A peaceful protest involves 26 officers getting injured, apparently.

If anyone is allowed to be judgemental, surely she is.

Since he wants the information to be up to date, he will no doubt be commissioning another study shortly. Probably he already has, and the article just failed to mention it.

/s just in case: he’s a mendacious, hateful man.

We just disagree on your interpretation of their use of language. Them saying they have not concluded the actions have happened. Is them claiming the evidence is not convincing to them.

OK, we flat out disagree. I think you are simply wrong about what the language means. Moreover, I think that they are deliberately phrasing it that way so that they can avoid saying that the evidence is not convincing to them.

If a court case is in progress, the judge has not come to a conclusion. That does not mean that no evidence has been presented and it does not mean that the judge has decided that the defendant is innocent.

I have to admire how you wrote a paragraph lecturing me about how English works and didn’t use a single complete sentence.

All of that notwithstanding, you are absolutely right that it is a bullshit political claim.

“has not concluded” means that they haven’t yet come to a judgement or opinion.

You could interpret it to mean that they have come to a conclusion and the conclusion was that it was not happening, but the article doesn’t support that interpretation.

FTA: “The government said it was still studying” “The government’s lack of conclusion” “the government is accepting responsibility for determining”

Edit: the article also mentions that their duty is to prevent genocide, not to stop ongoing genocide, so the fact that they haven’t found that that there is a genocide occurring doesn’t absolve them of that duty.

The finding that Israel is not acting with intent to commit a genocide, Lammy implies in his letter, absolves ministers of a duty to act on the responsibility to prevent one, set out in the 1948 genocide convention.

But they haven’t found that. He said that they have not concluded. So they are not absolved of the responsibility.

I didn’t realize that lifejackets were prone to spontaneous combustion.

Trump has tried to find a way to end the war in recent weeks but has little to show for his efforts.

No, no, he has not.

What a coincidence! Another policy that doesn’t really seem to tackle the problem they say it does but will definitely help them surveil the whole population and crack down on protesters.

The driver also didn’t mention what damage they did to the bicycle.

I don’t know about that. There have been a lot of people saying “leopards ate my face”. I think it would make a difference if the leopards could be removed after the first bite, instead of being able to keep eating for 5 years.

The fundamental problem is that, while the people grant power to representatives at elections, there is no mechanism to revoke it. For example, the Senate can impeach the president mid-term, but the people cannot. Nor can they remove their senators or congressional representatives.

One of the three branches is nominated and confirmed by the other two branches, so you only really have to capture the senate and the presidency, as we have seen.

Why even discuss it? Putin broke the 1994 agreement and he declared that the Minsk agreements no longer existed in 2022, just prior to invading again.

But if the UK can’t read everyone’s communications, how will they stop 80-year-olds from sitting down in public places holding cardboard signs?

Given that the alternative was “authoritarian rule under certain, unspecified circumstances”, what does “democracy” even mean here? Was it presented as a binary choice? That is misleading.

Neither gender nor sexuality is defined by appearance in general, but the straight white men do present themselves in a specific way.

You are right to say that this might not be the straight white men’s club, but you would be wrong to say that the straight white men’s club does not look like this.

Trump would love it if Congress declared war. He would be able to invoke all wartime powers.

This feels like an attempt to justify their already pro-reform stance.