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6:00 am, October 21st, 2025 - 4 comments
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Open mike is your post.
For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose.
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Step up to the mike …
Sanity is starting to prevail.
"The Met police have said they will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents…"
However I'm not sure sueing the police is going to get much 'justice'.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/oct/20/father-ted-creator-graham-linehan-says-police-taking-no-further-action-over-trans-posts
The UK police sent 5 armed officers to arrest Graham at Heathrow on his return to the UK.
His "Glinner Update" is worth following along with Harry Miller's "Fair Cop".
I can't get any of Mountain Tui's posts to open in my samsung android S21.
Everything else is fine. Odd.
Why did the PSC withdraw the ads?
Was there a risk of being accountable to a still functioning independent area of governance?
A case of the pretty legal concept reaching beyond the National Party campaigning during elections into arms of government while it is in office?
The accusation that unions representing government workers are working in common cause with another political party is based on
1.the fact that the party in government is the one that passed the ECA (near the most extreme anti-union legislation in the world).
2.the historic reality that the government workers getter better deals when National is not in office
It's own guilt as the prime agent in reducing working conditions and pay rates.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/576537/public-service-commission-s-ads-targeting-strike-absolutely-unbelievable-labour