Important to note here that it was not that health workers thought that detaining him would be racist - it was that they feared if they did they would be labelled racist. And probably this fear was j… (View Post)

I've given that a like - because the imposition of fees led to the situation we are in today, perhaps inevitably - but I don't have a principled objection to fees per se. I think there is a… (View Post)

A friend of mine who is a CofE vicar (and a massive unreasonable lefty) posted a picture of himself in vicar garb today with an ash cross on his forehead. FWIW, I thought he looked a dick. (View Post)

I find myself in the unusual situation of supporting Wales. It's not so much that I want yo see them win; I just don't want them to be terminally awful. (View Post)

Yes indeed, Dusty Hare. A name which sounds as unreal now as it did then. (View Post)