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6 votes
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Road World Championship – Denmark's Mads Pedersen claims shock elite men's road race title in Yorkshire
4 votes -
Stamos on legal issues for US tech companies sharing with foreign governments
@alexstamos: It's really early on a Sunday, so while I sip my coffee I'm also going to try to clear up a lot of confusion about the CLOUD Act created by poor reporting by The Times (of London) and Bloomberg. Here is the original, incorrect story: https://t.co/1l8tgH1r4s
5 votes -
After Labour's conference pledge to scrap Ofsted and private schools, does the envied Finnish education system provide the blueprint?
8 votes -
Proroging parliament was unlawful
The UK Supreme Court just ruled that the prorogation of parliament was unlawful, which means it didn't happen. https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2019-0193.html...
The UK Supreme Court just ruled that the prorogation of parliament was unlawful, which means it didn't happen.
https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2019-0193.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49810261
This is a pretty big deal.
It's hard to see how Johnson can continue as PM.
28 votes -
The life and work of Lady Hale
4 votes -
Crime and Punishment is an interesting, hard to watch, docu about the UK prison system
Channel 4 describe the programme "Series that captures the work of police, probation, prison, prosecution and parole". Here's a link to the first episode:...
Channel 4 describe the programme "Series that captures the work of police, probation, prison, prosecution and parole".
Here's a link to the first episode: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/crime-and-punishment/on-demand/64655-001
Crime and punishment is a documentary series that looks inside prison to tell the stories of the criminal justice system from the viewpoint of those involved.
The first episode spends some time talking about the unjust "Imprisonment for Public Protection"[1] sentences (these are no longer given by the courts but there are thousands of prisoners still imprisoned on them), how they went wrong, and the awful effect they have upon prisoners. It's a difficult watch. It shows how severely the mental health of prisoners is when they're on this type of sentence, including their serious self harm.
Episode two talks about pressure inside prisons and how that results in "riots", about how prisoners use the only power they have available to them.
I like the programme because it avoids judgmentalism. The prisoners are not reduced to the bad guys; the officers are not simplified to the good guys. You hear a little bit about some of the offences committed by the prisoners
Here's a Twitter thread from someone working in the English NHS. She works in forensic services as a psychologist. https://twitter.com/SarahE_Davidson/status/1173707912981700608
I guess Channel 4 On Demand have geo-blocking. I don't know if it's available on other services, or on torrent.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprisonment_for_public_protection
7 votes -
'Ban kids from loot box gambling in games,' MPs say
11 votes -
British travel firm Thomas Cook collapses, stranding hundreds of thousands
16 votes -
LGBT+ women face “significant barriers” when it comes to accessing healthcare, according to a pioneering new report.
11 votes -
We replaced sixty-eight Tube adverts with cats
13 votes -
The Chefs' Brigade
This is a British cookery show. They take a bunch of people who cook for a living but who have basic skills. These people are paired with a chef who has four Michelin stars and eighteen...
This is a British cookery show. They take a bunch of people who cook for a living but who have basic skills. These people are paired with a chef who has four Michelin stars and eighteen restaurants. They visit different restaurants around Europe to have competitions to cook that restaurant's own food.
Things I enjoy about it: it does a good job of showing that people who have somewhat fucked up lives will always find a place in cheffing. They could have stayed in the UK but they decided to go around Europe.[1] There's a couple of incidents of poor behaviour being corrected (some of the women chefs are ignored and spoken over by some men, the women stand up for themselves and get an apology).
Things I don't like: there's some cheffy bollocks around the pressure and discipline of a brigade; it's still a reality-show competition and that introduces some artificiallity; they send people home each week and I always hate that aspect of programmes.
It's available on Pirate Bay.
Here are some reviews which I think are fair.
https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/the-chefs-brigade-bbc2-episode-1-review-jason-atherton/
[1] I can't describe how pathologically awful Brexit has been for the UK. :-(
7 votes -
The UK government Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport publishes its report on immersive and addictive technologies, including recommending loot boxes be regulated under gambling law
11 votes -
Brexit: Operation Yellowhammer no-deal document published
16 votes -
Brexit: Scottish judges rule Parliament suspension is unlawful
17 votes -
When feminism supports trans rights everybody wins – just like in Iceland
12 votes -
Uncertainty about US President Donald Trump's trade war with China and Brexit are creating a "flying blind" economy
5 votes -
Britain's parliament approves law seeking to block October no-deal Brexit
15 votes -
UK MPs vote against general election dealing another blow to Boris Johnson
16 votes -
Ren - Jenny's Tale (2019)
2 votes -
Brexit: Boris Johnson defeated as MPs take control
32 votes -
Conservative MP Phillip Lee has defected to the Liberal Democrats ahead of a crucial no-deal vote, leaving the PM with no working majority
22 votes -
What's it like to have conversion therapy?
9 votes -
Portishead - Roads (1994)
7 votes -
The Leisure Society - Fight for Everyone (2013)
3 votes -
Sakuraburst - Harpsinger (2019)
3 votes -
Hans Rausing, head of the family that became Britain's richest thanks to his father's invention of Tetra Pak food containers, has died aged 93
4 votes -
Surge of measles cases results in Albania, Czechia, Greece and the United Kingdom losing their measles elimination status
8 votes -
Van der Graaf Generator - Wondering (1976)
3 votes -
DragonForce - Heart Demolition (2019)
3 votes -
Celtic thumped AIK to reach the Europa League group stage and alleviate some of the pain of their Champions League exit
4 votes -
Northern Ireland's ex-Rangers striker Kyle Lafferty joins Sarpsborg 08 in Norway
3 votes -
Sweden receives indications Iran is ready to release British tanker Stena Impero
4 votes -
The sound systems of Notting Hill carnival: 'I'll stop when I can't walk'
5 votes -
Qantas 'research flights' to test nineteen hour non-stop London, New York to Sydney routes
8 votes -
Cavetown - Taking Care of Things (2018)
3 votes -
The inclusive languages used by the English NHS
10 votes -
How the Daguerreotype started a Victorian black market for pornography in London
7 votes -
UK will delegate its voting rights in meetings it does not attend to Finland, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU
7 votes -
A Welsh town will install anti-sex toilets that could spray users with water
12 votes -
The Guardian newspaper has lost two trans employees over its reporting on trans issues
19 votes -
Data regulator probes King's Cross facial recognition tech
6 votes -
Yield curves invert in US, UK as ‘doom and gloom’ spreads
25 votes -
The story of Sealand, a “micronation” on an eerie metal platform, tells us plenty about libertarianism, national sovereignty, and the lawlessness of the ocean
9 votes -
Brexit is a futile tragedy that will be reversed in a few years
15 votes -
FKA Twigs - Cellophane (2019)
6 votes -
In this era of astronomical transfer fees and sky-high wages has there been a better bargain in recent times than Teemu Pukki?
4 votes -
Women Between the Wars: In Jean Rhys’s novels, women exhibit a particular kind of English suffering, a perfect illustration of the female condition in the interwar years
7 votes -
Ancient technology: Saxon glass-working experiment
5 votes -
Rangers beat FC Midtjylland 4-2 in Denmark in the first leg of their third qualifying round
5 votes