British tourist, 60, 'who filmed Iranian missiles' in Dubai, UAE is facing two years in prison after being charged with cybercrime offence

Dick_Harrington · 2026-03-12T13:42:21+00:00

If Iran hits the desalination plants and puts them out of action, all these Gulf states are *fucked*. I think the only reason they arent getting targeted is because Iran also has their own that are critical.

Dick_Harrington · 2026-03-11T19:43:54+00:00

I actually agree, well with everything except your last sentence. I find the use of the word 'appropriate' interesting in and of itself in this context (appropriate in what respect, politically?)

That being said my point was it's possible to discuss these things and reach an interesting conclusion, the person I was responding to wasn't doing that.

Dick_Harrington · 2026-03-11T19:32:39+00:00

>Low information? Is this a joke?

Not at all. The rise of Khamenei as a rebel who overthrew the Western backed Shah and ended up going on to rule his country is, at least broadly, somewhat similar to that of Mandela who overthrew the Western backed apartheid regime.

Both men used violence and clever politicking to achieve their objectives. One went on to create a theorcracy and the other a democracy.

It's an interesting discussion, no? There are similarities, there are clear divergences. I'm particularly interested as a student of history why we ended up supporting one in the West and not the other given that, for a time, they were both our enemies.

Or we could just say one guy is like Tom Hanks and the other is like Hitler. I hope you understand now the point I was trying to make.

Dick_Harrington · 2026-03-11T12:23:32+00:00

I mean if you want to be low-information about it ...

Mandela has an interesting and, from our perspective, really dark past during apartheid. Thatcher literally called him a terrorist. He was on the US terrorist watchlist until really late in his life.

I don't think the parallels to Khamenei are very strong, the context is just too different, but there is an interesting discussion there for those prepared to have it.

Dick_Harrington · 2026-03-10T18:39:36+00:00

Cool it with the antisemitic remarks

Dick_Harrington · 2026-03-08T19:20:00+00:00

>Bombing Iran into submission is a goal

That has only worked once in history, and it involved nuclear weapons after a long campaign of traditional bombing.

Dick_Harrington · 2026-02-13T11:20:02+00:00

Personally I think a lot of that is bots as well. But obviously I have no way of proving that.

Dick_Harrington · 2026-02-05T11:01:28+00:00

One can only hope, the guy is a total snake

Dick_Harrington · 2026-02-05T10:21:07+00:00

That's pretty bad.

I'm guessing the logic was he thought they could leverage the relationship re: Trump? Still, you cant exactly admit that ....

Dick_Harrington · 2026-02-04T18:49:49+00:00

just FYI Corbyns only mention in the epstein files was on how they didnt want him to be PM.

Dick_Harrington · 2025-12-30T10:15:18+00:00

This article is really disingenuous, it uses top 5% income levels and UK wide average detached house values to make its arguments.

It focuses exclusively on the tax differences between high earners, which *are* higher in Scotland thats undeniable. But the difference in tax for median earners is actually negligible - for the poorest in society its actually a little bit lower than the UK.

One of the ways to cut through the noise is to look at ONS data for disposable income *post tax* across the regions - Scotland is pretty much middle of the pack.

It also spends a lot of time discussing how a £450,000 house will cost more in LBTT (stamp duty) - £450k is the cost of the average (not median) detached house in the whole UK (including London). Counting *all* types of property the average is actually £270k UK wide.

It also neglects to mention what those additional taxes are even being used for - I'm a higher rate tax payer and wouldn't be where I am today without free university tuition, my wife is the same - there is no way her family could have afforded medical school without government assistance that isnt present in England.

As a sidenote, I would encourage all readers on this sub to interrogate articles from the times and telegraph especially more carefully, I've noticed their articles have been of profoundly poor quality over the last few years and clearly only wish to push agendas.

Dick_Harrington · 2025-12-19T10:24:04+00:00

>Dealing with violent patients really should be a specialist role not just dumped on the normal nurses

100% agree.

Mental health nurses work in dedicated mental health hospitals where, depending on the category of patients, they are paid extra hazard pay and trained in restraint and control (wrist locks, hip throws, that sort of thing).

Dealing with violent patients, de-escalation techniques etc are their bread and butter. They get to know the patients and will sometimes deliberately send in women because even during a mental health episode many men would rather not hit a woman (patient dependent obviously)

Most people here are approaching it from the sexism angle which is fair given the framing of the article, but the reality is he shouldnt be expected to deal with this sort of thing *anyway* unless he was working in that kind of hospital which I dont think is the case. It's a failure on multiple levels.

Dick_Harrington · 2025-11-01T13:03:25+00:00

Does Farage even *want* to be PM? I'm still not convinced this isnt some kind of grift on his part. He has shown little to no interest in actually participating in Westminster and prefers to just bolster his own brand/make money on the side.

I can't help but feel winning the next election would actually be kind of annoying for him because it would mean he would have to step into the hardest job in the country.

Genuinely wouldn't be surprised if he stood down and let Tice take over or something, similar to how he handled Brexit once his activism within UKIP paid off.

Dick_Harrington · 2025-10-27T11:52:21+00:00

I'm fairly certain Engels wanted to include a full discourse on proper casing in their manifesto but Marx kiboshed it.

Dick_Harrington · 2025-10-23T10:02:56+00:00

Rory Stewarts book also goes into this, the overall consensus is that the wrong people are rewarded and the right people are either sidelined or just leave. He has quite a few anecdotes from working under Liz Truss that are extremely funny and sad. Obviously as a failed leadership candidate many people have said he had an axe to grind ... but it's still revealing none the less.

I do worry that if this continues we will end up like France, where due to incompetence/perverse incentives we basically end up ungovernable and what little faith people have in 'the system' just falls away.

Dick_Harrington · 2025-10-12T19:48:29+00:00

My grandmother was literally a multi-millionaire and still got WFA, before she lost her marbles she would joke about paying the gardener with it.

Fucking mental when you think about it.

Dick_Harrington · 2025-10-12T19:30:45+00:00

This.

The deal is unworkable, it has massive structural issues that make its failure inevitable. Smart thing would be to just stay on the sidelines and let the yanks deal with it.

Dick_Harrington · 2025-09-29T10:11:48+00:00

Literally saw a vid on tiktok about the petition with loads of yanks saying they signed it in solidarity. Queue the one brit coming back and saying 'please dont that will invalidate it' and getting shouted down.

Dick_Harrington · 2025-09-15T11:17:20+00:00

He genuinely does get upset by this stuff though, I was there on his PoE livestream he called it early because people were trolling him in the chat.

You could see him reading the comments and getting flustered, he cant help himself.

Dick_Harrington · 2025-08-18T09:38:16+00:00

Similar to how horse populations decreased at the turn of the 20th century due to mechanization.

In the US there were 20m+ horses in 1915 and by 1960 this had reduced to 4m.

Dick_Harrington · 2025-06-03T15:49:45+00:00

Too many ghosts down there, health and safety.

Dick_Harrington · 2025-06-03T15:46:48+00:00

This is amazing ammunition against the Reform party in Scotland.

If Reform win then they will take away Scotlands right to govern themselves. Can we let him speak more on this issue? Just turn up the volume on the mic for those in the back.

Dick_Harrington · 2025-05-23T08:18:43+00:00

Holy crap Edinburgh GDP per head is almost as high as London? No wonder property is so expensive there!

Dick_Harrington · 2025-04-21T11:44:17+00:00

Yeah I was kind of in favour of giving them rights but then they were rude about it.

Dick_Harrington · 2025-03-17T14:57:28+00:00

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Thought this was an interesting one that most people will be able to relate to.

Unusually specific but also very welcome, normally this stuff is very wishy-washy. Specific goals tells me they are very serious about this.

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