The immediate and obvious difference being that I doubt any of the Special Advisors and such like were actually employees. If you are a contractor then generally you can be dumped on the spot with no… (View Post)

By the way have we mentioned the IDS judgement yet? I find myself split over it. I think the judge was right to dismiss the case against the two protestors for shouting at him. I mean I think they ar… (View Post)

But what we currently have in place is a system that provides safe spaces for women who are being abused by men. This is recognition of the fact that there is sometimes a need to segregate the men to… (View Post)

You must also though consider, to what use a future Government would put ID cards and associated databases if they were more authoritarian. I understand all the arguments about social media tracing, … (View Post)

This is weak in the extreme. The overwhelming majority of women do not go to women's refuges to escape violence from other women, they go to escape violent men. They go because they are afraid o… (View Post)