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It was more of a class and misogyny problem, which due to cultural reasons these groups of men were able to take advantage. There's a story of police being called to a disturbance and found a group of older guys (mostly south Asian but there was a white guy too) with two teenage (I think about 15) drunk, working class girls. Instead of stepping back and thinking there's something very strange going on here and seeing those girls as victims, who were vulnerable, potentially being groomed and obviously being taken advantage of, they arrested the girls for drunk and disorderly, were apologetic to the men and didn't even record the names of those men.

Statistically in the UK, most grooming and sexual violence is some by family members or family friends, against both boys and girls, and are perpetrated by white people simply because the UK is still 83% white! If any of these people truly cared about vulnerable children, they would focus on more than just these grooming gangs but that doesn't rile up their base, get more likes and give them more support. Yeah, these horrible men need to be arrested and put away but let's set up systems that try to prevent these children being harmed in the first place.

This article is talking about the wider problems of children not being seen as victims, and agencies not communicating with each other. Whether it's a black boy arrested for carrying drugs or a white girl ignored as being "promiscuous", there are systemic issues in our system that need to be addressed.

The great British project!

As much as I hate the austerity cuts across the board. I believe this is a good idea as long as the money stays in the UK and has proper procurement rules, which I would trust labour to do better than the Tories, and can't see Reform or Greens being as good.

It would lead to growth as a lot of that money would go to wages of UK employees and come back as taxes. Plus we need to be realistic about not relying on the US. We have strong university education and should build back up our engineering sectors.

It was illegal but not enforced at all or followed by the locals, so not followed by anybody else either. During the day was fine but in the evening and night it was like there was no law

Really? And did they self regulate their fees? Oh wait no, it took EU enforcement to cut down their fees and stop businesses passing them onto customers. The EU also enforced more security regulation, and more use of those by the banks themselves using these credit card processors who washed their hands of levels of security

Yeah, went to Spain, and woke up with a sore throat and really smelly clothes. Took me back to before the ban and realised how good that was for everyone

I use a curve card which links to existing credit cards. Their app allows me to add it as a payment option for NFC on my fairphone with /e/os

Honestly, it's so much better. The main roads are clogged up but can see no difference to before with those, they were always bad. I haven't seen any difference in driving times. Our road is so much quieter so seen kids playing on the street (not often at all but the roads are still setup for cars of residents), and the drop constant noise that I didn't notice until it had gone.

I think the next step should be to flip from it being a road with a small pavement to a shared communal area with priority for people, space for kids to play properly and actual green space. There could still be enough road to get to houses and car spaces. When the road was closed for that jubilee party it was so nice! Saw way more of my neighbours and all the kids were out playing together. Can't see it happening though...

The tourist stated that no Israeli soldier has ever committed war crimes. I imagine that some soldiers from every country in the world with a decent sized army has had someone committing a war crime. Aren't there military prisons for this reason?

I'm British and know for certain our army has committed war crimes. I've protested the government for their military plans, and sent several letters to my MP. I'm definitely not going around defending every thing the government does.

The complete lack of awareness and certainty they're in the right is really strange to me. Fair play to this hotel owner for doing this - highlighting that people in the rest of the world sees this country in the same light as Russia should open some eyes. If that happened to me it would make me think hard about what we are supporting.

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Sorry but the UK position is definitely wrong. Our kids get 6 weeks off just in summer, plus 2 each at Xmas and Easter, plus 3 x 1 week during half-terms. It is a challenge to cover these when working full time where the average holiday allowance is 5.6 weeks in total.

Nice idea but very poor execution

Are US citizens allowed to join the armies of other countries? I'm surprised by that