My 7 year old daughter just told me about a new game that they've learnt from the teachers at school called "Lockdown" where they hide under the desk until the teacher says "All clear".

I was speechless

they left the kids under there for like fifteen minutes while they went out for a smoke or something.

That's absolutely crazy, unless the teacher was just using their initiative and they left the kids under there for like fifteen minutes while they went out for a smoke or something.

That's absolutely crazy, unless the teacher was just using their initiative and they left the kids under there for like fifteen minutes while they went out for a smoke or something.

WTF? I trust you've written an angry letter to the head.

Yes, do this.

Fucking hell, there was a policeman who apparently shat himself and milled around outside the school while that whole shooting in Florida happened.

Not sure what to think really. He's being vilified and I can see why, he failed to do his job. But on the other hand if he'd ran in and saved the day or ended up getting killed himself then he would have been an extraordinarily brave hero etc.

It goes against the "guns are good" narrative.

It's a fantasy based on all those films and TV shows where the hero walks in and with one shot resolves the situation.

I heard the story on the news this morning but haven't looked into it. He might just have been following his training and, after assessing the situation, decided it was too risky.

I was wondering about the waiting for backup thing, if hand guns have a maximum 40% success rate, what chance would one cop have against someone with a semi automatic?

40%

Also, bullet-resistant armour is pretty effective against handgun rounds. Not so much assault rifle rounds. Most shooters at least wear a vest.

I'd defer to someone with better knowledge but I don't think that's the case. The AR-15 fires 5.56 NATO, a .22 cal round specifically designed for reduced penetration to avoid collateral damage to bystanders.

A few weeks before a major change to the way in which UK viewers access online pornography, neither the government nor the appointed regulator has been able to provide details to the BBC about how it will work.

We are not going to talk about beards; we are going to talk about policy. We do not want to talk about the hon. Gentleman’s beard either; we are going to talk about policy, which I know is what the Prime Minister will address.

Nice to hear they're all still having a jolly good laugh about things.

She will know that I have an unbridled enthusiasm for debate, for votes and for sitting in the Chair for extended periods listening to the intellects of Einstein and the eloquences of Demosthenes, which are so regularly on display from my colleagues in all parts of the House. I cannot get enough of it. It may seem eccentric on my part, but I love to listen to my colleagues. The more debates and the more votes, the better. I am most grateful to the right hon. Lady, of whose point of order I had only a moment’s notice, but which I enjoyed.

Moving debate in Westminster Hall misogyny and hate. Mhari Black in particular makes a very strong speech.

Guess which honourable member doesn't make a very good impression of himself early on?

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for telling me that it is International Women’s Day tomorrow. I think that is what is called mansplaining.

So in 2017, anticipating that another vote was just over the horizon, the British establishment came after Wings Over Scotland with a vengeance.

The site's editor was arrested by the Metropolitan Police on the grounds of farcically ridiculous allegations from a lunatic who we're still under their "advice" not to identify.

While no charges were brought and the case was eventually dropped, the accusation alone enabled the Met to confiscate every piece of computer equipment used to produce Wings - including two PCs, a laptop, four tablets, two phones and even the iPod Touch that we use for listening to Radio Scotland - and impound it for no reason for three months, leaving us to try to hold the site together for a quarter of the year with emergency replacement kit.

Kezia Dugdale, the then-leader of Scottish Labour, launched an extraordinary personal attack, using the pages of a tabloid newspaper and the entirety of First Minister's Questions to issue baseless smears aimed at discrediting the site and forcing us to take expensive court action not only to defend our own reputation, but that of all Yes activists from the sort of malicious slurs that the Unionist parties and media deployed throughout the first indyref.

And when we exclusively revealed in December that self-styled "grassroots" Unionist organisation Scotland In Union was in fact funded almost entirely by an elite cabal of Lords, Dukes, Earls and common-or-garden multi-millionaires, they sent in some very pricey lawyers, and the police again, to try to silence us.

(All on top of the usual daily death threats and abuse from Unionists, and their useful idiots on the Yes side too.)

But we're still here.

“You have a culture of lawlessness and fear in some of these communities where the victims know who is shooting them; the parent knows who is shooting their child. Sometimes parents are negotiating with these thugs to take the kid to certain places by arrangement.

“It is not unknown to my officers that in certain circumstances parents have dosed their kids up with powerful painkillers and alcohol to remove the impact of the ‘punishment’ shooting or beating. By colluding in this they [the parents] are hoping to negotiate less severe beatings or shootings. There is something madly wrong with society whenever parents even countenance doing that with their own children.”

Rex Tillerson, which was somehow, the most sympathetic and seemingly sane figure in the Trump administration was fired.