But you have to admit that it is bollocks-mongering. Over lunch I heard GB News fulminating about a price HIKE !!!. 2% is not a hike when inflation is higher. As the Times puts it in the text: The ri… (View Post)

It's been interesting on PB this lunchtime. I'm struck by a relative literalism which applies to the colour (and sex?) of actors (Mandela must be black, Nelson must be white), which does no… (View Post)

There's an HOC Library paper about it, but that is recent - only from 2020: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/who-were-the-first-mps-from-ethnic-minority-backgrounds/ (View Post)

So Reform UK's policies are to create one parent families. *innocent face* (View Post)

To me it's a strange thing to get excited about. There is value in (say) cast colour reversal as a way of stretching perceptions, and making the audience think. That is a valid artistic purpose.… (View Post)