Peter Rhodes on breakfasts, burglars and a big bang from the bunker-busters
The over-technifying of our world progresses. For as long as I can recall, the summon to collect one's meal at a beach café has been announced by someone bellowing jovially :”Numbah 48 ready!” or similar. Not any more.
On holiday last week, customers were handed an electronic pager which buzzes when the food is ready to be collected. As all the pagers seem to sound the same, this can cause some confusion. But I dare say it provides a safe space for young staff who, having been raised in a world of smartphones, have some difficulty actually, y'know, speaking to strangers.
The Home Office wisely argued that a “prolific” Albanian burglar with almost 50 convictions was a “genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat” to the UK public and should be deported. Overruling this eminently sound decision, an immigration tribunal announced that his crimes, which also included robbery, theft and false imprisonment, were not the sort of “very extreme” offences that would cause “deep public revulsion” and he can therefore stay in the UK.
