Yes, I had exactly that experience and resolved never to eat lamb again. Awkwardly, in my current job we advise that it's often more humane to eat lamb and beef than chicken, because they on man… (View Post)

FPT kinabalu said: Have you never seen little lambs gamboling about a field without a care in the world, every now and again stopping to nibble at the grass, rubbing up against each other for compani… (View Post)

The thing is that one needs to satisfy unhappy supporters of other parties that one won't trash their core values (hence, Labour mustn't be seen as uinpatriotic and the Tories mustn't … (View Post)

I'm sure that's right. The "mass purge" thing doesn't work - it creates oceans of headlines about "civil war in Labour" and people conclude, rightly, that we'r… (View Post)

Yes, I asked my informant about that. The reply was that the Taliban was indeed a coalition of factions (and a couple of areas remain outside effective control) and it remained to be seen whether the… (View Post)