"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.

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.

So the same thing Truss wanted to do that completely fucked the economy? Hmm.

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.

The difference is that other breeds aren't quite as dangerous, and so won't kill or maim as many people.

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.

Clever way of protesting it.

The Environment Agency has not revealed where the dyes originated from.

Aka "you have no right to know which company did this"