Sgt.Squarehead

The Spanish government just imploded: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44328463

MBS is apparently not dead: http://www.newsweek.com/wheres-mohammed-bin-salman-not-dead-according-saudi-arabia-950996 TBH I hadn't seen any suggestion that he was dead until I read this article, but I do recall those videos of the 'drone incident'.....Interesting times, eh?

Looks like Italy will have a government after all: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/giuseppe-conte-italy-prime-minister-election-latest-five-star-league-party-coalition-populist-a8378281.html

Shooting, allegedly involving a 'machine-gun' in the UK: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/stonebridge-shooting-man-fighting-for-life-in-hospital-after-being-shot-in-northwest-london-a3852751.html Suspect it will prove otherwise, but you never know.....A bunch of reactivated MAC-10s & Skorpions surfaced not so long ago.

@Sturgeon Some more 'interesting things', neatly summarised & collated: https://medium.com/@markfmccarty/hey-republicans-about-that-russian-meddling-thing-a0454284bb3b

Video's gone. Found this: & this: Both seem to be partial remnants?

Our local iron age hill-fort (British Camp, Malvern): I can see my house from here! Nice plan view: I'm trying to find some pictures looking straight up at the ramparts from the plain below, but no luck so far.....Trust me, it's fekkin steep!

Aaaah.....I'd assumed he was creating something like what is described in your link, the unnecessary duplication rather takes the shine off things, doesn't it. Trump is hard work.

I kind of like apple pie TBH.

I had genuinely overlooked that fact.....Apologies, previous post edited.

Right back at ya!

Sorry no, that's a judicial power in the UK.....If the government want people locked up they make a case and present it to the judiciary for resolution (It's actually the same in the US I believe). This is what the appeal system and the layers of superior courts are for (this too is the same in the US). Would you prefer the press intimidate the judiciary? If so Trump's fucked! From my perspective much of what you consider free speech could alternatively be thought of as behaviour liable to cause a breach of the peace.

Nobody ever said Israeli strikes weren't effective.....Legal on the other hand. TBH if détente can be achieved, Syria is allowed to clear its border and maybe the two parties could even start talking to each other, it wouldn't be such a bad result after all (for a criminal act).

I can't get my head around him at all.....But sometimes it's hard not to like him, for a while at least: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/right-try-trump-law-terminally-ill-patients-experimental-therapies-a8376726.html

Dude.....Our misunderstanding seems broader than that, in the UK the judiciary is an entirely separate branch of the state, this is nothing to do with the government whatsoever. The judges are not acting on their own fiat, they are doing their job, which is to interpret and apply British law (including statutes sent to them by the government). He's out of the way and the message has been well & properly sent.....Job done.

Fair comment.....I still stand by my statement in the broader picture, there are quite a lot of rather disgruntled homeless people just to the south of the lines I depicted, I suspect that some of them might have 'designs'.

I refer the gentleman to my earlier statement: You and I both know that at least somebody would use the excuse that the gag order for the first trial didn't cover the second to produce prejudicial reporting.....Robinson would just love the trial to collapse so he could point the finger at the judiciary, this is his MO. Look at his pathetic bleats in the last couple of lines in the Wiki article, claiming he had no idea he might prejudice the trial. The cunt was convicted and received a suspended sentence (which he is now serving) for exactly that!

Yet I seem to be able to say what I want, both online and in person publically, without repercussions.....Strangeness indeed! I wonder if not being a racist prick about it might be a factor?

Have to agree, Israel's ability to make something effective from a redundant chassis is very impressive.

The risk of influencing the jury in the other trial is sufficient.....Do you think that the press (or the comments sections) would restrict themselves to reporting the facts? All of them? The British judiciary can be very pragmatic.

We're out of synch!

Here's Wiki's take on Tommy Robinson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Robinson_(activist

WaPo free is bugged for me on that article. Interesting article @Sturgeon but I can't say I agree with most of it, the judge's reasoning seems pretty damned sound to me; It's not all about Robinson (except perhaps inside his demented little skull).....Why would any sane member of the judiciary let a known racist provocateur (it was this mob's videos that got Trump in trouble a while back) endanger another, vastly more significant, on-going trial with 49 defendants & 700 charges? Robinson's case was solely related to this other trial and thus widespread reporting of it would likely be as prejudicial as Robinson's own ranting. One other thing has occurred to me though.....The 49 defendants in the 'Grooming' trial very likely present a serious radicalisation risk for the future IMHO.....The offences they've been charged with place them in a very, very unpopular class of prisoner, they are mostly Muslims, so who are they likely to turn to for protection from the wrath of the general prison population?

It wasn't as far as I can tell.....Can you show me the sources for this? If it's from Robinson's crew BTW don't bother, they don't have a fucking clue what they are on about legally speaking (as their utter genius in getting themselves banged up clearly demonstrates), or for that matter, on any other subject. PS - Keep in mind that Robinson's trial receives the same protections from the press as any other, whether the defendant likes it or not. PPS - From Snopes, reporting restrictions guide .pdf: https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/reporting-restrictions-guide-may-2016-2.pdf

Snopes on 'The Robinson Affair': https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tommy-robinson-arrest/ Hope this makes it all a little clearer.