@WingsScotland I missed the Hibs cup final win. I was on the worst, most terrifying flight of my life. Lightning bursts, barbaric turbulence, pitching like a galleon, people screaming & spewing. If it took my going on that again tonight, to miss the game but we'd win, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
@keith_jebb@premnsikka@aljhlester The left, in power, is far less free than the right. The left, in general, is far more censorious than the right. Academies tend to do better than the failing state schools they replace.
If you truly want people to be concerned about authoritarian impulses, why left-v-right it?
@williamcrawley A Home Office caseworker was sent to the beach in Kent. As 12 men waded ashore from a dinghy he asked them "excuse me, do you intend to officially seek asylum in the UK?" One of them turns round & says
"God, no! Why would I come all this way only to be sent to 'kin Belfast?!"
When was the 1st time something happened that made you think this might not be the country you'd been raised to think & hope it was? Not just something you disagreed with, but that was of a nature, or created a reaction in others, that made you doubt?
@carolecadwalla well let's see if he uses his platform to accuse someone sexual assault & judge whether he's destroyed his reputation then, shall we?
@RangersBear55 when someone acts like this, they are saying "I'm not like you. I'm not part of society". We should recognise that & keep people like this apart from society. Forever. That's what jails are for. Rehabilitation & redemption are personal - not societal - journeys.
Cage the violent.
@Gurdur For what it's worth, I think neither Stock nor Bindel go far enough, philosophically. Both stranded on a barren materialist outcrop wondering why scavangers nest but nothing grows.