I think parents do 'own' their children, at least until they achieve majority. If we accept that children are not yet mature enough to make long-term decisions in their own interests - whic… (View Post)

It should be. But it isn't. Since about 2012, what was rightly a very very niche issue, which nobody really needed to worry about because it affected almost nobody - has been, as Donkeys says, r… (View Post)

I think we're talking about 'parental responsibility' for children rather than 'parental supermacy', which seems a weirdly loaded phrase. If we accept that there should be re… (View Post)

I don't think it was really accepted - especially by those on the right - that Boris was heading for a landslide. I remember on election night 2019 being as worried as I'd ever been by worl… (View Post)

The hard men in NI were at least operating within the same frame of reference as the rest of humanity. Even the IRA's maddest never suggested that all Protestants should be killed. No-one was pr… (View Post)