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Of course all protection will have a positive side, but there needs to be limits. Literally locking them into the prisons that many of today's schools have become and removing so many of kids freedoms has gone too far. What I see going on today is often mass hysteria, everyone winding each...

Good to learn. Long ago we introduced similar policies in London, all child travel free up to 16, or 18 in full time education, travel free for all over 60, so only the middle working years pay and even they are heavily subsidised, paying about two thirds. All transport covered by TFL, buses...

Thank you Stumpy, nicely illustrating the mass hysteria these days. As others have said, time for a sense of perspective. Not long ago and while I've been in my present address, even most primary school kids walked to school alone, not scared. I was never at any time taken to a school, even...

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The same as for wars, the people never want them. Just like Brexit they end up being cast in the role of victims. .

Mine now 99/65 at pulse rate 64. Perhaps we should have a lowest blood pressure contest to prove who's most cool, instead of slanging off each other. I'd win easily, I very recently recorded 67/51 at 69 pulse rate. That's more than cool, it's nearly coffin ready! :cool: .

There's no implication that he was filming before being confronted. He appeared to be filming what was happening to him for his own protection should things turn really nasty. If he'd been left alone as he should have been, there would have been no confrontation and probably no filming. The...

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No, as said, only if we left and defaulted on the legal obligations to meet out dues, creating a total breakdown in relations. That would have been a possibility with a few more hard Brexiters in power, after all, we still have about a hundred in parliament who'd like to walk away in that...

Exactly, and why I raised this earlier to illustrate that the male cyclist was clearly being discriminated against in a way others would not have been, e.g. a covered muslim woman, a female cyclist with face mask. I'm betting the head teacher would not have protested at either of those. This...

You are being ridiculous if you claim a legitimate item of clothing can be said to cause fear or distress. Answer me the question I posed earlier. What would you do if a muslim woman turned up for her child with niqab or burkah almost completely covering her face and someone complained it was...

Misunderstanding. When I posted "completely outside" I was referring to walking away with no deal, not paying what we owe and consequent collapse of trade both ways through mistrust etc. Of course nothing like that is going to happen now, but if there had been high national confidence about...

I completely agree, and making the mess they did of the process played right into the hands of Remainers like me saying this country isn't good enough to survive outside of the EU. Handling the issue skilfully could have given more faith in the idea of doing well completely outside with no...

That's true enough. I don't agree with the rest of your post though, leaving the EU after 44 years of membership and the immense complexities of doing so was a momentous decision. Thus it was unlike any other election, all easily reversible, so one that should have a crystal clear decision...

Yes, we'd offer to walk away and not be a nuisance any more. I'm sure they'd accept. .

Yes, because as I've said from the outset, Cameron should have set an agreed minimum margin and an agreed minimum proportion of the electorate for such a momentous change or status quo decision to be made. For just over a quarter of the population and just over a third of the registered...

Given Junckers undoubted skills, he'd probably persuade the Commonwealth to join Luxembourg. ;) .

OK, my suggestion is that as Jean-Claude Juncker's term as EU Commission President is almost at an end, we could invite him. Despite his apparently bumbling, sozzled way, he has an incredible record of success in everything he tackles. Just look at how wealthy he made tiny Luxembourg. .

Of course, but a tiny minority who could be ignored, not the huge numbers dissenting now and causing a major breakdown in social cohesion. .

Indeed, far from being fearful one of our biggest social problems is that today's kids don't seem to fear anything. Even in primary schools as young as 8 year olds are openly defiant of teachers, even physically attacking them and being excluded. The notion that this crowd of 11 to 16 year...