Yeah, and having no lockdowns would have had an even more catastrophic effect.

That's an ... unusual headline, to say the least.

I don't always agree with Chris, but he does get a lot of unneeded shite from the right wingers, so he has my sympathy on that.

Because hating on ~1% of the population, a lot of whom won't vote for you anyway, doesn't lose you many votes.

In a sensible world this would be enough to force the government to resign. Literally Stasi tactics.

From what I've read, none of the victims are willing to go to the police. Which is their decision, and theirs alone.

IIRC McDonald's argument on that one is that is that it's technically possible to get a Big Mac to look like the picture, if you have long enough to put it together and access to a professional photographer.

Clever way of protesting it.

The Environment Agency has not revealed where the dyes originated from.

Aka "you have no right to know which company did this"

I generally disagree with language policing like this. If we're not allowed to use metaphors then language becomes very boring indeed.

Twitter is slowly eating itself, and it's almost funny to see it.

Petite / young-looking but not obviously underage

That still might actually be illegal in some jurisdictions. The wording of the British law on it bans "pseudo photographs" of people who are underage, and the definition used would probably cover that.

It probably is illegal in some jurisdictions, that's the issue.