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smh it's pissing it down and I can't enjoy the comfy sound in bed because I must toil

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53091856

Vera Lynn died

A slow nightshift means lads putting in work by not being nocturnal

Rise and grind lads

>>1400091

her first memories would've been ww1 veterans coming home. wew. as a side note i often wonder how long ww1 veterans lasted. There were probably some around in the 80s at the latest, but the 30 year old literal boomers at the time probably wouldn't have cared. it would be amazing to talk to a ww1 veteran

>>1400036

>The victim made a complaint to Derbyshire Constabulary. He was told that an officer from Professional Standards would be in touch, but was promptly ignored. Despite the seriousness of the allegations, no officer visited his home to take a statement and no complaint was recorded.

>When a police officer is under investigation of misconduct for a serious allegation, the relevant force is statutorily obliged to contact the IOPC to notify them of this. Derbyshire police failed to do so.

>So instead, I contacted the IOPC myself. I also informed them that the defendant’s wife worked for the same department that was investigating him. True to form, the IOPC ignored my communication.

>I also contacted the Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner Hardyal Dhindsa, who as of recent changes in the police complaints process, has the authority – like all PCCs – to take control of certain complaints. He showed not the least interest either, and responded with a meaningless cut and paste reply.

>As a last ditch attempt, I brought it to the attention of Nigel Mills, the MP of the constituency where the incident occurred. He also ignored my communication.

>From the outset of the hearing the judge repeatedly refused to hear my application in full and refused to recognise my rights under s6 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 to act as prosecutor.

>I would not allow myself to be sidelined by the judge, and I continued unabated and unintimidated, forced to make representations piecemeal throughout the hearing, via interjections. The judge also made the horrifying admission that he had not properly read the application. When I offered to show him a copy he declined to see it.

>The victim was asked to give evidence under oath. He was clearly very nervous, and trembling in the witness stand. During questioning, he mentioned that the defendant’s wife worked in the professional standards department. The judge immediately shouted him down, stating: “These are very serious allegations you are making.” He was not permitted to continue.

>I compiled and uploaded a video to my Youtube channel on everything that had happened so far. This video went viral and clocked over 600,000 views. A few weeks after the video had been uploaded, the CPS had a sudden change of heart. They wrote to the victim telling him that they had reassessed the case and decided there was a case to answer. They stated, in somewhat ambiguous terms, that they would be prosecuting PC Knights after all. They invited the victim to discontinue the private prosecution. However the victim was not the prosecutor, I was. So I wrote to the CPS and asked them to clarify their intention. They responded but failed to confirm whether or not they intended to take over the prosecution. Instead they asked if I intended to discontinue the case. I repeated my initial question. They have ignored all my communications since.

The absolute state.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/escaping-the-dragon-the-governments-new-approach-to-china

Escaping the dragon: the government’s new approach to China

>The issue is not that Covid-19 emerged from Wuhan but what the crisis has revealed about the Chinese state and the UK’s dependence on it. Ministers have seen first-hand how reliant the UK is on China for vital goods — particularly personal protective equipment — and, more importantly, that this is not a normal trading relationship. They are acutely aware that if the UK is too critical of Beijing, these shipments will dry up.

>Uppermost in ministers’ minds is the example of Australia, which called for an independent inquiry into the origins of coronavirus. Beijing was furious and responded by slapping tariffs on its barley and refusing imports from four key Australian abattoirs. There has also been talk of consumer boycotts of Australian produce and reports that power plants are being urged not to use coal from the country. A third of Australia’s trade is with China. It now finds itself vulnerable to a communist state that is willing to use economic links to punish countries that step out of line. This is a situation that Britain does not want to be in.

>This shift in British thinking marks a rejection of the David Cameron-George Osborne ‘new golden era’ in relations with China. Osborne’s strategy was to fly into Beijing with a plane-load of businessmen and tout for Chinese investment. The hope back then was that being China’s best friend in the West would extend Britain’s time at the global top table. Rhetorically, Theresa May moved away from this desire for ever closer relations with China, but in policy terms not much changed. Then Johnson, like May, approved Huawei’s involvement in the construction of the UK’s 5G network. The security services remained confident of Britain’s ability to handle this relationship to our own benefit.

>But Britain doesn’t want to go full Trump on China. The aim is for a resetting and re-balancing of relations — rather than a rupture. The hope is for a ‘reciprocal and sustainable’ relationship, so Britain would accept Chinese investment only in areas where British firms are at liberty to invest in China too. But hoping that this will happen may well be naive. Would Beijing allow a British company to build a hugely sensitive part of its national infrastructure? Or offer the UK the amount of influence that China has in universities in this country?