The CPS only does this for England and Wales not the whole of the UK. In Scotland the procurator fiscal prosecutes crimes and in Northern Ireland it is the Public Prosecution Service
Can someone please explain why a railroad commissioner is an elected position?
Close the sky is an amazing phrase to be able to use
I feel like there are 2 related arguments against this. One is that it could motivate political prosecution to disenfranchise people. The second is that it kind of creates a slippery slope, if treason disenfranchises you why not murder, or rape, or election fraud or whatever other crime someone considers serious enough
Correction. English children will be taught this. Education is a devolved matter in the UK so this will not apply to the other parts of the UK
We do. It’s called the Equality Act 2010. It requires reasonable adjustments for disabled people. However, this is not always provided for in reality. The equality act is mentioned in the original article
This is a crazy amount of money to me as someone from the UK. A party running a candidate in every seat in a UK general election could not spend this much money campaigning
It wasn’t the 1st interracial kiss on TV. By some metrics it was the 1st in the US but other countries had earlier kisses.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_interracial_kiss_on_television
I wouldn’t really call the Labour party progressive
This reminds me of how Eeyore is treated in Winnie the Pooh
One thing that I am really disappointed by is the lack of any meaningful reform to gender recognition. Like they pay lip service but they still want to keep the requirement for a medical diagnosis and they don’t want to recognise non-binary people. I don’t love the term red Tory because I think it’s inaccurate but to me this is one are where Labour are closer to the Tory party than they are to other left wing parties
As someone who works in Morrisons this wouldn’t actually be the case. They pay everyone the highest level of minimum wage already so this wouldn’t be a change. I know they aren’t the only company that pays everyone the 21+ minimum wage
That isn’t actually true. The price on the shelf is considered to be an invitation to treat. By taking the item to the checkout you are offering to buy it which they can reject. In practice they will sell it to you for the price on the shelf but this is not the law
Coffee. There are a couple of Lemmy communities but none of them are that active. Reddit had r/coffee and r/espresso that were both fairly active
Even better. The countdown resets if you look away
Over the past year coal has only generated 1.2% of power in the UK
I know this is a joke but was there not a court case somewhere in the US about saying in Minecraft after saying incriminating things?
Discrimination based on gender identity is basically saying I have been treated differently due to being transgender. She is saying that she as a transgender woman is being treated differently to a cisgender woman. Or that is at least how it works in the UK. I would presume Australia is similar
Yeah. Shipping and taxes does make it a bit more expensive outside of the US