Scott Tracy

Why should anyone be the world's policeman? Well, there's a whole litany of evil doers in the world and if the biggest superpower can't police the world, who can? The EU find it hard to agree among themselves and the UK was top of the year in the 18th and 19th centuries, but now... Not so much.

It was an accident it was placed there, it was an accident it went off, it was an accident some one was walking nearby it was an accident someone stepped on it? What was the accident? Do roadside bombs appear by accident and explode accidentally, accidentally killing and injuring people?

Who's chucking missiles at Russia? The Ukrainians are, to preserve their sovereignty as outlined in the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership,

He got voted in. People knew his policies, his election pledges. Someone attacking him is attacking the people who elected him... Ooh, shoe and other foot... The electorate is stupid, they elected Trump, now they elected Mamdani... Ah no, don't call the electorate stupid by attacking the guy they voted for.

Why is it necessary to state a person's sex/gender on a passport? What purpose does it serve now we have facial recognition, biometrics, finger prints, etc?

The administration may be at fault, but does not control the purse strings. Get Congress to sort themselves out. I feel sad for the employees. For some of them, this is not the first time this has happened. Furlough, no pay or work and no pay. Who wants to be a federal employee, especially after DOGE's activities some time ago.

They use Dollars don't they? With pictures of former US presidents don't they? Do they want pictures of Hun Sen, Pol Pot?

Like what for example?

Special relationship my arse. There's no such thing except in the minds of delusional people.

Isn't this standard practise in the States?

Crime is defined in legislation, enacted by politicians. Now those same politicians are telling the police, who are supposed to enforce the laws so enacted by those politicians, not to enforce those laws?

Nobody's lying and it is a fact. It's just that some here choose to make a meal out of the fact that this guy was arrested by armed police when it is standard operating procedure for an arrest-on-arrival at UK airports, and not some fanciful "jackbooted" "Gestapo"-style silencing of dissent. And no one raises an eyebrow in the US as all police are always armed...

Or shot by an anti aircraft weapon.

Well, no, it wasn't. It's an amendment to your founding document. Which shows it can be amended...

Always thought that police no longer charge people. It's the Crown Prosecution Service that does the charging.