The mercator projection is not at all inaccurate and very useful to navigators. Straight lines on a mercator map are constant compass bearings which makes journey planning very easy.

Trust me, all immigrants living in France are watching, terrified.

Stuffing. North west London via High Wycombe, I'm in my late 50s.

As Judith Butler points out, the only people who are dogmatic about trans folk are the ones who insist that there are precisely 2 genders which map exactly onto precisely 2 biological sexes. As with all dogma, only bad things can result.

So a proper banana republic then.

It may be easier than ever to build something but I can't help feeling that it's harder than ever to build reach and to get traction.

So many labels. I find it quite alienating. I think labels should come at the end of a journey, not the beginning. The message should be "explore, experiment, have fun, give yourself time to understand your own needs and don't worry about what it all means until you're ready".

Well she famously didn't watch Adolescence so it tracks.

I heard that kidney donors (well the live ones anyway) have a much worse time than the recipients - they basically have to cut you in half to get the kidney out (which is why they don't put the new one in the same place.