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18 votes
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Welsh Male Voice Choir flashmob - Bread of heaven (2015)
7 votes -
Bruce Soord - All This Will Be Yours (2019)
3 votes -
Max Cooper - Repetition (2019)
4 votes -
Raf Rundell - Sweet Cheeks (2017)
3 votes -
Family of teen who died from Ecstacy support legalisation
8 votes -
Paedophile hunters went too far
13 votes -
If PHP were British
25 votes -
Karl Ove Knausgård is to become the sixth contributor to the Future Library, which collects works by contemporary authors that will remain unread until 2114
9 votes -
Trump ambushed parents of teenage crash victim, family spokesman says
13 votes -
What can the UK learn from Norway's EU border? Its border, with EU member state Sweden, is over a thousand miles long
4 votes -
Renewable electricity generation overtakes fossil fuel generation in UK for first time
8 votes -
The musicians helping revive the Cornish language
9 votes -
From failures in Europe to Finland great, the fall and rise of the Norwich striker Teemu Pukki
5 votes -
MI6 accused of thwarting efforts to solve the 1961 killing of UN chief Dag Hammarskjöld
8 votes -
Ringed on all sides by the UK but not actually part of it, residents of the Isle of Man value their independence
9 votes -
Whistleblower explains how Cambridge Analytica helped fuel US 'insurgency'
3 votes -
We are in the midst of a mental health crisis – advice about jogging and self-care is not enough
10 votes -
Harry Dunn crash: Chief constable demands suspect's return to UK
4 votes -
Shame on those who defend the "loving smack": it's just plain violence against children
19 votes -
Transgender man who gave birth must be registered as "mother" on the birth certificate
11 votes -
US Attorney General and officials from UK and Australia will ask Facebook to halt plans for end-to-end encryption in its messaging apps
10 votes -
Samuel Morland, Magister Mechanicorum
5 votes -
Doctors working for the Department for Work and Pensions must respect a service user's pronoun choice
This is a bit complicated. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is the government department that pays social security benefits in the UK. There are a range of benefits. Some of these...
This is a bit complicated.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is the government department that pays social security benefits in the UK. There are a range of benefits. Some of these benefits are for people who cannot work because of disability. In order to qualify for some of these disability benefits you need to have a medical assessment with an "independent" doctor. This doctor is independent from the patient. They're employed by companies who are paid by the DWP, so there's supposed to be some kind of arm's length arrangement there.
A doctor was employed by one of these companies to do this assessment work for the DWP. He was a committed Christian. He held that he would not be able to refer to people by anything other than the gender they were assigned at birth.
The DWP is clear: you must respect a person's choice of pronouns.
The General Medical Council (the registrant body for doctors in England) is also clear: you must not impose your personal views upon your patients, especially if it's going to cause distress.
This doctor was spoken to about his beliefs. He declined to change his stance. He lost his job. He took his employer to employment tribunal for unfair dismissal based on discrimination against his protected characteristic: his religious views.
He lost his case.
Here's the legal document: https://christianconcern.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC-Resource-Judgment-Mackereth-DWP-Others-ET-191002.pdf
It's pretty long! 42 pages! The last pages give a summary.
You'll notice the URL. He was supported by the Christian Legal Centre. I won't say anything about them, but I'll link this page which gives some useful information: https://nearlylegal.co.uk/2018/04/on-the-naughty-step-the-questionable-ethics-of-the-christian-legal-centre/
8 votes -
Video games don't lead to violence...
@bbcnottingham: Goose smashes through taxi window https://t.co/RThaDIRumk
8 votes -
The British show how to improve 401(k)s
8 votes -
65daysofstatic - Five Waves (2019)
7 votes -
AFC Bournemouth's striker Joshua King on his Black history tattoos, the impact of visits to Gambia and teaching his son to take nothing for granted
4 votes -
A book from Alan Turing… and a mysterious piece of paper
6 votes -
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