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He was murdered by a second, much larger, knife, which wasn’t covered by the allowance for ceremonial knives for religious reasons, so the killer was already breaking existing knife laws. It’s not like Steven Yaxley ‘Tommy Robinson’ Lenon and his supporters will ever care about this, though.

The attorney general has referred the case to the court of appeals for resentencing, so the politicians seem to think that there’s been some kind of fuckup applying the sentencing guidelines that politicians set. It’s news because this isn’t normal, and the mechanisms to resolve it are in motion. They’ll probably take years to sort it out, as the justice system is incredibly slow and wildly overwhelmed after over a decade of funding cuts and policy decisions that force people to resort to crime, but in 2040 or whenever they get around to it, the decision is almost certainly going to be that the judge made a mistake.

He was governor of the Bank of England for a while, so he’s not totally unrelated to the UK.

Isn’t an adult pretending to be a child in porn already illegal? That seems like something that would always have been illegal.

The article is a bit untrustworthy as it keeps switching between Hornet and Super Hornet, even though they’re different planes, and an expert would know that.

You’ve linked an article about a tank with an anti-drone cage being defeated, so even if it does point out that there are situations where a shaped charge can be made to work on a drone, it doesn’t support the original claim that shaped charges can be protected against by a small anti-drone cage.

Armour piercing shaped charges are more sensitive to the direction they hit at than to the distance, so they’re unsuitable for use on drones because you’re rarely, if ever, going to line them up just right, and armour piercing squash head munitions need to be going fast enough that they squash against the armour they’re trying to pierce before detonation, so need to be carried by something much faster than a drone. Suicide drones just have a lump of explosive as heavy as they can carry, and being 30cm further away from a simple explosion rarely stops it ruining your day.

That was mainly when Russian equipment was getting mesh fitted directly to its outside instead of cheap netting being placed over roads. If you fit an anti-drone cage to something, it only moves the explosion about a foot further away, which often isn’t enough to make a meaningful difference to survivability. If you make the cage bigger, your vehicle stops fitting though gaps, so that’s not practical. Covering a road can keep the explosion metres away, though, and protects everything using the road rather than just the one vehicle.

They still need making and putting up, and they’re more obtrusive than a swift brick as they stick out instead of being embedded in the wall itself.

There’s kind of need for them everywhere and this is a pretty practical way to ensure they end up everywhere and will stay there.

It might also be completely unusable if it’s going to be touched by human hands, as hands get sweaty, and sweat is salty water.

Drax often bids more for waste wood than the lumber industry would get for selling timber, so there’s already an incentive to declare any wood they can unsuitable. As long as there’s a way to get wood to Drax, the industry will find and exploit it.

Magnets from Temu were probably just loose in a bag or some bubble wrap with no warning label. People should know they’re not food anyway, but defying a warning label wasn’t the particular flavour of dumbness exhibited here.

I don’t know if this is the same loophole used in NZ as in the UK and EU, but in the UK and EU, lots of things are banned from retail rather than completely illegal. If they’re imported and the importer sells them without demonstrating that they’re safe, the importer has committed a crime. If the importer keeps them for personal use, that’s fine, though. In theory, people ordering things from outside the EU and importing them are supposed to be aware that they’re importing things and that the stores aren’t necessarily only selling CE-marked goods, so they’re responsible for checking that they’re safe themselves, but in practice, people just see an online shop and don’t make a distinction from a domestic online shop except the price and delivery time. The EU is working on a law to close this loophole in some way.

Planking was just lying down on things, so hardly an instance of teenagers endangering themselves.

The tide pod thing wasn’t exactly what it seemed to be. Some children with learning disabilities and some people with dementia had died from mistaking laundry pods for food. At some point, some media outlets decided to sensationalise it by leaving out the bit about learning disabilities. That meant that there were teenagers who thought other teenagers had died from eating them, so they could make videos pretending they’d done that, just like teenagers have staged videos to make it look like they’re doing dangerous things that they aren’t really doing ever since people have let them have cameras. Some of them decided that the easiest way to pretend was to put a real laundry pod in their mouth, pretend to chew it and swallow, pretend to die, and then cut the video and spit it out. If they checked the relevant warnings on the packet, they just said not to eat them and to rinse their eyes if they got any there, so this plan might seem safe. However, laundry pods are so corrosive against mucous membranes that putting one in your mouth and spitting it out immediately because it starts to burn immediately can still be fatal or cause permanent injury. The media reported the deaths and injuries as if teenagers were intentionally eating laundry pods, rather than pretending in a way the packet implied might be safe, so most people weren’t learning that pretending was also deadly and that the warnings on the packet weren’t exhaustive, so it just made fake tide pod challenge videos even more tempting. If the reporting had been more responsible, then most people would have first heard even pretending to eat laundry pods can kill rather than teenagers are eating laundry pods.

If something’s fully biodegraded in fifty days, it’s probably weakened and full of holes to the point of being unusable after much less time than that, so you might only have a week to get a product from the factory into the hands of consumers, then used, then disposed off. Plenty of perishable foods are inedible after a week or two but take several months to fully biodegrade.

The article was updated a few hours ago but when it was originally posted and accumulated its first slew of upvotes, the fine hadn’t been rescinded yet and the only statement from the council was that their enforcement officers had acted appropriately and the fine was appropriate.

Also, in much of the UK, the surface water and foul water drains both go into a single combined sewer system, with areas that have been built up for centuries like this one being most likely to still use that old approach.

I’ve seen plenty of news reports say that combined sewers are nearly ubiquitous, but now when I’m googling it, I’m seeing some sites back that up, and other sites saying it’s only about a fifth of the country, so I don’t know which to trust. I can see Ofwat and some of the water companies say that the rules changed (potentially in 1991) so new developments after that point have to use separate sewers, and that wouldn’t be that much of the UK, as most building is redevelopment of existing sites where existing sewers can be reused, rather than new developments, and most things haven’t been rebuilt in the last thirty years, so I’d be surprised if it was 80% separate if it’s only new stuff using it, but less surprised if it’s just the Victorian sewers that are combined (and areas that still use Victorian sewers that have been spilling foul water into waterways) and things have been gradually switched over for more than a century. Do you have a source that explains the incompatible figures?

Even if nationalised, our water infrastructure still needs hundreds of billions of pounds investing in it to bring it up to an acceptable standard, and the government doesn’t have the money and has other priorities to spend it on if they magically got a surprise pile of cash. The only financially viable way to fix the problem in a hurry would be to seize past dividends from water company shareholders to cover the cost of doing the things the water companies were supposed to be doing (which would conveniently tank the share prices and make nationalising the water much cheaper), but lots of pensions are propped up mostly by water shares, so doing that would plunge lots of pensioners into poverty, which isn’t politically viable as the government’s already in enough trouble for perceived being mean to pensioners, and they can’t afford to support more impoverished pensioners.

It’s only not treated because the UK has a massive problem with not treating sewage. In the UK, storm drains flow into the same sewers as toilets and go to the same waste treatment plants, where everything gets pumped out the same emergency overflow pipe into open water because there are millions more people in the UK than there were fifty years ago, and sewage treatment capacity is virtually unchanged because it’s cheaper to pay the fines for emergency overflow than to build more treatment plants.