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- Admitted 80 counts of theft
- Granted bail
- Breached bail and kept stealing from the same shop
- Banned from Lambeth
- Ankle bracelet was never fitted
- Breached the ban
- Failed to attend three sentencing hearings
- STILL spared jail
This makes a mockery of all of us.
Sometimes I wonder if Danny Wallace is still sneering at people who think shoplifting is bad, and making excuses for the criminals who do it.
This guy is doing grade A satire on Tory scandals, comparing the loss of our billions to how we’d feel if it was someone hungry taking a bad sandwich.
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This is extremely cool. Exciting times for archaeology!
My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site in Mexico, using LiDAR data from a NASA dataset.
72 hours from a random thought on vacation to a reply from Mexico's national archaeology institute.
What a time to be alive…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This site is not unknown or unmapped. Per Dr. Sarah Parcak, Dr. Francisco Estrada-Belli of Tulane University identified, researched, and published this site years ago.
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liberalarts.tulane.edu/anthropology/p…
Love this!
Not sure what @YorkshireWater’s procedure is for repairing a manhole, but I’m struggling to see where the knee slide fits into it 😂😂
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Exactly. A parliamentary system can’t be one in which some people declare that some things they don’t believe are unacceptable to even say.
“HMRC to snoop on £2m homes - inspectors instructed to photograph properties”. @TheTimes reports this 1929 Conservative poster is coming true!
172 previous offences! It's almost like he should have been in prison.
This happened in January this year when burglar john coker access a old man home by pretending to be fire alarm engineer.
John coker who had 172 previous offences including 80 offencs against vulnerable people.
He was jailed for 4 years 8 months but at a court of appeal his sentence was rise to 9 years 8 months.
Cctv released by the family..
The whole "if a much younger beautiful woman is interested in you, then the only possible reason is she is a spy" argument definitely applies for most blokes. I'm just not sure it's *completely* true if you have $200 billion.
Several achieved by East German athletes in the 1970s and 1980s...
Chicken coop security must be signed off by fox, Rubio says.
Security guarantees for Ukraine must also be acceptable to Russia, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.
He said no final plan had been agreed upon and did not rule out formalizing the guarantees through a treaty.
hromadske.ua/en/war/274102-r…
People are evidently heeding this crisis preparedness advice. Another example: Amazon and all our local supermarkets were sold out of larger bulk packs of bottled water for a time last week.
Banks see record cash withdrawals after government stockpiling advice
independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
Crikey. I just learned that in the 1960s and 70s, some patients were given plutonium power cells as long-term batteries for their pacemakers. At least one person is still alive with one of these in their chest, wandering around like a low profile Tony Stark.
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I don’t think people realise how heavily inundated with dogma (in this case ‘breast is best’ dogma) midwifery and postnatal services are until they have children themselves. It’s actively dangerous for some babies and mothers.
Why are more newborns being readmitted with conditions assoc with feeding problems? For @BBCfileon4, @meisel_anna @davinabristow and I explore low milk supply, gaps in postnatal support and whether parents get the impartial feeding advice they need.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0033z6…
In Byline-land everyone else dances to the tune of the money, except for - guess who? - Byline!
A group closely linked to hard-left conspiracy theorists has been given more than a quarter of a million pounds of public money to promote "trusted, high-quality local journalism.".
Bylines Networks Ltd is the second largest recipient of money from the Government’s new Local News Fund, receiving a total of £266,221 to "fund the future of local news."
Bylines Networks Ltd is closely associated with Byline Times, whose recent output is a mixture of hard-left attack, Jason Arday trutherism and the frankly deranged.
Byline Times and Bylines Networks Ltd are controlled by the same people, Peter Jukes and Steve Colegrave, who are directors of both. Bylines Network describes itself as a “partner organisation to Byline Times” and says that the two organisations “work closely together.“
✍️ Andrew Gilligan
Article | spectator.com/article/why-is… | @mragilligan
This does raise the interesting question of exactly why Bylines Networks was set up as a separate company to Byline Times. xitter.twitterapi.xyz/spectator/status/21200…
A group closely linked to hard-left conspiracy theorists has been given more than a quarter of a million pounds of public money to promote "trusted, high-quality local journalism.".
Bylines Networks Ltd is the second largest recipient of money from the Government’s new Local News Fund, receiving a total of £266,221 to "fund the future of local news."
Bylines Networks Ltd is closely associated with Byline Times, whose recent output is a mixture of hard-left attack, Jason Arday trutherism and the frankly deranged.
Byline Times and Bylines Networks Ltd are controlled by the same people, Peter Jukes and Steve Colegrave, who are directors of both. Bylines Network describes itself as a “partner organisation to Byline Times” and says that the two organisations “work closely together.“
✍️ Andrew Gilligan
Article | spectator.com/article/why-is… | @mragilligan
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Brand had 9.5 million Twitter followers at the time. That’s precisely why Miliband cosied up to him.
Amazing radio this morning from @BBCr4today which hosted a discussion about who the next Bond will be, between two people who don’t know who the next Bond will be, also touching on the fact nobody is allowed to know who the next Bond will be. #NotNews
Oh no, I accidentally browsed Twitter on the “For You” timeline rather than the “Following” timeline. So far I’ve seen claims that Beethoven was black and mountains are actually really old stumps of enormous trees. How is everyone else’s morning going.
Eight-year-olds are told in one classroom video prepared by HMRC:
“You can think of tax as one shared bank account that everyone in the country pays into. The government is then in charge of looking after this bank account and sharing all the money to help everyone in the country. This money is also used to pay for the things that your town or city needs. When you’re older and you get a job, or maybe even start your own business, the taxes you’ll pay will all be added into this shared bank account."
Eight-year-olds are told in one classroom video prepared by HMRC:
“You can think of tax as one shared bank account that everyone in the country pays into. The government is then in charge of looking after this bank account and sharing all the money to help everyone in the country. This money is also used to pay for the things that your town or city needs. When you’re older and you get a job, or maybe even start your own business, the taxes you’ll pay will all be added into this shared bank account."