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The UK's 'flagship' TV news anchor for almost 40 years, the BBC's Huw Edwards, seen here advising children on what it takes to become a man of such outstanding moral authority as himself, trusted by multiple millions of people to believe whatever he tells them, has just been convicted of paying for child rape images. (Mind you, he's not going to prison, and he's still getting his TV licence-funded pension.)How the BBC reported on the story is a rather sick, and sinister, parody of itself:

"Previously, Ukrainian women were little represented in this environment. Most of the women we work with in Berlin actually come from Eastern Europe: Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary, and now with Ukraine. In brothels now fifty percent, I would say. There are a lot of very young women who came here because of the war."

"A government that threatens to punish merchants for selling at nominal prices higher than deemed appropriate by government clearly intends to control prices. It's no surprise, therefore, that economists routinely analyze prohibitions against so-called 'price gouging' using exactly the same tools they use to analyze other forms of price controls."
Comment: Conservative estimates from experts put the number of massacred Palestinians since Israel's escalation of its genocide at around 100,000 - and so it seems there are many, many more dead yet to be put to rest: 70% of Palestinians killed by Israel are women and children, Gaza government data reveals