Police having monopoly on (legal) violence does not mean the point of them existing is explicitly to terrorise people to the extent people are afraid to call them for assistance.
Only in places where they are allowed to become thugs is that the case.
Certainly can make things a lot worse. Thankfully my experiences have still been good despite being a brown immigrant.
Living in a country where you're afraid to call the police sounds so crazy to me.
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Surely a yard (3ft, ~90cm) is the most equivelant to a metre, not a foot
No one in the last 25 years has ever seen it.
People didn't just mass-destroy CRTs in 1999...
I bought an LCD TV in 2006 (a Sony Bravia that is still going strong) and that was earlier than most people I know switched
Ok fine. Why can't cats play poker in the jungle?
Too many jaguars
Having to regularly plug your phone into a PC to back up 100GB+ of photos and videos over a USB 2 connection is not even remotely the same as automatic backups to iCloud that you can then access instantly, at any time, anywhere.
How far back do we go?
Do we just go back to living memory? Do we go beyond? Is the colonialism in the 1800s fair game? What about before that? Do Italy owe reparations for the Romans? Are people owed reparations for the vikings?
Will I be receiving a payout because your caveman ancestor killed one of my caveman ancestors?
It also brings up the question of are African countries liable for their part in things like trading slaves? It's not like Europe is alone in having a bloody past.
I don't think the people of today should be paying for the sins of some arsehole rulers 200+ years ago, to be given to people who were never subject to the injustices in history.
This is a cash grab. Nothing more.
There are arguments for and against assisted suicide for terminally ill patients.
Cost – regardless of whether it's a bit cheaper or a bit more expensive – should not be one of them, Wes.
What the hell is this headline?
The claim has always been that the planned green energy investments and state-owned company 'Great British Energy' will save 'up to' £300 (compared to 2023 prices) by 2030.
This BBC article from May 2024, before Labour were even in government, confirms this.
There's nothing to "admit" – nothing is being pushed back or watered down. The timeframe has always been 2030.
The £300 estimate actually comes from a non-Labour-affiliated right wing think tank that uses less ambitious modeling than what labour actually wants to put in place. So assuming that goes well, it could be better than £300, or the £300 could be achieved even sooner than 2030, but Labour haven't made any promises about that.
Honestly, sometimes it feels like the supposedly left-wing outlets such as The Morning Star would prefer to have the Tories or Reform in charge than have a Labour government that's not headed by Corbyn.
Yes it is what you said.
You said they're there to carry out violence on citizens. That's not what the police are or should be for.
No. You're again thinking police are violent thugs everywhere.
That doesn't make much sense to me.
My wife gets sexually harassed at work... is she just not supposed to call the police? My car gets stolen... am I not supposed to call the police? I see a policeman in the street and I am lost, is it wrong to ask for directions?
I appreciate that the police may be far more militaristic where you live, I acknowledge that I'm lucky in that regard, but you should at least acknowledge that that stuff varies place to place. I don't think the belief that police should be/are only "violent labour" is a correct one.