Had It in Holland Park

“Some well-trained and able people traded on their name and relationship with a politician to make a bunch of money. Seems to me that this happens in pretty much every country. The less transparent the government, the more money can be made, but it is par for the course in even the most open of systems.”

“Possibly true, but John and Rush are only supporting Mitt because he is white, so it evens out.”

“"The chief executive came under pressure from shareholders in Anglo American who demanded an immediate change of management after losing confidence in her strategy and leadership."
     Shouldn't the fact that she is a female outweigh these minor concerns?”

“Im' not shure this is a gud idea.
You coud be despensing with sum of you're best edicationalists,”

Absolutely right. We should also scrap he and she and call everyone "it."     Transgender people are such a large portion of our community, we should be very careful not to offend them, lest they rise up and take over the country.”

“In this article, apparently, anti-science means "doesn't agree with me."”

I doubt his ideas will reduce poverty, but it is a sure thing that the anti-poverty programs haven't.

True, Paul, but so will an Obama victory.

No, he did not. He linked an unnamed aide to an unnamed former prime minister. I wonder how many names of card-carrying communists he has on a list.

"Nobody wrongs me and doesn’t pay for it," she says, referring to Cameron's 2011 jibe in the Commons that the backbencher was "extremely frustrated". "There is a saying: ‘Revenge is a dish best served cold." 

      Nice to know that she has her priorities right: the good of the country and her constituents must take a back seat to her getting even for a perceived slight. Pretty typical of the "I'm for me first" zeitgeist.

Any nation adapts its war to the tactics of the enemy. Attacked by armies with divisions of infantry and armour, they respond with divisions of infantry and armour. Attacked by small-scale murderers, they respond with small-scale murder. It may not be pleasant or morally comfortable, but it is inevitable - and a far sight better than the deliberate bombing of civilians in Dresden, Coventry or Hiroshima.

“Difficult, but totally understandable position. To some, God is both omniscient and omnipotent, thus any act or event that occurs does so with God's fore knowledge and - as God is able to prevent it - with His intent to allow it to happen. Under this logic, all the various natural disasters and human-led holocausts are things that God intended to happen.
          Mourdock's God is not a very nice God, but He is neither inconsistent nor incomprehensible. Question is, do we want representatives who worship nasty Gods?

Ascribing evil motives to ALL actions of a sexual predator is far more comfortable than the idea that people are complex and may have both good and evil motives. Easier does not mean better or more accurate.

Why do we need a sexist reason to set a sensible policy? Why is this idea couched in terms of gender, rather than in terms of the type of offense or offender?      How do you square "...64.3% of women released from British prisons in 2004 were reconvicted within two years of release," with " the vast majority of the female prison population would be of no danger to the public."”

“I prefer humanism to feminism or any other kind of sexism.”