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    Question about Boro Pride Card

    I’m guessing you don’t fancy one but isn’t having a different number of priority points the very definition of relatively something in the context of the original question?
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    Voting Age To be Lowered to 16

    It took them nearly half a century after lowering the voting age to 18 before they lowered the candidate eligibility age to 18. There’s no precedent that they have to be the same.
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    IFAB have changed the "double touch" section of the penalty law

    It breaks the principle that you only check the current phase of play. If corners, why not throw ins and free kicks? How immediately does the goal have to be scored?
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    IFAB have changed the "double touch" section of the penalty law

    I’d be assuming it gives an over the line alert to the referee (as the goal line tech already does) and he then gives the decision of who gets the throw/ corner/ goal kick. It’s ready to do that.
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    Voting Age To be Lowered to 16

    Technically this argument is a tad spurious because there is no minimum age for paying tax, although it would be hard legally to earn enough before 16. Agree with the measure though.
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    IFAB have changed the "double touch" section of the penalty law

    To some degree, what Wimbledon proved is that the British can’t do technology in any sport, not just football. They’ve used that technology without any problem at the Australian and US opens and most of the ITF tour events for several years without any real problems. Wimbledon buggered it up at...
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    IFAB have changed the "double touch" section of the penalty law

    That’s the point of it. I assume it means you also can’t pass a penalty to a teammate to score which, while rare, is still theoretically possible at present (as long as it’s played forwards) and I have seen happen once. All penalties will just become the same as shootout penalties. Taker...
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    6 years 8 months for killing someone

    The guilty plea always earns a reduction. It suggests that the aggravating factors have been taken into account to arrive at a sentence before that deduction. The problem, if there is one, is what I said on the tree thread. The tariff range for “run of the mill” murder is too low. The sentence...
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    This why I cannot vote Labour again.

    You mean like the arrangement Norway has had for half a century? Is it the way that country is an economic basketcase that convinces you the two are in compatible?
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    Are UK police utterly stupid . . .

    There are lots of things we can blame the Tories for, but the arguably overeager enforcement by the Starmer Government of an arguably overbroad law passed by the Blair Government is very much not one of them. Other than at the farthest extremes of politics, from which we have mercifully been...
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    Sycamore Gap - sentencing

    Juries were the problem. Historically, it is because the general public sit on juries that the crime of causing death by dangerous driving came into being. It is an effect a third degree homicide peculiar to motorists that only exists because it was becoming increasingly difficult to get a jury...
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    Superinjunction lifted

    I’m not minded to consider that statement to be true without evidence. To the contrary, I think that the vast majority of casualties of most civil conflicts or victims of an oppressive regime have historically been adult men between 18 and 60. Only a small minority have historically been women...
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    Sycamore Gap - sentencing

    That’s not entirely true. Dangerous driving in itself is an offence, and you can’t, in law, accidentally drive dangerously. He didn’t intend to kill or cause harm. So he didn’t intend to commit both elements of the crime he was charged with. But you can’t say he didn’t intentionally commit any...
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    This why I cannot vote Labour again.

    The real sad reality is that there is at the moment a Labour/Tory/Reform mission. I vote for the position, not the name. If Labour wants to be a reactionary and racist party that delights in punching down, as it apparently does at present, then I will treat it as such and find one that isn’t.
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    ENG v IND 3rd test

    We could always go back to the days (Lord’s four years ago, that’s all) when an appropriate response to chasing 270 at 3.5 was considered to be to shake hands at 170/3. Test cricket as it should be that was.
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