It's just my innate optimism. I assume the best of people, and I've only met a modest fraction of the global population, from which I'm not willing to over-generalise... (View Post)

Irish citizens will still require five years residency in Britain to qualify for British citizenship under this Act. The relevance to asylum seekers just isn't there, you stupid dumbarse. (View Post)

Exactly so. And yet, we see it now. The decay of this government is considerably ahead of schedule. (View Post)

HYUFD has a peculiar blindness when it comes to anticipating and predicting change. (View Post)

Given that the crime survey has the reporting rate at only 16%, I would suggest that it's much easier to see large changes in the reported rate of rape by changing the reporting rate than by cha… (View Post)