RuamRudy

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The Silver Jews were such a tragically overlooked band. Anyone who writes lyrics like these is a genius in my book: "You got Tennessee tendencies, And chemical dependencies, You make the same old jokes, And malaprops on cue. "

Anyone for tennis? Boris Johnson admits he did play £160,000 tennis match with ex-Russian minister's wife

Why do the organisers of the events allow this? It's possible to both hate the actions of Hamas and support the rights of ordinary Palestinians at the same time.

He must be referring to the part in the gospel which King James expunged, where Jesus took his disciples to Vegas for a lads' weekend.

Two billionaires, surrounded by down at heel blue-collar workers from some forgotten backwater, both trying to pretend they care about them; truly a pathetic sight.

One corrupt, bumbling and incompetent ego maniac praising another? Who'd have thunk it?

Does it not also take into account hand size? He's on shaky ground on that one.

Why would you wonder that? Why is it even remotely relevant to you what other private individuals choose to legally do with their bodies?

Admittedly, the US is no better off than the UK when it comes to absolutely appalling choices for leadership, but why anyone would question Harris in particular when she is standing against a convicted fraudster, rapist, long term friend of Epstein, and utterly incompetent fool is beyond me. I guess one sees what one wants to see.

But she sees nothing worrying or incredible that trump is in the running again?

That's next on his list, once he has perfected the bendy cave submarine.

Consistency is not a word most people would associate with Johnson. Cameron clearly learnt from the time Johnson helped his friend Darius Guppy beat up a journalist who wrote something Guppy didn't like.

Yes, I am aware that the UK uses FPTP - I am merely pointing out how inherently undemocratic the UK is, and that Labour is not in power because that's what the electorate wanted. Not only the Tories push against PR - Labour also campaigned against it during the PR referendum - they also spread misinformation across the country because they, like the tories, have a vested interest in maintaining an undemocratic system that benefits them.

It's possibly correct that he was not 19 but the OP does not make that claim. With only the OP to go on, I could not possibly have assumed otherwise, and your charge of me 'providing misinformation' as if it was deliberate is unfounded. If anything, I simply don't share your obsession with other mens' sex lives. If it was beyond doubt that he was 15, the article you cited would have stated that unambiguously. However they are not confident enough to make that claim so have used a well known journalistic technique of making an unsubstantiated allegation without opening themselves up to the possibility of libel action. Not at all. He seems like a particularly unpleasant, narcissistic character, but that isn't a crime, and the police would, I assume, agree as he has faced no charges. But regardless of my feelings towards his behaviour, I still think he deserves the truth to be told without innuendo at every turn.

Where did it say in the OP that the other party was 15 when they met? I will help you - it doesn't. So your statement that I am 'providing misinformation' is incorrect. Even the article you cite is vague. "Schofield had reportedly first met the man when he was 15". So it's not clear when they first met. I have no particular interest in Philip Schofield and I certainly don't have the same obsession with the sexual proclivities of male BBC stars that you have, but from this article it seens that he is just a nasty, selfish man rather than anything more sinister. The lack of interest shown by the police would seem to confirm this.

Farage said something similar prior to the pliant dullards being mobilised.

As per the article, they never became intimate until the guy was 20. Was he still coerced at that age?

The majority of UK voters recognise that brexit was a stupid idea which was badly executed. 59% want to rejoin. That's what Starmer should be discussing.

I admit to having paid next to no interest in the issue when it first came to light, but it seems from this piece that the person in question was 19 when they met and 20 when they began a relationship. How is that grooming? The other guy was a fully emancipated adult from the outset.

Is this satire? Are you suggesting that Putin is willing to allow upwards of 1000 Russian youths per day to be slaughtered in order to avoid impacting the tiny minority of Ukrainians that actually support Russia?

Labour received 33% of the votes cast. Two thirds of the electorate who voted don't want labour in power. Only 1 in 5 voters in the UK voted Labour in this year's GE. That is no mandate in any democratic society. Even in tories got 43% of votes in 2019.

What utter nonsense. It's like saying that we should all be fearful of all mushrooms because a small number are dangerous. The vast majority of mushrooms cause you no bother; the vast majority of Muslims likewise.

The way I see it, if someone has had a lifetime of feeling trapped in the wrong gender, why not allow them, if they so desire, the peace of experiencing their final years as the gender they feel they should have been their whole lives. This is a very different argument to the one about juveniles - these are mature, experienced people who have had long to reflect on their circumstances. If it impacts nobody else, why not let them finally breathe freely?

And most likely not new either. I have no doubts that almost all MPs of all persuasions are at it in some way or other, and will have been since each of them entered politics. Either we accept it is forever to be part of politics, or the rules need totally rewriting, and not in some half baked token effort designed to placate the plebs while protecting the guilty. I vote for the latter.