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Well, they do seem very keen on Rwanda....

Indeed! Or losing at home to 9-man Walsall at the Withdean in the 2008-09 season.

The Tories' obsession with inheritance is yet more pure hypocrisy - how often do they tell the rest of us to "stand on your own two feet, work hard to earn your living, and don't rely on hand-outs"?

I've always said that the current government is largely about 'punching down' - saying to impoverished or disadvantaged sections of society "We won't actually do anything to improve your wages, job security or public services, but we will crap hard on the people we think you dislike or blame for...

Well, a lot of people will probably 'forget' the awful premierships of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, and the tens of £ billions they spaffed, but the same voters will remember (or allow themselves to be reminded by the Daily Mail) the 2008 financial crash and 1978-79 winter of discontent, and...

Remember when these appeared in the early 1980s; absolutely loved them. A bag of them usually accompanied a pint in the old Windsor Tavern while playing on the newly-installed Asteroids machine. Ah, the simple pleasures of youth.

Complete waste of money, which should never have been started. The argument often advanced, that it would save 20 minutes or so on journeys between Birmingham and London, was never compelling, particularly as many/most business meetings are (post-Covid) conducted via Zoom or Teams. The likely...

Depends on which type of PR was adopted - PR being a principle rather than a specific electoral system. Additional Member System (used in Scottish and Welsh elections), and Single Transferable Vote (used in Northern Ireland), both blend proportionality with traditional constituencies/seats.

Simples - 27% of votes cast = 27% of seats in the House of Commons. Currently, under FPTP, a party can win a comfortable 66 seat majority in the House of Commons - and govern for the next 5 years - on just 36% of votes cast (as New Labour did in the 2005 general election).

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In spite of the welcome advances in women's rights and greater equality, we still live in a mostly patriarchal society in which men dominate many of the most senior positions in business, law, politics, and religion, and they have therefore used that power to impose particular rules and values...

I went to see him do stand-up 'comedy' in Bristol many years ago. It was awful; absolute cringe - just a series of crude and puerile 'jokes' about sex and genitalia, interspersed with four-letter expletives. I didn't laugh once - I actually felt embarrassed for him.

Ah, the Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Sun, Daily Telegraph, The Times, GBNews, etc - all captured by the Left eh? And how many Left-wing academics are you aware of; can you name any? Give your head a good wobble. And I bet you don't mind 'trial by media' when Labour politicians, trade union...

I sadly expect Brand's deluded fans and defenders to accuse these women of "jumping on the bandwagon" and sneering "why didn't they speak out at the time?", to discredit them and portray Brand as the victim of a witch hunt.

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Opponents of legalisation have often claimed that cannabis is a gateway drug to the really hard and dangerous stuff, and so it should remain illegal. Yet I've always believed that if some pot-heads end up on hard drugs, it is probably because they have been forced to buy their dope...

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It’s always seemed to me that the owners very often share the same traits as their dogs: aggressive, anti-social, intimidating, territorial, and liable to attack at the slightest perceived provocation. Needless to say, I dislike the sort of ‘macho’ thugs and wannabe gangstas who own these dogs...