RuamRudy

In mourning?

Are you serious? Actually, I think you might be - it would explain so much.

Hello Transam - do you really want an echo chamber?

If only they were Tories, they could cheat, lie, steal and offend with total impunity.

Again, not all Christians stand with the Westboro Baptist church and not all Muslims advocate for death to homosexuals. The Ugandan parliament is currently pushing through a bill that is advocating for life imprisonment for homosexuals - a bill promoted and endorsed but Christians. Either all Christians are to be tarred by that aberration or you must accept that not all Muslims conform to your prejudice.

There are extreme forms of every religion - the labels you threw out there can be applied to strains of Christianity and Judaism too. Likewise there are very modern Muslims who are fully integrated with Western values and eschew the negative traits you mentioned. You are a bigot if you refuse to recognise that.

Labour and anti-Semitism or Tories and anti Islam - it seems that both parties have a sizeable section of bigots within them. Good to see Labour continuing to take a strong position against such people.

How should those who vocally express opposition to Harry be treated? I presume you would expect similar treatment to those who object to his father? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/11/republican-protesters-arrested-king-charles-proclamation-events

His association with the royal family? He is literally a member of the royal family! To a person, none of his relatives have anything to offer but that. He is no different to the rest of them in trying to maintain his relevance in a society that is increasingly realising that they are an undemocratic anachronism.

I think you missed the point

But most of us are not meant to be some moral figurehead, head of the church of England, about to be anointed by holy snake oil from the church of the sepulchre at great public expense etc.

A few gross generalisations there, Transam. Megan's been about a bit? Has she also had an adulterous affair with a married man while she, too, was married, as is the case with her future step-mother in law?

Do you not think that allegations of ministers behaving inappropriately or abusing their positions should be investigated?

Or the right to relieve the suffering of one incapable of making the choice themselves.

The perfect post to illustrate the saying, 'if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail'.

Such a difficult subject to even consider. I can't imagine the heart rending pain that parents in such circumstances must endure. I hope counseling is offered through the process and long after.

Banning words seems very Draconian, but while foreign words can enrich a language (Draconian, for example), the invasive creep of a foreign language, like Japanese knotweed, can have a stifling effect on a culture. For official communications, where there is no Italian word for a circumstance then use the English word, but if an Italian word exists then it should be used. That people might prefer to use the English equivalent suggests, to me, that not enough is being done to promote the indigenous language. Maybe this will help promote it. In the same week that the Welsh government announced that Bannau Brycheiniog would, once again, assume it's correct name, its a good week for language.

No, it's not the long term that matters. Maybe show a little humility and acknowledge that there are many people suffering real hardship today; there are many good businesses going broke or already have gone broke because some people believed the lies of a Russian financed snake oil salesman who peddled jingoism. Talk about the future when you have a plan. At the moment all you have are blinkers.

You literally just dismissed forecasts as little more than guesses. Your optimism that something will spring from nothing will be cold comfort to people up and down the UK who are experiencing the negative effects of brexit.

So where are the facts? The only current tangibles are economic pain and burdensome bureaucracy.

What we can all agree with, I am sure, is that the economic impact of brexit at this point in time is negative for most and devastating for more than a few. We can also all agree, I am sure, that there is currently no clear path to the sunny uplands. Some remain positive that something good will emerge from the dung heap while the majority are not convinced.

Might it be that, as he approaches 88, he is displaying signs of dementia?

Because, after centuries of Western imperialism, war and thievery, their countries have been left as ungovernable hellholes. So most likely they will try again.

Clearly it is a UK problem if the stupidity of brexit means that a large number of would-be French tourists can no longer come to the UK. And only 2 nights? As they say in my country, many a mickle makes a muckle.

You don't see the difference in approach, or you don't want to?