In his downtime I think he should consider touring with Angine de Poitrine. They’re black and white/white and black, he’s grey, they’re all aliens; it would be a mash up made in heaven.

Hopefully he’ll be kicked out of the university of Ghent, just like he was at Cambridge.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sqBAjGVruKw

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You’re exactly right.

Writing in The Telegraph, Mr Jenrick said: “We will not pretend this is painless.

He won’t be the one feeling the pain, he is openly admitting that he is setting out to cause pain to British citizens.

They’re so evil

I think there were other institutions that he had been associated with that also cleared him. Cambridge will likely only look at work he’s done while with them, and defer to Liverpool or others for work he did elsewhere.

even if this poor guy did plagiarise blatantly

From what I understand, he didn’t. He lied and embellished his previous experience, but I don’t think any of the claims of plagiarism have stuck.

Most of the investigations into his allegations of plagiarism, the ones that have concluded, determined that he did not plagiarise.

Allegations that were made by a self-described “race-realist”.

Did he actually get found guilty of plagiarism? I thought most if not all investigations put him in the clear for that.

According to the article, this was literally grown in the University of Reading’s International Cocoa Quarantine Centre, where they have 300 different types of cocoa plants, and then it was prepared pretty much solely by a student.

Not sure how “commercially viable” their supply is, but maybe the paper details that possibility. Or maybe the BBC article is just fluff.

Tbf, generally the UK on the whole is much more accepting than a lot of other places. There are noisy and growing fringe movements, but the quiet majority of Brits just want everyone to queue up and get on with it.

Relations between the UK and Israel have been increasingly strained in recent months, especially since Andy Burnham took over in No 10. Shortly before becoming prime minister, he apologised for Labour’s initial response to Israel’s military action in Gaza, saying the party “didn’t get it right” and needed to “do better” under his leadership, signalling a significant shift in the UK’s approach to the Middle East.

This line literally made me tilt my head. The Guardian can’t make up their mind whether Burnham is the reason the relationship with Israel is strained, or whether Barnham becoming PM is going to make it better.

Not even that, the investigation could continue regardless of him being an MP, it’s more that the consequences of a parliamentary investigation are limited to parliament, so there’s little point if he’s no longer an MP (except they could prevent him from ever being an MP again). And the police can also investigate separately, but they traditionally hold off until a parliamentary investigation is completed.

I had a second fucking alert a few hours later.

Some of the most successful piracy rings are paid services. This is particularly true of live sports - I’ve tried watching them for free and it’s such a whack a mole game. My favourite memory was the time I tried watching 24 hours Le Mans one year, they managed to kill all the free streams for the last 2 hours of the race.

And they each charge ten grand a day.

on the other hand, it reveals their irresponsibility: They are willing to spend such a large sum to silence criticism of their actions

It’s even worse than that, they basically poured the public purse into their favourite contractors’ hands, all so they could then pin liability for that expense onto the artist who criticised them.

£50k to clean a small section of wall. Even with it being a listed building and even if they couldn’t figure out how to clean it off right away, that’s a ridiculous figure for what likely amounted to little more than 2 skilled workers over 3 days. Ten grand a day.

Hey now, they only paid £50k.

Seeing as the BBC is basically trying to sensationalise this, I’ll break down the figures.

• First, it’s across two works, not just the protestor one but the statue with the guy marching holding a flag that’s blowing in his face.
• For the judge & protestor the government spent £50k trying to remove it, and £35k in overtime and securtity, total £85k.
• For the flag guy the government spent £60k on fencing and security.
• Total overall is £145k. The BBC rounded this up even though it’s literally the same character count, which further points to their sensationalism.

£95k of their “£150k” was spent on security, which no one and nothing called for. £50k on cleaning is also crazy, even for a listed building.

The government’s careless spending should not be blamed on activists, especially in response to the activists criticising the government.

to get certain discounts, you need a clubcard.

This part is relatively new, Tesco were the first to do it but 5 years ago the normal offers were available for everyone regardless of loyalty card. But clubcard has existed for a long time before then - there were discounts and money off to be had though, through clubcard points.