The two are so different. I was at the premiership semi when Bath beat Bristol. Best game at the rec in 20 years, sensational atmosphere. Watched the final on TV Nd while it was good to win, felt a b… (View Post)

I think it feels like free speech has contracted because of the effect of social media. Lucy Connolly would have been an unpleasant racist bigot in the local pub, not locked up in prison, if social m… (View Post)

Quite. Been married and having sex for twenty years, one night you are up for it and she isn’t, you force the issue, that’s rape. The public imagining of rape is the dark alley and a shadowy figure w… (View Post)

Isn’t the point that if one village had 1 in 10 up for a bit of rape, then ALL villages probably had that capacity, whereas the true number is much ‘better’. (View Post)

No more doomed than, say, travel writing. I have more concerns for translators. My Chinese MSc student relies on a translation so on her phone for much of the time. It's almost instant and as fa… (View Post)