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After this weekend’s polls, I think we can confidently say that labour will have a big enough majority after the GE to be able do implement any policy they want to. But is the country and just as significantly, our society, so broken that it’s impossible to repair? Every where you look from the...

Repeated every time Starmer wants to sound like one of the people. Thatcher did the same with her father having been a shopkeeper. Just a silly example of attempted spin that has no relevance to the individual's ability to lead the country. Stalin's father was a shoemaker and I'm not sure how...

I think even Swift would have baulked at putting something as absurd and unbelievable as our gov’s Rwandan policy in one of his books. I have tried to clarify what i meant by ‘safe’ in my reply to Rippleman’s post. He is right of course that one of many flaws in the policy is that we accept...

You are right. My experience of Rwanda is that it’s a very safe country in terms of what we might normally call safe in terms of crime, walking down the street at night, theft etc. Also it’s a relative judgment given that only 30 years ago 1 million people died in the genocide. It is quite...

Rwanda is a very safe country but that is not the same as saying it is ‘safe’ for anyone forced to go there (or anywhere else for that matter) against their will and without proper care and integration policies. Our gov don’t give a damn about the latter, and i have no idea what the Rwandan gov...

This an appalling and thankfully extreme case. However, road rage in its many forms appears to be getting worse. I assume this is a consequence of the roads getting busier and busier, frequent delays caused by roadworks, flooding, potholes, under investment etc which causes build up of...

Tracing paper bog roll always helpfully supplied by British rail on the way to the game. And thank goodness, as Andratx rolls from home would never have made it over the northstand fence!

Absolutely but the sub question is HOW one exercises that right. Has 21st century society lost the ability to debate without being overly 'offended' or by being overly 'aggressive' (whether by use of hateful words or hateful actions)?

i know it was a half and half scarf but i was also really f offed to see an albion ‘fan’ burning a Brighton scarf. Knob.

I should add, there is a world of difference (not often understood) between the large landowners and the ordinary farmers in this country. Many farmers are also tenants and are continually under the cosh of said landowners which include the Church of England, the Crown, National Trust, The Duke...

Farmers who are protesting are definitely not Tory voting! Like much of the rest of society, voting habits are changing. Farmers may well have been historic Tories (Tories rural/Labour urban etc) but no longer

With our injuries and number of fixtures it is hardly surprising we are struggling a bit now. The hype over RDZ has also been absurd - he is a young manager, still very much learning and is doing well, whilst he does need to learn to coach defence and stop the damaging goalkeeper rotation. He's...

Feel exactly the same but its democracy (of a sort)

There you go, you've just spun it! :ROFLMAO:

Watching this, I think that might be as effective!

I went and checked the BBC site as I wasn’t sure whether this was a wind up! I clearly should have been following the local story but still an extraordinary set of numbers. Wonder how Lab and Cons will spin this one?!

An interesting aspect is how the juror's back stories impact their view of the case. But I would like to know they have been selected for this reason (in which case it rather influences the experiment's outcomes) or whether actually every juror in real life has something in their past that has...

My train of thought was that given the Rwandan gov are making £millions from this then it is likely they will use their state owned airline if other airlines refuse

Air Rwanda?

Conscientious objectors had religious or other morality based beliefs that allowed them not to carry weapons etc and I’m not sure being a stretcher bearer was any less dangerous or required less selflessness than being the front line soldier. Very different to saying ‘I’ve got zero interest’...