Definitely not 'most' tax raising powers.

This is an absolutely ridiculous point to argue. There is no justification for the escalation by the Border Police. They should remain professional and not behave like some random thugs.

In a genius move, with the current strategy they get to anger voters WITHOUT increasing taxes!

That's the "Work" Focus Mode I think

I'd go one further. Algorithmic timelines are basically editorial decisions about what posts to show. Platforms should be responsible for what they choose to publish just like a newspaper is for the material it chooses.

If Facebook pushes out a libelous post, then it should be responsible for it.

To be fair, it's not an easy one to navigate. Everyone's happy to criticise (me too), but I'd be very interested to hear what alternatives are.

A UDI is messy to say the least, there is no way of forcing Westminster's hand, and the more popular Indy is, the less likely a referendum.

He did say that there was stuff he still can't report, and that government lawyers discussed stuff with the judge in secret, asking for the journalists and their lawyers to not be present - stating specifically that therefore he doesn't know everything about the leak.

It starts and terminates a text value, but of course, you can stick a \ in front of it, and it accepts it as part of the text.

Definitely. You basically need to 'escape' the character, so it doesn't result in code injection into the database query. Sometimes, out of laziness the opt to refuse inputs with some characters altogether.

Of course there's an XKCD comic about this: www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.p...

I'm sure it helps some, as I'm sure it harms others. Depression scores in the UK and US have increased in teens, as have self-harm and suicide rates. So any effect is likely net negative.

This from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is compelling and articulated better than I ever could!

on.ft.com/3IZYRnE

This states that participants' mental health improved in a period where they stop using Facebook - pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

If you can find *any* sources for either situation in your wank scenario you might be on to something.

The idea that poor support drives depression drives social media use is possible, but:
1. It looks like it doesn't help the situation and possibly worsens it (eg messes up sleep patterns)
2. It doesn't explain *worsening* mental health in adolescents when more of them get support via NHS services.

We know there is correlation, but we can't comment on causality.

Depression is complex and its aetiology poorly understood, so it's likely we won't easily establish causality either way.

So evidence IS supportive to a point. You can hypothesise causality either way but that's the unsupported bit.

Social Media and Mental Health in Children and Teens Some experts believe that mental health concerns may be an unexpected side effect of increased social media use.

Increased time on social media is correlated with increased depression rates and suicidality in adolescents. Correlation only, but very disingenuous to say it research does not support those claims.

www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/welln...

So you guys still think your mid-terms are going to be free and fair, huh?

ICEs big budget will be used for voter intimidation close contests.

There are a variety of syndromes that raise your risk of various cancers.

Lynch Syndrome, for example, is pretty common (affects about 1 in 200 people) and is responsible for some 2-3% of colon cancers. If you know you have it, you would screen early regularly for various the cancers it causes.

If they are unable to get appropriate treatment, someone at the end of their life could suffer tremendously. They might choose assisted dying in this case because they are can't access care that would alleviate that suffering (and so let them live better for longer). That's substandard care.

Their point is that people are currently not at all able to access the care they need, and this access stands to get worse.

Although I'm in favour of assisted dying generally, I'm not sure what safeguards there are to stop further deterioration of palliative care in the UK.

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The point is that you should not be in a position to choose assisted dying because the care being provided is substandard.

The next step from there is for govt to continue underfunding palliative care because assisted dying would be cheaper than good care where people choose to live longer.

The GBP's value has gone in one direction over the years. At least that's certainty for you.

These types of cladding are well known to be flammable and in itself that's not an issue. The problem here was coating an entire building with it.

What Malta owes my murdered mother Those in power seem more focused on moving on than making changes to protect those who speak the truth

What Malta owes my murdered mother - very moving piece by colleague Paul Caruana Galizia. The failures in Malta’s institutions which led to the killing of his very brave mother - an investigative journalist - remain unaddressed and unreformed. www.ft.com/content/3f50...

Theresa May wasn't exactly known for her collaborative approach to problems either.

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FBI Warns Second California Senator Still At Large
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Ireland would need to deal with unionists in NI, so I'd expect the CTA/status quo to stay around for a while.

Scotland would very likely do what Ireland does.

My personal preference would be Schengen for Scotland and a united Ireland but who cares what I think!

When reunification happens, there will still be a large unionist minority to contend with in NI.

Ireland can aim to join Schengen when it is ready to. The EU doesn't tend to force countries to do stuff they don't want, especially when there is a sensible reason like potential civil unrest.

Absolutely. I'd like for Scotland and united Ireland to be in both the EU and Schengen, but without England in Schengen, that's not easy. If it were, Ireland would have joined already.

In all honesty, I suspect they *want* to increase output for Reform voters, and this is the excuse they're giving to do it.

Scotland in the CTA would be a concession to Ireland. Scotland would ask to opt out of Schengen to keep free travel between IE, NI and Scotland. Ireland would almost certainly agree.

Scotland has no border with EU states and this affects Scotland and IE/NI only, so other MS unlikely to complain.