5 Responses to Easter Weekend 4th April 2026

  1. Up2snuff says:
    April 3, 2026 at 9:30 pm

    I’m hoping, Scrobie as I like to call him, will be here soon. Before my editing time is up!

    Otherwise I will have to post as wasteful as the BBC is. The Licence Fee is too expensive. I do not expect to pay £355,000 a year for Scot Mills salary. The BBC is very wasteful on salaries and recruitment! The BBC is overstaffed as it is. Apparently over 100 people in the pronunciation department and they cannot get Hezbollah’s name right. It is Hizbollah and not HezbollAR. Another moan is that the BBC are anti-President Trump, anti-Israel, pro-Palestine and on the side of Hamas. Defund the BBC!

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    • MarkyMark says:
      April 3, 2026 at 9:56 pm

      BBC asks Huw Edwards to return more than £200,000
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clynjvve0gvo

      The ex-presenter “behaved in bad faith” in continuing to take his salary despite knowing what he had done, said BBC Chair Samir Shah in a letter to staff.

      …

      Disgraced BBC News presenter Huw Edwards has been given a six-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, after he admitted charges of making indecent images of children.

      …

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  2. Flotsam says:
    April 3, 2026 at 9:55 pm

    As we all know, Starmer was head of the CPS. A big, difficult and demanding job, he must have deserved his Knighthood for all that dedication.
    Well, here’s what I think. I reckon it’s one of the easiest top jobs going. For a start the bulk of actual work is done by his juniors. The CPS’s main role is to decide whether to prosecute a case or not based on the evidence collected by the Police (mostly). So who is going to question the decision whichever way it goes? It’s an opinion, right or wrong. The Justice Minister and Attorney General oversee the CPS but they are both normally Lawyers who probably won’t trouble a fellow Lawyer.
    Really tricky and contentious cases never crossed Starmer’s desk anyway.

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    • MarkyMark says:
      April 3, 2026 at 9:59 pm

      “As Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) from 2008 to 2013, Sir Keir Starmer oversaw several high-profile and often controversial cases. His tenure was marked by efforts to modernize the CPS and a focus on violent crime, though he faced criticism over specific handling of child sex exploitation cases.”

      marked by efforts to modernize the CPS – ignore cases?

      Stephen Lawrence Murder (2012)
      Parliamentary Expenses Scandal (2010) HA HA AH AH A
      The 2011 England Riots
      R v Huhne (2012)
      Death of Ian Tomlinson (2009)
      Jimmy Savile Scandal (2012)

      The “Twitter Joke Trial” (2012): Paul Chambers was prosecuted for a joke tweet about blowing up Robin Hood Airport. The case was widely criticized, and while the CPS pursued the case, the conviction was eventually quashed.

      Assisted Suicide Guidelines

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  3. tomo says:
    April 3, 2026 at 10:42 pm

    Of course they changed their ways after the war started eh?

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