Vince Green

My stepdaughter's car, a new Mazda, is exactly the same. Oncoming cars flash her before her headlight automatically dip. Sometimes more than once. She is oblivious to it, she says that's how her hesdlights work. They also don't dip when she drives into an area with street lighting. So she basically drives on full headlights nearly all the time because "that's what the dealership told me to do"

It turns out that the man that was hit by the MP was just standing at a taxi rank waiting for a taxi and the MP walked up to him. The MP's version is that he was the one that was accosted and punched in self defence but that is becoming more implausible by the minute. CCTV doesn't lie

The trouble is that more than half the advertisers from a few years back have gone now and those that are left don't see enough return on the cost of advertising to justify a big spread. So sales go down and it becomes a viscious spiral

An anonomous party official will visit the victim and discreetly offer him money not to make a complaint . No complaint no crime and the whole thing goes away.

How do you make reparations to people who are dead?

The thing is nobody would have known about it if Sophia Patel, Labour's Head of Operations hadn't gone on line and asked for volunteers. A bit stupid, nothing is secret once you have put it on their website

Apparently it's been going on for years. It still doesn't make it right and questions have to be asked. Another own goal for Starmer

Yes like my family. An agricultural worker in those days was no better than a slave

You, of all people, should know that there is no such word as 'might' in the legal lexicon. He either did or he didn't. In this case he didn't so all this other talk is idle chatter. The law protects everyone, even drug dealer scumbags to the same high standard. They can't shoot people for trying to escape or for something that happened two days prior. He was unarmed and he DIDNT ram his way out. So despite all the police trying to muddy the water. He was executed by a met police man while he not doing anything to justify shooting him. End of story

Yes black powder residue will absorb moisture from the air.

But he wasn't was he? What if? or Maybe? doesn't come into into it. It's a tough job for the police because it's not fair, but when they strap on that gun they strap on all the responsibilities and the personal risk to their career as well. If a doctor gives the wrong drugs or an electrician wires up a job wrongly and someone dies they are professionally responsible and liable in just the same way

Even, hypothetically, if he was able to ram his way out and escape that doesn't constitute an immediate threat to life, which is the only reason an officer is allowed to shoot someone in this country to prevent happening. This is not America where people do get shot simply for trying to escape. The rules are very tight and very precise and were not followed on this occasion.

He shot an unarmed man who had both his hands visible on the steering wheel The car was completely boxed in and wasn't going anywhere Like I said before you can't just say "Ooops sorry " It doesn't matter whether the man he shot was a drug dealer scumbag or the Archbishop of Canterbury. The law must be the same for everyone. Everyone must be equally protected by the law, even if they don't deserve it and the world is better off without them.

Yes but the onus is still on the prosecution to prove it. If they go to trial but then present a deliberately weak case so they dont prove it then they are effectively handing him a not guilty verdict. And everyone can go home and forget about it. The victim may have been a low life, I don't think that's in any doubt but the law has to be upheld. Was it a trial or was it a put up job?

Whatever the circumstances, he made a mistake and somebody died as a result You can't just say "Ooops sorry" Anyway, the charge was wrongly placed. To be found guilty of murder they have to prove it was pre meditated. Which, of course, they knew could not be done. Greatly increasing the likelihood that he would be found not guilty. Had he be charged with negligent homicide or manslaughter he probably would have been found guilty. They knew that. The police /CPS didn't want him convicted, it's the last thing they wanted. But they had to be seen to go through the motions So an unprovable charge, coupled with a lacklustre prosecution results in a not guilty verdict. The officer walks and the problem goes away.

Any gunshop is a bit of a liability to pass on I would imagine. A very uncertain future with no real prospect of it ever getting better. It's a shame because they were a really well known name. I bought from them so did most of my friends. If I remember correctly they were big on mail order back in the day. The loss of mail order must have affected them. A sad loss

I was told when I lived near there that the money donated was put into a fund to alleviate hardship resulting from the tragedy This , it was said, was because they didn't want the money to be seen as blood money and just handed out. The proud miners wouldn't have wanted it anyway. Seeing it as buying them off. The problem then arises that it's difficult to identify hardship resulting from the loss of a child. Depression, grief, PTSD etc. but hardship? So because it was set up as a hardship fund few claims were ever successful. The trustees of the fund set the bar too high, probably trying to be prudent. The money has become a bit of urban folklore now. Allegedly there are still trustees administering the fund but most of the parents and survivors have now joined the victims in the hillside cemetery near the A470.

Ireland has been quite badly affected. Thousands without power.

As London Best said It's impossible in ordinary use to wear ten thou out of a barrel but lapping was common in the days of corrosive primers pre WW2

Apparently, you can buy fake but very convincing looking driving licences on the internet for about £10. They will put any name and photo on them. I have no personal experience I would like to make clear Two questions 1) what honest person would have any reason to want to buy one? 2) what is the point in photo ID anyway? If you can buy fake ID for a tenner? Fingerprint or facial recognition is the way forward

The authorities have known about SWP, WRP and RCP and their various subsidiary organisations like CND and Just Stop Oil since way back but have never seemed to call them to account.

I should imagine there are a lot of countries in NATO that are nothing like as laid back about paying their fair share since Russia invaded Ukraine As for the ECHR it's not just past its useful life. It never had a useful purpose in the beginning. Its the classic example of woke for woke sake. It provides a good living for probably thousands of pointless pen pushers but unless you are one of those pointless pen pushers I can't see it's point.

The army takes in impressionable young men. Fills their heads with the belief they are some sort of elite. Then one day it's "Bye, Thanks and here's your coat. Shut the door on the way out" The music business does much the same

The Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has said that Russia is facilitating illegal migration (both openly and behind the scenes) in order to destabilise the EU I don't think he is wrong, why would he say that if he didn't believe it was true?

Another victim of 'the price of fame' Like many before him