MeIisa Tourt
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communications & digital manager @CPSThinkTank | co-founder @openj_uk | [email protected]
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Joined June 2021
It’s also unhelpful that their parents often are absolutely to blame, huge swathes of parents in Britain are totally unfit to be parents - but placing a child into local authority care after removing them, especially when they’re a teenager, speed runs them into a whole host of
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Thankfully not at my school but the one 2 mins away next door a few months before the above incident 3 boys, as young as fourteen, were stabbed by a thirteen year old boy - they made us do an assembly on how it isn’t safe to carry knives as though he had one and slipped onto his
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Three teenagers were injured near the University of Birmingham School in Selly Oak.
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I went to a school with awful gang connections to the point that one boy came into a classroom trying to kill/badly harm another after getting jumped. Every other month some charity would come in and rap about how knife crime isn’t cool. I’m sure a lot of those boys have gone
The amount of policy failures that lead up to two men in their 30s boarding a train and stabbing people indiscriminately are unthinkable, probably starting with their families Not good enough to have metal detectors to make the only thing stopping this happening inconvenience
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10% dip in mental health act detentions last year (and this gov is actively aiming for less). Stop and searches were also down and 64.8% lower than their peak in 2009. In Sept the Cambridgeshire PCC said police there were often scared of doing stop and searches…
Stop and search is the effective tactic for disrupting knife crime. Short of impractical measures like mass deployment of knife arches, it will > be stop and search. Obviously police numbers must go up to make it practicable, but Labour will need to accept this is the key tactic
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The amount of policy failures that lead up to two men in their 30s boarding a train and stabbing people indiscriminately are unthinkable, probably starting with their families Not good enough to have metal detectors to make the only thing stopping this happening inconvenience
I find it really hard to believe that people start their foray into crime with an enormous stabbing spree in their 30s. Will have to wait & see for more information, but in general I hate the British aversion to putting and keeping criminals in prison.
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12 hrs out from a mass stabbing and the only gov communications being the PM saying he’s concerned and some wishy washy answers on the Sunday shows from ministers is horrendous communication. I would like to know if it was a terror attack or a gangs gone wrong thing before I get
The appalling incident on a train near Huntingdon is deeply concerning. My thoughts are with all those affected, and my thanks go to the emergency services for their response. Anyone in the area should follow the advice of the police.
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Satire is dead. Will add ‘😂 Keir Starmer be like”’ to be clearer next time…
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Even if it did help this is an exhausting and demoralising way to live I don’t want to be aware of how tight I’m holding my phone or how I can discreetly move down a tube to evade a mentally ill man screaming at me in a foreign language or actively check if i’m being followed
Being “vigilant” doesn’t work; it never has. You just have to be going about your daily life in the wrong place at the wrong time. There will be a breaking point. We can’t live this way.
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Being “vigilant” doesn’t work; it never has. You just have to be going about your daily life in the wrong place at the wrong time. There will be a breaking point. We can’t live this way.
BREAKING: British Transport Police say a 'number of people' are in hospital after a stabbing on a train to Huntingdon. Sky's @NickMartinSKY says two people have been arrested, and armed police officers are at the scene. Follow our live blog ➡️ https://t.co/eed84E0rIT
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Every single decision this gov has made in justice has optimised towards shorter sentences, sentences not being served in jail at all, early release becoming de facto. I genuinely don’t feel safe at all and no amount of knife return schemes or hubs offsets the above, they’re
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'Many (incl me) mistook Milei for a rightwing populist, akin to the economic weirdness of Reform or Trump.' How? How do you confuse an unreformed libertarian with a leader who has been talking about tariffs for years & a party talking about nationalisation? Staggering admission.
Many (incl me) mistook Milei for a rightwing populist, akin to the economic weirdness of Reform or Trump. In reality, albeit with a risky currency peg, he’s seeking to break a cycle of populism (inflationary public financing, price controls, protectionism etc.). That’s essential.
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Many things wrong with this but the idea of national traditions being designated by an online public consultation is so incredibly depressing
I can't wait to find out from my designated living heritage practitioner what r community's traditions are.
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I think this over eggs it tbh, the only story they will have cut through with the public is the Wayne Broadhurst murder and even then I doubt many could name him or state the details. It was never ‘top’ of BBC news Similar to politicians media have reported these though
We're in an odd and rather chilling situation at the moment. In the past week or so, three murders - Rhiannon Whyte, Gurvinder Johal and Wayne Broadhurst - have been the subject of extensive coverage in the media and debate throughout the country. But the silence of our
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ID'd for Lemsip when I had nothing on me. Looked so distraught that they gave it to me anyway. We do not need BritCard.
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funny they'd go to yougov when their own tracker currently has immigration as the most popular issue
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This is awful. When I worked in an agency any many many times I had polling come back showing the total opposite of what I needed for a story and we just didn't use it, presuming even if we span the headline journalists would always look at the main polling tables. I guess not!
This is an amazing bit of spin. In fact, it’s just a lie. Let’s look at the survey results. 🧵
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Does this just translate to Labour believing that any restraint in spending was motivated by evil from 2010 through to 2024.
‘The linkage between fiscal policy and bond markets is something that hasn’t been considered in the last 15 years and now needs to be considered,’ the Starmer ally said. I think it was considered pretty strongly in say 2010-15. (And indeed 2022-24, in the wake of The Thing.)
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Worth remembering that ‘children’ under the OSA is anyone who hasn’t verified they’re an adult. So this a de facto government body auditing the algorithm for everyone who hasn’t submitted their ID to platforms
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My meditation app has immersive ‘sleep casts’ that do genuinely help me sleep and one of the best ones is like ‘you’re at a hotel and it is very clean. There are loads of towels. So many towels. You’re literally never going to run out of clean towels here’
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