From a new chapter by Jean du Toit scholar.google.com/citations?us... you can find the chapter here www.academia.edu/resource/wor... Sometimes paragraphs just leap off the page....

Your MP is an outlier - average age of an MP is around 50. The point I'm trying to make is that theres no causative link between gender imbalance and the existence of social media, so reducing the right to protest can only be a knee jerk reflecting the authoritarian tendencies of this government.

The current generation of MPs will have begun their progression towards becoming MPs back in the early noughties when social media barely existed-but the disproportion between male and female candidates was apparent even then. Sorry, but you're just engaged in a kneejerk that enables authoritarians

I suspect the District Judge decided he couldn't be bothered, and is daring the CPS to take this up in the higher courts via an attorney generals reference.

Mainly I think women don't become MPs because in a patriarchal society men enjoy privileges women can't match.

You missed the pres coverage of the case about protestors and Sunak's home? There are already perfectly adequate laws to deal with these cases.

There are several sports of baseball but good luck with your discoveries...m

And yes there's an obvious debt to Factory by Bruce Springsteen but guess what? My father's hearing aids were real...

Unpopular response; the police lack the intellectual resources and moral capacity to make nuanced decisions about hate speech and the threat it poses, and deliberately manipulate situations like this to get themselves out of the firing line a tradition that goes back to R vs Blackburn and beyond.

I started from the perspective that both Nandy and Starmer were giving us the AI answer to the question 'Show the depth of MPs ignorance of the safety advisory group process as operated in local government in England.' Do they think the police just came up with 'computer says no'?

As one very good advocate said to me, if you're strenuously making a point, are you telling the listener that it's hard work to get this issue across to them?

Someone at the BBC watched Blue Lights and said 'woah! Is that still going on?' That's the quality of their journalism

Like all his promises it may have a limited shelf life