Anas, I don’t pay the living wage to my staff but do lie about it,
1 - It’s not his firm and they’re not his staff
2 - They do all get paid the living wage
3 - He got it wrong, but it wasn’t a lie, and the truth was better than he said anyway
Heavy weight topics and stuff to mold talent has been light since 2014. I wouldn’t say no talent either, but certainly a clean out of all parties would be a good thing imo. WM led parties will always look stale too. No Andy Burnams in Scotland, champions of devolution like Dewar was. Conservatives bang on more about independence and flag shagging than talking about Scottish issues. Largely as they ken that the budget means they can do fuck all.
I agree it’s a pretty bad crime, and that it seems a bit quick based purely on what’s presented but is that outside the norm for that legal system?
Parole, in theory, is still a form of corrections. Imprisonment to strictly limit the person’s access to the rest of society, which comes with (again, in theory) careful evaluation of the likelihood of recidivism. If that likelihood is deemed to be low, parole is simply a less strict set pf restrictions that, if violated, takes the person right back to prison.
I know people don’t always like the idea of violent criminals (and I include plotting murder as that, regardless of it being carried out or not) getting parole. But how long in prison is long enough? What’s the line for Scotland, where a person is considered to be safe to parole? Normally.
Varies person to person right? That’s why we have a board. But murder, and planning, are very serious. And usually half sentence is when things start being reviewed, which feels right too. But also wrong in this case
I would say that when the system is run with standards, and that standard is half sentence for eligibility, it seems realistic for a five year parole hearing on a ten year sentence.
Unless I misread the article, she’s still got to go before the board, and victim impact statements will be considered. That seems like a pretty good system tbh. At least, when it functions as intended, with every effort to eliminate bias and corruption.
It sucks on an emotional level, particularly for the family of the victim. A great wrong calls out for a great punishment on an emotional level.
I think here, the failure of justice isn’t in the parole, if there is a failure. It would be in the original sentence. Conspiracy to murder is pretty damn bad. It may be as bad as doing the killing. I can’t say I can see much difference between stabbing someone, and paying someone to stab someone. You’re still using a weapon to end a life.
I totally understand the outrage, I just try to hope that legal systems stay as neutral and even as humanly possible. If that means that people I think deserve worse don’t get it, I’m willing to accept that as the price for the people that don’t get worse than they deserve.
Like, here in the US? Man, just the racial difference in judicial outcomes is rotten. It’s systemic and ugly. I’m sure there’s similar imbalances in every country, to some degree. Might just be the usual poverty disparity, but even that is not good.
Which, I’m rambling a little, but the point is that if you trust the Scottish courts and system, maybe this is a good thing that she’s getting a timely hearing when it would occur with anyone.
Tories and Labour will be throwing the kitchen sink at Scotland this election, they genuinely think this election is about stopping independence north of the border
Don’t think so - for Labour it’s about bringing themselves back to taking swathes of Scottish seats and using that to get into power at Westminster.
For the Tories it’s about surviving any place they can and also stopping Labour doing the above.
Ross is only talking about the SNP so he can focus on their record at Holyrood and pretend the Tory record at Westminster isn’t even a thing.
As an artist I welcome much diversity of thought. However stuff that just comes down to being titillating burlesque is tacky AF and not ‘Art’. Leave that low brow shite to the strip clubs in Edinburgh.
Polling suggests Tories might gain two or three seats in Scotland. There’s some that were close last time, and without the SNP holding the same popularity as last time, they might swing over the margin.
For all their utter collapse of support, some places are just too right wing to vote labour and reform are not getting votes in Scotland is seems.
Isn’t art where people aren’t fucking as poor of a use of our finite public resources as art where people are?
If you want to make art, use your own resources or resources people agreed to give you, don’t use people’s taxes that could otherwise be spent on climate transition, defence, education, social servicies, etc…
And if you gunna use people’s taxes for “cULtUrE”, feel free to pay people to fuck L.M.A. O
The details of this where they have documented concerns being raised internally are unreal. Hard to imagine what they were thinking!
It’s a shame because arts council funding is a lifeline for independent artists/producers who are trying to create something which might be more niche or outside the mainstream. Let’s hope that this doesn’t affect other projects which might be provocative but maybe not as controversial as this proposal.
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