It's increased gang violence most likely due to a decade of cuts to police funding. If you wanna "how bout" some shit, look up when the last time a school in the UK was shot up by some psycho.

Our options:

1. Some economic sanctions (yawn)
2. Seize assets in UK belonging to Russian oligarchs. A high profile and highly public one would be Chelsea Football Club, owned by long time Putin friend Roman Abrahmovic (fun)
3. Take RT off the air
4. Deport all Russian diplomats (dangerous move, would be severing a lot of communication with Russia)
5. Deport any Russian citizens currently domiciled in the UK (kind of unfair and not sure what it would accomplish
6. Boycott the World Cup (being held in Russia) in the Summer
6.2. Organise a boycott that includes Germany & France. If we could get Portugal the tournament will be dead as it would not feature Cristiano Ronaldo and FIFA could be tempted to move it.
7. We publicly send troops in to Ukraine to fight the separatists who totally 100% aren't Russian even though they speak Russian, wear Russian military uniform and use Russian equipment. (the ballsiest and least likely move)

These are some of the things we could do. I dont have much faith in our government though so i expect very little.

And this is where this statue shit gets stupid IMO.

I actually agree with promoting the removal of confederate generals, etc. from your town squares. Why memorialise traitors who formed a break away nation state and declared war on the one you now live in, decades after the fact? Just doesn't make sense. Would seem to me it makes sense to move these statues to a place where they can be presented in the right context - a museum, or a public place exhibition (enhance the areas surrounding these with information signs etc. that give it historical context.

But wanting statues of US presidents removed.... the guy had his flaws but he also wrote the Bill of Rights, he kind of warrants a statue.

It feels sad with this band, that I'm checking in to the forums every now and then to catch up on anything, and each time I feel the hope of leaks is more realistic than any official news about new music.

Ach well, finally saw them live and it was great, just wish there was some activity. Axl's silence is par for the course but when this reunion all started I kind of assumed that Slash and Duff might be a bit more active... instead nada.

Not sure how tougher immigration laws would have helped in this incident. The guy who did this was born in the UK and was a normal, shy teenager until a few years. Then he was radicalised and we are where we are today.

The left in the West does need to get comfortable actually offering solutions to tackle radical Islam. Although we'd be best targetting it's core (Wihabism) rather than dreamed up solutions involving bombs and rounding people up. Historically, going door to door and rounding people up has never really panned out well.

Thought your president was actually good in the aftermath of this. Refusing to call the guy a monster (instead saying he's a loser) and saying that the leaders of the Islamic world actually have to be the ones to sort this out.

Always remember guys, don't give in to fear. Live your life as you would and don't let this shit make your turn against your fellow citizens. If you don't the terrorists actually do win.