You argue very passionately Cyclefree and often I agree with what you say. Sometimes though I think back to my experience of being an outed gay boy at school and remember how I felt and was treated. … (View Post)

Ha fair point. In pedantry terms that's getting close to 'is a rock literally rock or just a linguistic token we assign to the hard thing which is literally a rock' (View Post)

I think that Linehan is a nasty piece of work who's comments shade into abuse and ridicule in a way that even incredibly passionate partisans like JK Rowling never do. What angered me about his … (View Post)

The literary misquotation that annoys me is when people use "Up to a point, Lord Copper" to literally mean "Up to a point". The point of the phrase in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop is… (View Post)

There's a lot of doom and gloom around at the moment but the one thing that makes me hopeful for civilization is that Channel 5 are revving Play for Today. Whilst some of the original Plays coul… (View Post)