What happened on 8 April 2023

On Saturday, some guys too much relaxed with help of alcohol. So the police were called in to remove audience members singing loudly during a performance of The Bodyguard which was forced to finish 10 minutes early.

Some users wrote that "the police weren't called to eject people singing over the musical. The show was stopped because of the singing, a 'mini-riot' broke out as a consequence and the police were called. I'd say it's normal and proportionate for police to deploy to prevent disorder in a high capacity venue."

In fact, those 'mini-riots' turned to be "a split between those who, like me want to be entertained by the show, and those who want to join in. A show at a theatre is not a rock concert, where the audience is actively encouraged to join in."

 The Times issued an article on the problem of UK housing crisis: planning targets scrapped in ‘win for nimbys.’

The first comment in Twitter was, "

Why didn’t you interview anyone who wasn’t in the house building industry for this? Did the Home Builders Federataion pay you to run this? Because it’s basically an ad. This isn’t journalism. Next time ask them how many planning permissions they have that they are landbanking."

 

"Housing is the biggest crisis facing the country. It bleeds into almost every other problem we have. Yet somehow we're actively regressing. They're not even struggling whilst treading water, let alone improving things. They're just letting the country slowly decay."

"You missed the bit about how the local council elections are soon. The councils aren’t doing anything they think could loose them votes."

"ew people want large scale developments near them. It's disruptive, puts pressure on services, increases traffic, can lower house prices and is often of poor quality. It may not help in the long term but in the short term it's probably perfectly rational to be against development."

Those are all quite a point.

On Saturday, there was reported that raw sewage being dumped in environment secretary Therese Coffey’s own constituency.

 

Vast number of unpleasant comments on this news could be explained with unpopularity of Ms. Coffey.

"This isn't new. Raw sewage has been been dumped from her mouth ever since she was elected in 2010."

"Oh, I thought this was going somewhere good until the sentence ended in 'constituency' rather than 'backyard'."

"I'm sure if you ask her about it she will say its not her responsibility and to go ask someone else."

Some readers disagreed with the decision, "Well it is everywhere. Our local MPs have been quite good at starting a dialogue with water companies, meeting with them and finding a solution. Though it seems to just be 'unlimited fines' which will be a delayed and slow type of tax which will then be spent on funding new infrastructure.

It's wholly the water companies fault for not investing in expansion of treatment facilities and sewers etc. But the government shouldn't have privatised it, they shouldnt have allowed them the rare exception to dump waste in emergencies, because they'll just claim any situation an emergency."