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Those responding “there was no evidence”.
If there had been “no evidence” the case would have been thrown out at half-time.
A submission of “no case to answer” would have been made by his team after the close of the prosecution case. Was one made?
Only if the Judge considers that the prosecution have adduced sufficient evidence to allow a (properly directed) jury to convict can the case proceed after half time.
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I met Jeffrey Dahmer back in 1992 during his wild years! YES he was a troubled soul. He was young. He was handsome. But he definitely didn’t put me in a vat of acid or serve up my cock in a curry.
Just saying 🤔
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Sir John Cowperthwaite ran Hong Kong's finances from 1961 to 1971 and treated regulation like a tax on discovery. Nobody in government can know which business will work, so he refused to pick, plan, or protect.
Whitehall sent officials to Hong Kong to push for economic statistics, and he sent them home. When Milton Friedman asked in 1963 why he collected so little data, Cowperthwaite answered: "If I let them compute those statistics, they'll want to use them for planning." Numbers give planners a reason to act, and every plan arrives as a rule that tells entrepreneurs what they may not try. Asked what poor countries should do to grow, he said they should abolish the office of national statistics.
He rebuffed tariffs, opposed corporate subsidies, and refused London's push to raise taxes. When a legislator proposed that the government back promising industries, he asked how the government could possibly know which ones those were.
The results arrived without a plan. During his decade as Financial Secretary, real wages rose 50% and the share of residents in acute poverty fell from 50% to 15%. When he took the job, the average Hong Kong resident earned about a quarter of what a Briton earned. By the early 1990s, Hong Kongers out-earned Britons. Britain, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, planned its economy with ministries full of statisticians and fell behind a rock with no resources except a harbor.
Every regulation assumes a regulator who knows which experiments to allow. That regulator does not exist, so each gate he builds blocks the ideas nobody in the room could have predicted. Hong Kong's most valuable policy was the absence of a gatekeeper.
As far as civil servants go, this guy is the GOAT.
Tusk must be very happy that the US midterms have given the western media an excuse to continue to ignore a constitutional crisis which they had no intention of paying attention to.
“The President has given Prime Minister Tusk until November 11 to resign.”
[Searching through the British media for any mention of this … still looking …]
Siedem dni to rozpętania piekła w Polsce !!!
W Polsce protesty antyrządowe przed Trybunałem Konstytucyjnym trwają kolejny dzień. Prezydent dał dla premiera Tuska czas do 11 listopada na podanie się do dymisji. Policja odmówiła spacyfikowania protestujących siłą na wezwanie puczystowskiej sędzi Trybunału Konstytucyjnego. Rząd rozpoczął prześladowanie buntujących się policjantów w tym przewodniczącego związku zawodowego Policji. W stolicy pojawiły się patrole z bronią automatyczną a na drogach szybkiego ruchu coraz więcej obcych wojsk.
To wszystko wydarzyło się od wczoraj.
Siedem dni to dnia z ultimatum prezydenta, kiedy rozpęta się piekło. Pilnujcie razem z nami aby nie ukradli nam wolności. Wasze wsparcie jest dla nas bardzo ważne.
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Siedem dni to rozpętania piekła w Polsce !!!
W Polsce protesty antyrządowe przed Trybunałem Konstytucyjnym trwają kolejny dzień. Prezydent dał dla premiera Tuska czas do 11 listopada na podanie się do dymisji. Policja odmówiła spacyfikowania protestujących siłą na wezwanie puczystowskiej sędzi Trybunału Konstytucyjnego. Rząd rozpoczął prześladowanie buntujących się policjantów w tym przewodniczącego związku zawodowego Policji. W stolicy pojawiły się patrole z bronią automatyczną a na drogach szybkiego ruchu coraz więcej obcych wojsk.
To wszystko wydarzyło się od wczoraj.
Siedem dni to dnia z ultimatum prezydenta, kiedy rozpęta się piekło. Pilnujcie razem z nami aby nie ukradli nam wolności. Wasze wsparcie jest dla nas bardzo ważne.
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Again, this is an extremely reasonable point to make, but it misses the point Labour and the broader establishment are making. For them, getting close to the EU is an end in and of itself. The costs are irrelevant unless they make a specific step politically impossible. If they create politically manageable costs, then as far as they're concerned, that only improves their ability to argue for rejoining because they can say "If all these regulations are costing us so much, then we should rejoin and have a say in writing them."
Therefore, highlighting the costs of dynamic alignment or, say, subsidising the university fees of EU students, is irrelevant until they actually reach the point where they're politically unmanageable -- a very high barrier, since pretty much the entirety of the media will ignore them, and therefore normies won't get to hear about them.
Even small local bakeries that never trade with the EU will have to follow EU rules on ingredients, packaging, and nutritional information. Industry compliance costs are estimated at £2 to £3 billion. They will also face additional compliance costs every time the EU changes its rules.
UK taxpayers will also have to pay the EU for its policy work to create and enforce these rules on UK firms. This could be up to £3 billion a year, every year.
Hugging and kissing Gran was a Christmas duty - like eating sprouts - for all well brought up children.
As was being happy about the jumper she knitted for you for Christmas. And wearing it on Boxing Day.
And writing the “thank you” letter afterwards.
Obviously John Lewis prefer spoilt brats and unfit parents to civilised behaviour.
British journalists yet again trying to pretend that US “election night” is like British election nights.
Even though they know that:
US “election night” is only the last day of voting. Many Yanks have already been voting for weeks, whether in person or by post.
Results are “called”, rather than declared, by the US media even before the US polls have closed.
The actual results will take days, if not weeks, to be counted.
Nothing like Britain (except Blair’s postal voting).
Re a certain legal case.
It used to be the case that speech injunctions could only be obtained (in England) by people who claimed that the allegations were untrue, *and* the publisher did not say that they were true.
Now, because of the ECHR (and a certain Monaco Princess), injunctions can be obtained by people who say that the allegations *are* true, but that they are private.
Bizarre!
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Yes - quite rightly, the John Lewis Christmas ad is being slated.
It is bad for so many reasons.
However, what it DOES get right is the correct depiction of many of today’s kids.
Selfish, rude & with a sense of entitlement all going unchecked by indulgent parents.
These AI videos of Picard meeting Q in the afterlife (this time for real) bring both Patrick Stewart and John De Lancie back to life (all too briefly).
I like to think that both would have appreciated these tributes.
🙏 Q Meets Jean-Luc Picard in the Afterlife. This One Hits Different.
The Patrick Stewart tribute we needed.
A beautifully done video from The Machine-Made Muse. Q and Picard, one last conversation. The tone, the delivery, the emotion; it lands.
Worth watching. Follow their work.
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Why would you connect your freezer to the Internet?
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