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Let's not gloss over the facts that the 'Legal Alien' to whom you and the OP's article refer wasn't some person who got randomly picked up a few weeks ago and shipped off to a max security prison in El Salvador. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is a native and citizen of El Salvador who entered the US illegally 'sometime around 2011'. In March 2019 he was arrested in Maryland with three other men. "Ensuing proceedings established that Abrego Garcia was a ranking member of the deadly MS-13 gang and thus presented a danger to the community". At an immigration hearing in 2019, DHS presented evidence that Abrego Garcia had been “arrested in the company of other ranking gang members” and the Immigration Judge specifically cited “the fact that a ‘past, proven, and reliable source of information’ [had] verified [Abrego Garcia’s] gang membership, rank, and gang name.” In October 2019, after Abrego Garcia had “conceded his removability as charged”, an immigration judge ordered Abrego Garcia’s removal from the United States ... So this guy should really have been sent back years ago and has been living on borrowed time. The complication was that the immigration judge also said he could not be sent back to El Salvador because he might be persecuted by a rival gang - the judge did not say he could not be deported. It's all in the court docket. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A949/354843/20250407103341248_Kristi Noem application.pdf

You should make clear that this all relates to deportation of alleged Central American gang members, especially those from San Salvador, using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. I suspect there are many who would think that deporting gang members is not a bad thing. https://www.npr.org/2025/04/07/nx-s1-5345601/supreme-court-alien-enemies-act

Good luck to her. Maybe she can also now afford to finish the WIP on her tatts.

GCHQ made a rod for their own back with an intern recruitment campaign that specifically excluded white British students although, as I commented above, most white British students don't have the language skills that are in high demand. Why not just say "we welcome applications from interested people of all ethnic backgrounds. Those with fluency in middle eastern or asian languages are specifically encouraged to apply etc". However, I suspect that many Gen Z / Y whatever may well think that collecting email and voice traffic is a bad thing and that the intelligence services are oppressive arms of the state etc.

It says it was his 'work mobile phone' but your point is a valid one. I can't see any reason why any phone or other personal electronic device would be allowed into a secure environment. It would seem that the access was logged but why did it take a month for action to be taken? That should have been same day, regardless of the classification of the material accessed. This is all much more of a concern than the guy's ethnicity. We need native-level speakers of Urdu, Farsi, Mandarin etc and most of them aren't white British.

Ah. But major rival Sino-Thai is owned by the family of our PM In Waiting, Anutin. And if Ital-Thai is Pheua Thai aligned (I don't know about Premchai Karnasuta's politics), they are in for a rough ride. A question no-one is asking is "why did the State Audit Office need a 30-something storey building in the first place?" - yet another wasteful (snouts in trough) public procurement project. There are far too many government agencies etc in vast new buildings that are mostly empty.

How on earth can there be a definition of 'Islamophobia' that provides "protections against discrimination" while also "being compatible" with "the right to criticise, express dislike of, or insult religions and/or the beliefs and practices of adherents"? The whole thing is a minefield. Government has no business trying to legislate against 'hurty words'. Want to call someone with a few extra pounds on them a "fat c**t"? Go ahead. Want to call a Muslim with facial hair "a bearded tw#t". Go ahead.

There are various different types of cataract and they can all progress at different rates, so there's no hard and fast answer other than the 'wait till they impact everyday life'. What that means will also be different for different people. If you don't need to drive, for instance, maybe you can wait longer than someone who is reliant on driving to get around. Opthalmologist I saw in UK said that generally speaking the longer you can wait (the older you are) the better. Something to do with viscosity of fluid inside the eye and the risk of it tugging on the retina and causing a tear when removing the old lens, I think. Eye morphology is also a factor: people who are very myopic may have a greater risk of retinal or other damage, although statistically it's still quite rare. Opthalmologist also said that people who expect return of perfect 20/20 distance vision without glasses after cataract surgery are more likely to be disappointed than people who expect greatly improved clarity of vision, but possibly only getting 20/20 still with glasses. He also said that while nowadays you can get varifocal implant lenses, he usually recommends simple fixed power implants, especially if the degree of correction required is substantial.

Actually real chubsters present a clear safety issue. In an emergency evac, do you want to be trapped in your window seat by the lard bucket jammed into the middle/aisle seat? And if he or she can get out of the seat, then they'll plug up the aisle like a cork in a bottle. Plus they'd be much harder to climb over than oldsters or children.

I suspect that is why the 'cunning plan' to arrive into UK from Singapore, with its notoriously strict drug laws.

The good ship Fantasy is full steam ahead towards Reality Rocks. (Speaking with experience of casino feasibility studies in places like South Korea, Saipan, Cambodia, Nepal and elsewhere ...)

Side note: Parodontax sneakily changed the recipe for the original formula (non-fluoride) a year or so ago so that it tastes completely different. Loyal user for 30 years. I called the customer number on the packet and they confirmed the change. For more than a year they did not however change the packaging in any way to highlight the new formulation. They have now just done that as of a month or two back. Very tricky. Basically the new formula strips out all the natural extracts and replaces them with .... 'aroma'! Top package = new packaging finally showing that the recipe has changed Middle package = original formulation with herb extracts Bottom package = vile new formulation with 'aroma' There are still some of the original tubesnout in the market because Parodontax is an acquired taste - just reject anything with 'aroma' in the ingredients! [I know, I should get out more.]

Part of the problem is that while there are numerous out of work Thai pilots, many of them are not "ready for work" because they haven't been able to (or haven't bothered to) keep their type ratings up to date. Thailand is also right in the midst of overhauling the entire licensing and regulatory system (shift from FAA derived to EASA derived), which will make keeping class/type ratings current that much harder and more expensive (I recently spent a whole day in a riveting online training session “TCAR PEL Part FCL - Condition for the Conversion - demonstrate knowledge of the relevant parts of the operational requirements and the TCAR PEL Part - FCL regulation” ...)

A 'traffic infringement'! Give me a break. That was highly dangerous driving in a crowded public place; could so easily have ended with bystanders injured or worse if the clowns had lost control.. Try that in London and see how the cops react. Try it in Lagos and expect to be brassed up by the cops or military.

I don't think it was such a bad thing when "public displays of affection" typically meant holding hands, not buggery and blowjobs.

Perhaps he wasn't drunk but fell asleep at the wheel and that's why he crashed, leading to a severe concussion which is why he sounded incoherent. Possibly with other internal injuries. But hey, let's go to the police station first. He should get extra brownie points as he gallantly 'swerved left to avoid hitting the King's portrait, leading the car to overturn'.

Something to be said for low-rise condo projects: short-term Air BnB type activities are very visible and can get nipped in the bud pronto.

I think the hound should be re-named 'So Long' shortly before it gets a bullet. Any dog that has attacked someone other than a burglar or similarly ill-intentioned person coming on to your property, should be euthanised.

If she's one and the same as this person (name and age match) then she has a long history of ignoring the law and caring little for consequences of getting caught - bang her up here for a few years and then deport back to US. https://www.owyheeavalanche.com/pastissues/2016/10-26-16_5R3C.pdf

Veteran AN members may recall the feckless Karen Smith and Patricia Cahill who got caught at Don Muang in the early 90s with 20+ kg of heroin in their baggage. Their bags were so overweight they were denied boarding the first time around (I think not enough cash to pay for excess baggage) so came back the next day ...

Maybe trying to do hand carry only: those budget airlines can be really strict on hand carry size and weight. Although stuffing hand carry with drugs is monumentally dumb because it would show up clear as day at security

This interview pretty much says it all. If you are born in Thailand, you are Thai - but unless you are raised in a Thai family, and go to Thai schools, you'll never really fit in because your outlook and way of thinking will be different from most Thai people. This guy's parents aren't Thai and it sounds like he went to a madrassa after primary school. It seems odd, too, that he says he has an ID card but not a Thai passport - maybe he only has a pink ID. Some of the comments by Thais are very revealing e.g. "he speaks Thai so clearly" ... "if you didn't see his face you'd think he was Thai" etc. Not "he was born here so he is Thai". But he doesn't look Thai so, to many Thai people, he could never be Thai.

Depends largely where you live. I lived in Kentish town for years; my daughter lived in Peckham. Plenty of violence in both those areas both then and now. And try getting from Kentish Town to Peckham on public transport - at least an hour. Quicker to cycle.

Traffic is non-existent? If only. Traffic is as bad now as it ever was, thanks in no small measure to expansion of the ridiculous 20 mph limits (Park Lane, Finchley Road, Southbank ... you name it, all 20 mph). No wonder average bus speeds have gone down in recent years, blamed in part on an increase in road traffic congestion. All from the horse's mouth (TfL), in case you're wondering, at https://content.tfl.gov.uk/travel-in-london-2024-annual-overview-acc.pdf Try driving in and out of London at any time of day and I guarantee you it's a solid hour plus.

Yesterday's TG night flight from London (TG917) was diverted to Don Muang to refuel after an aborted landing and an earlier hold. The lucky passengers got to spend the best part of four hours waiting on the tarmac at DMK before being flown back to SVB.