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How come he was able to exit the UK by getting on a flight? Surely his passport should have been retained or a flag put on it??

I've got doubts about the viability of this and how it'll work, but on the surface this is a great idea. It's time that banks took some accountability for their inaction. Same as governments who allow the free flow of drugs and people across their borders to pass the problem to someone else, and insurance companies who find ways of not paying out valid claims.

Good politics by Paetongtarn. Say a lot, but say nothing.

Ooh! Can Sharia Law apply? https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/sharia-penalties-and-ways-their-implementation-kingdom-saudi-0 "Theft (stealing in secret) is punished by the amputation of the offender's right hand, and armed or highway robbery may be punished by execution, crucifixion, or amputation of hands and feet from opposite sides of the body, depending on the severity of the offense." Think this qualifies as highway robbery...

A hex on you for being so sensible!! Please stop posting such common sense solutions on this platform!!! 😂

All a misunderstanding.

This does not appear to be a smash and grab incident. There was a separate smash and grab incident at an Apple store at a different shopping mall in London in recent days. There is so much craziness in London it's easy to mix them all up though. Not sure on the stats on weapons carried in smash & grab, but what you say makes sense.

The OP states "Later that day, at 9.45am, the suspects contacted the police to surrender their firearms, which were identified as blank-firing guns." 3 paragraphs up from the bottom of the article.

Kind of, but in the USA there'd be guns, several dead and wounded, including several of those passersby going about their normal lives.

Totally agree with this. But I'd go further and include all living politicians in this accountability. Criminal as well as financial accountability. From the COVID PPE corruption to the Iraq invasion due to all those WMDs (LOL). From those who die as a direct result of the withdrawal of the winter fuel allowance to those who committed suicide as a direct result of industrial Britain being decimated by Thatcher's government. I don't care what party they are from, they should suffer just as their victims suffered.

I thought HMPV is a seasonal upper respiratory virus that is no worse than common flu and not just restricted to China? I read it was first detected in Europe over 20 years ago. Is this another weak attempt to demonize China? To not let the truth get in the way of politics?

Such a shame that Trump does some great stuff, like using economics to push Canada and Mexico into making their borders more secure (reduction in people and drug trafficking), then he makes such comments on Greenland and Panama and also Canada - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzn4xx0q2o. I'm not going to moan about Trump, he's been duly elected, I just hope to see more of the good stuff happening.

Makes me feel sick.

Just finished watching the first season of '24'. Never watched it when it first came out; it's really good if a little aged of course. Interesting scene where a terrorist blows up a bomb that's been packed into a telecoms device, wonder who in Mossad watched '24' recently?

I'm using the Kindle App on my iPhone, but books through Amazon with OneClick. Generally works well. I've been on planes a lot in recent months so being offline having downloaded the books before has been great. I read some diverse stuff. In the last couple of months I've read: - Lee Child's 'The Secret'. - Autobiography by the ex-tour manager of Oasis (Iain Robertson). - Autobiography called "Parole", written by Rob McKeon who chaired very many Parole Boards in the UK (very interesting take on the UK's failing justice system, probably relevant to many other countries too). - John Grisham's "The Reckoning". Set in both 1940's farming and criminal justice system, alongside the US military's guerrilla actions in Bataan, Philippines, after the Death March at the hands of the Japanese military. A good book. Currently reading an autobiography called 'Shallow Graves' by Ray Fysh, who was a forensic investigator for the UK Police and ended up being at the forefront of forensic science developments in some very high profile cases. Again, very interesting.

Most western governments and media outlets do the same, brainwashing the illiterate into believing it's true. Oh wait, it is true isn't it? Fox told me...

Yet again, a wholly avoidable accident with even the most basic of common sense and safety planning.

Shouldn't be too hard to follow the money. She should stay in lock-up until all of the victims have had all of their money back, plus the same amount again for their pain.

It clearly adversely affected him for his entire adult life. Look! He's still smiling at the memory!

Utterly forgiven. Of course. Thank you.

If you look again at my comment you’ll see it has a question mark at the end. So, that means my comment was a question not a statement. If it was a statement then your reply would be valid, whether I agree or not. As it was a question then your reply is rude. Well, the last part anyhow. The rest seems a valid scientific response which I thank you for.

Is this oversight commonly available in Thailand?

Or brainwashed by MSNBC or Fox.

Oh. Like the Tories never changed anything to make it more likely they stayed in power... 😆

You mean the same type of regular monitoring of buses that might have saved those 25 souls in that October crash?