Lawyers for the Tates said the brothers had offered to be interviewed by Bedfordshire police in Romania and had undertaken to give up £20,000 each if they revealed the names of their accusers in the UK.

They didn’t just try to get the names, they tried to bribe the police - with relative pocket change - for the names.

How can they act when they’re on holiday?

I mean if you’re going to have an ambassador to Trump, someone who was also friends with Epstein almost sounds appropriate…

The waste is throwing in the towel less than halfway through over nothing.

The article spends an awful lot of time talking about the government and pretty much glosses over the media.

The government responds to public interest, if there is more public interest on a topic the government will spend more time addressing it.

Public interest is by and large driven by the media (and even when it’s not it often appears to be so).

The problem here is that the media is not covering this widely enough. This is perhaps understandable with privately owned media, who have their own vested interests, but I think the bigger question is why state-funded news organisations aren’t better at picking this up. That is a root cause and political issue.

Did you notice that they said no reputable international economists actually say that?

But you’re right to call out the accusatory tone of @Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com’s comment, that did kind of spoil an otherwise very informative post.

I actually kind of think Cameron introducing austerity may have been worse, overall, over time. Brexit was a fumble, but austerity was malicious.

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I’m just trying to imagine what kind of holiday £300k might buy…

I get Nick Clegg vibes from Burnham tbh (similar to Zack Polanski of the Green Party), it feels like it’s only a matter of time before he betrays everyone who buys into his words.

The fact that Wes Streeting has put his hat in with Burnham all but confirms it.

Murdoch says we need a new PM so…

To add to your reminder, they almost certainly used Israeli hacking technology, licensed and approved by the Israeli government as an arms export. Specifically the NSO’s Pegasus toolkit. Jamal Khashoggi’s devices were never recovered, but his wife’s, his lawyer’s, and several of his friends’ devices were examined and found to have been infected.

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08803692

In 2022 they didn’t have their name anywhere on the building. It does look like there are 7 floors, at least.

It’s got little to do with feddit.uk and more to do with IP. You can’t even access lemmings.world directly with a UK IP. Even if you try to view this post on any other instance it will still be blocked.

It’s a really annoying block, too. Because the instance is hosted outside of the UK’s jurisdiction, and thus cannot be held to British law. It would only be an issue for the instance if they accept payments using payment processors, who are actually pushing all of this. It’s MasterCard and VISA looking to fuck with people and make more money - one of the easiest accepted ways of verifying age is via a card transaction, which they get a cut of. Just like how they encourage tipping culture on their payment machines, now that everyone uses cards instead of cash - their transaction percentage charge includes the tip.

But yeah, I don’t think the instance takes payments, so it’s bullshit to block UK IPs in this way. It’s a hollow social justice gesture that does harm instead of good.

They talk about woke like it’s a bad thing, but it just makes me want to scream “WHEN WILL YOU WAKE UP, YOU SHEEP?!”

Lol, actually rejected by the community.

Censored f–k or f*ck or whatever doesn’t really convey a different tone, other than trying to say something without saying it. Which is annoying and frustrating, it puts work onto the listener that should have been done by the communicator.

Fork does come out with a different tone, because it doesn’t sound as harsh. It’s like how saying shit is a bit less severe than saying fuck - fork would be less than both of these, maybe on par with crap.

BSG, frak yeah!!

You’re a part of the same brigade.

talking out your racist ass

I’m not going to engage with you. Grow the fuck up.