They have all been charged, I believe the mother has been found guilty and is due to be sentenced soon and the father and brother are in jail awaiting trial.

Well, since it is for defense, it is supply chain security.

…and in my book that’s a legitimate reason.

As someone who has never been to Texas, I associate Texas with unrelenting sun and vast tracts of uninhabitable land with little or no environmental value (ok that bit is hyperbole, I know deserts are in fact a delicate ecosystem but you get the idea).

Or in other words, perfect solar panel real estate.

So what’s stopping them taking advantage of all the almost free energy!

In ww1 the men’s toilets consisted of a long urinal and a stall at the end to shit in. Society at the time thought it wasn’t appropriate for women to walk past a load of men with their dicks out to get to the one facility they could use.

Times are different now, though.

… because that is how planning permission works.

I’m not local to Birmingham but where I live we have a desperate need for affordable housing and the Greens ran on a “no new housing, no exceptions” platform. They also opposed rollout of green energy solutions, probably to appease the NIMBY crowd.

My point is that at a local level the green party runs on platforms that will cause a lot of social problems that local authorities have to deal with and maybe in Birmingham they have some completely mental attachment to a local cause that is a red-line for Labour.

Lib Dems will do what they are told but arguably closer aligned to Tories.

In any case Labours best strategy is to sit back for a few months and watch reform and the independents self-destruct and see if Green and Lib Dem become more willing to compromise.

I’m not local to Birmingham but where I live we have a desperate need for affordable housing and the Greens ran on a “no new housing, no exceptions” platform. They also opposed rollout of green energy solutions, probably to appease the NIMBY crowd.

My point is that at a local level the green party runs on platforms that will cause a lot of social problems that local authorities have to deal with and maybe in Birmingham they have some completely mental attachment to a local cause that is a red-line for Labour.

Lib Dems will do what they are told but arguably closer aligned to Tories.

In any case Labours best strategy is to sit back for a few months and watch reform and the independents self-destruct and see if Green and Lib Dem become more willing to compromise.

I don’t know how you come to that conclusion. Unless you are suggesting Labour legitimise reform by working with them?

History teaches us that if you appease fascists then bad things happen.

Not stated in this article is that the Tories originally agreed to work with Labour but their party leader threatened to sack the local leader so they withdrew from that agreement.

What short memories people have. The incoming Labour government proposed the most radical wealth redistribution measures this century to address poverty and the whole country had a shit fit.

Meanwhile they were also discovering that the Tory governments had lied about borrowing and spending.

…so most of their first year in government was taken up with trying to work out where the Tories had actually been spending our money and re-writing their plans on how to actually improve things.

Since then they have done a lot of things that in theory should alleviate poverty (free school meals, raised taxes on higher earners, increased NHS pay, raised minimum wage, massive infrastructure investment, new investment and laws to make adoption of renewable energy easier, renters reform, removal of inheritance tax breaks for wealthy landowners, that’s just off the top of my head) but will take time to actually show a change. Statistics are released yearly about 6 months in arrears so we won’t know whether this worked until late 2027.

Then we have been cut-off from one of our major energy supplies by an out of control superpower, not something you can really blame our government for but when people see prices going up they want someone to blame.

Edit to add that clamping down on parasitic organisations like Uber, Amazon, Starbucks needs to be a priority and is an easy and obvious win and it is annoying they haven’t.

All my work computers are provided by the companies I work for and per their rules I can only take and store notes using their approved software and on their servers which basically means I work on a locked down Microsoft ecosystem. Access to third party productivity software is simply not possible outside of certain role specific specialist software.

I would guess literally millions of employees have a similar setup so it’s not that we are tech illiterate per say, but more accurately in the corporate world this option doesn’t exist so there is no point trying.

Outside work my productivity tools consist of a Moleskine notebook with tasteful check paper.

Just to pick up on your NHS point; for the first time in 14 years Labour have increased NHS funding above inflation in all of their budgets …and it’s getting results. Waiting lists are down and a lot of important metrics are improving (on aggregate).

But of course that’s an inconvenient truth to our right wing press and the left wing alike.

Then perhaps base your opinion on what was said by the protestors themselves who stated in court that they were not in fact attacked with a hammer as you say.

Isn’t the more likely explanation that a violent thug gave a weak excuse for battering a woman and that excuse didn’t hold up to the slightest scrutiny?

Really? Here’s something from after the trial where Corner was found guilty of GBH (his 32nd conviction)BBC News - Palestine Action activists guilty of Elbit Systems site raid - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2p99rxr5po?app-referrer=search

They put forward that defence in trial but the video obviously doesn’t back up their turn of events, because the victim wasn’t holding a hammer.

I suppose you will believe whatever suits your narrative but I prefer to base my opinion on actual facts.

Evidence says otherwise: BBC News - Police officer unable to dress after Palestine Action hammer attack - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g54g1r15eo?app-referrer=deep-link

I’m well aware of the CTL and also that it can be extended in certain circumstances, as it was in this case. It even says this is possible in the link you provided.

There is recourse in law (again in the link you provided) to seek a review if you feel CTL is unjustly extended but it’s interesting that the people who were subsequently found guilty of their crimes didn’t seek a review when they could have done so.

You might conclude that the people who commited these crimes had the conviction in there beliefs to do it but not quite enough belief to actually accept the consequences of breaking the law. That’s pretty pathetic isn’t it?

To be clear, they broke into a factory and attacked someone with a hammer that they took with them for that purpose.

Then they publicly stated that they would do it again as soon as they got the chance. It’s that later statement which is why they had to be kept behind bars.

They had the option to apologise, say things got out of control and agree to bail conditions but they refused to do that so they are in prison by their own choice.

It would be negligent of the justice system to do nothing and release them to find another victim. They have since been tried and found guilty.

To be clear, they broke into a factory and attacked someone with a hammer that they took with them for that purpose.

Then they publicly stated that they would do it again as soon as they got the chance. It’s that later statement which is why they had to be kept behind bars.

They had the option to apologise, say things got out of control and agree to bail conditions but they refused to do that so they are in prison by their own choice.

It would be negligent of the justice system to do nothing release them to find another victim.

If you read op history you would come to the same conclusion.

Yes objective truth (saying what is in the video) backed up with evidence (the video) can be biased depending on your perspective.

I prefer a rather simplistic view that killing people is bad and stopping someone from killing people is good.

Where are these writers buying their beer?

I’m sitting in a riverfront pub within 5 minutes walk of the city and my beer was £5:80, and it’s not on offer.