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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... Patel.html

Interestingly, not allowing comments on this article

EDIT: maybe because its an on going legal matter

I don't know where else to put this. The Fail reports a Mediterranean bird has started breeding in the British Isles while continuing to run articles denying climate change is real.

Boasting a long, curved bill and iridescent feathers, these heron–like birds are most commonly spotted on the Mediterranean coast.

But the exotic Glossy Ibis has started breeding in the UK, experts have confirmed, with hundreds of birds recorded across Britain and Ireland...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech ... ng-UK.html

Will the flagwankers be protesting about these forrin burds cumin over ere and taking are nesting sites?

More likely to all be posting the same "joke" in the mistaken beliefs that it's a) their idea, and b) funny.

Woman fails to comply with instructions from the police. She should consider her self lucky that she wasn't shot

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ondon.html

My mistake.

Moment woman is handcuffed by police and fined £100 'for feeding pigeons' in London

You'll be shocked to hear, in literally the final paragraph of the story, that

'A woman, in her 40s, was repeatedly asked to provide her name and address so that a fixed penalty notice could be issued.

'After speaking with officers for around 20 minutes, she repeatedly refused to provide her personal details. She was arrested on suspicion of breaching Section 50 of the Police Reform Act, which requires people to provide their name and address when requested to do so by the police.

As ever, there are a couple of puzzling things there. If a litter warden asks for your name you can walk away; they have no powers of arrest and the police are rarely on hand. Then if the police do arrive, they'll give you the chance to pick up any litter you might have dropped. Then there's the bit about them being with her for twenty minutes. I wonder if, by any chance, she's a Freeperson of the Land?

The article states that.

It comes after a series of incidents which have seen Brits fined for seemingly harmless behaviour including the passing out of leaflets campaigning against council cuts and leaving furniture outside to go to a good home.

I'm not sure why the word 'Brits' has been inserted into the sentence but that's the mail for you. But in the first two cases people were fined because they ignored reasonable requests to stop doing what they are doing and in the case of people leaving furniture outside with signs saying please take, leaving a note next to stuff that you have dumped outside doesn't exempt you from being fined for fly tipping.

It's Alan Partridge with the old lady athlete. They don't play by the rules, until they do, and need to bend the rules, at which point they are just showing off their corruption.

Or in short, rules don't apply to nice people like me.

The Mail's front page is indignant Burnham will be an unelected PM. Do you really want to go there, DM, when you're 4-2 up on that score this century.

But it'll play well to the Mailreading retired colonels eating their egg soldiers at the breakfast table this morning. "Marjorie! Marjorie! This Burnside fellow, or burnt toast or whatever his darn name is, is Labour's latest shameless disregard for the electorate! Remember that odd little Scottish fellow Broon or Brown, wretched little man who sold our gold to fund the great unwashed, buying the jobless plasma televisions and giving gold plated pensions to everyone in the public sector, he was another they foisted on us without so much as a by your leave."

AOB wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2026 2:11 pm The Mail's front page is indignant Burnham will be an unelected PM.

As ever the Mail (probably correctly) are relying on their readership's ignorance of the UK constitution.
We don't elect Prime Ministers anymore than we elect Chancellors or Home Secretaries,, we elect manifestos and the winning party appoints the team to deliver it - including the PM.
Burnham's mandate is the manifesto that the public voted for, just like every other PM, provided he sticks to it, he's golden.

davidjay wrote: ↑Fri Jan 09, 2026 10:24 pm As ever, there are a couple of puzzling things there. If a litter warden asks for your name you can walk away; they have no powers of arrest and the police are rarely on hand. Then if the police do arrive, they'll give you the chance to pick up any litter you might have dropped. Then there's the bit about them being with her for twenty minutes. I wonder if, by any chance, she's a Freeperson of the Land?

Litter wardens are bastards for picking on easy targets and using intimidating tactics - threats of calling the police and you'll get a criminal record being the usual. If she didn't want to play along all she had to do was walk away, into a public building (a shop for example) and out the back door.