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By Andy McDandy
#91391
Every now and again, the tabloids will send a junior reporter through an airport, carrying a box labelled "bomb", and they will then run a headline about "Chilling lack of security as holiday Brits jet off". What if it wasn't just a cardboard box? What if they had got to the planes? What do we put on the front page, nothing's happening?

I appreciate this is more than just standing outside the base perimeter wiggling their bums, but calls to charge these people with treason (see Littlecock today) are frankly ludicrous.
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By Tubby Isaacs
#91396
Watchman wrote: Tue Jun 24, 2025 8:15 am Would it have been seen as terrorism if they had broken into Heathrow, and spray painted the engine on an El Al aircraft
Good question. It wasn’t terrorism to smash up Barclays Bank. I’d say no but it would probably be cumulative.
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By Tubby Isaacs
#91421
Can Starmer and others stop talking about the "moral" case for disability cuts? Even if we're incredibly generous to the Government and regard the cuts as "necessary" (which these cuts aren't, knock some money off the NHS if you have to, it's the only budget large enough where you might find efficiencies), don't talk to people about "morality".
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By Tubby Isaacs
#91426
Zoe Jardinere pointing out on LBC that in 2003 Starmer defended activists on trial for damaging oil tankers supplying US airplanes bound for Iraq.
I'm sure confusing lawyers with their clients will end well for the liberal left.

Does she think this plane would have gone to bomb Iran?
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By Tubby Isaacs
#91441
Bit of a problem here.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... ed-reforms
Headteachers in England threaten to quit as Ofsted inspectors over proposed overhaul
Unions urge government to delay and revise changes to way schools are graded or headteachers will stop assisting inspectors
Getting rid of the single judgement was right, but 11 ratings sounds like too many. Got to be possible to reduce these.
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