What's more worrying is that I was aware of Piltdown Man being the missing link, but I wasn't aware of it being a hoax. I'm in my 40s, the hoax was known 25 years before I was born. How is the myth still circulating better than the truth? Or am I alone in having missed half the story?

A better question is to ask why asylum seekers are being forced to travel ludicrous distances to access medical appointments 🤔 – you're not going to rack up a taxi fare like that if you're getting an appointment close to where you are living.

Mock the Weak

I think that probably is the case, although I'm not sure what impact it would have if you continued taking them until long after puberty would normally finish – I was trying to be as generous to the other side as possible!

Yes and no ... he doesn't say what he thinks, he says what he thinks people want to hear.

But also, notice how he always shies away from making an actual argument. It's all about nudges and hints and dog whistles and "just asking questions", plausible deniability/covering his arse.

The process for getting treatment is long and slow. If kids were able to get put on puberty blockers on a whim then I would agree that there would be questions around their judgement and competence ... but that isn't the case. The steps they have to go through weed out all but the most determined.

One point that often gets lost is that whole Bindel wants to deny irreversible puberty blockers because of a small minority of trans people who subsequently want to detransition, she is strangely quiet about forcing the majority who don't to go through an irreversible wrong puberty.

This has a strong stench of money laundering – I suspect that not even most Reform voters are pathetic enough to want to spend a small fortune on this shirt, but it's just a vehicle for donors to circumvent the usual rules on stuffing money into his pockets. But at least he'll have to pay VAT on it!

There are a lot of MPs who don't live up to the standards expected of them!

There's also an argument that ministers aren't representing their constituents much because they're too busy with their ministerial portfolios.

Ultimately, constituents should use their vote responsibly. Not an easy one!

Their constituents are still represented in parliament by the MP they voted for – from a legal point of view, that is all that matters.

Morally, you could argue that it isn't the representation they voted for, and if the MP is more involved with in-fighting then they may not be fully engaged.

I doubt that anyone who has been involved with Their Party will emerge with any credit at all, let alone as a winner.

... then find that money is now tighter, especially after the Tories fucked the economy every which way. People lose jobs, get sick, rents and mortgages go up. Now what?

Don't punish the children, even if their parents were careless or feckless, it isn't their fault who they were born to. (2/2)

Not all kids are planned, should people be pressured to have an abortion? That won't go down well with certain factions on the right either. What about if the second pregnancy results in twins – keep one, give one away?

Circumstances change. People who could afford the third child ... (1/2)

I'm certainly not ideological about jury trials, and I'm sure there's a lot we can learn from elsewhere. But if that's what we're doing then let's frame it as a way to improve judicial outcomes, rather than just as a way to save money (with the implication that it is a suboptimal arrangement).

The backlog is caused primarily by a shortage of physical premises, and a shortage of paid staff – judges, clerks, barristers, CPS – not the unavailability of jurors when there are tens of millions of people out there to be co-opted. How does getting rid of juries significantly speed things up?

Woo-hoo, there's a meme I don't get, I feel the need to celebrate this 🤣

If you wanted to make the Isle of Wight into a 1950s replica, how much work would be needed to modernise it to that standard? 😉

I don't think that's a bad thing. I really struggle to see a good use case for PHEVs where the benefits counteract the extra cost and weight of having both an ICE engine and a big battery.