Ryanair investigated over charging parents to sit with their children
UK competition watchdog investigates whether charge of about £8 is an unfair contract term under consumer law
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Europe’s biggest low-cost airline, Ryanair, is facing an investigation over the mandatory fee it charges a parent to sit with their child.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the Irish carrier’s terms and conditions require at least one parent to sit with their children, including those with disabilities, and bills them about £8 per flight to do so. Continue reading...
And the centre right’s cowardice in defending decency & order.
We’ve had Southport, Southampton and now Belfast: three mobs stirred up in public.
Just as Islamist extremists fed off an ideology that excused violence so do the racist right.
It falls to the centre right to challenge & defeat it.
Garvan Walshe
We must take on the hateful forces that seek to divide us.
My statement on recent events in Belfast.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
This article compared market exchange rates rather than living standards. Elementary economics teaches this is wrong.
Male life expectancy in MI is 67. In the UK it’s 78. For women the figures are 74 and 83.
This is very true. What’s amazing is that traditional media haven’t learned this yet.
Even without Musk tilting the X algorithm social media amplifies the loudest. Now that he does…
On the money
This is sufficiently serious that the Prime Minister needs to address it. He must make clear that incitement and racist violence are unacceptable and will be dealt with using the full force of the law (the law itself is more than adequate - it needs to be enforced.
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Finally the police and intelligence services need the resources to deal with right wing extremism in both Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
Unfortunately they have a lot on their plate - including Russian, Iranian, and Islamist operations, but that’s the world in which we live.
It’s easy to blame “social media” for the riots in Belfast, and it has its share. But that also means the incitement happened in the open.
Why did the PSNI not act in response to the incitement and deploy to stop the violence breaking out. What can it learn?
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