Politics 2024/25 General Election Voting Intention (2022)

[Scouse]

Dislike that you think it's appropriate and proportionate to use that poem in the context of locking a couple of hundred protestors up. They're not being sent to the camps ffs.

First they came for...

 

[Gwadien]

Dislike that you think it's appropriate and proportionate to use that poem in the context of locking a couple of hundred protestors up. They're not being sent to the camps ffs.

I mean to be fair, he can clearly stated a number of times he believes Labour are neo-Nazis..

 

[Scouse]

It's a serious point. Protest and direct action is being steadily criminalised.

You don't go from fine to fucked in one go. You find your rights steadily eroding - and protest rights are a cornerstone of any supposedly "free" society.

So it's apt. And also particularly in this case as both of you don't care / can't see it.

 

[Scouse]

'Overwhelming consensus' that screen time harms children, top doctors say

The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges says doctors should routinely check on screen time and social media use when seeing younger patients.

www.bbc.co.uk

Academy of Medical Royal Colleges compared social media and screen time use to the issue of smoking or seatbelts in previous decades, calling it a "unifying force for the medical profession".

While it acknowledged causal evidence between device usage and health harms was scant

But we're definitely going to "act". Despite actual evidence (other than people's emotions) being thin on the ground...