Sorry, she's been banned from political activities for 5 years.

Things that make you go hmmmmm....Marie Le Penn sentence to prison for something or another and her political party outlawed.

The EU is determined to bring the 1930's back with a vengeance eh?!

tomo,
You might be right on the "reply to all" thing, but have to wonder why that guy was *anywhere* on a list of contacts. Maybe it was like the beginning of The Party, where a film producer, on the phone and furious about the inept Peter Sellers character, jotted down his name to be added to a "never to be employed again" list. Unfortunately, where he jotted it turned out to be an "invitation to Hollywood party" list.

Not sure what to make of the smallpox history. There is a pretty reasonable rationale in the vaccines train the immune system story, which I have accepted for many years. Then again, in some ways it reinforces my own preferences about "N=1" and the paradox that all blanket statements are false. I suspect the truth is in between: that the training really works for many people, but some people have immune systems that can't be trained, or that rebel. Maybe the mass vaccination policies are leading to a "monoculture" amongst human immune systems.

As for the Dying for Sex piece of prurience, it tells that the media is pretty much out of money. It's either starve or turn to prostitution. They've opted for the latter.

Did like that list of chants. One I have a particular ear for is:

Elon Musk is unelected
Democracy must be protected

The recent John Anderson conversation with Michael Pezzullo delivered a sobering message about the state of Australia's defences. It put me in mind Aesop's fable of the ants and the grasshopper: you sang all summer, now you can dance all winter.

Meanwhile, ABC radio's Law Report tells me that apartheit is now accepted in British justice. Specifically that the "N" word that is forbidden to speakers of english, is perfectly acceptable if used by a speaker of "black british english" (apparently a separate language closely related to "african american vernacular english"). Was wondering if I could use the dreaded "N" word as long as I was doing a black british english as a second language course.

Lamentable on so many scales. Laughable too, with the interviewee being a female *barrister* who sounded quite like Ali G.

The right answer is that free speech should override all of this nonsense. The NSW Premier clip you linked to recently appears to apply just as much in the UK as in NSW.

Yes an embarrassment but nothing more than that in spite of the media trying to spin this out for as long as possible.

Which really tells you just how little the left has to go on if this is their biggest concern until the next thing comes up that they will amplify out of all context and proportion.

Actually had a conversation with the wife about the media the other day. She asked my why I hated them. I told her I didnt hate the media...oh no...I utterly detest the media because its not about reporting the news but conditioning you to believe what ever narrative they are pushing (like Trump bad, everything Trump bad, big time bad).

tomo,
Certainly an embarrassment for them.

Following one of my tangents, encryption may have paved the way for the current mania with AI. While quite a large number of people have a fair understanding of asymmetric encryption, a much smaller number know in detail what goes on in an https conversation, and very few indeed know the nitty-gritty of any particular "secure app". The understanding is that it's the realm of boffins, so we just trust the experts. After all, everybody knows Signal is secure.

AI is an even bigger mystery inside, but we've been so softened up by years of mild befuddlement about public keys, signatures, certificates, certification authorities, etc., that we've become used to being passengers, so we cheerfully climb aboard the AI train.

I wonder what the Chinese do to secure their secret comms. Signal?