"Britain is one of the oldest democracies"

Is it?

We didn't have full and equal universal suffrage until 1924. Even ignoring that, elections before about 1832 were barely democratic in a lot of places.

Yeah, and having no lockdowns would have had an even more catastrophic effect.

The sheer amount of ads on youtube is what's making people use ad blockers. Two unskippable 15 second ads after one minute of a ten minute video is ridiculous.

That's an ... unusual headline, to say the least.

I don't always agree with Chris, but he does get a lot of unneeded shite from the right wingers, so he has my sympathy on that.

Because hating on ~1% of the population, a lot of whom won't vote for you anyway, doesn't lose you many votes.

In a sensible world this would be enough to force the government to resign. Literally Stasi tactics.

It almost certainly is in the EU.

From what I've read, none of the victims are willing to go to the police. Which is their decision, and theirs alone.

IIRC McDonald's argument on that one is that is that it's technically possible to get a Big Mac to look like the picture, if you have long enough to put it together and access to a professional photographer.

Luckily, unlike with submarines, the FAA do actually regulate space launches.

Clever way of protesting it.

This was always going to be the next thing. Solidarity to all my trans friends (B with T is, sadly, not strong enough at times).