I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it a thousand times: If the punishment for breaking a law is a fine, then that law only exists for the poor.
I am so sick of misleading reporting by journos. Applies to all forms of media, but BBC particularly gets my goat bc they're supposed to be the Gold Standard. The trouble is language - nvm the ungrammatical ignorance, it's the unnecessary, misleading, "colourful" words that are really getting me!
I don't know if they all think they're Dickens, or it's dodgy political spinning, but a few creepy examples -
Asteroids are not "carefully" preserved. HS2 was not "dreamed up". AIs do not "imagine".
