John Wright

I enjoy the Guardian. But it’s daft sometimes. GB is allegedly joint top of the medals table. ( No medals awarded yet - Friday at 19.15 BST )

I left school 50 years ago. I did all science A levels. We used mental arithmetic, logarithms, and a slide rule. But i did have a Sinclair Executive calculator at home. Like a TV remote with a red neon display. Think they were introduced in 1972. Empirical?

She’s so condescending and patronising if you ever see her being interviewed. Perhaps being in a relationship with Tice has made her even more delusional than being politics editor, in various degrees, of the Times and Mail, and getting paid £250k to appear on GB News. Her books about Cameron and The State of the British Armed Forces ( both written with Lord Ashcroft ) and the hagiography about Aaron Banks, and the Handcock diaries were all remaindered quickly.

What does the Department of ( Starship ) Enterprise have to do with phones in school policy?

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You’re quite correct. I missed the link stating it was dated 2018.

If the subscriptions have been paid using his tax free Tynwald members expenses allowance I’m not sure about the legality of claiming to set them off and claim tax relief on them against his tax liability on his return.

The legislation is required to ensure that anyone driving the person, who wants to die, to the location, or goes to hold their hand, or who helps them book it, or prescribes the meds or dispenses them, or even just provides the premises, isn’t guilty of an offence of assisting suicide, or murder, if certain conditions are met. Im not in favour of it being delivered via the NHS or a doctor or nurse actually injecting. Dignitas appears to be a profit making organisation. I’d favour a non profit/charity. But, as with many things Manx there’s a viability threshold. How many will use the choice of time and manner of death process? Let’s say it’s 5% of all registered death. That’s less than 1 per week. With premises, a prescriber/dispenser, counsellor and back up staff, plus rent, I suppose £300,000 a year would cover. That’s £6,000 per head. Whatever we have must be self funding and well regulated. Getting the legislation is the start. It’s the regulations that will count.

Or just licence Dignitas.

I’m not mistaking or confusing law and politics. I’m pointing out that our politicians spend very little time on law making, and even less on this legislation. It’s part of their job. You seem to confuse Allinson’s professional qualification and his role as an elected law maker and his job as Treasury Minister. Im clearly saying that they’ve multi roles and this is just as important as the others.

I understand this type of post, but it’s wrong. First, I wouldn’t want my MHK’s ( or anyone else’s ) interfering in day to day medical management, administration or treatment. I do want them to enact legislation that makes the IoM better for its residents. No amount of legislating will improve the current 9 week breast cancer referral time. The target is 4, but staffing issues, soon to be resolved, have let it extend. Likewise the online testing is potentially a good initiative, if there’s then decent support. Tynwald, and we, should be notified of these things so they, and we, can campaign and hold to account. Assisted Dying ( Choice of Time and Manner of Dying ) is exactly the sort of legislating our politicos should be doing. They only legislate two, or three, days per month for 10 months a year. They spend, or should be spending, the rest of their time on constituency and departmental, and parliamentary committee work.

Except, If he has those problems, which I’m not doubting: the custody sergeant will have had him examined by the Force Medical Examiner, on arrival in Custody post arrest. That’s to check if he’s fit to be detained/questioned. the custody sergeant will have called in an appropriate adult to safeguard and ensure he understood why he’s been arrested. the custody sergeant and the appropriate adult will have tried to persuade him to take duty advocate legal advice, either face to face, zoom live link, or phone at court there will have been a duty advocate, either by videolink or in person. Not forgetting ( short term memory apart ) there were announcements on the boat and leaflets handed out, and he’d have had to apply for an entry number/certificate, before travel, which again set it all out. Plus booking testing at the Grandstand. The court procedures changed at various stages. Early days appearance was from police custody, but the advocate was able to consult with detained person and address the court.

Nowhere did I say or imply that. It's really difficult. IoM has legislative and judicial independence from UK in these matters. That means that Tynwald has the right to pass its own emergency regulations and set different sentencing parameters. It also means the judiciary has the right, subject to appeal, to decide where in those parameters to sentence. we had a very different ( and quite successful ) border policy, that depended on restricting entrants, isolation, and, in the short lockdown periods, strict enforcement of movement and household mixing. That in itself might be used to justify what happened. Take drug driving, our statutory minimum penalty is twice that of England. im not justifying, or criticising. I’m trying to set out the pragmatic operation of our lawmaking and enforcement.

There weren’t ever any sentencing guidelines, either in UK or England for COVID. It’s well known that IoM cracks down on drunkenness offences, and the new licensing act makes things worse. As for drugs, ioM drugs sentencing has always been much harsher. UK regulations included both prison, court fines, and fixed penalties. And, yes, fines or fixed penalties are on your criminal record. IoM didn’t have the necessary legislation apart from motoring offences. I agree. But with one, or two, notable, exceptions, they’d all had warnings, been spoken to, were repeat breachers-before being charged.