You have to make sure that most of the population benefits from growth. Recent experience hasn't felt like that. If the benefits accrue to a minority then what's the point? (View Post)

I am uncomfortable with what British emigrants did to the people who were already living in North America, Australia and elsewhere when they moved there, and as an emigrant to Ireland I am aware that… (View Post)

Most rapists aren't asylum seekers and most asylum seekers aren't rapists and rape denial is so strong in Britain that the CPS refuse to take lots of cases of rape to court, on the assumpti… (View Post)

A female rape victim is uniquely distrusted as a victim of crime. I don't think the word of a victim is so readily discarded in the case of other crimes. (View Post)

One of the problems for Polanski is that it (or the antisemitism issue) will be the first question every journalist wants to ask him. So he will struggle to communicate any other message. It then doe… (View Post)