A member of a “democratic socialist” party calling a nazi a nazi, sensationalised as groundbreaking. What a world we now live in.

Yep in those cases it seems right, but as a blanket I’m not so sure. There’s a grey area at the fringes of which a thief steals a Lucozade from a shop and can’t prosecute the shopkeeper for breaking his legs so he can’t escape before the police arrive.

I didn’t know that. That seems completely unjust. I hope the private prosecution would be allowed after the CPS is finished with the case?

Protestors can’t bring charges? Can you explain what you mean by that because it’s definitely not correct as is. Protestors have the protection of the law just like everybody else.
Only the CPS can prosecute? That’s not right either, private prosecutions are allowed in the UK, under the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985. You can have your case heard in the magistrates court for example.

So for you, justice will only be done when a jury finds him guilty? Because he’s already been tried by jury once

So it would be a different case, with a different prosecution, if the protesters were bringing charges against the security guard, no?

Well if they have, then the prosecution in that case certainly haven’t been as energetic in propagandising the violence as the prosecution for the crown.

You seem to be someone who has faith in institutions. Do you not think justice has been done? The jury saw the same video you did and didn’t believe it to be GBH with intent. So the officer who was injured has had her justice.

It’s in the article there:

jurors did not return a verdict on the charge faced by Corner of grievous bodily harm with intent for striking a police officer with a sledgehammer.

Here’s another interesting bit:

Bodycam footage presented to the jury appeared to show security guard Angelo Volante allegedly striking defendant Devlin in the neck with a sledgehammer, knocking him to the ground.

A series of images and a body map detailing Devlin’s injuries, including a black eye, was presented to the jury.

In another clip, Volante is seen brandishing a whip and running towards Devlin, who was unarmed. He then picked up a sledgehammer and swung it at Devlin and co-defendant Rogers.

Let’s hope there’s some justice for the protesters, eh?

As am Englishman, I am offended. The idea that I am not capable of preparing Italian food as well as a native, or that I would ever cook English cuisine in my kitchen, is outright racism.

I hate to break it to you but Norma Pielli died in 2015.

Just outright lies! There’s just not even a concession to the truth with you, is there.

Here’s the proof, again. You abject liar.

Nope. They publicly supported Israeli “right” to starve Gaza, criminalised the support of a direct action group that opposes the genocide, continue to arm Israel, allowed Israel to attack British boats and kidnap British citizens sailing on them, continue to fly spy planes for Israel and refuel their planes at Akrotiri.

The UK government is complicit in genocide.

Why do you still tell this lie. I put you straight on this a while back. Some 30 licenses were suspended in 2024, hundreds of licenses are still active. The UK still arms Israel.
You claimed this before, and I showed you the evidence that you were wrong. You are still repeating the claim. You are a liar.

Wait wait wait… Islam is more protected by the state? Can you go into detail a bit there please?

It’s absolutely not pure delusion. That’s absolutely hyperbole.
There’s no definitive metric for “who is the better country”, because the number of different methods of measuring that are on a similar order of magnitude as the number of crimes committed.
We could go back and forth all day, all week, all year, shouting ‘Tiananmen Square’ and ‘MKUltra’ at each other and prove absolutely nothing, and in the end we would just look like USA and China stans, which I’m not. In this case, China does not have any moral high ground from which to decry the US’s current imperialism, so they can fuck off. I’d be saying the same thing if a US senator complained about China’s genocide of the Uyghurs. They are no better and can fuck off with that.

100%. A big part of growing up and taking responsibility is recognising and unlearning the propaganda you were subjected to as a child, if that’s even possible.

I don’t think you can get a cigarette paper between them, morally. Tibet, Hong Kong, Uighurs, Taiwan are all things that spring to mind and that’s without having to think about it or do any research.

Yeah, I am disappointed that the USA is now no better than China, but it was always very marginal.

‘International norms’ like freedom from torture and genocide? Freedom of speech?
Fuck off China, you’re no better than the USA.