Other panellist: If you were in Russia, you'd be in prison.
Chris Nineham: As it happens, I may be going to prison in Britain.
That was one of several highlights of a few hours back in a university. Rachel Reeves is hoping for an academic sinecure, but having claimed in Who's Who to have been published in a much more prestigious journal with a similar name to the one in which she really had been, then she would be lucky to be allowed through the door again.
As for Jonathan Reynolds, passing yourself off as a solicitor is a criminal offence. But who is to sack him? Sir Keir Starmer KC? Today, the Lady Chief Justice expressed herself "deeply troubled" that Starmer had told Parliament that a judge had made "the wrong decision" by allowing a Gazan family to settle in Britain. Thankfully, the Holy Father is still calling the Holy Family Church in Gaza every day.
Of course we shouldn’t take migrants from Gaza. They are mostly Arabic-speaking Muslims from a Hamas dictatorship who have nothing culturally in common with us-whereas Ukranian refugees are migrating here from another Christian European democracy.
ReplyDeleteWhere's that, then?
DeleteYou pretended to have a PhD! Utter lies. You could barely scrape through an undergraduate degree.
ReplyDeleteAh, bless. A research centre at the University of Nottingham assumed that I must have been "Dr Lindsay", duly styled me as such, and corrected the error as soon as I pointed it out. But Kamm has been going on about ever since, because no one could ever make that mistake about him. Even when he has the doctorate that he has retired in order to write, then no one is going to believe him.
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ReplyDeleteUkraine. Unlike, say, Russia-which has had the same President for 26 years-Ukraine elects new leaders.
Who then outstay their constitutional terms of office, having banned 11 Opposition parties, all trade unions, and the largest church in the country, and having put dissidents under house arrest, closed three television stations, and flogged off national assets to global vulture capitalists. Putin's awfulness does not validate his enemies either within or beyond Russia.
DeleteWe also had martial law during a war. You’re lucky enough not to have lived through your country being invaded, unlike the people of Ukraine.
ReplyDeleteNeither the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 nor the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1939 was "martial law". There were 219 parliamentary by-elections during the Second World War, and numerous local elections.
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