In masonic first degree ritual, there's a reference to "superfluous knobs and excrescences", which sums her up even better. (View Post)

Sinn Fein and their supporters see themselves as "oppressed" like the Palestinians. Also, the old belief that the Jews killed Christ. (View Post)

Maggie Chapman is an excrescence. (View Post)

High culture and education do not, in themselves, improve peoples' behaviour. They enable bad people to be bad more effectively. (View Post)

Back in 1989, far too many took the view about Salman Rushdie, that you can't criticise a major religion and not expect retaliation. That informs a lot of rections. (View Post)