Geoff Norcott

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This case strikes me as extraordinary, both for the police behaviour and judge's apparent direction to the jury. Carrying an 8" knife is illegal with very limited exceptions which do not include "self defence". The Criminal Justice Act makes that plain, and the Sentencing Council says in terms "carrying a knife or other weapon for protection is not a lawful reason. " The Attorney General should be reviewing both this case and the case of the two teenage rapists ASAP. I don't know what is happening with our justice system at the moment, and I am not alone in that concern. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Three cheers for that audience member. And deft moderation by @StephenJardine. “So wait a minute… we pay the supermarkets to lower their prices… is that what you’re suggesting?” An unusually entertaining and illuminating 90 seconds from last week’s #bbcdn

This is the chef's kiss of Reform policy ideas. The perfect example of public appeal vs retarded policy. Which is really what Reform is all about. There are so many ways this would will be abused or backfire so I will list them all. 1. I said last night, company directors/owners will suddenly be earning 60 hours weeks every week (but not really). 2. Employee collusion - Business convert salaried roles to lower rate hourly pay, but pays fake "overtime". The employee gets more take home pay but the employer's payroll costs reduce. 3. Diversion - Many jobs don't pay overtime. Teachers for example. If they did, we'd be bankrupt. Why go into teaching on £35k a year when you could earn that on less hours with overtime elsewhere? Efficiently run company don't have overtime opportunities at all, making them less attractive than those that do. 4. Unfair advantage - Let's say your a small landscaping company employing 5 guys by gaming the system above. You have an unfair advantage over the bigger company playing by the rules. Jobs will be lost as smaller, less scrupulous companies gain advantage over those that play by the rules. 5. It shrinks the job market - Offering overtime becomes a recruitment advantage. In which case employing 5 people to do a job with overtime is better than employing 6 with none. 6. It can shrink productivity - It's now in your interest to stretch your workload over more hours or game the system. Which means more hours worked for the same production. 7. If you think the answer is that there will be increased compliance enforcement and auditing from an already overwhelmed HMRC when Reform want to cut the civil service I'm afraid you're mistaken.

@Strombolli4 Maul was epic

@GeoffNorcott Interesting! My ex Star Wars obsessive kids refuse to watch anything other than cartoons like Clone Wars/Maul now and I’m going to have to see it on my own. All down to Last Jedi of course and the one that’s called “that cunt Rhian Johnson” in our house.

Saw Mandalorian & Grogu with my son. Most of the criticism are valid, but I enjoyed in nonetheless. The old fashioned stop-motion animation was awesome. And my son LOVED it - which might be the point.

@DangerRuss_P Not liking Star Wars is now a lifestyle choice for some. It reminded me of the old Jason and the Argonauts / Clash of the Titans films. My son's never seen something like that, so he was blown away by all the giant beasts.

Seen a few times of the reviews from the big YouTubers and they’ve been massively hyped by (and are the protagonists of) the anti Star Wars movement. The trailer looked entertaining to me. How dare they make a daft bit entertaining film for kids and not pander to the man-babies 😆

Good luck to this chap, but i feel like Rylan hearing he didn’t get the strictly job.

When you know you fucked up

In my defence I thought it said Man Utd Obviously I don’t think Ryan Giggs played for City 🤦🏻‍♂️

He’s right. It’s a fucking disgrace.

RIP Judith, but you’re name will live on whenever anyone you know goes on more than 2 holidays a year.

You can catch me tonight walking the BRIDGE OF LIES. BBC 1 - 5pm @rosskemptv @BBCOne @BBCiPlayer

@MathewHulbert @TimesRadio It’s temporary back next week I think

@GeoffNorcott @TimesRadio I don't suppose you know why the YouTube feed hasn't been working for days, do you?

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@DaveBoro1770 @AndyBurnhamGM @wesstreeting @christiancalgie That’s a decent heckle 😂

@GeoffNorcott @AndyBurnhamGM @wesstreeting @christiancalgie Stick to not doing comedy, Geoff.

Mr @christiancalgie has been busy putting out a partial version of events these last few days, amplified by yourselves. I think it’s time all your readers had the whole story. They were all out of order and, if they had any decency, would now hold their hands up and apologise.

By the way, I’m aware Edinburgh is the capital….but it’s also not really is it?

How is Edinburgh coming that far ahead of Glasgow? Guessing these people have never been to Edinburgh or Glasgow.

I thought for a moment this said “Three boys avoid jail after rape of two teenage girls.”