RuamRudy

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.

After 14 years of rampant, unchecked tory corruption, it's certainly dispiriting to see Labour MPs being every bit as despicable.

If he decides to sell some shares, will it be public knowledge that he sold or is trading volume unattributed?

Too complicated for nationalists? Oh the irony of someone who completely fails to understand the independence movement suggesting that others struggle with complexity.

I have been going in and out of the Philippines every month for over 10 years - I have been stopped twice that I can recall.

Is there any sane person who looks at the utterly dysfunctional, totally self obsessed family with anything other than scorn? I imagine that kings of old showed leadership, courage and wisdom. There is not one of these clowns who has an ounce of any of these qualities. Self obsessed, arrogant and totally detached from reality, how much longer can we be made to endure and to finance this farce?

Funnily enough I enjoyed it up until the last chapter when it seemed that he had run out of steam and wanted to finish it quickly - lots of loose ends were servered rather than tied off. My favourite book of his has to be the first I read, Number 9 Dream, but the only way I could get through that was skipping the Goat writer chapters entirely.

Hypothetical, of course, but there are others who were closer to the action who see things differently. Thankfully we will never know how it would have played out if things went south. Former Oath Keeper: ‘We came very, very close to having a civil war kick off on Jan. 6’

I think that you are the one who doesn't understand.

BBC too - pointing out how trump told numerous lies but musk never challenged him on any of them. It must be a tad embarrassing for a tech titan such a musk to be unable to handle a livestream...

Sociologists have long studied mass hysteria and how rapidly seemingly decent people can descend into an uncontrollable mass violence - what happened in Rwanda is an extreme version of that. But it was not a unique situation and it will probably happen again in some other country in the future, to some lesser or greater extent. It almost happened in Washington DC 4 years ago...

I think you could definitely ascribe those values to many British people, both famous and those unknown beyond their own circles. But I think that they could equally be applied to countless numbers from other countries. Because none of them are uniquely British. What they are, however, are values that most people would claim to possess (rightly or wrongly), and most would hope to demonstrate - some of the traits of a good, honest soul. So I would say that there are no distinctly British values, but there are the values of a decent human being. And Rwandan people are no less likely to possess those values.

No, I would prefer to hear your thoughts - but not about culture. That is not what was mentioned. British values are what are being discussed (or not), not culture. Those are distinctly different things.

Maybe these are those 'British values' that people have been insisting set us apart from Rwandans. Polling restricted, I believe, to Manchester, but seemingly 1/3 of those polled think that violence and hostility towards immigrants is justified to make a political point.

You need to step back and take a break, maybe try to put things in perspective. You can't always be right; nobody is so don't take it so hard on yourself. Here is his Wikipedia page which states (emphasis mine): "Robinson's criminal record also includes convictions for violence, financial and immigration frauds, cocaine possession with intent to supply, and public order offences. He had previously served at least three separate custodial sentences: in 2005 for assault, in 2012 for using false travel documents, and in 2014 for mortgage fraud." Now if you want to get all bent out of shape about semantics, as if he is a misunderstood diamond geezer with a few rough edges rather than a drug pusher then go ahead. However, I thoroughly bored so I am going to leave you to your fandom at this point.