Maria Eagle

They've been drip-feeding this be-prepared stuff but in a very low-key way for a long time now.

I think I read an article in The Guardian a couple of weeks ago, and it's Maria Eagle, who's the DEFRA secretary, and I think she was saying, you know, there's going to be, like, this weather event, I think El Nino on steroids or something like that, and it's going to bring a lot of storms potentially this winter, it's going to be very cold, and people should be prepared for that, and, you know, future extreme weather because of the climate changing.

And I just found, you know, this is quite a serious... issue just being shoehorned quite quietly into an article so obviously this is something that they are trying to get attention on but not too much attention that it will cause a panic but the challenge is that most people probably will never read this unless they do go hard on it but then if you go hard on it you risk causing a panic so it's a difficult situation for them to try and navigate but I think they're doing what they think is best I'm not sure if it's going to get through to many people there

Well, moving along to the generalised dissatisfaction of much of the Western world and what, if anything, their governments can do about it.

So if the plea is changed from not guilty to guilty on the morning of the trial, the perpetrator's sentence is decreased by a tenth.

Labour's Maria Eagle, who's a former Justice Minister, suggested that that tapering didn't make it fair.

It's still them getting credit for effectively stringing along the person who they have victimised and then getting credit at the end of it.

So for many victims, this can feel like an extension of the very behaviour that they've endured for years.