>> I think you'll find that's italics, not irony, used to indicate a quotation... Google doesn't
>> show up any obvious hits for a convention of using italics to indicate irony.
I used italics to show I was quoting a comment from someone else in another forum. The comment itself was clearly intended to be humour/irony not serious comment.
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>> Definitely you and Alanovic who are keener on sending these people down than the average
>> poster here. I was thinking about it earlier; of all my friends and colleagues, there
>> isn't a one who expresses leftist views.
Unlike Alanovic I do identify myself as of the left. Mixed economy with decent medical, social etc welfare equality of opportunity etc. In old labour terms Croslandite rather than Bennite. Which oddly puts me on the party's left these days along with that well known extremist Roy Hattersley.
If a commitment to wanting sexual harassment identified and properly prosecuted/punished is a 'left' thing then so be it. I think plenty of Tories, at least the younger ones think that too though.
DLT has been found not guilty and I accept that. As a follower of legal news, process etc I'm interested in how thee jury came to the conclusion it did. The piece from the Mail about the jury's question to the judge suggests they thought some or all prosecution witnesses were truthful but in absence of corroboration struggled to be convinced beyond reasonable doubt.
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