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Scone should be pronounced scone. Scon is unacceptable.

I never thought I would find myself living in Dickensian England.

That's how far democracy has gone down the drain, that even criticising cancel culture is 'brave'.

Careful with that pitchfork, Eugene. Free speech is a civil liberty, not right wing.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/civil-liberty

Take it to a witch-burning.

Perhaps he can get a job at the Daily Mail.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12636545/cartoonist-steve-bell-refuses-apologist-anti-Semitic-Netanyahu-sketch.html

The Guardian was started by Unitarians who are supposed to be open to ideas, but now it fully embraces cancel culture and censorship, like any orthodoxy.

Let's make farting in public a crime.

But there won't be a general election until 2025. And a week is a long time in politics.

First principle: "To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles

The original purpose of the police was crime prevention. They should be out on the beat, not sitting in the office staring at screens. Having police wandering around deters crime.

The EU is a corrupt totalitarian regime run by banks for their own benefit. The reason we have private finance initiatives which force public services to pay high interest rates is because of EU laws preventing borrowing from central banks.

Why doesn't the EU stop doing protectionism and reform itself?

You can see what the problem is every time you see the EU cookie notice.