Lammy will probably offer to take all the Uyghurs off China, bring them here as Labour voters and then they will volunteer to be castrated. If it is good enough for the totalitarian Communists then it must be okay here: Sir Keith Stalin will know the law.
That sounds like the opposite of a holocaust, at least the Kraut Socialists allegedly reduced the number of Jews by burning them .
My camera bag had three camera bodies (two film, one digital) and four lenses packed in it. I have never put lenses in hold luggage as I have seen how the baggage handlers throw it around. I have never been to the Philippines so I do not know their rules for what can go in hold luggage. Lots of places won’t allow lithium batteries because of the (remote) fire risk.
Next time I'll go for a longer stay and will take more gear. All I took last time was the camera and a macro lens.
None of the places that I have visited in recent years have old kit. Quite a lot of them make you stand in a scanner with your hands above your head. I am used to taking the camera bodies out of the bag because it is so tightly packed they cannot see the individual items but the lenses are just tubes with glass at each end that surely a scanner can see through. I remember 27 years ago flying on an internal US flight from an airfield in West Virginia to Washington DC and the airport building was nothing more than a portacabin and I think they had a donkey outside walking around to power a clunky old scanner. Back then I had a camera bag with one camera and two lenses and the guy just looked at me and waved me through – it was a 12 seat plane and the luggage was in the cabin above the wings on either side of the aisle.
Where to start... There was no blasphemy offence committed as there is no blasphemy law in England and Wales. The arrest was for (supposedly) racially aggravated behaviour, not burning the Qur’an (not an offence). All British Police officers are required to uphold British law – they give such a pledge (the oath of allegiance) when they take the job. Whether an offence was being committed in this instance is debatable and no ‘arrestable offence’ was committed.
Burning the Qur’an is not an ‘arrestable offence’. The protestor was arrested for a “racially aggravated public order” offence, although the validity of that is debatable; and as the maximum sentence for such public order offences is six months that is not an ‘arrestable offence’ by strict UK law definition. He should have burned a Qur’an, a Bible and a Talmud as that would not have been an offence and the ice for a racially aggravated public order offence arrest would have been even thinner.
Now had you read that article before posting the link you would have seen that the person that was arrested was detained for criminal damage – it was not their flag to burn (Section 1, Criminal Damage Act 1971).
I never said 'offense' but it clearly was an action deemed suitable to be arrested for, and burning flags isn't, even though the same parameters apply.
Man arrested after taking something that didn’t belong to him and destroyed it, he was done for criminal damage.
I remember people being arrested for burning poppies. I found it ironic because thats what the British Army spent a lot of time doing in Afghanistan
