In the West End of London, on any single day, how many people are arrested for illegal behaviour? Stabbings, assaults, drinking driving, abuse behaviour,
Yet just four arrests in an otherwise peaceful population of 200,000 is the lead headline.
This constant denigration of the Palestinian cause and the protesters is tiresome and nauseating.
PS Can I be a pedant, the word is minuscule, not miniscule. I suppose so many people now think this latter is correct, that you're more of a pathfinder in the English language and this misspelling will eventually appear in the OED.
https://writingexplained.org/miniscule-or-minuscule-spelling
Etymology is From French minuscule, from Latin minuscula, feminine of minusculus (“rather less, rather small”), from minus (“less, smaller”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).
It has a similar derivation of the word "homunculus", a tiny human being, or more particularly in late mediaeval science, the idea of sperm and embryo containing such. This outmoded idea though persists in the illustrations you see of the "cortical homunculus" where the various areas and volumes of the sensory cerebral cortex are mapped to a representation of the human body, showing various organs or anatomical features inmportance in a neurological sense.
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