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I can't tell if she's a pro-Brexiter who thinks the border controls have been mishandled, or an anti-Brexiter who think that if we didn't have controls the smuggling wouldn't happen.

If you hadn't been in a rush, you'd have read my answer in the post you were replying to. You might not like the answer, but it's an answer. Can you tell me the derogatory terms I used and shouldn't have? I'd hate to post inappropriate language like that, but unless you tell me what the...

I apologise for the use of a derogatory term, whatever it was. Though honestly I can't see where it was, so please could you tell me what the derogatory term(s) was/were? Part of the reason Johnson made such a pig's ear of it is because May had made a massive pig's ear of her own. She should...

I wouldn't expect both climate related riots AND cost of living riots. The cost of living rioters would be rioting because they want more fuel, not less.

I'm not sure the tenor of the article is quite what you might hope for. It's saying that the "Project Fear" people, the ones who said that Brexit would fail and who wanted Brexit to fail and who have worked towards making Brexit fail, have won because they held more power than a mere Prime...

That's a very common misconception about the Good Friday Agreement. It is emphatically not just a way of keeping the Republicans happy. The Good Friday Agreement is about keeping both sides happy, about not changing Northern Ireland rules without consent of both sides (this applies only to...

Why do they need to close the road? They aren't in the way of traffic - they're 200 feet up. It can only be dangerous if they land on a car, but they're on the posts so if that's a worry they could just close 1 lane. They'll come down when they're hungry.

I don't expect it was in their minds. That would involve having two thoughts at once, which seems unlikely. But that was the most direct and possibly only practical effect of the protest - that it had to be cleaned up.

Chicken (and to some extent other meat) is about the only thing where the date matters. Everything else, you can tell whether it's off. Milk smells and tastes off, bread goes mouldy and stale, biscuits go soft, fruit and veg goes rotten, yoghurt's lid swells up. Packet stuff loses its taste...

Veganism isn't about saving animals - quite the reverse. vegans want fewer farm animals and more crop-growing land. Vegans don't (in general) have any objection to animals being killed and eaten by other animals (my niece is vegan and keeps a cat!), they just object to animals being eaten by...

The problem comes when the forefront of the discussion (among a sizeable number at least) amounts to "These people are antisocial and they are morons, why would I listen to what they say?

My point, which I think was pretty simple, is that if any of us have a choice between buying something new or giving that money to help save lives, then we value the new possession more than we value the lives we could have saved. Not a criticism, just a statement of fact. I don't want to...

Virtually all young people, and older people too, value objects more than people. So you own any objects? Or have you sold them all to save lives in Africa? If you own any unnecessary object, eg. a mobile phone, that costs you money that you could be sending to Africa to save lives - then you...

I'm not sure just how few brain cells you need to have, to believe that banning oil is a way of reducing people's fuel costs. "You can't afford to heat a can of soup so I'll pay for it" would make sense, "You can't afford to heat a can of soup so I'll cut off your fuel supply" doesn't.

You want to sell that idea to the SNP. They could use it to justify Scottish independence on the grounds that they are the elected representatives and their electors are too stupid to make the important decisions.

The best time is now. No point waiting to see if more complications come along, or if the surgeon drops dead or suddenly emigrates, or of the hospital cancels you. Get it done. As for insurance, if your insurance is invalid for travel then presumably you will get back your travel costs. I...

It's the last weekend of the Championship season so they'll want to book a Sunday slot for that set of fixtures. My guess would be that they'll be scattered around Friday, Sunday, Monday, and possibly Tuesday, and they might show them all on TV. They'll have the excuse that they're doing it...

So if anyone wishes to cross out the name that's there and write in a different name, whether in felt tip or otherwise, and swear blind it was the club shop that did it, I doubt there could be any comeback.

Surely it's simple to understand? She thinks Tom Moore is a great man for supporting the NHS, she thinks the government is wiping out humanity by not giving the NHS money, she thinks that if private jets were banned the NHS would have more money, and she thinks the best way to express these...

It just means that if you come from (say) Fiji but play in Australia, you are eligible for the Australian men's side; but if you get capped and then don't make it into the world cup squad, you can still play for your home nation. It's not a my-granny's-milkman-was-Irish sort of qualification...