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You don't think that providing arms to an organisation that wishes death to all Jews could be construed as genocidal? We really ought to get away from this idea that Israel wants to wipe out Palestinians. They are taking care not to kill more civilians than they could help. If they want to...

Just goes to show how different things look with hindsight. In March-April 2020 when there was huge shortages of PPE and the government (and civil service) were dashing round chasing supplies from anywhere they could get them, there were few people arguing for a slow down, go through normal...

The benefit of closing our own blast furnaces and importing steel from elsewhere, is that the carbon emissions count as someone else's quota. It's a negative as far as the planet goes, because it will make more emissions not less, and it's a negative as far as the economy goes because it puts...

As you can presumably, Israel doesn't need UN protection at present. They are far better armed than their attackers. Have you a link to the 600+ children number? The biggest number I can find is 227 as at June 2024, from the "Defense for Children Palestine" website...

He's claimed that he was in Alli's flat because his son was revising for GCSEs in July. That's misleading.

If Hamas proposed to the UN that they wanted a two state solution, which is de facto what they had since 2005, they would surely get it. With the strength of feeling around the world, especially within the UN, all Hamas has to do is to return the hostages, accept that Israel has the right to...

German casualties outnumbered UK casualties in WW2. This does not automatically make the UK the evil agressor and the Nazis the innocent victims. This war would stop tomorrow if Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthi and Iran would accept that Israel has the right to exists and would return the surviving...

If Israel had no "Iron Dome" defence, they would have taken action sooner and more decisively. It's only because they have efficient defences that they can afford to take their time and to minimise casualties. Lebanese sources say just over 1,000 killed. Why have you only rounded it up to...

He travelled to a friend's house to make a speech about how we must all work from home, however inconvenient it may be. He didn't say in words that he was speaking from his own home, but he did arrange some family photos and Christmas cards to give that impression.

When you say the Muslim world might attack from all sides, you're aware that they're already being attacked from the west, the north, and the south-east. There aren't many sides left.

He has lived about his reason for living in Alli's flat. He claims that he was giving his son peace and quiet for his GCSE revision, a month after they had finished. As for the speech he made about working from home, saying how important it was that we all follow the rules, while doing it from...

This whole "giftgate" issue with Starmer started because he misdeclared Alli's gifts to his wife. He didn't know he had to declare them so he got his form wrong and had to correct it. The stuff about the clothes he had received personally was already in the public domain but no-one had...

The point about pensioners freezing to death, is that the Labour party published a report in 2017 stating that the withdrawal of the winter fuel allowance had saved approx 3,850 lives per year on average for the previous 20 years, and withdrawal of that allowance would kill 3,850 per year in...

When abortion was legalised, it was understood that the unborn foetus was a human being with human rights, and that was why there were such strong safeguards. Now, of course, the idea that the unborn foetus is a human being with the right to life is widely ridiculed. God forbid that anything...

Two issues with this. 1. They shouldn't be taking WFA off both Alan Sugar and Auntie Ethel if Alan Sugar doesn't need it and Auntie Ethel does. 2. Florida residents don't get it anyway so they are only hitting Auntie Ethel, not Alan Sugar.

Quite apart from the fact that you have largely answered your own question, there is also the issue that wages were a lot lower in the last century than they are now and that household expenses (eg. food) were a lot higher. The widespread belief that all pensioners bought two or three houses...

Most of those incarcerated (men as well as women) have already gone down the "rehabilitation" line and it has failed. As a rule, only the most violent are jailed for the first conviction. The majority have been given non-custodial sentences, some of them many times over. Case in point. A...

I don't disagree the principle about fake investment companies in Jersey. I just disagree that your solution could be practical, especially to the degree that you are talking about. Companies cannot practically be made responsible for the ultimate beneficial ownership of their shares. If...

But it's too broad a brush. If UK companies can't have foreign ownership then companies like HSBC and Shell and Starbucks will have to cease operations in the UK, or else do it entirely as an overseas company thus (presumably) dodging corporation tax altogether.

Not in rugby league. I don't watch union, but as far as I know they stop play in union when the action gets near an injured player.