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Palestine wouldn't accept that either.

What Starmer is proposing is nothing to do with giving the Chagossians their islands back. What Starmer is proposing is that the UK will withdraw as their colonial overlords, if you like, and will instead make Mauritius the colonial overlords in our place. Mauritius being not much more than a...

False scare claims? On the last couple of days it has come out that over 100 local authorities are asking parents to fill in what gender their children identify with, on their infant school applications. They are talking about three and four year olds here. The children may identify as a boy...

And also with parents. In terms of "who knows most about educating a child", both teachers and parents are surely ahead of the person in Whitehall.

Remember that if we stop using gas-powered electricity produced in this country and replace it with gas-powered electricity produced abroad, that counts as a reduction in emissions for political purposes. Ditto steel - steel produced in China and shipped across the world is much better for the...

I don't know about the environmental protection, but as far as departments of education worldwide, I suspect most of them could do with gutting. I've never been fond of the idea that a huge layer of bureaucrats telling teachers how to teach will improve the system. Teachers are probably the...

Harris got 72m votes, Trump 75m. Harris got 12% fewer votes than Biden, and the swing from Democrat to Republican was 6.7%.

Perhaps, instead of the "Gary Lineker and Friends" chat show, they will show a bit (or a lot) more football. It showed on that week when they all went on strike in support of Lineker's twittering, how little football they actually show on Match of the Day. Instead of 20 minutes' football and...

It's the negative evidence that he doesn't seem to post against the IRA, though I accept I might have missed it. He isn't just talking about Bloody Sunday, he is talking about other alleged atrocities carried out by the Army, but he doesn't mention the multiple atrocities carried out by the...

There have always been civilian casualties in war as well as military ones. It would be equally valid for people of all nations to refuse to commemorate the war dead because a few of them got things wrong and killed the wrong people. The problem McLean has is that he is pretty clearly a...

Is TASS as reliable a source as it ever was?

Make it a game. On "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" there is a game where each player tries to get to their own punchline by picking up the threads of the other one's tale and twisting it their own way. Do that. Say something that bears only the vaguest relevance to what they just said, and turn...

I don't think the left do underestimate how stupid people are if they don't agree with them. Frequently we see it on here and in plenty of other places, where the self-appointed clever people tell the people who vote the "wrong" way how stupid they are. Perhaps it's not so much the...

If Labour are serious about cutting red tape in planning, this is a very easy target to start with. When someone says "there is a colony of 28,000 bats out there, and although we have no evidence to back it up, it is possible that a few dozen may die each year being hit by a train" the correct...

It means that the bulk of what people read tends to be left leaning. For example, if I said that North Stand Chat tended to be left leaning, I would mean that the majority of posts favour a left wing viewpoint.

Social media was inclined to be left-supporting and the Democrats had almost every celebrity going for them. It's not accurate to assume that Twitter and Musk were all that people had to go on.

On the other hand, it would still give rise to (accurate) accusations of gerrymandering by politicians who believe that they are not going to win a fully democratic election.

Why are you banging on about toilets? Most of my posts have been focussing on homes for abused women. And if you argue there that men can go in anyway, even though it's against the rules, so there is no point having rules to stop them, I would decidedly disagree. I don't care who uses toilets...

In the UK as in the USA, it is already possible for men who go through the whole palaver of a sex change to be legally designated as women. I agree it would be a good test as to whether they can be proven to be trans women or full women.

You're still misunderstanding my point. I don't expect you to agree with it, but it would be helpful to the discussion if you could understand it. This is the point. Any rule that allows trans women into female toilets, and also into homes for abused women, must also apply to men who claim to...