension of what you just read. I suggest you slow down and think before you post.

So much noise about someone on the left being tax efficient - I don't remember such outrage when Sunak's wife had to actually be shamed into paying her fair share of tax.

The BBC has already demonstrated it's tolerance of it's presenters expressing their own political beliefs when they ignored Andrew Neil's behaviour in trying to discredit the journalist who exposed the case for brexit as a Russian funded tissue of lies.

A long winded way of saying "I have none."?

Such heavy lifting being done by such a small word.

What is wokeness and where is the irony?