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Dr D

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  1. The English and the Irish shouting at each other about being British. When everyone concerned I think in this thread resides in the United Kingdom. Well it would hardly be a Kingdom without a monarch! And (yes And! Because I'm not going to win the Pulitzer with this post) the Irish (at least in Ireland the state not the island) love the royals. They can't get enough of them on O'Connell Street. Maybe they will rejoin the Commonwealth. Now that would throw a spanner in a pointless debate.
  2. Farmers in my experience spend a lot of time by themselves and I think this fosters quite a black sense of humour. So, the intrepid pigeon shooter turns up to check out the osr. Mr farmer is standing in the field flying a drone around. What's that for? Oh, you needn't worry about shooting those ******* anymore. I've got myself a drone. 😂😂😂😂
  3. We are island surrounded by many small, but secure islands with lots of space. I just don't understand why they are not utilised. Pick one far enough from the mainland and the security is sorted. The labour force is already there, I.e the prisoners to build it. Plus they get skills in process.
  4. Absolutely correct. Several thousand members of staff in the FCO might have a legitimate grievance.
  5. Chain gangs under armed guards, doing all public works plus full tariff sentencing. If you work hard your tariff may be reduced. If you don't you do the full stretch!?!?
  6. I certainly never said we 'couldnt' do as you suggest. I just posed the opinion that we 'shouldnt'. Not least because I don't think human rights are to blame, and therefore doing away with some of them isn't the answer. Also changing the HRA, would be pointless unless we also withdrew from the echr. The judges would continue to look to Strasbourg jurisprudence knowing that such cases would probably end up there. Of course, this would mean leaving the council of europe. But I suppose we are already leaving the EU. In for a penny, in for pound! Oh, but there's also that pesky UN, covenant on civil and political rights which mirrors the echr articles. The UK has ratified the treaty and the courts look to it for guidance. Perhaps we should leave the UN. Why not. Isolationism versus universal human rights norms. I'm not sure that's the answer?!?!?
  7. Now you know that doesn't make any sense and is counterintuitive to the first principle of human rights law - universality. There are no deserving and undeserving, just 'humans' and once we move beyond that the slippery slope towards 'dehumanising' starts and we all know where that leads. So, as I said lets not talk about human rights, let's focus on sentencing guidelines.
  8. I seen quite a bit, and although I admit human rights may be used to defend some nasty characters I have also seen it get cancer suffers drugs, nursing home residents dignity, armed forces personnel basic equipment to protect their lives in theatre, equality for unmarried people, non-discrimination in accessing services for lgbti..... I could go on. But I won't.. As you say, you have your opinion and I have mine. And, I know you meant the HRA, rather than the echr but I will let that little faux pas go.
  9. So here's what the foundational international human rights document says on the subject. "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." And when individuals don't behave as required above, their rights maybe limited. The only exception is that, as a consequence, they must not be tortured or held in slavery. These are the only two human rights that are absolute. Everything else, including the right to life can be taken away by the state and be human rights compliant, provided it is a reasonable and proportionate response as would be acceptable in a democratic society. So, let's not blame human rights for this sort of vile behaviour or the inadequacy of the response. Let's blame the perpetrators and perhaps bad criminal laws or sentencing guidelines.
  10. Lloyd90 is spot on some people just come on and spout rubbish about human rights law. Misconstruing Article 8. Talking nonsense about Article 3 not having been violated prior to 1998. And reflecting on the golden age of the 13th Century!!!! For god sake.
  11. I had no luck today. All the birds in my usual haunts were taking it easy in the trees. But I did managed a mixed bag of 18 in an hour late on. I was surrounded by Pheasants throughout none of which seemed the littlest bit bothered by gunfire! Go figure, it's as if the knew I wasnt after them.
  12. Good to see a return. I'm sure it will start picking up soon. Temperature is dropping and the beech etc usually starts becoming a little less attractive.
  13. Nice afternoon. Well done
  14. Yes, individual police forces brought the prosecutions prior to a royal commission in 1978 which highlighted the deficiencies. This included the use of different standards and tests. Hence, the need for a single independent agency that maintains the same standard, I.e. the cps. Equality before the law is a pretty basic right.
  15. Given how much the average paramedic is paid for saving lives, he should be allowed to eat a full roast dinner if he wants.
  16. I think this is a very interesting debate on due process. The ability to act as both the investigatory agency and prosecutorial decision maker on a criminal matter is something that our system was designed to guard against. Hence the clear lines between the police and cps. And yet, for some apparently unexplained reason, one registered charity has been allowed to act outside the normal boundaries that are there to help ensure the right to a fair trial. Even if the body in question was doing the most spectacular job imaginable the conflation of investigation and prosecution test is a threat to civil liberties that should be of concern to us all. Sometimes parliamentary scrutiny is well founded. I think this is one such occasion.
  17. Yesterday was rubbish for pigeon. Sun first thing and then by midday the wind had all but gone. Some birds were moving between two beech woods about 3 miles apart. I set up along the line, but the birds weren't for decoying. What was worse, was that they stayed well up, many were only dots in the clouds. I tried everything with no luck. So change of tactics. I put the magnet out in the field about 100 yards behind me, further along the flight line. I then tucked myself under an ash tree. This did the trick. The birds could see the magnet as they came down the line, the odd one then dropped height as it passed over the ash. By now I had put a bit of choke in. The 32 grm 6s started to find the mark and play ended at 3.30ish with 38 in the bag.
  18. Surely the opinion that migrant pigeons don't pass through the UK has to be wrong. The bto site and a number of birds observatories have counted them. The Portland bird observatory counts pigeons heading across the channel every year, sometimes in their thousands? There are definitely birds that cross the Irish sea each winter, because I have watched them coming in.
  19. Fillet of beef, with all the other Christmas trimmings. Not a fan of Turkey. A nice pigeon pate after with a glass of sloe gin. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm
  20. I have a question on this subject. Every year we get an influx of birds. Has anyone here ever seen these migrants leaving GB and heading across the Irish sea. I have read about them heading across the channel, but never heading this direction? Also the birds I see only stay a few weeks and then disappear. But I always assumed Ireland was too far west for the European migration routes?
  21. As yellow bear says above, I would strongly recommend nu Aire. I had exactly the same problem, got one of those nu Aire jobs for about 300. Its the model with a heating element built in. Cost 40 quid for an electrician to fit. It stopped the condensation and mould everywhere overnight. Bloody amazing bit of kit.
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