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

The sheer amount of ads on youtube is what's making people use ad blockers. Two unskippable 15 second ads after one minute of a ten minute video is ridiculous.

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.

It almost certainly is in the EU.

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"

There's an irony in the British government going on about this all the time, while at the same time fighting in court to prevent their WhatsApp messages being turned over to the Covind inquiry because of privacy concerns.

More generally, I think it's a symptom of governments not being at all as tech savvy as they like to think they are.

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