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With just over a month to go punters still confident that there’ll be a UK-EU deal – politicalbettin

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edited November 2020 in General
imageWith just over a month to go punters still confident that there’ll be a UK-EU deal – politicalbetting.com

Above is the market from Smarkets which, as can be seen has moved about a fair bit over the past year.

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  • Is this the queue for the COVID vaccine?
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    Smarkets shmarkets
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,092
    edited November 2020
    Interesting that Suzanne Moore in her interview with Unherd made a comparison about he difference between working at the Mail (as a token leftie) and the Guardian.

    One was a place where many journalists said don't agree with you on a political level, but you absolutely have the write what you feel, and the management made clear that was her role at the newspaper and would be back the same as the right leaning ones and the other was the Guardian, where she makes it sound very much like they have a culture similar to The New York Times as described by people like Bari Weiss, dissent from particular orthodoxy will not be tolerated.
  • I remember a few years back, punters were confident Remain would win .... :D:disappointed:

    Experts! Punters... whadda they know.... :open_mouth:
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,126
    How fickle is the human heart. What a tragedy.
  • Pro_RataPro_Rata Posts: 5,288

    Is this the queue for the COVID vaccine?

    You will know that one by the:

    JACK W
    First

    that starts the thread.
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    edited November 2020
    kle4 said:

    How fickle is the human heart. What a tragedy.
    The problem with Theo Bertram's point is that loads of the Labour members who rated him have quit the party! So to compare 71% and 46%, and imply the difference is people who have changed their their view is not really fair
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,126
    isam said:

    kle4 said:

    How fickle is the human heart. What a tragedy.
    The problem with Theo Bertram's point is that loads of the Labour members who rated him have quit the party! So the comparison between the 71% and 46% is not really fair
    Even that, if it is what has occurred, it makes for a significant point about the changing nature, and therefore views, of the Labour membership, so it seems relatively fair all the same - even if it is not so much that people are changing their minds, it shows the reduction in his worship by the membership.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 59,933
    Better than Attlee? Labour members cerca late-2019 were certifiable!
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118
    edited November 2020
    kle4 said:

    isam said:

    kle4 said:

    How fickle is the human heart. What a tragedy.
    The problem with Theo Bertram's point is that loads of the Labour members who rated him have quit the party! So the comparison between the 71% and 46% is not really fair
    Even that, if it is what has occurred, it makes for a significant point about the changing nature, and therefore views, of the Labour membership, so it seems relatively fair all the same - even if it is not so much that people are changing their minds, it shows the reduction in his worship by the membership.
    Hmmm maybe... I don't think you can say "How fickle..." though, as the people who rated him probably still do, they are just not Labour members anymore
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,126
    RobD said:

    Better than Attlee? Labour members cerca late-2019 were certifiable!

    Presumably many of the new members had never heard of him. These people confidently claimed Corbyn was the greatest ever campaigner for peace and anti-racism, despite him being virtually unknown outside of certain circles until 2015.
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,486
    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
  • LadyGLadyG Posts: 2,221

    Interesting that Suzanne Moore in her interview with Unherd made a comparison about he difference between working at the Mail (as a token leftie) and the Guardian.

    One was a place where many journalists said don't agree with you on a political level, but you absolutely have the write what you feel, and the management made clear that was her role at the newspaper and would be back the same as the right leaning ones and the other was the Guardian, where she makes it sound very much like they have a culture similar to The New York Times as described by people like Bari Weiss, dissent from particular orthodoxy will not be tolerated.

    Unquestionably true.
  • Manchester United are being held to RANSOM for millions of pounds by cyberhackers who targeted club computer systems and are demanding cash not to release sensitive data

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  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 19,468
    edited November 2020

    Manchester United are being held to RANSOM for millions of pounds by cyberhackers who targeted club computer systems and are demanding cash not to release sensitive data

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-8989881/Manchester-United-held-RANSOM-cyberhackers-control-computers.html

    :D That club is a joke.
  • Pro_Rata said:

    Is this the queue for the COVID vaccine?

    You will know that one by the:

    JACK W
    First

    that starts the thread.
    Indeed.
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,486
    Just watched Tottenham reserves smash another team while barely getting into second gear. Big month ahead for them. Be interesting to see how they get on against Chelsea, Arsenal etc.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 48,713
    kle4 said:

    isam said:

    kle4 said:

    How fickle is the human heart. What a tragedy.
    The problem with Theo Bertram's point is that loads of the Labour members who rated him have quit the party! So the comparison between the 71% and 46% is not really fair
    Even that, if it is what has occurred, it makes for a significant point about the changing nature, and therefore views, of the Labour membership, so it seems relatively fair all the same - even if it is not so much that people are changing their minds, it shows the reduction in his worship by the membership.
    Its a voodoo poll. It was shared to me by a corbynite friend. Anyone could answer, member or not.

  • RobDRobD Posts: 59,933
    Foxy said:

    kle4 said:

    isam said:

    kle4 said:

    How fickle is the human heart. What a tragedy.
    The problem with Theo Bertram's point is that loads of the Labour members who rated him have quit the party! So the comparison between the 71% and 46% is not really fair
    Even that, if it is what has occurred, it makes for a significant point about the changing nature, and therefore views, of the Labour membership, so it seems relatively fair all the same - even if it is not so much that people are changing their minds, it shows the reduction in his worship by the membership.
    Its a voodoo poll. It was shared to me by a corbynite friend. Anyone could answer, member or not.

    It references a YouGov poll, from early Jan?
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 41,996
    edited November 2020
    Lovely to see that ex RCP member Claire Fox is now an advocate for the festival celebrating the birth of Christ.
  • Lovely to see that ex RCP member Claire Fox is now an advocate for the festival celebrating the birth of Christ.

    The lord works in mysterious ways....
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,486

    Lovely to see that ex RCP member Claire Fox is now an advocate for the festival celebrating the birth of Christ.

    The lord works in mysterious ways....
    Is there an Ashcroft poll out?
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,221
    This will be an interesting argument.
    It’s a shame we no longer get to weigh in.

    https://twitter.com/alemannoEU/status/1330837498956754944
  • fox327fox327 Posts: 370
    I don't normally bet, but I am tempted to put some money on a no-deal Brexit. I expect a no deal will cost me money, so hedging against it by betting on it seems worth considering.

    I see no momentum or urgency towards agreeing a deal, or any sign that this will change. It was noticeable that the Downing Street press conference today included no comments about Brexit that were reported on the BBC News at 10. I think agreeing a deal seems to be like just too much hard work for the government at the moment, which is preoccupied with the pandemic and its consequences.
  • Lovely to see that ex RCP member Claire Fox is now an advocate for the festival celebrating the birth of Christ.

    Wasn't it borrowed from the Romans?
  • isam said:
    I presumed that photo was a link to an article, but it isn't, its just a photo of Starmer. Weird.
  • justin124justin124 Posts: 11,527

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,126

    isam said:
    I presumed that photo was a link to an article, but it isn't, its just a photo of Starmer. Weird.
    Not at all. Without it she could, if she chose, later claim to simply not be happy with various practices of the party without directly being critical of the leader (albeit it would be obvious), instead she is upfront who she is blaming for what is happening.

    Abbot and co must secretly be very happy to be back in their comfort zone, attacking the leader of the Labour party. It's awful finding yourself in a position of responsibility you are not suitable for but are too proud to step back from, the dreams of the membership on your shoulders and potentially actual voters to end up responsible for.

    Much better to engage in internecine factional bickering where the enemy is beside you.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,126
    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
  • gealbhangealbhan Posts: 2,362

    Lovely to see that ex RCP member Claire Fox is now an advocate for the festival celebrating the birth of Christ.

    Wasn't it borrowed from the Romans?
    Saturnalia? To be honest I think the catholic half of Christendom did move Christmas from supposed birthdate of Jesus to fit in with pagan festivals, because the flock were ignoring the Christian one?

    That’s all the past now though, when there was a festival period celebrating the birth of Christ, before it was the great consumption festival celebrating the birth of contactless commerce decorated by a few pagan trimmings.
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  • NickPalmerNickPalmer Posts: 21,533
    Foxy said:

    kle4 said:

    isam said:

    kle4 said:

    How fickle is the human heart. What a tragedy.
    The problem with Theo Bertram's point is that loads of the Labour members who rated him have quit the party! So the comparison between the 71% and 46% is not really fair
    Even that, if it is what has occurred, it makes for a significant point about the changing nature, and therefore views, of the Labour membership, so it seems relatively fair all the same - even if it is not so much that people are changing their minds, it shows the reduction in his worship by the membership.
    Its a voodoo poll. It was shared to me by a corbynite friend. Anyone could answer, member or not.

    Yes - Labour List has a pretty good track record in predicting internal party elections etc. - they avoid classification in their articles.

    We had Ann Black at the CLP this evening - huge audience, and intelligent, amicable discussion. I've heard there are CLPs that arenm't like that, but ours is - perhaps helps that we're in a safe Tory seat, so internal division seems a bit silly.
  • gealbhan said:

    Lovely to see that ex RCP member Claire Fox is now an advocate for the festival celebrating the birth of Christ.

    Wasn't it borrowed from the Romans?
    Saturnalia? To be honest I think the catholic half of Christendom did move Christmas from supposed birthdate of Jesus to fit in with pagan festivals, because the flock were ignoring the Christian one?

    That’s all the past now though, when there was a festival period celebrating the birth of Christ, before it was the great consumption festival celebrating the birth of contactless commerce decorated by a few pagan trimmings.
    The pagan trimmings are a more meaningful and truer reflection and meaning of Saturnalia than the Christian trimmings they tried to associate with it.

    Pagan trimmings, songs, family and contactless commerce are quite enough for me.
  • justin124justin124 Posts: 11,527
    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    The point is that my views were mainstream in the 1950s and early 1960s - yet many on here seem to feel they are 'beyond the pale.'
  • justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    Surely the idea that a woman ought to be a virgin when first climbing into the marital bed is at best ultra-niche these days. Nevertheless, I wonder how many men, even self-proclaimed progressive ones, would feel queasy to learn that their new wives had had, say, thirty more sexual partners than them?
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  • RobDRobD Posts: 59,933
    justin124 said:

    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    The point is that my views were mainstream in the 1950s and early 1960s - yet many on here seem to feel they are 'beyond the pale.'
    Because we aren't in the 50s any longer.
  • isamisam Posts: 41,118

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    Surely the idea that a woman ought to be a virgin when first climbing into the marital bed is at best ultra-niche these days. Nevertheless, I wonder how many men, even self-proclaimed progressive ones, would feel queasy to learn that their new wives had had, say, thirty more sexual partners than them?
    It affects even the most earnest progressives, as you say - John Lennon apparently wrote ‘Jealous Guy’ as an apology for demanding Yoko Ono list the men she’d slept with before him .
  • gealbhangealbhan Posts: 2,362
    “The North sees red”. Metro. Not even The Sun supportive.

    Would it have been stronger politically and scientifically not to have taken the country out of lockdown into tiers, just extend the lockdown till Christmas? Was decision actually driven by the economics of avoiding the fairer compensation packages to sectors hurt much the same by t3 even t2 as they would in lockdown, only now much less government support? If so, have they underestimated the political hit this approach can bring?

    Also what is the situation with Liverpool style testing assistance? Liverpool got it for free but from now local authorities have to pay for it themselves?

    It’s a Downing Street regime who love nothing better than stoking news cycles against themselves
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,126
    justin124 said:

    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    The point is that my views were mainstream in the 1950s and early 1960s - yet many on here seem to feel they are 'beyond the pale.'
    The two points are not contradictory. Many formerly mainstream views are now considered beyond the pale, and some views that are mainstream now will be considerd beyond the pale one day. In some cases we may well go back in a circle.

    Noting that many admired people of history also held views which would now be considered unusual or even abhorrent won't make consideration of those views as abhorrent change now, it'll just cause some people to get mad at those heroes because they judge historical figures by current morals.
  • kle4 said:

    isam said:
    I presumed that photo was a link to an article, but it isn't, its just a photo of Starmer. Weird.
    Not at all. Without it she could, if she chose, later claim to simply not be happy with various practices of the party without directly being critical of the leader (albeit it would be obvious), instead she is upfront who she is blaming for what is happening.

    Abbot and co must secretly be very happy to be back in their comfort zone, attacking the leader of the Labour party. It's awful finding yourself in a position of responsibility you are not suitable for but are too proud to step back from, the dreams of the membership on your shoulders and potentially actual voters to end up responsible for.

    Much better to engage in internecine factional bickering where the enemy is beside you.
    Which is perhaps why SKS's removal of the whip from JC was not such a good idea. The various factions in any party, and under FPTP there will inevitably be factions in "broad church" parties, need to find ways to work with each other.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,221
    justin124 said:

    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    The point is that my views were mainstream in the 1950s and early 1960s - yet many on here seem to feel they are 'beyond the pale.'
    Bigotry and racism were also mainstream back then, and are also beyond the pale today.

    Female legal equality and autonomy are pretty recent developments.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_women's_legal_rights_(other_than_voting)_in_the_20th_century
    But the treatment of Diana was weird and regressive back when it occurred.
  • BluestBlueBluestBlue Posts: 4,556
    justin124 said:

    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    The point is that my views were mainstream in the 1950s and early 1960s - yet many on here seem to feel they are 'beyond the pale.'
    I sympathize - some of my views were mainstream in the 1800s, and I don't see why I should have to move on just because the world has.
  • fox327 said:

    I don't normally bet, but I am tempted to put some money on a no-deal Brexit. I expect a no deal will cost me money, so hedging against it by betting on it seems worth considering.

    I see no momentum or urgency towards agreeing a deal, or any sign that this will change. It was noticeable that the Downing Street press conference today included no comments about Brexit that were reported on the BBC News at 10. I think agreeing a deal seems to be like just too much hard work for the government at the moment, which is preoccupied with the pandemic and its consequences.

    Be careful as what constitutes a deal for betting purposes might not be what the Daily Telegraph or Nigel Farage considers a deal. Read the rules carefully and then reflect on the apparently endless saga of Betfair's failure to settle political markets satisfactorily.
  • gealbhangealbhan Posts: 2,362

    gealbhan said:

    Lovely to see that ex RCP member Claire Fox is now an advocate for the festival celebrating the birth of Christ.

    Wasn't it borrowed from the Romans?
    Saturnalia? To be honest I think the catholic half of Christendom did move Christmas from supposed birthdate of Jesus to fit in with pagan festivals, because the flock were ignoring the Christian one?

    That’s all the past now though, when there was a festival period celebrating the birth of Christ, before it was the great consumption festival celebrating the birth of contactless commerce decorated by a few pagan trimmings.
    The pagan trimmings are a more meaningful and truer reflection and meaning of Saturnalia than the Christian trimmings they tried to associate with it.

    Pagan trimmings, songs, family and contactless commerce are quite enough for me.
    Off top me head, Saturnalia being a Latin thing, north Europe more Yule? There wasn’t a Pagan religion, but Pagan religions and mystery cults. Though recent studies shows up much shared between them across Eurasia.

    But in Saturnalia, as with abbots of unreason, and Lords of Misrule, did the social secretary setting up the weeks of feasting really get sacrificed as its centre piece?

    Did they get to open their presents first? 😕
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,126
    edited November 2020

    kle4 said:

    isam said:
    I presumed that photo was a link to an article, but it isn't, its just a photo of Starmer. Weird.
    Not at all. Without it she could, if she chose, later claim to simply not be happy with various practices of the party without directly being critical of the leader (albeit it would be obvious), instead she is upfront who she is blaming for what is happening.

    Abbot and co must secretly be very happy to be back in their comfort zone, attacking the leader of the Labour party. It's awful finding yourself in a position of responsibility you are not suitable for but are too proud to step back from, the dreams of the membership on your shoulders and potentially actual voters to end up responsible for.

    Much better to engage in internecine factional bickering where the enemy is beside you.
    Which is perhaps why SKS's removal of the whip from JC was not such a good idea. The various factions in any party, and under FPTP there will inevitably be factions in "broad church" parties, need to find ways to work with each other.
    Perhaps, I was surprised he did it, but sometimes suppressing a confrontation just prolongs it and weakens you. Sometimes one side has to win before you rebuild.

    I view it as an outsider, of course, and with the bias of not liking Corbyn, but I don't think Starmer wants to destroy the left of the party or even Corbyn. I think he's too pragmatic an operator for that. But I also think that Corbyn and his outriders harboured dreams of exercising continued influence on the party through the mass membership, with the potential of undermining Starmer as leader whenever they wanted. Corbyn and co have always rebelled fruitlessly in parliament, but they might well like doing it but with the members behind them to undercut the party leadership.

    By having the confrontation now it may not destroy the left of the party, may not even be designed to do that, but it might be able to cut Corbyn off from his dreams of harnessing the membership that once adored him. Certainly the members, voodoo poll or not, are not likely united on the issue of his having the whip, but that is kind of enough - he is being kept under review by Starmer, shown he cannot get his way when he throws a tantrum, and the membership is at best divided enough on the issue that Starmer reckons he can do it.

    Keep that up, and as more become used to the leadership, and Corbyn may find he has to knuckle under a lot more than he was used to.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 123,127
    edited November 2020

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    Surely the idea that a woman ought to be a virgin when first climbing into the marital bed is at best ultra-niche these days. Nevertheless, I wonder how many men, even self-proclaimed progressive ones, would feel queasy to learn that their new wives had had, say, thirty more sexual partners than them?
    4% of men and 5% of women say they would wait until marriage to have sex, so about the same as now back the LDs, at the other extreme 28% of men say you they would have sex after a first date but only 7% of women agree

    https://yougov.co.uk/topics/relationships/articles-reports/2017/03/30/how-many-dates-should-you-wait-having-sex-someone
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,126
    This don't hug your relatives advice is a bit of a godsend. I typically greet my father with a handshake anyway.
  • justin124justin124 Posts: 11,527
    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    The point is that my views were mainstream in the 1950s and early 1960s - yet many on here seem to feel they are 'beyond the pale.'
    The two points are not contradictory. Many formerly mainstream views are now considered beyond the pale, and some views that are mainstream now will be considerd beyond the pale one day. In some cases we may well go back in a circle.

    Noting that many admired people of history also held views which would now be considered unusual or even abhorrent won't make consideration of those views as abhorrent change now, it'll just cause some people to get mad at those heroes because they judge historical figures by current morals.
    It's the pressure to conform with the prevailing orthodoxy that is paradoxically pretty illiberal.People should be entitled to stand back and be able to freely express the view that certain changes have not been for the good - and,perhaps to at least some extent, should be reversed. Instead some of us find ourselves labelled as 'bigots' by others who see themselves as truly liberal simply for daring to express what were not so long ago very widely held views which now happen to be at variance with their own.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,221
    .

    justin124 said:

    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    The point is that my views were mainstream in the 1950s and early 1960s - yet many on here seem to feel they are 'beyond the pale.'
    I sympathize - some of my views were mainstream in the 1800s, and I don't see why I should have to move on just because the world has.
    You were alive in the 1800s ?
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,221
    kle4 said:

    This don't hug your relatives advice is a bit of a godsend. I typically greet my father with a handshake anyway.

    A formal bow is the approved greeting these days.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 51,696
    Nigelb said:

    .

    justin124 said:

    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    The point is that my views were mainstream in the 1950s and early 1960s - yet many on here seem to feel they are 'beyond the pale.'
    I sympathize - some of my views were mainstream in the 1800s, and I don't see why I should have to move on just because the world has.
    You were alive in the 1800s ?
    No, his views were.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,221

    Nigelb said:

    .

    justin124 said:

    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    The point is that my views were mainstream in the 1950s and early 1960s - yet many on here seem to feel they are 'beyond the pale.'
    I sympathize - some of my views were mainstream in the 1800s, and I don't see why I should have to move on just because the world has.
    You were alive in the 1800s ?
    No, his views were.
    Then he is not refusing to ‘move on’, so much as insisting on regressing.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,126
    edited November 2020
    justin124 said:

    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    The point is that my views were mainstream in the 1950s and early 1960s - yet many on here seem to feel they are 'beyond the pale.'
    The two points are not contradictory. Many formerly mainstream views are now considered beyond the pale, and some views that are mainstream now will be considerd beyond the pale one day. In some cases we may well go back in a circle.

    Noting that many admired people of history also held views which would now be considered unusual or even abhorrent won't make consideration of those views as abhorrent change now, it'll just cause some people to get mad at those heroes because they judge historical figures by current morals.
    It's the pressure to conform with the prevailing orthodoxy that is paradoxically pretty illiberal.People should be entitled to stand back and be able to freely express the view that certain changes have not been for the good - and,perhaps to at least some extent, should be reversed. Instead some of us find ourselves labelled as 'bigots' by others who see themselves as truly liberal simply for daring to express what were not so long ago very widely held views which now happen to be at variance with their own.
    By happenstance I have just started reading On Liberty for the first time. I was immediately struck by an early comment that 'So natural to makind is intolerance in whatever they really care about', albeit that was in respect of religious freedom and lack of practical reality in many places, but I do think we are all naturally pretty intolerant.

    I kind of prefer people explain why they think social changes have not been good, as I'd rather they be honest and I can judge them for that, if I wish, and challenge it, than it fester beneath the surface or display itself through actions without explanation, and it is just presumed to no longer be a debate that needs having. Many what we consider to be fundamental rights and views would not have been seen as such by most of history, so the fight is everlasting.
  • justin124 said:

    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    The point is that my views were mainstream in the 1950s and early 1960s - yet many on here seem to feel they are 'beyond the pale.'
    I sympathize - some of my views were mainstream in the 1800s, and I don't see why I should have to move on just because the world has.
    1800s?!
    Hipster whippersnapper alert.
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 27,929
    edited November 2020
    kle4 said:

    kle4 said:

    isam said:
    I presumed that photo was a link to an article, but it isn't, its just a photo of Starmer. Weird.
    Not at all. Without it she could, if she chose, later claim to simply not be happy with various practices of the party without directly being critical of the leader (albeit it would be obvious), instead she is upfront who she is blaming for what is happening.

    Abbot and co must secretly be very happy to be back in their comfort zone, attacking the leader of the Labour party. It's awful finding yourself in a position of responsibility you are not suitable for but are too proud to step back from, the dreams of the membership on your shoulders and potentially actual voters to end up responsible for.

    Much better to engage in internecine factional bickering where the enemy is beside you.
    Which is perhaps why SKS's removal of the whip from JC was not such a good idea. The various factions in any party, and under FPTP there will inevitably be factions in "broad church" parties, need to find ways to work with each other.
    Perhaps, I was surprised he did it, but sometimes suppressing a confrontation just prolongs it and weakens you. Sometimes one side has to win before you rebuild.

    I view it as an outsider, of course, and with the bias of not liking Corbyn, but I don't think Starmer wants to destroy the left of the party or even Corbyn. I think he's too pragmatic an operator for that. But I also think that Corbyn and his outriders harboured dreams of exercising continued influence on the party through the mass membership, with the potential of undermining Starmer as leader whenever they wanted. Corbyn and co have always rebelled fruitlessly in parliament, but they might well like doing it but with the members behind them to undercut the party leadership.

    By having the confrontation now it may not destroy the left of the party, may not even be designed to do that, but it might be able to cut Corbyn off from his dreams of harnessing the membership that once adored him. Certainly the members, voodoo poll or not, are not likely united on the issue of his having the whip, but that is kind of enough - he is being kept under review by Starmer, shown he cannot get his way when he throws a tantrum, and the membership is at best divided enough on the issue that Starmer reckons he can do it.

    Keep that up, and as more become used to the leadership, and Corbyn may find he has to knuckle under a lot more than he was used to.
    The story is that SKS was pressured into removing the whip from JC by Margaret Hodge threatening to walk out, but it remains unfortunate.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,126
    Nigelb said:

    kle4 said:

    This don't hug your relatives advice is a bit of a godsend. I typically greet my father with a handshake anyway.

    A formal bow is the approved greeting these days.
    I shall namaste.

    Kowtowing remains acceptable I assume, but you have to draw the line. Not to the Emperor of China, nor to you, Dad!
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,221
    This sounds an interesting film; I hope it is good.
    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/26/viggo-mortensen-lance-henriksen-falling

    Henriksen has an amazing backstory, of which I was unaware.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,126
    Nigelb said:

    .

    justin124 said:

    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    The point is that my views were mainstream in the 1950s and early 1960s - yet many on here seem to feel they are 'beyond the pale.'
    I sympathize - some of my views were mainstream in the 1800s, and I don't see why I should have to move on just because the world has.
    You were alive in the 1800s ?
    That's why he is so loyal, he's literally seen every incarnation of the Conservative Party.
  • BluestBlueBluestBlue Posts: 4,556

    Nigelb said:

    .

    justin124 said:

    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    The point is that my views were mainstream in the 1950s and early 1960s - yet many on here seem to feel they are 'beyond the pale.'
    I sympathize - some of my views were mainstream in the 1800s, and I don't see why I should have to move on just because the world has.
    You were alive in the 1800s ?
    No, his views were.
    My more modern ones, anyway. The older ones go back to about the Late Bronze Age.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,126

    Nigelb said:

    .

    justin124 said:

    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    The point is that my views were mainstream in the 1950s and early 1960s - yet many on here seem to feel they are 'beyond the pale.'
    I sympathize - some of my views were mainstream in the 1800s, and I don't see why I should have to move on just because the world has.
    You were alive in the 1800s ?
    No, his views were.
    My more modern ones, anyway. The older ones go back to about the Late Bronze Age.
    Sometimes the past has much to teach us still. I think reintroduction of the weregeld will be in the next set of manifestoes once society collapses a bit.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,221
    kle4 said:


    Nigelb said:

    kle4 said:

    This don't hug your relatives advice is a bit of a godsend. I typically greet my father with a handshake anyway.

    A formal bow is the approved greeting these days.
    I shall namaste.

    Kowtowing remains acceptable I assume, but you have to draw the line. Not to the Emperor of China, nor to you, Dad!
    I didn’t suggest you prostrate yourself.
    The Asian bow is a very flexible form of greeting, which can indicate every degree of respect - or lack of it.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,126
    Nigelb said:

    kle4 said:


    Nigelb said:

    kle4 said:

    This don't hug your relatives advice is a bit of a godsend. I typically greet my father with a handshake anyway.

    A formal bow is the approved greeting these days.
    I shall namaste.

    Kowtowing remains acceptable I assume, but you have to draw the line. Not to the Emperor of China, nor to you, Dad!
    I didn’t suggest you prostrate yourself.
    No, but he might.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,410
    HYUFD said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    Surely the idea that a woman ought to be a virgin when first climbing into the marital bed is at best ultra-niche these days. Nevertheless, I wonder how many men, even self-proclaimed progressive ones, would feel queasy to learn that their new wives had had, say, thirty more sexual partners than them?
    4% of men and 5% of women say they would wait until marriage to have sex, so about the same as now back the LDs, at the other extreme 28% of men say you they would have sex after a first date but only 7% of women agree

    https://yougov.co.uk/topics/relationships/articles-reports/2017/03/30/how-many-dates-should-you-wait-having-sex-someone
    That is just superb @HYUFD. Don't ever change. We love you.
    Who even knew there was polling on the topic?
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,410
    kle4 said:


    Nigelb said:

    kle4 said:

    This don't hug your relatives advice is a bit of a godsend. I typically greet my father with a handshake anyway.

    A formal bow is the approved greeting these days.
    I shall namaste.

    Kowtowing remains acceptable I assume, but you have to draw the line. Not to the Emperor of China, nor to you, Dad!
    The Thai wai is better.
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,410
    isam said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    Surely the idea that a woman ought to be a virgin when first climbing into the marital bed is at best ultra-niche these days. Nevertheless, I wonder how many men, even self-proclaimed progressive ones, would feel queasy to learn that their new wives had had, say, thirty more sexual partners than them?
    It affects even the most earnest progressives, as you say - John Lennon apparently wrote ‘Jealous Guy’ as an apology for demanding Yoko Ono list the men she’d slept with before him .
    Lennon was an "earnest progressive"?
    It's a view.
  • Boris changed Zoom.

    The tweet was when Eric Yuan knew something had to change.

    Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, shared a photo from his first ever virtual cabinet meeting. The cybersecurity red flags jumped out immediately.

    Some cabinet secretaries' Zoom screen names were visible, you could see which platform the cabinet was running its computers on, and most glaringly, the meeting ID was visible for all to see.

    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/23/tech/zoom-founder-eric-yuan-risk-takers/index.html
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 52,600
    kle4 said:

    Nigelb said:

    .

    justin124 said:

    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    The point is that my views were mainstream in the 1950s and early 1960s - yet many on here seem to feel they are 'beyond the pale.'
    I sympathize - some of my views were mainstream in the 1800s, and I don't see why I should have to move on just because the world has.
    You were alive in the 1800s ?
    No, his views were.
    My more modern ones, anyway. The older ones go back to about the Late Bronze Age.
    Sometimes the past has much to teach us still. I think reintroduction of the weregeld will be in the next set of manifestoes once society collapses a bit.
    Is weregeld the bounty payment for killing a werewolf?
  • BBC News - Cancer: Blood test for 50 types to be trialled by NHS
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55094301
  • Oxford/AstraZeneca say full results will be available soon, perhaps early next week; also, the data only went up to the 3rd November, and more has come in since which may make things clearer.

    https://unherd.com/thepost/i-am-utterly-confused-about-the-oxford-vaccine/
  • kle4 said:

    Nigelb said:

    .

    justin124 said:

    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    The point is that my views were mainstream in the 1950s and early 1960s - yet many on here seem to feel they are 'beyond the pale.'
    I sympathize - some of my views were mainstream in the 1800s, and I don't see why I should have to move on just because the world has.
    You were alive in the 1800s ?
    No, his views were.
    My more modern ones, anyway. The older ones go back to about the Late Bronze Age.
    Sometimes the past has much to teach us still. I think reintroduction of the weregeld will be in the next set of manifestoes once society collapses a bit.
    Is weregeld the bounty payment for killing a werewolf?
    Only if you cut its bollocks off first.
  • The government has asked the regulator to assess the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, bringing the UK a step closer to a possible rollout.

    The referral to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) marked "a significant first step" in getting the vaccine "approved for deployment", the government said.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55096434
  • One way of getting people to stick to isolation rules....

    https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1332168970036719617?s=20
  • Woke claxon. A teacher has been sacked for planning to talk to pupils about gender roles.

    “The Head Master felt that some of the ideas put forward in my lecture – such as the view that men and women differ psychologically and not all of those differences are socially constructed – were too dangerous for the boys to be exposed to.”

    “I explained to the Head Master that I wasn’t endorsing all the ideas in my lecture, but I wanted the boys to be made aware of a different point of view to the current radical feminist orthodoxy, which insists that there’s something fundamentally toxic about masculinity.


    The name of this radical leftist academy?
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/26/exclusive-eton-college-dismisses-teacher-amid-free-speech-row/
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,092
    edited November 2020

    Woke claxon. A teacher has been sacked for planning to talk to pupils about gender roles.

    “The Head Master felt that some of the ideas put forward in my lecture – such as the view that men and women differ psychologically and not all of those differences are socially constructed – were too dangerous for the boys to be exposed to.”

    “I explained to the Head Master that I wasn’t endorsing all the ideas in my lecture, but I wanted the boys to be made aware of a different point of view to the current radical feminist orthodoxy, which insists that there’s something fundamentally toxic about masculinity.


    The name of this radical leftist academy?
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/26/exclusive-eton-college-dismisses-teacher-amid-free-speech-row/

    You obviously not seen the headmasters twitter feed. It is indistinguishable from the Guardian's.
  • MysticroseMysticrose Posts: 4,688

    Woke claxon.

    If you want to be taken seriously on here maybe just tone down the inflammatory angle? There are numerous other sites for antagonism and I'm sure you would find a warm welcome over at Paul Staines' house.
  • MysticroseMysticrose Posts: 4,688
    For those of you betting on the Georgia run-offs, there's a suggestion that the Republican vote is weakened by the conflicting message of voter fraud. In other words, the message that we need you to get out and vote is hampered by the quite widely held GOP view that the voting system is rigged.

    I don't buy into this, even though I would like to. I think Jon Ossoff 'may' beat Purdue but in the other battle I think Warnock will win for the GOP.

    https://uk.reuters.com/article/usa-election-georgia/with-senate-on-the-line-trumps-claims-of-election-fraud-put-georgia-republicans-in-bind-idUSKBN2842XI
  • Woke claxon.

    If you want to be taken seriously on here maybe just tone down the inflammatory angle? There are numerous other sites for antagonism and I'm sure you would find a warm welcome over at Paul Staines' house.
    Satire, old chap. I'm taking the pee out of Dave & Boris's alma mater. And JRM's. And the Archbishop of Canterbury's. As you would know if you had read to the end.
  • MysticroseMysticrose Posts: 4,688

    Woke claxon.

    If you want to be taken seriously on here maybe just tone down the inflammatory angle? There are numerous other sites for antagonism and I'm sure you would find a warm welcome over at Paul Staines' house.
    Satire, old chap. I'm taking the pee out of Dave & Boris's alma mater. And JRM's. And the Archbishop of Canterbury's. As you would know if you had read to the end.
    And if you paid more attention to detail you would know that I'm not a chap.

    I did read to the end of your message and couldn't find any satire. Why would Eton College be any less part of the debate than Acland Burghley Comprehensive? Many leading private schools are more 'woke' on gender than state schools: St Paul's and Brighton College being good examples:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/19/st-pauls-girls-school-pupils-choose-gender-indentity

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/20/brighton-college-axes-uniform-dress-code-accommodate-transgender-pupils
  • swing_voterswing_voter Posts: 1,464
    Coming back to the main topic, looking at the GBP it seems very resilient against the dollar and other currrencies. I would have expected it be much weaker - would have thought that DT's acceptance of US election "result" would have strengthened the USD? Is it the Dishy Rishu factor that keeps GBP buoyant...after all BREXIT kicks in 5 weeks from now....
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 36,001
    Sad, but true...


  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,421

    justin124 said:

    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    kle4 said:

    justin124 said:

    justin124 said:

    IshmaelZ said:

    In other news, I've just finished series 4 of the Crown. I thought it was pretty good and don't understand why everyone is whinging.

    I thought Thatcher was portrayed in a pretty balanced light - it showed her positive traits and her negative traits.

    I also thought Charles was portrayed in a balanced light. Yes they demonstrated his hypocrisy but it also made us feel sorry for him at the same time - that he was also a victim.

    The only person who was portrayed as white than white was Princess Di but man the actress was fantastic.

    I can see Diana's fashion sense coming back into fashion in the next few years.

    I have come to the conclusion that the lesson of the Diana saga is: have nothing to do with a man who is not prepared to shag you until his doctor has examined your fanny. It's bloody rude.
    Many guys expect their women to be 'virgo intacta' prior to intimacy. In the 60s it was still very much the norm.

    You really are the most horrible bigot. Your repressive attitude to sex has no place in the Labour Party. Please take your reactionary views elsewhere.
    I am not a member of the Labour Party - though suspect that my views would be shared by Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps and indeed John Smith. Lord Longford certainly would have approved. Who decreed that to be a party member a person must go along with the 'permissive society'?
    You'll get Attlee and co cancelled at this rate. I certainly don't support your views on this subject nor particularly why there being common decades ago is of huge relevance, but given our condemnation of historical figures simply through the shifting moral zeitgeist I would not be at all surprised if many figures even from the 50s held views the modern party would kick people out of it for.
    The point is that my views were mainstream in the 1950s and early 1960s - yet many on here seem to feel they are 'beyond the pale.'
    I sympathize - some of my views were mainstream in the 1800s, and I don't see why I should have to move on just because the world has.
    1800s?!
    Hipster whippersnapper alert.
    A good ScotNat of course wants to go back to the 1500s.
  • alex_alex_ Posts: 7,518
    US elections - how is it that a narrative has become established, almost universally that there is some sort of incongruence between Democrat performance in Congressional election and Biden’s victory? Why is the comparison always with 2018? In 2016 the GOP won by 241-194. By any objective standard therefore there has been a massive voter shift to the Dems in 4 years. There is no anomaly here.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 57,209
    fox327 said:

    I don't normally bet, but I am tempted to put some money on a no-deal Brexit. I expect a no deal will cost me money, so hedging against it by betting on it seems worth considering.

    I see no momentum or urgency towards agreeing a deal, or any sign that this will change. It was noticeable that the Downing Street press conference today included no comments about Brexit that were reported on the BBC News at 10. I think agreeing a deal seems to be like just too much hard work for the government at the moment, which is preoccupied with the pandemic and its consequences.

    I would have thought that the most likely scenario is that a deal is announced in... ohhh... about mid December, but although it is "agreed", there are a few kinks that need to be ironed out, and therefore the UK and the EU are extending the transition until the end of April.
  • MysticroseMysticrose Posts: 4,688
    rcs1000 said:

    justin124 said:

    The point is that my views were mainstream in the 1950s and early 1960s - yet many on here seem to feel they are 'beyond the pale.'

    Justin, while I disagree with you, you are entitled to your views on personal morality and they do not make you "beyond the pale".

    People should be allowed to disagree.
    Broadly I agree. The problem comes when some ideas are so toxic that they cause harm in and of themselves. Freedom of choice is never supposed to include freedom from consequence.

    Most people would agree that a line is drawn somewhere in the sand, although there are some ultra-libertarians around. Preaching paedophilia would be an example of a toxic idea that is harmful. Terrorism is another. Both are currently covered under UK legislation.

    Things get more thorny when it comes to vaccination. Or, indeed, mask wearing.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,221
    A point I made yesterday, set out in a great more detail.

    Did American Democracy Really Hold? Maybe Not.
    Donald Trump didn’t manage to overthrow the electoral system. But he’s drawn a clear road map for breaking it.
    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/25/did-american-democracy-really-hold-maybe-not-440595
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 71,221
    Politics also has an excellent long read article on the Michigan election absurdities, which is perhaps even more alarming about the near term future of US democracy.
    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/24/michigan-election-trump-voter-fraud-democracy-440475
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 33,462

    rcs1000 said:

    justin124 said:

    The point is that my views were mainstream in the 1950s and early 1960s - yet many on here seem to feel they are 'beyond the pale.'

    Justin, while I disagree with you, you are entitled to your views on personal morality and they do not make you "beyond the pale".

    People should be allowed to disagree.
    Broadly I agree. The problem comes when some ideas are so toxic that they cause harm in and of themselves. Freedom of choice is never supposed to include freedom from consequence.

    Most people would agree that a line is drawn somewhere in the sand, although there are some ultra-libertarians around. Preaching paedophilia would be an example of a toxic idea that is harmful. Terrorism is another. Both are currently covered under UK legislation.

    Things get more thorny when it comes to vaccination. Or, indeed, mask wearing.
    Good morning everybody.
    Ms Rose, sometimes one has to be careful about 'terrorism'. What would we think of a 'terrorist' act which brought about regime change in, say, N. Korea?
  • StockyStocky Posts: 10,222
    I didn`t expect to still be betting on the election. You can lay Trump at 14.5 on BF to be Next President. I left some unmatched and went to bed to find it was picked up overnight.Astonishing. I trust is wasn`t any of you lot. The book is close-on 100% as well.
  • AlistairAlistair Posts: 23,670

    rcs1000 said:

    justin124 said:

    The point is that my views were mainstream in the 1950s and early 1960s - yet many on here seem to feel they are 'beyond the pale.'

    Justin, while I disagree with you, you are entitled to your views on personal morality and they do not make you "beyond the pale".

    People should be allowed to disagree.
    Broadly I agree. The problem comes when some ideas are so toxic that they cause harm in and of themselves. Freedom of choice is never supposed to include freedom from consequence.

    Most people would agree that a line is drawn somewhere in the sand, although there are some ultra-libertarians around. Preaching paedophilia would be an example of a toxic idea that is harmful. Terrorism is another. Both are currently covered under UK legislation.

    Things get more thorny when it comes to vaccination. Or, indeed, mask wearing.
    Good morning everybody.
    Ms Rose, sometimes one has to be careful about 'terrorism'. What would we think of a 'terrorist' act which brought about regime change in, say, N. Korea?
    Freedom Fighters.

    That one is easy
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