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1 in 16 men in Rotherham isn’t the actions of a few unfortunately.

The reality is that the authorities just didn’t want to deal with these crimes because it had pretty significant ramifications for the image of Britain as a successful multicultural society. It was far easier to blame the victims. This scandal demonstrates how classist the UK can be too.

What a stupid thing of you to say. The report has made the explicit link between sexual exploitation of underage girls (10-15) and suspects being over represented by men of Pakistani origin. This is organised crime, not a rabble of weirdos who do creepy things like dating 16-17 year olds.

It is creepy, but it’s legal. It would still be legal if we implemented age gap limits as some countries do of 10 years. Besides, what would actually change? You seem more animated by this than the original topic which strikes me as odd.

00/01 for me!

Completely out of touch or you’re in denial. Can you claim to care about the victims when you’re still calling people who highlight this issue as racist?! This is exactly how we got to this point. The scandal is more than just the crimes being committed. It’s the complicity of the local...

This isn’t actually true. The USA is an outlier that the president appoints thousands of political appointees (4k as of 2016) to the civil service and around a quarter of said appointments need to approved by the other branches of government. It’s a feature of US democracy that governments can...

This basic fact is just incorrect. Some countries have a politicised civil service (USA, Australia, Canada and Germany) and there is an expectation that senior civil servants offer their resignation as part of the transfer of power in some countries. Our civil service code is designed so that...

You can opt out as people in my friendship group have done. I didn’t see an option to downgrade and presume the option to upgrade for non-PL package holder was removed or even if it’s available to people at all. I suspected this was the case to be honest. The ticket office generally seem to...

Just renewed mine today! One more PL package to the club coffers! Out of curiosity, my renewal was set to the PL package automatically. Did anyone opt to renew their ST with a downgrade? Not that I was gonna go non-PL, it just seemed a bit cheeky for the club to railroad people that direction...

Economically, yes you’re right. But, the big changes Blair made were constitutional and have perhaps had unintended consequences. For example, Blair probably didn’t intend for the Human Rights Act nor the ECHR to prevent deportation of violent criminals amongst other things.

Exactly. It’s convenient for people to dismiss Cummings if they disagree with him politically. If they listen with an empathetic ear, what he’s actually saying applies equally to whichever party is in government. From my interpretation, it’s not really him looking back at his time in government...

Who had the last laugh? It wasn’t either of the Johnson’s… Sunak’s resignation triggered Boris’ downfall and it was Sunak who asked Cummings to come back into Number 10 when he became PM.

03/04 and 08/09 kits are nice but no match for the 86/87 or my winner, 97/98. An iconic kit that I’m desperate to add to my collection.

I have and it doesn’t say anywhere or anything about debating government policy with the government and/or frustrating the implementation of their programme. It’s apparent that the concept of ‘impartial advice’ has been muddled. You can have principled opposition to this, absolutely. The...

100% - he was a like a jilted bride for the duration of the Tory government. He’s on a v different crusade now. Would many people disagree with his assessments on Boris though?

Far from it. He’s argued that the civil service prevents real expertise because people will ‘zig zag’ across departments for short periods of time (2 years). This point I can identify with because I have first hand experience. I deal with HMRC as part of my job and the people rotate roughly...

Suppose that’s true, does it make it right for people on UK streets to call for the same thing? Two wrongs don’t make a right. It was one quote by Dominic Cummings and frankly, doesn’t invalidate what he said because is at least partly true. If there were large scale pro-Israel protests...

There’s a lot more to the article than the one quote you picked out in a separate issue. Particularly when you’re wrong that there because there are people from groups that are proscribed terrorist groups (in other countries) at these protests who have, frankly, genocidal intent and don’t even...

Have you ever thought about the implications are of the following chants regularly heard at these protests? “From the river to the sea” “From London to Gaza, globalise the intifada!” Or regular calls for jihad and ‘allahu Akbar’ on the streets. Even the merchandise you see people wearing at...