It’s easy to miss world news at the moment with so much STUFF happening everywhere. I hadn’t heard until today about the worst locust swarms in 30 years hitting India last month.

https://time.com/5846539/india-locust-pandemic

Four-mile long swarms. Fuck. That.

Sooooo this Madeline McCann thing huh?

The entire thing has never sat right for me, that these people are somehow special so had millions of pounds raised to find their kid, when they fucking left them alone in the apartment in another fucking country. Always found the entire thing... Off.

And now there is some random suspect in a German prison

The educated ones are sometimes worse, because they don't think they are capable of being stupid.

JMW wrote:

All over the front pages though, must be a slow news month.

Funny how somethings the press is happy to move on from, and others not.

I didn't realise the dad was in a German prison.

nick_md wrote:

This German guy had a history of abusing kids didn't he? Made a call from the area on his mobile an hour before she disappeared, and registered the van into a new name the day after. Certainly a lead worth following.

Jag not the van but yeah seems like a decent lead.
The question is how they plucked it seemingly out of thin air then immediately went to murder. I suspect a confession.

What a cunt move.

I'm torn tbh. On the one hand it's very convenient that we can shop longer on Sunday, but on the other, I wouldn't mind if all shops closed on Sundays and more retail staff got to spend time at home on a weekend with their families.

I always forget that you still have Sunday trading laws in England.

Tim Westwood trending over predatory sexual behaviour.

'Urban Jimmy Saville' is one comment

There seems to have been an explosion of predatory behaviour revelations across all sorts of industries in the past few weeks.

Maybe some of it is a snowball effect – feeling empowered to speak up after seeing others do the same.

Maybe some of it is due to covid frustration – the world’s on fire, if I don’t speak out now I never will. And maybe a feeling of relative safety in that the offenders are out of sight during lockdown.

Maybe some of it’s inspired by Black Lives Matter – fighting one injustice reminds you to fight others too.

I dunno. But it can only be a good thing, whatever the causes. Even just locally, I’ve seen a bunch of revelations in professions as weird as comics, wrestling and tattooing/piercing over the past week or two.

*Edit: Yeah, what 10p said.

Son of a Bishop, isn’t he?

I am now wondering if you saw the tattooing stuff about a guy in Glasgow. Ev has two tattoos by him, so she was a bit cut up when the news came out. Bit different from liking Woodsy Allen films, you rarely end up with them embedded in your flesh.

It's absolutely insane how rife it is though, the frustrating part is that the vast majority of it is (at least  from the stuff I read in the art/comics/games scene) is that it's never illegal. It's just gross stuff. The use of power to get your kicks. It's existed since time immemorial, I think the issue these days is the veneer of progressiveness that these communities and often these people put forward.

I did not know that, it is interesting!