Sam Ashworth-Hayes

4 days ago | msn.com | Sam Ashworth-Hayes |Charles Hymas

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4 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Sam Ashworth-Hayes |Charles Hymas

It advises them to walk on footpaths, not on roads, followed by guidance on how to cross the road safely by looking both ways. It says cars can travel at up to 70mph on main roads and 30mph in villages. Under the heading "UK Culture", it says: "Respect other people's rights and freedoms - human rights. Females have the same rights as men, they must be treated with respect and courtesy. If you harass or abuse any female you can be arrested. "Violence of any kind is not acceptable," it adds.

1 week ago | msn.com | Sam Ashworth-Hayes

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1 week ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Sam Ashworth-Hayes

If you were to try and sum up the British state this week, you would be spoiled for choice. After a few days in which failure after failure came to light – from the damning review into the official response to grooming gangs to the slow-motion crash of the High Speed 2 project to the ability of pro-Palestine activists to damage RAF planes on an airfield unhindered – you might charitably opt for “incompetent”. A better phrase would be “head in the sand”.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Sam Ashworth-Hayes

The resulting consensus is stifling. "Everyone wants to be nice. If you're nice, you're liked and socially acceptable. And anyone with a different opinion is unacceptable". But this doesn't work when the state is failing: "When Starmer u-turns on rhetoric, don't believe it will lead to reality because it won't. He's saying it to fend off Reform. He has no intention of acting on it."Competence, too comes in for a blast. "As a result, we get cabinets full of people lacking in real life experience.