Well, it depends what you're talking about. Gender and sex are generally held to be distinct, albeit related. That someone can feel as though they should have been a woman and be born a biologic… (View Post)

Exactly! Gotcha questions like that really boil my piss. What it needs is a robust response on those lines. 'Can a woman have a penis?' 'Yes, of course they can, just as a man may have… (View Post)

Isn't that the idea behind the mandate of heaven? Monarchs lose the favour of God and so lose their position, to be replaced by someone with the favour of God? (View Post)

I'm wondering whether or not the employees could be in line for exemplary damages? My understanding is that such a situation is rare in the UK but that a court can look at the conduct of the def… (View Post)

Electorates are never wrong, and they are never grateful. They'll want the jam they were promised. In Ken Follet's Century Trilogy one of the Soviet characters notes that the character from… (View Post)