People were up in arms, when Corbyn suggested free internet access for all, but given this study, and the need for online learning during the pandemic, maybe it could be considered as not such a daft suggestion. Especially as so many government departments/benefits can only be accessed by form filling online. There is genuine poverty out there.
Another blinding result for Brexit. Patients who were legally prescribed cannabis based medication, with the prescription filled in the Netherlands, can no longer receive the drugs, because of Brexit rules. One lad, who was having 150 seizures a week, has been seizure free on Bedrolite oils, could return to having seizures when his supply runs out. This medication needs to be obtainable in the UK, and there must surely be a Tory crony who could be asked to set up a marijuana farm under a legal licence to produce it. https://www.theguardian.com/politic...A1jj3tAUX9CIkVi7293ATaANJJmOYRnZwlSBWh7GDJvvo
It actually is a defense for some crimes in the United States, namely crimes of specific intent: https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Specific Intent
Georgia used to be one of the heartlands of the neo-Confederacy and the modern KKK. In Nov, they voted for a Catholic president and biracial vice president. Last night, they elected two new Senators: a Black preacher and a Jewish Millennial, to give the Democrats the Senate majority. Things change slowly, but they do change.
Interesting. Perhaps Trump's lawyers will try to claim - not unreasonably - that he was intoxicated for the last 4 years.
I thought Ossof's was still too close to call (according to the BBC). I really hope he gets in as he is one of the most eloquent and impressive politicians I have seen in a long time.
Trump has achieved something few previous presidents have managed: from having Republican majorities in both House and Senate in 2016, he has contrived to lose not only his own presidency, but the whole of Congress as well. Meanwhile, the stormtroopers gather for a Nuremberg rally in DC. What a guy!
Ossof is 16,000 votes ahead with only largely blue counties left to count. It’s likely to be called sometime this afternoon our time.
Did you see his Georgia rally? He was supposed to talk up the two Georgia Senators but ended up talking about himself for over an hour. The crowd actually looked bored and confused.
Republican leaders are already turning on him for that rally, and the fact that he has turned red voters away in the Georgia rerun by his continual slagging off of the electoral process in a Republican-run state.
I love this bloke...Just how many Trump voters are as brainwashed as the moron that called him, probably all of them..
The new head of the BBC used to be an advisor of both Johnson and Sunak. Who saw that coming? https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2...g_vCOo53qXClUxDIpu3oeVnuLf4uhHjbiEtOrblh84l88
Ossof’s lead now up to 17,000. Still only a lead of 0.4% though, so hopefully he can get up to more than 0.5% to avoid the annoyance of a recount. With a lead like that a recount would only be a formality though.
But there is a lot, I am hearing a big amount, of evidence that many of these votes are from dead armadillos. We need to investigate where this surge of armadillo votes has come from. A lady saw an ice cream truck stop outside a voting booth and cover all the Republican votes with blueberry sauce. Phone 100-FRAUD-ME now and give some money to fight this bigly bad disaster.
@SaintInKuwait I read what you had added at the end of your post in another thread: That work by the way, is teaching and developing child protective services. When I came to Kuwait years ago there was no protections for abused women and children. I am so proud of the work that my team has achieved in that time and hopefully (post-COVID) the legislation and structure we have been working so hard in developing will come to government vote and become law. I would be really interested to find our more about the work that you do in such a patriarchal society, where there are no laws prohibiting domestic violence, sexual harassment or marital rape. Just yesterday, my friend emailed a link to me about the Woman's Committee in Kuwait. You have my admiration, what an achievement it would be to bring changes that protect abused women and children in a country such as this. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/...ftu_E233XnhZT632PfTUwwX63LWM9pjBOdDOLXiLx1VL0
Sure. I don’t want to say too much because it’s not just me doing this and it’s been a huge team effort across schools and with citizen and resident volunteers over 10 years. It started with linking social workers at private schools together (every school is supposed to have one on staff, in the way that you’d have a DSL or CPO in the U.K.) and providing them with training that we paid for. We needed Kuwaiti partners though. Lots of our work was finding people with relevant education who were able and motivated to participate. Our network of schools and school leaders/owners as it stands is small, but growing. We also can’t be a singular charity or business because then the government wouldn’t entertain what we want. We wanted to just get everyone focused on the issues at hand. We set up an abuse reporting system that is used by about 50 schools now. There are high rates of sexual harassment against women in public but we found a woman judge (Kuwait appointed several female justices this year for the first time ever, we need more, but it’s happening slowly) and an awesome feminist lawyer who were not willing to stand for this bullshit and drew up good guidance to help women access police services and protections while having appropriate advocates. There are dark spots that we don’t have influence in, but during normal times we regularly invited parents, stakeholders and teachers from other schools into our school to show them what we were doing and what child protection is at it’s root. It was at different times hilarious and darkly depressing but everything was worth it. There’s a lot of young Kuwaiti people who have massive pride in their country and have been chiefly educated in the U.K./USA. That generation can be difficult to engage on some subjects but as soon as we had willing volunteers to go train and then take on what is a thankless awful, crushing job in schools, we knew we were most of the way there. The final piece to get things really rolling without us was to get an “untouchable” of sorts. We wanted a Kuwaiti woman from a lofty family background to back our work and help agitate at levels higher than we could reach. We found a real badass lesbian pirate (a story for another time, can’t out her) who had worked in education already and was a member of the royal family. She drives a lot of the moves at the top level now but COVID has slowed everything to a crawl. With everyone at home right now we’re focusing on talking more to class teachers in schools about how they handle welfare check ins on vulnerable children remotely. We never really met with much resistance. Just apathy. That was probably the biggest thing to work through. Every new link in the chain saw us encounter people who had to be bludgeoned into doing the work and we usually left a trail of unemployed MoE staff and school workers in our wake. Sorry, not sorry. If you won’t do the work then you don’t deserve to be in the game! The story you linked was a total joke, completely unacceptable and actually did more to help our cause than anything else. It was one of a number of government decisions following the death of the previous Emir and a December election which saw (I believe) a record high number of women coming forward as potential candidates but few making the ballot and none being elected. It seems now that, in light of the results of the election and the early cabinet appointments, there is appetite from the leadership to disband the two or three-week-old government and start all over again. I hope that they get it right this time.
