Duh, 1kg, not 1 gramme.

Just a guess, but I assume it means it can support one tonne at 1G or 1 gramme at 1000G.

You talk of misconduct and malfeasance and torts as if you know what those words mean.
I don't think that you do.

Ambassador in the sense of getting dressed up and hobnobbing with CEOs and the ultra-wealthy. However, the Mayor of the CoL has no political clout. When The City has a problem with government policy they can talk directly with the government; they don't need any help from the Mayor.

I know what the City of London is. I also know what "The City" is. They're not synonymous. One is an area of London with lots of big buildings in it and the other a collection of very large companies, some of which have premises in the CoL.

The main difference between the CoL and other local authorities across the nation is that corporations (small c) get to vote for the leader of the Corporation (big c), i.e. The Mayor. Consequently the office of the Mayor of the CoL amounts to not much more than a mouthpiece in a fancy robe; even the City of London Police are best known for going after people that big businesses don't like. But, as I said before, if you're really big in The City you don't need help to get the government's ear - you have the Chancellor of the Exchequer on speed-dial.

So, no-one really gives a shit about what the Mayor of the City of London has to say, because everyone who reads the FT or has even a moderate interest in politics already knows what businesses want. Most people living in London proper couldn't name the Mayor of the CoL, or her predecessor. Most people in the UK don't even know that there is a different mayor for the CoL.
That's how inconsequential the office is.

The summary is wrong. This lady is the Mayor of the City of London, which for purely historical reasons is distinct from the actual city of London. It's usually referred to as The Square Mile because of how small it is. Imagine if in New York Wall Street had its own mayor.

In short, no-one except her paymasters gives a single shit what she has to say about anything.

True, but such a claim would almost certainly fail anyway. Five quid says there is a clause in your contract that says Verizon are not responsible for lost earnings.

Ask RIM why.

No, I'll stick with a spineless and dull former public prosecutor over a mendacious frog-faced cunt with a case Trump envy, thanks.

Labour have wanted a national ID card for years. Most of our neighbouring countries have them, but there's some part of the British psyche that hears "ID card", thinks "papers please" and then replies "no fucking way". I don't really see much of a problem myself since we're not legally obliged to identify ourselves to police anyway, unless they suspect you of a crime. On the other hand I can foresee this government or a future one changing that if a national ID scheme existed. I think I'd rather carry on without them; we seem to be managing well enough without ID cards and I haven't heard of any benefit that would justify them.

This time around Labour have framed them as a way to cut down on foreigners working illegally, as a sop for people tempted by the Reform Party, but at the end of the day if the employer is willing to pay cash under the table and risk the consequences they'll do it, whether or not ID cards exist.

They can't help but show weakness or indecision.
But they're still preferable to pushing through an unpopular policy just to show strength.

It wasn't just any officer it was the Chief Constable. I wouldn't expect him to personally check everything that comes across his desk, but the thing about being in charge is that sometimes one has to take responsibility for a subordinate's mistake.

I prefer the book.

Go on⦠my son.

One. It didn't happen "recently".
Two. He wasn't arrested.
Three. He wasn't some random guy in a skull cap.

The incident you refer to involved a "journalist" accompanied by two bodyguards trying to force his way through a protest march against the war in Gaza. He was there to stir the shit and film the results. The police officer could see what he was doing and told him to go down the street away from the march and cross the road there.

Stop getting your news from social media.

I hadn't actually heard of Markdown before today so I had to look it up, and it looks terrible.
Two examples:
Using both underscores and asterisks for italic text, despite the fact that asterisks are/were used to denote bold text.
Double spaces for a line break. What moron came up with the idea of invisible markup?!

Even BBCode seems better than Markdown to me.

Hanged.