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

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

I wouldn’t really call the Labour party progressive

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

Buffy

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

This case is being heard in Sydney, Australia not the US so a case from the US is not relevant in determining the outcome

https://www.reddit.com/r/slaythespire/comments/t3habp/the_first_proof_of_an_unwinnable_slay_the_spire/

There is technically an unwinnable sts seed

It’s specifically for gender identity clinics so only applies to trans kids

Elan.school is a webcomic of the author’s experience at Elan. Well worth a read and the author is currently in the process of making it into a physical comic

It doesn’t matter if it’s slavery though. Slavery is legal for prisoners

Is impeachment actually limited to those in office?