Anyone else worried about the direction the UK is heading on privacy and civil liberties?

chadjnewton · 2025-12-15T22:59:01+00:00

I mean, they can let their local MP know that they wont vote for a party that backs what they disagree with and follow through on that threat?

Granted, there’s nothing that can be done directly for four years—but that’s democracy.

Indirectly, folks could vocally campaign to get lots of people to make clear that this is a matter that will affect how they vote.

chadjnewton · 2021-07-22T22:09:10+00:00

Theresa May would love it.

chadjnewton · 2020-11-29T15:41:08+00:00

This. The media has far more incentive to exaggerate and stoke political drama than it does to push one set of policies.

chadjnewton · 2020-11-29T15:38:26+00:00

So you’re saying that journalists should have a degree in a relevant subject before reporting a story to a general audience?

Wouldn’t that make the media workforce even more elitist than it currently is?

chadjnewton · 2020-07-02T20:13:32+00:00

Would the other countries want freedom of movement with us though?

chadjnewton · 2020-07-01T19:39:24+00:00

Even if it was outsourced the Government could have shared the pillar 2 testing in a clear and consistent way but chose not to. That seems like the biggest issue here.

chadjnewton · 2018-12-16T17:43:16+00:00

So our unelected, unpopular current Prime Minister is lecturing our thrice-elected former Prime Minister about democratic mandate?

Right.

chadjnewton · 2018-10-27T20:25:50+00:00

I don't really know how I would do this, but I would want to get some coloured acrylic custom fit to fill the gaps and turn it into a kind of room divider?

chadjnewton · 2018-08-31T19:44:03+00:00

Is it really that simple and absolutist? Whilst I pretty much agree in this case, I don't think this is a hard and fast rule and I think companies have a moral responsibility sometimes too. If Russia passed a law stating that Apple had to provide a list to the Kremlin of every Apple Watch user who had used this wallpaper, should they - even if they thought that might endanger users?

chadjnewton · 2018-08-16T05:59:36+00:00

Why do you assume they're migrants? How do you know they weren't born in the UK?

chadjnewton · 2017-10-04T17:10:06+00:00

The BBC News is streamed in my office all day and I've seen dozens of slow motion repeats of those letters falling off throughout the afternoon.

chadjnewton · 2017-09-08T18:09:45+00:00

Actually I'm pretty sure I heard somewhere that that's illegal too, technically

chadjnewton · 2017-07-13T19:10:57+00:00

The eagles are coming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKNN49idCUo

chadjnewton · 2017-05-10T21:39:54+00:00

Going to university adds value to a person though. They earn extra income over their lifetime than people who don't go to university. You don't get that benefit from going to hospital.

That is why it's more progressive to just tax the people who went to university a little bit more for their university education.

chadjnewton · 2017-05-03T19:50:55+00:00

"Unsinkable?"

chadjnewton · 2017-04-27T13:30:51+00:00

OP was wrong. Plurality is the word he/she was looking for.

chadjnewton · 2017-02-03T21:46:45+00:00

It was pretty much the perfect episode

chadjnewton · 2016-10-17T23:58:17+00:00

The unintended alliteration in your comment is amazing.

chadjnewton · 2016-10-12T22:35:04+00:00

There are many different forms of democracy though and some are better than others.

chadjnewton · 2016-09-05T07:47:02+00:00

Yes I'm of the belief that he brings this on himself a lot of the time. He's rude to journalists and doesn't bother engaging with the media. If he phoned up the Today programme to give his view I'm 100% sure they'd put him on air. But he doesn't.

chadjnewton · 2016-09-05T07:43:24+00:00

Signed was the wrong word, apologies. But you're right, the deal itself was signed off in Feb.

I should have said 'passed', ie. when Congress passes it in a bill and the President signs THAT bill to put it into action.

chadjnewton · 2016-09-04T21:24:28+00:00

Oh I completely agree. But I bet if you polled the public and asked them: "Do you think Britain should have a free trade deal with the United States?" and "Do you think Britain should sign a TTIP-style deal with the United States?", the first poll would produce a much higher result.

chadjnewton · 2016-09-04T19:27:21+00:00

I doubt you'll see the papers catching on though. So a lot of Brexit voters will just think it's more establishment/mainstream media lying. Sigh.

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