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UK = United Kingdom. It's not a federation of 4 states where no action can be taken unless all 4 agree; it's a single political entity. If there aren't enough Scottish votes for the majority of Scots to overrule the rest of the UK, that's just tough. Lancashire (traditional county) has...

The poll opened in May and most of the votes were cast before the Queen's death.

While there is a lot about that that I do disagree with, or at least don't take as gospel, or believe that he has missed out a lot fo detail that puts the other side of the case - I do agree his conclusion - that the differences in skin colour, as well as in language, in religion, in background...

I take it you will examine the models of very successful countries with monarchies too? I'm sure there are more variants. And it would be utterly foolish to scrap a working system until we have decided which of the many variants would be a good fir for the UK. (And I definitely don't agree...

Do you have any alternative plans, or is it basically "bring on the generalissimo, you can't be worse than this"? I think before we abolish the monarchy (which I certainly hope we don't) we need to establish who will replace them for all the necessary functions - essentially the holding of...

India was a subcontinent where there were very rich rulers keeping their people in slavery and/or servitude before the British got there.

It's a rhetorical question. Sorry to be too oblique. To put it more simply, virtually all the posts about Brexit on this message board are talking about money, money, money. Nothing else (at least re. Brexit) has been important at all, just money. It's a money obsession. My rhetorical...

I suspect most of the many problems in higher education are of our own making, not EU generated and would be neither caused nor cured by EU membership or non-membership. The absurd money-grubbing chasing of students at the less popular universites being a case in point. And the universities...

How about the Scots? They used to offer free tuition to all EU students (apart from English ones, of course) and they unilaterally scrapped it. How's that for a culture war.

Those figures are about as reliable as a poll on this website as to whether Brighton should have had a penalty. The bias is immense.

Do you genuinely believe that it was possible to export goods without filling in forms? All my clients that had to fill in VAT data? Product analysis data? Invoices with the customer's VAT reference number? Invoices? Delivery notes? There are oodles of paperwork related to every...

One benefit is that you know the name of the new scheme, the Turing scheme. The other one was the Erasmus scheme, and the Enactus scheme is something quite different.

It's hard to argue with a post that says GDP is down by £100bn per year and links a report saying that the total economy is down by £31bn. I lose track of which particular guess I'm supposed to be commenting on. What I would like to see challenged is these people who are having to pay so much...

Is there a competition to find the most trivial reason to stay in the EU? If only the people had been told that Miss McNob would have had to pay to go to Versailles (or rather let her parents pay for her) then would it have made the difference?

It isn't complicating anything. It's a simple thing. 1. Traditionally, gentlemen and ladies have not shared changing rooms. This is essentially because of their different sexual organs. 2. My opinion is that this situation should not change. Simples.

Do I need examples? Two simple questions. 1. Are there any men who would like to flash at women? 2. Are any of those men likely to take the opportunity to flash at women if they are allowed to enter women's changing rooms? Are you implying that it couldn't and wouldn't happen?

Yes. There are only two sorts of people with penises likely to wave them about in a lady's changing room, and as you say the ones with any sort of case to be there, probably wouldn't. It's the sex pests and perverts who are the ones likely to take advanatage of this particular opportunity..

Sorry, I should have made it clearer that it's my belief that no transgender woman with a penis should ever be jailed in a woman's prison. I have heard that they are, but IMO it should never happen because that's a decision that should be sex-based not gender-based.

Within reason, of course. I'm 57, but if I believed I was 67 I still wouldn't get a pension, and if I believed I was 7 I still wouldn't be allowed into school. Society should accept my belief only to the extent that it doesn't disadvantage society as a whole. Hence my comments earlier...

The question is, does transgender really matter? Most of the things that are getting wound up about are when the most fanatical transgender people do confuse sex with gender. Because for the stuff that actually makes a difference, sex should be the deciding factor in most cases. Public...