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CronoCloud Creeggan said:
Not-sure. It even has the Black Speech on it! Maybe people should go on vacations....I mean quests to throw them into active volcanos, just in case. Perhaps they should have put the symbol of the Numenorean Realms in Exile on it. Seven Stars and Seven Stones and One White Tree.
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They've apparently releasing 7 Tolkien-themed coins, so who knows?
 
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Innula Zenovka said:
www.bbc.co.uk

Norwegian teen was in UK to 'undertake a hit', court hears

Johannes Natland was due to carry out a shooting on behalf of a Swedish criminal group, trial hears.
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UK: "Johannes Natland, 19, was arrested in a hotel in Huddersfield on 19 March 2025 with two guns and 12 rounds of ammunition ..."

US: "Johannes Natland, 19, was arrested in a hotel in Bumfork, OK on 19 March 2025 even though he had only two guns and 12 rounds of ammunition ..."
 
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US criticises 'two-tiered policing' over UK murder case

The US State Department has joined in a campaign, started by Elon Musk to encourage the English far right, attacking what they characterise as "two-tier policing" following a horrible case in which a young Sikh man stabbed and killed another young man, Henry Nowak. When the police attended he falsely claimed he was the victim of a racist attack by Nowak, who was briefly handcuffed by police as he lay dying on the ground (though the police did not then realise how serious his injuries were).

This has led to a protest that turned into a riot, and it's pretty clear that the far-right want to see a repeat of last year's anti-asylum seekers riots and the previous year's rioting in the wake of the Southport stabbings.

It's bad enough that Elon Musk is whipping up the far-right, but it's something else when the US government joins in.

For what it's worth, here's what the judge said while sentencing the attacker

Another consequence of those lies is that the attending police officers honestly believed that there were reasonable grounds for suspecting Henry had committed an offence and arrested him with the consequence he was handcuffed for about a minute before his condition further deteriorated and the arresting officer began CPR. The police were given a convincing but wholly false narrative of the incident. It was dark and Henry was wearing a dark top. The entry damage caused by the knife through it, would not have been obvious. Whilst there was visible blood on Henry, it would not have clearly been seen coming from that wound and the clearly visible facial wound was not lifethreatening. Henry was complaining that he had been stabbed and was struggling to breathe but that would not have necessarily told the officers how serious the situation had become. It is the experience of the criminal courts that sometimes, someone arrested and handcuffed will feign injury in the hope they may be released. These police officers were faced with having to make quick decisions in pressurised circumstances about the best way to act. The genuine shock to the particular police officer, when he realised that he had been giving CPR to Henry when he had a serious chest wound tends to show that he was doing his best in a very difficult situation.
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Innula Zenovka said:
More on Jeremy Corbyn's and Zarah Sultana's ill-fated "Your Party" party.

It will surprise no one that Your Party has split. Why can’t the left stick together?
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Why? Because the UK left is a bunch of SPLITTERS obsessed with minor differences rather than focusing on keeping the Tories and Reform out of power. HOw can the left win if separately the "Peoples Front of Mercia" and the "Front of Mercian People" don't have the votes individually from preventing a Tory or UK MBGA Reform from taking a seat. Also the UK press is obsessed with minor details and ENCOURAGES the splitting with their reporting. Also the UK press is OBSESSED with seeking out antisemitism on the left because it's easier to make lefties panic about it than the Right, which is just assumed to be bigoted assholes so they don't report about that.

@#$@#$ SPLITTERS!
 
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CronoCloud Creeggan said:
Why? Because the UK left is a bunch of SPLITTERS obsessed with minor differences rather than focusing on keeping the Tories and Reform out of power. HOw can the left win if separately the "Peoples Front of Mercia" and the "Front of Mercian People" don't have the votes individually from preventing a Tory or UK MBGA Reform from taking a seat. Also the UK press is obsessed with minor details and ENCOURAGES the splitting with their reporting. Also the UK press is OBSESSED with seeking out antisemitism on the left because it's easier to make lefties panic about it than the Right, which is just assumed to be bigoted assholes so they don't report about that.

@#$@#$ SPLITTERS!
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I think it's simpler than that -- Corbyn and Sultana are both used to working inside the Labour Party and don't seem to have given much thought to the differences between working within an existing party and setting up a new party from scratch.

What is/was "Your Party" supposed to be for? I know it is/was anti-Zionist and pro-Gaza, and doesn't like Keir Starmer, and is very probably for the many rather than the few (whatever that's supposed to mean in practice), but other than that I have no idea what they're supposed to stand for, other than being as left as possible, and I don't think they do, either.

Student politicians who never grew out of it, most of them.
 
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And now, the vile former Empire will become known for Jeremy Johnson and his kangaroo trial of Palestine Action. If you want "productive discussion", better be worth it.
 
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peston.substack.com

Why Starmer’s fate will be decided next weekend

I am flying tomorrow to Evian in France with the prime minister for what will be the most surreal summit of world leaders of his - and my - career. And that is because Keir Starmer’s tenure as prime minister is conditional on whether Andy Burnham becomes a Labour MP on Friday and then how fast...
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I'm no particular fan of Keir Starmer, and if there's a leadership contest between him and Andy Burnham that gets as far as a vote by Labour Party members I'll vote for Burnham on the basis that, while I don't know much about him, he seems popular as Mayor of Manchester and he can't do a much worse job as PM than has Starmer (though I'd rather vote for Angela Rayner if I get the chance).

However, I very much doubt that, whoever wins, it's going to make a great deal of difference since so many problems people want the government to solve are either beyond the government's control -- HMG can't control world energy prices, or the international bond market, for example -- and even more domestic issues that the government can do something about can't generally be fixed within the life of a single parliament.

But it all seems very odd that the whole thing hangs on the outcome of a single bye-election in Makerfield this coming Thursday.
 
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