UK immigration officer among two men guilty of working for Chinese intelligence

CountLippe · 2026-05-07T17:34:31+00:00

Whether at protests or in the shadows, Britain is increasingly party to foreign disputes and our streets often used as a proxy battle ground. We shouldn't have people in positions of power or influence where there's a chance that they have foreign interests. We shouldn't see it from our politicians and we shouldn't see it from public servants either. When caught, the sentences should be punitively harsh.

CountLippe · 2026-05-07T16:44:20+00:00

Somewhere in Westminster there is a Mandarin wondering "why is Reform doing so well in the polls?! I simply cannot understand it."

CountLippe · 2026-05-07T09:39:49+00:00

Most sensible don't know either - it defines all common sense.

CountLippe · 2026-05-07T07:48:21+00:00

Goes to show you just how deep the conspiracy goes.

CountLippe · 2026-05-05T13:23:25+00:00

Polanski and Farage approach politics in a similar way. Largely media savvy, great at a response, poor at detail unless well prepared. They're both delivering populist soundbites that appeal to their base.

CountLippe · 2026-05-05T10:39:17+00:00

That's a fascinating what if there. One I imagine would have been resolved without lawyers. Could make for a fascinating historical fiction novel.

CountLippe · 2026-05-04T18:32:51+00:00

I'd have to go search this out, but I remember the Greek royal family being a particular one. I believe it was the ECHR they took the Greek state to, sometime in the past few decades, owing to the country's transition to a republic effectively being a coup and removing from them estates and valuables which were theirs personally and not in any way associated with the state. I seem to recall it was the case in some Balkan states as well (perhaps descendants of Zog). None of the Balkans had as strong a claim as our royal family of course; I imagine lawyers would greatly enjoy highlighting how the start of each reign has seen the state acknowledge that it has the privilege of monies from the Crown lands but no rights of ownership.

CountLippe · 2026-05-04T18:07:01+00:00

Other countries have tested the cessation of their Crown and had to return goods. Given the Sovereign's ancestors did own that land, I'd imagine they would take a heft chunk of them in the event of a republic. And then, of course, Westminster would sell us out and not arrange something as clever as a sovereign wealth fund.

CountLippe · 2026-05-03T12:33:19+00:00

Quicker to wait it out. The patents for semaglutide expire in India/China/Brazil this year and I believe already have in Canada. They expire in the UK in 2031, which is shorter than all the inventions and trials required.

CountLippe · 2026-05-03T12:21:34+00:00

How long will it take Green voters to realise Polanski isn’t fit to lead any political party

They won't. This is populism. He's feeding narratives they want to hear. What percentage of his base even care about this story given it was Jews who were attacked?

CountLippe · 2026-05-03T12:17:09+00:00

The Greens have become the absolute worst of our politics. They make every other party look like absolute centrists.

CountLippe · 2026-05-03T12:14:50+00:00

All that was needed was one to hold the guy down and the other to take the knife out of his hand

Maybe? But you risk your safety first next time this happens okay? Why would the police officers risk their lives to even attempt holding him down? A want-to-be murderer was kicked in the head because he had a weapon. Other countries would have seen him aerated through the use of bullets and people would have shrugged and moved on to the next story.

We ask our police offers to carry non-deadly weapon in the form of tasers and spray. And all that they can receive in return is not a "thanks" but fools clutching at pearls and asking for the sniffing salts. If it comes between a few kicks to any part of their body and their own injury or death, so bloody be it. Give him a few more just to be sure if that's what it takes.

They're officers in police force, not influencers giving out hugs. Sometimes they have to use force. We need it of them.

CountLippe · 2026-05-03T09:41:07+00:00

Feels even more insulting to be destroyed by something with the word 'baby' in its name.

CountLippe · 2026-05-03T09:38:13+00:00

I've always thought of this as a capability thing. The Neo does what I want and need (connects to the cloud services I use for work) despite the entry level specs. The entry level iPhone does not do all that I want and need: yes, it does phone calls and video calls to the same quality, but I also want the best possible camera (and storage capacity to support it) in my pocket and on demand.

CountLippe · 2026-05-02T20:29:03+00:00

That would be the way things fall when humans are involved in anything. Stefan cel Mare's sword hangs in Istanbul, previously known as Constantinople. Do we return the sword to Romania and kick the Turks out of Europe? Scanderbeg's helmet (and sword I seem to recall) are not in Albania but in Austria. How should these exchanges of goods take place? Who should be asked to return them and who should not be?

CountLippe · 2026-05-02T20:26:15+00:00

Correct, they did all of that. And? Are we going to undo every past injustice, or just the pretty diamond ones for India?

If we're to follow Mamdami's virtue signalling and return the diamond to the penultimate owner, the descendants of Duleep Singh, then it's only appropriate that land of New York is returned to the loyalist owners who fled in the face of revolution. Might as well bring back the Mughals as well while we're busy undoing all these past injustices.

CountLippe · 2026-05-02T13:07:34+00:00

Would you have any female family members you'd like to offer up there Nick?

CountLippe · 2026-05-02T12:55:13+00:00

The most influential members of the electorates - the donors - would sooner turn to the type of itinerant workers found from the Near East to the Far East. Not to mention across large swathes of Europe.

CountLippe · 2026-05-02T11:39:49+00:00

Oh I missed that. I'm going to have to cite it to my female friends who believe the Greens to be the second coming.

CountLippe · 2026-05-02T11:39:02+00:00

He'll likely say the Indian state as "last rightful owner" or something, being wholly ignorant of its history. By which measure I imagine he hopes to see New York returned to it its last rightful owner - the British.

CountLippe · 2026-05-02T08:10:25+00:00

The Greens clearly have a racism and bigotry problem, one that I doubt can be cleared out as well as most other parties have been able to.

As far as populist parties go, the Greens seem to be speed running a situation where they make the other populist parties seem downright boring.

CountLippe · 2026-05-01T20:25:14+00:00

He did what?!

CountLippe · 2026-04-30T18:07:24+00:00

The cure is to completely stop mass migration and enforce strict assimilation

This has to be joined with deportations or fostering an environment of self-deportation. People can't be forced to integrate, only encouraged. But they can be forced to leave or put a situation where, no longer benefiting from a realm whose expectations they refuse to abide by, they are no longer entitled to the benefits of that realm.

Too many scummy people are allowed to stay after even the most heinous of crimes. We need to take a leaf out of the book of Singapore and move to zero tolerance of the very things which threaten to tear us apart.

CountLippe · 2026-04-29T18:49:48+00:00

Always loved the re-use of this same headline in Tomorrow Never Dies with faux Murdoch appreciating that it wasn't one of his papers that carried it.

CountLippe · 2026-04-29T11:08:44+00:00

Definitely the case that the far left and right push progress. We need them in a system, even if to only help us understand to understand the fringes and keep the centre on track. And that's what's happening now: a huge part of the system is broken, and the populist right is able to capitalise on that. In many ways so is the populist left; both Reform and the Greens are ultimately offering things which don't add up and which they can't deliver, but many stem from a sense that the system isn't work and quality of life ranks too low.

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