The CPS only does this for England and Wales not the whole of the UK. In Scotland the procurator fiscal prosecutes crimes and in Northern Ireland it is the Public Prosecution Service

Can someone please explain why a railroad commissioner is an elected position?

This is a crazy amount of money to me as someone from the UK. A party running a candidate in every seat in a UK general election could not spend this much money campaigning

Buffy

Coffee. There are a couple of Lemmy communities but none of them are that active. Reddit had r/coffee and r/espresso that were both fairly active

Even better. The countdown resets if you look away

Is impeachment actually limited to those in office?

A lot of these comments are American so I thought I would provide a different point of view. In the UK it is a legal requirement for some broadcasters to have a certain percentage of signed programmes.

Tim Eicke, the UK judge at the ECtHR. He gave a talk at my university and I briefly spoke to him afterwards