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@boot15_vu @CopMoustache @AmbJapanUK It's like really cute hostile architecture.

@CopMoustache @AmbJapanUK But is it as cool 😎 as the one at York Minster?

Took this whilst in London and immediately thought of his excellency @AmbJapanUK 😊😊

@CopMoustache @AmbJapanUK I like to tell people that's Isambard Kingdom Brunel. "and note his famous top hat..."

@history99917180 @j1f1m04 Consent is another defence to crim dam. Someone used it in the Colson statue case. But the other defences are very old. They were around when crim dam was a common law offence. The ur example being pulling down houses to prevent a fire spreading.

@HouseChambers @j1f1m04 I thought that was only if you thought the owner would agree to you doing the damage? But, you’re the expert.

And while we’re at it, young cops. If you find an animal locked inside a hot car you can use Sec. 17 PACE to enter the vehicle. You don’t need an Inspectors authority. You have a power to protect life. Please use it if necessary. And then take the animal to a Vet for a check-up.

@j1f1m04 @history99917180 Same for civvies. You have the defences of both 'lawful excuse' (S.5 Criminal Damage Act 1971) and Necessity... legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/48/…

@history99917180 Does this apply to non-Cops? what would you advise?

@ListerLawrence My girl...

Let’s end a debate. Which is the best Range Rover of all time? Like for L322 Retweet for L405.

@UllPetrus @AllForProgress_ @JohnCleese They no longer have legal advisers present for SJP. Magistrates work on their own but can telephone a legal adviser if necessary.

@AllForProgress_ @JohnCleese The Single Justice procedure is conducted by an experienced magistrate working with a legal adviser. Case bundles are passed electronically from the adviser to the magistrate who reads the documents and reaches a judgement on sentence. This is checked with the adviser.

Here's a good joke for your Bank Holiday. A British magistrate identified in court papers only as "Taylor" has been deciding convictions and sentences for more than 100 British defendants from his home. In Portugal. The arrangement, conducted under the Single Justice Procedure - which is the streamlined process by which a magistrate can deal with minor offences without an open court hearing - was running for years before anyone in the British legal system noticed it was happening, and would still be running today if a fellow magistrate had not, at considerable personal cost, refused to take part and raised the alarm. The whistleblower in question is a serving magistrate who had concluded, after some study, that what was being done was unlawful. He is now suing the Ministry of Justice. He alleges that, having flagged the practice internally, he was bullied, ostracised and progressively excluded from the work he had volunteered to do. The only thing about this that's a surprise is that it's been exposed at all. This sort of baroque, even sublime level of piss-taking is, by now, a recognisable British institutional ritual. So, I must concede, is the reaction to it. An individual notices something is wrong, says so through the proper channels, is treated by the institution as the problem, gets bullied half to death, and ends up in court. We saw it with Alan Bates, with the consultants at the Letby ward, with the surveyors at Grenfell, and now with this magistrate, who has the additional indignity of having had to bring his case while his colleague was, presumably, still in the Algarve. The Ministry of Justice's response is the part of the story that most repays attention. Asked, by Sir Jeremy Hunt MP in Parliament, whether more than 100 convictions secured by a magistrate sitting from a different country might need to be revisited, the Ministry stated that there were "no grounds to suggest that any case where the magistrate conducted remote hearings from abroad was unlawful or needed nullification." The Senior Presiding Judge then advised, in a separate communication, that magistrates and judges should not, in fact, be conducting court proceedings from outside the United Kingdom, the diplomatic objections of the foreign states involved being one of the more obvious reasons. The two positions are not formally in conflict. They are, however, the same Ministry saying that an arrangement which the senior judiciary has now banned for the future was, until ten minutes ago, completely fine. Totally alright. One hundred British defendants (at the lower end of the magistrates' jurisdiction, sure, but the lower end is where most people in this country actually encounter the courts) have now been sentenced by a man from his holiday home. When the Ministry of Justice found out, it concluded that the arrangement was fine. When the Senior Presiding Judge found out, he concluded that it was not. The whistleblower who exposed the whole thing has, predictably, been treated by his colleagues as the problem and is now suing his own Ministry. The convictions, meanwhile, stand. I just hope I get the screenplay rights to this one. It's just too perfect an encapsulation of what the British genius, once responsible for the architecture of the world and man's command over nature, has been reduced to: running obvious abuses of office, rank, and authority for years under the noses of the people paid to notice but too thick or venal to actually notice. If we weren't being consistently saved by single people, heroic individuals, willing to throw themselves into the meat grinder to expose these charlatan prats by a single individual at his own cost, it's absolutely frightening to imagine where we'd be. In respect of abuses like this, like Chagos, like the rape gangs. Anyway, the arrangement ends and the convictions stand. The magistrate will fly back from Portugal (he's still sitting!). The Ministry of Justice will issue a procedural note. The whistleblower goes to tribunal. It's not only time we root-and-branched the criminal justice system in this country - in which 'criminal justice' has come to imply an affinity for the criminal, just as the 'Taylor Swift Holy Dinner Party & Human Affairs Circuit' implies an affinity for Taylor Swift - but our approach to whistleblowing as well. These are the only people preventing our slide into barbarism, as things stand. And whistleblowers who exposed dysfunctions of this kind will, under a Progress government, be honoured for the public service they have performed, and the institutions that punished them will be held to account for the punishing.

@mhartl Spanish exclamation marks spoil the surprise.

I recently realized it makes more sense for question marks or exclamation points to come at the beginning of a sentence, with periods reserved to mark the end: ?Why not do this. !You know right away what kind of sentence it is. It may look strange, but we would quickly adjust.

@Ameer_Kotecha Judges are specifically told to just make what they think is correct decision and not to even consider or worry about the possibility of appeal. That's one of the thugs that keeps them independent.

What I find hard to understand about our justice system is this: isn’t the need for law officers to intervene to review the sentences the judge has given an indication they have seriously erred and made a grave misjudgment in applying the law? And, if so, why is intervention by the attorney general not accompanied by proper accountability and professional consequences for the judge in question?

@PaulWhitewick Another great vid. Remind me some time to tell you about writs of assistance. It is related to this.

The Secret Network Hidden Across Britain.... 🎥NEW VIDEO🎥

@ItsAndyRyan @lumipuna @Aguirre115622 Neil Armstrong would still be first man on the moon even if he’d locked Buzz in the LEM.

@lumipuna @HouseChambers @Aguirre115622 It was called the first world war, because that's what it was. It hadn't happend before at that point, you see, therefore it was the first. Calling something 'the first' doesn't necessitate a second occasion, only a lack of previous occasions.

People say this is a lot, but there's no implication in "First World War" that more will come, just that it hasn't happened before. When I said "This is the first time I've had sex", I had no expectation that it would even happen again.

@lumipuna @Aguirre115622 @ItsAndyRyan They called it the first WORLD war because that’s what it was. Although I would argue the 7 years war was just as multi national.

@HouseChambers @Aguirre115622 @ItsAndyRyan Did anyone ever call it just "World war" while the sequel was not yet evident? (I bet people mostly called it "the war" while it was their current or most recent conflict, but that's leaving the identification up to context.)

@ItsAndyRyan @Aguirre115622 I would argue the 7 years war more fit the description.

@HouseChambers @Aguirre115622 Yes. The Great War was more common. But my point was that First World War wasn't unheard of, and predated WW2.

@Aguirre115622 @ItsAndyRyan Some journalists were calling it the first world war from day one. With the emphasis being on 'world'.

@ItsAndyRyan well, up to 1940 it was more often referred to as the great war. My grandma confirmed this (born 1896). I believe "First world war" was never in common usage until we had the second one.

@PulpLibrarian That looks like a cosplay where the category was 'Freemans Catalogue'.

Narrator's voice: "they were not, in fact, Emo."

@jcole4848 @GHHILL1911 Didn't Lara Croft use USPs?

@HouseChambers @GHHILL1911 Somewhat but not enough to get the reference

Some would say the Beretta and the HK USP are outdated. I say they are fantastic shooters and great options for uniformed duty carry.

@HashtagGriswold It's also a nice backronym for 'A Company that Makes Everything"

It’s a gag lost to time. Acme is a Greek word for “pinnacle” that became ubiquitous for a time because it gave companies better placement in the phonebook. The Great Depression version of SEO.

@DietCoke_Esq @ZoilaMasOscura There's a pub I sometimes go to. Its official name is the Lanivet Inn, but everyone calls it the Panda. Because it's where they used to grow the bamboo for the pandas in London Zoo.

@ZoilaMasOscura Am I a panda…

Los pandas son la mayor prueba de que el "pretty privilege" es real. Hubo una campaña enorme para salvarlos cuando ellos-siendo omnívoros- devoran sólo bambú que no les da las calorías suficientes para vivir. Y no les interesa aparearse.

@jcole4848 @GHHILL1911 Tomb Raider fan?

@GHHILL1911 I love my M9 but have never been able to truly figure out the sights. My G17 however, has been a perfect no complaints workhorse Always wanted a USP

@GHHILL1911 "Can't be bothered squeezing the trigger? Have we got something for you." ~ SIG

@DrAaronEdwards Does Martin McGartland get a mention?

‘Agents of Influence is a forensically detailed account of Britain’s intelligence operation in #NorthernIreland” - Sunday Business Post “The book’s major contribution is its description of the human aspects of #intelligence operations” - James Stejskal, former CIA case officer