9th February, 2023.
Right … It’s Thursday.
And it’s a day that I’m expecting to be quiet.
Well …
Barring a phone call from a physio-therapist.
Here’s hoping that goes well: especially given there’s one exercise I’m finding tough!
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There’s a Tory MP called Lee Anderson: who’s just been named as Deputy Chair of Britain’s Conservative Party.
Staring a row with a BBC Nottingham presenter in the meantime.
Before being named to the role on Tuesday?
He gave an interview with The Spectator magazine: and came out in support of capital punishment.
The death sentence, in other words.
Apparently? It’s “100% effective.”
As? “Nobody has ever committed a crime after being executed.”
He says some will oppose it, on the grounds that their cases cannot be proved, one way or the other.
That modern phone cameras will capture a lot of evidence.
He also tells us “I don’t want to pay for these people.”
Which is fair enough.
But? Speaking personally?
My own — limited — understanding how capital punishment in the US works, tell me prisoners on death row appeal, and appeal, and appeal the appeal if it goes against them.
And keep appealing until the very end.
And do so on the US equivalent of Legal Aid.
Making it cheaper to keep them alive.
I can only hope that — if that’s the case — that someone can point this out to Mr Anderson.
He’s a Tory: their supposed to like keeping public spending down.
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Just as a last point … ?
I caught the first episode of Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, last night.
I’m not going to be given it the review treatment. I’ve enough on my plate already.
But … ? It could well be worth your while: Lot 36 is an impressive opener.
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