Australia’s great tradition as a pioneer of progress is one we need to remember

County Court Judge Lisa Hannan told a sobbing Mohammad Shakir that “what you did was legally wrong and morally indefensible”. By todays standards, thats true. But “if hed done it in Tasmania in 1941 it would have been completely fine”

 

 

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Farron branded the comments “stupid” and called on Leadsom to apologise.

 

Did Andrea Ledsom encourage the media to violate rules for impartiality?

 

“These restrictions, spelled out in the Ofcom code, apply to all broadcasters including the BBC, Sky, Channel 4 and ITV. They apply to community radio stations, music channels, and political panel shows alike. ”

– Radio Times

Farron branded the comments “stupid” and called on Leadsom to apologise.

via Andrea Leadsom’s ‘Patriotic’ Brexit Broadcasting Call Slammed By Tim Farron As ‘Sinister’ | HuffPost UK

LIFE BEGINS AT 50 Theresa May heralds momentous day for Britain as she signs historic letter that triggers Brexit and makes EU vote irreversible… Britons can still reverse Brexit after Article 50 and say ‘we love you’ to EU, Luxembourg PM says

“Mrs May’s Article 50 letter was carried to Brussels by a senior civil servant on a Eurostar train”

Would that ever have happened with our Britain’s membership of Europe?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-latest-article-50-xavier-bettel-i-love-you-theresa-may-a7621091.html

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The God Inclusion: Britain Ushers In The Bigots

Yet the disastrous election of British Conservative leader Theresa May this week has brought American-style faith infused politics to the centre of British government. The use of the Democratic Unionist Party as a buttress for a minority government currently balancing on three legs means May will sit in debt to a small group of radical protestants whose views wouldn’t look out of place on the 700 Club.

via The God Inclusion: Britain Ushers In The Bigots | HuffPost UK