Watawattana

Good and sensible comments from this Norwegian. Let's hope the UK Government listens and uses common sense on this matter. Second sentence hopefully conveys a feeling of irony to the readers...

This first part of the quote is laughable. That spokesman surely can't think that anyone in the planet believes him? The second part of the quote is far more positive. The media can go back to that spokesman whenever any prison officer gets hurt to remind him that the Ministry of Justice has not in fact done whatever it takes to protect their hardworking staff. Must have been a wet behind the ears junior who gave that quote.

The Rwanda deal must surely be easy to get done? Just scratch out the letters 'U' & 'K', then add USA. That way the UK will have paid for all the ground work to be done, and the USA can enjoy a bit of freeloading off of the UK for a change, rather than the other way round? 😂🤭

Congrats to the police, and great news that the owner got his bike back.

Does this also mean that the women on Soi 6 will be required to stand off of the street to avoid causing an obstruction?

I wonder which one of his mates has paid through the nose to be lined up for the top job in this new department?

I hope the cost of this was borne by the organisation/people promoting Windrush commemoration.

RIP.

Well done the restaurant owners. Payback for the thousands of years of buggery committed by so many in the catholic church. 😂

From reading the OP it does seem that an appropriate process has been followed. Don't see a link to the rule that clarifies "do X and your visa is revoked", but I'm sure NYP's 'source' knows the rule and that it is being followed, especially when that source refers to littering and that this doesn't mean a visa is revoked.

Blair says current net zero policies 'doomed to fail' Just like your search for Iraqi WMD then Tony?

Or a bar for another beer?

I'm sure the Dems were 100% transparent on 100% of the transactions when they were in power. Once again the Dems look ridiculous, whether or not they have a reasonable point to make.

I'm lucky to have been to 43 out of the 50 states. Had lots and lots of really great food, lots of not so great. New Orleans was one of my favourites, and Maine seafood is also right up there. I've not had great Thai food in the US, but I know that's my bad luck.

Agree. Badenoch is right to make her point too; if this election was to be based on national issues it's possible that this might be a record low turnout as most voters will be either be disgusted by Labour (correctly) and will remember the appallingly poor recent Tory government (also obviously correct). Either that or Reform will get a landslide or the independent candidates will do really well.

I've worked in this industry for over 38 years, and been involved in quite a few investigations. The majority of accidents have multiple causal factors. The most common is called 'human factors'. Reading all that I have about this crash, and even in this thread there are some good points, what you've said Presnock is likely the final causal factor in this crash, not this first. And in between the first and the last there's likely dozens if not 100s of issues that led to that final failure; had any one of those items not been there then it's likely all of these souls would still be with their families. We used to call it the 'Swiss cheese effect', that cheese with all the holes in it. If all of the Swiss cheese slices align you can see all the way through, move one slice a little bit and all of a sudden you can't see all the way through. I got some points to make by asking everyone a question. At work or in personal life there is likely at least one occasion where your brain gets kind of over-loaded by information that takes a bit of time to sort out, but you probably were able to do so. Sensory overload is a name for it. A possible scenario is you are driving in bad weather, there's a car coming towards you with it's lights on main beam, the kids are fighting in the back, you lost a bunch of money at the craps table last night, you have a big issue at work, you're a bit hungover from last night, your wife is nagging at you as she saw a questionable message or photo on your phone and a dog runs out. Hope you get the picture. You brake you slide & crash, you swerve and you hit the oncoming car or a tree, you hit the horn and the dog stops to look at you so you run over the dog. Or, you take your foot off the gas and let the dog keep on going. Best is the last of course. But would you do this? You might if your parents shared their experiences with you and gave you that 'procedure' to follow to avoid the worst. Sorry this is long, but I'm trying to give a picture of the sensory overload that this pilot was likely going through. Night vision goggles at night, with literally 100s of external light sources. Possibly one of the flight crew chatting about the bar they're going to later, instructions to other aircraft that are on the same frequency as she's trying to listen to. Pressure from the USAF and her instructor to get this evaluation done without any delay or cancellation. Multiple relevant but possibly conflicting instructions from multiple sources on the actions to take to avoid catastrophe (radio, other flight crew, flight instruments, blaring ACAS alert etc.). The latter point is the final causal factor in Uberlingen - and they were male pilots. BANG! Other causal factors? Being allowed to fly visual in controlled airspace close to a busy airport. There's a biggie isn't it. That isn't allowed?, 99.999999999% certainty that this crash would never happen. The FAA's failure to assess this as one of the biggest risk factors, then mitigate that risk, is one of the biggest causal factors here. This poor woman was at the end of a very long chain of events (failures, holes in the Swiss cheese), nearly all of them solvable or avoidable, nearly every one of them, if fixed or avoided, would have meant that this accident would never have happened. But yes, her actions or inactions appear, at the end, to have led to this accident. Shame on anyone who automatically blames the woman.

Maybe it's time for any failed impeachment effort to be paid by those who brought it, and not the tax payer. Might stop the frivolous attention grabbing stupidity. No matter what I think of Donald or whether this effort has any real merit, it's going to fail. Better using any evidence they have in the mid-terms so the voting public can decide? Or take evidence through the court system if something the Reps are doing is against the law? As others have already said, the Dems would be better spending their time getting better, finding someone capable of being elected, and policies capable of acceptance by the majority of voters in each state.

Maybe the world might think about not ditching cash for electronic payment systems?

She must have passed her flying exams to the required standard. This was an annual flight evaluation, so she was a qualified pilot. The fact that's she female is irrelevant, there should have been no allowances made to her based on gender (if there was then those accountable should be held to account). If she was incompetent throughout her entire career (and it seems she was incompetent in this instance). There's been no evidence that I've seen of her ongoing incompetence, including not being good enough to get her wings. The investigation will uncover her piloting record and it'll likely become public domain. Aviation accidents usually get looked into in such a depth that pretty much everything and anything will come out. But yeah, I expect there's a a lot in this that if money wasn't wasted on DEI 💩 then all these people would still be with their familes. Money spent on DEI isn't being spent on procedures, training and systems that would have avoided this crash. Money spend on useless layers of management isn't being spent on procedures, training and systems that would have avoided this crash. This was an accident waiting to happen; a completely avoidable accident. Apparently there had been 100s of incidents around this airport that should have been acted upon, but were not, and the procedures were not changed when they should have been. Although it's easy to blame the pilot, I think it's better blame the pilot AND investigate why she was put into this position in the first place. DEI is a convenient excuse, but I'm not swallowing that; the root cause in my opinion is far deeper within the culture of the FAA than just the easy 'out' of blaming the woman. "Safety First" seems not to exist in the FAA.

Although I totally agree with you, it just isn't how vehicular crimes are viewed by the majority of governments. People know they are driving something that can kill, but they still drive poorly, and all too often the sentences are a couple of years only when it really should be 15-20 years+.

Incredibly shocking and sad.

Idiots. But, I'm sure if the lid is lifted on this idiotic council more 'guff' will be found, whilst tax payers suffer.

Horse. Door. Bolted.

Classic Thai misunderstanding. Glad that nothing bad happened of course.

I'm sure that this could be written off as a classic Thai-style misunderstanding?