Piece of free advice Do a safeguarding course for minors - an example of a course that isn’t bullshit. Sat in on one at my rowing club - because, while I don’t directly deal with the school kids at t… (View Post)

No - quite serious. An example (in the course) - local African involvement in the slave trade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efunroye_Tinubu etc. I started parroting back the slogans etc in the “exer… (View Post)

What we are seeing is culture war applied to everything. I find the arguments strange. But then I try not pick a side. @Foxy and @Roger are struggling with some BadFacts*. Facts which are Bad because… (View Post)

No, it hasn’t always been like this. Some time ago I was reading the House of Lords debate on the adoption of the Lee Enfield rifle. What was striking was the balance of arguments from both sides - “… (View Post)

At UCL, on one occasion, the ballots got slightly screwed up. RON was printed as Ron. Ron won by a huge margin. The process (at the time) was that a new election would be called. All the previous can… (View Post)