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27 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Our police, viciously beating protesters. No sugar-coating possible. This is WRONG.

(The protest can also be wrong - it's not one or the other. But the hypothetical wrongness of the protest cannot possibly justify a wild beatdown with riot shields, and batons.)
And then there's this (warning: the video is hard to watch)...
And here's the police, quite literally attacking a journalist...
But as Avon & Somerset police put it, they were simply "confronting" him. Presumably much in the same way as someone who bottles you outside a pub is merely being confrontational with your face.
So what do the BBC choose to focus on? An unsubstantiated quote from the PM.

Oh, and they went with "One journalist claimed he was assaulted by police during the operation to clear the streets" even though there's literally video of him being attacked!

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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡 Profile picture
24 Mar
UK
Population: 66,796,807
Population density: 275 people/km2
COVID-19 deaths: 126,284
Deaths per million: 1,891
World's 7th busiest airport

JAPAN
Population: 126,349,496
Population density: 333 people/km2
COVID-19 deaths: 8,861
Deaths per million: 70
World's 5th busiest airport
UK
Restrictions on international travel: minimal during most of pandemic, never strict
Restrictions on daily life: moderate to strict

JAPAN
Restrictions on international travel: strict throughout pandemic (150+ countries banned from entering)
Restrictions on daily life: very few
UK GDP shrank 9.9% in 2020.
bbc.co.uk/news/business-…

Japan's GDP shrank 4.8% in 2020.
bbc.co.uk/news/business-…

In other words, strict restrictions on travel meant very few deaths, virtually no change to day to day life, and comparatively little economic damage. Simple.
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22 Mar
Big news on the UK domain front. Nominet's years of commercial overreach have finally caught up with it. (It was at its best as a lean, mean organisation focused exclusively on running the UK namespace well.) Members had enough.

And there's that cursed 52:48 ratio again.
Five founding members of the original Nominet lend their weight to a letter calling for the appointment of specific interim directors (who were originally going to be the subject of a second EGM resolution, before Nominet refused.)
For the record, in my experience, Nominet have always provided exemplary support to their customers. Fast, helpful and accurate.

But they lost their way organisationally nearly a decade ago, around the time of the first consultation to introduce domain registrations under .uk.
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22 Mar
The pandemic is global. Brexit mainly affected our relationship with the EU (of course some third country trade deals were not rolled over, but most were).

Telling that food and drink trade with the EU fell 75.5% but with non-EU countries it only fell 11.1%.

Thanks, Brexit!
The net effect is that the % of trade the UK does with non-EU countries has gone up and the % of trade it does with the EU has gone down, because that's just a matter of ratios.

However, the VALUE of the trade has fallen very substantially in both cases.
To expand on this...

As you can see, our non-EU trade in food and drink went up from 39% to 69% of all our trade, when comparing January 2021 to January 2020.

Our EU trade fell from 61% to 31% of all our trade.

However, the VALUE of both plunged.
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19 Mar
Interesting to see the different Easter Egg prices at online supermarkets. (Not always the same winners!)

Example 1: Nestle Smarties Chocolate Egg 256G

Tesco: £2 Clubcard price (£3 w/o Clubcard)
Asda: £3 (or 4 for £10 i.e. £2.50 each)
Waitrose: £4
Sainsburys: doesn't stock it
Example 2: Kit Kat Chunky Milk Chocolate Large Egg 260G

Tesco: £2 Clubcard price (£3 w/o Clubcard)
Asda: £3 (or 4 for £10 i.e. £2.50 each)
Sainsburys: £3
Waitrose: doesn't stock it
Example 3: Galaxy Minstrels Chocolate Large Easter Egg 262g

Asda: £3 (or 4 for £10 i.e. £2.50 each)
Sainsbury's: £3
Waitrose: £5.29 (or 2 for £8 i.e. £4 each)
Tesco: doesn't stock it
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16 Mar
Dominic Raab, on increasing the number of Trident nuclear warheads: "Because it is the ultimate guarantee, the ultimate insurance policy against the worst threat from hostile states."

Except it's not, because they will only be used in circumstances where we're already dead.
Remember, they're second strike weapons. They're not meant to be fired first.

But if we're retaliating against a massive nuclear attack, almost everyone not in a cosy government bunker will be a glowing pile of ash. So there is zero protective value to having dozens more.
Plus, when you think about it, any PM who ordered their use is the biggest idiot of all time.

If we're really talking about a situation where there was a mass nuclear exchange, we need as much of the world to survive as possible so there's an eventual chance of rebuilding.
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15 Mar
Enough flags to make you chunder, plus a few more for luck.

It's astonishing what a tiny amount of tat £2.6 million buys you these days when you spend it willy-nilly.
Everything is so disturbingly cheap-looking... Thin carpets, rubbish chairs, flat-pack quality furniture, flags that will crackle with static when you get within ten paces, etc.

And yet £2.6 million of OUR money was sent up in smoke chasing this particular white elephant.
You can see how desperately they've tried to copy the White House, down to the shape of the lectern.

Notice how, unlike ours, the US version hasn't been kitted out by PlasticsRUS. (Not saying it's the height of luxury, but it's several ranks above our amateur effort.)
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