Bassingbourne55

The classic ‘fast moving lights’ type UFOs could be explained, I think, if we imagine that is just what they are – just light – like when you shine a torch in a darkened room – you can move the patch of light very fast or make it change direction very suddenly because the light has no mass or momentum (although the torch in your hand does).

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This is true. Experience obviously gives added weight to a didcussion but if we haven’t experienced something it doesn’t mean that we are not qualified to talk about it. I have never been tortured and I’ve never tortured anyone. Does that mean that I shouldn’t express any views on torture? I am not a muslim – dose that mean I can’t talk about…[Read more]

But at some point along the gestation period the baby becomes a third individual in the scenario and in my view it has rights – it’s not that abortion should never happen, but I think that anyone’s right to have a viable child destroyed should be limited to extreme medical circumstances.

They wanted feminism – they got Thatcher
They wanted…[Read more]

It’s not really a moral question of marraige vs. co-habiting, more a matter of proof of a partnership. If a co-habiting couple split up there can often be dispute about the actual closeness or duration of the partnership. With married couples or gay civil partners, at least it is known that there was an agreed partnership – with that agreed they…[Read more]

I forgot to mention my view on mens rights – I did mean to.

A male partner’s view should be considered (to a lesser degree than the woman’s) if he is against aborting their child. However, if he wants the woman to have an abortion against her will, he should have no say whatsoever.

I used to think that abortion was a woman’s absolute right but I have changed my mind. Why? Because an unborn child should have rights too. We don’t have euthanasia, we don’t have capital punishment, we have laws against child abuse yet a viable child can be terminated legally.

I think there is a sliding scale – next-day pill or early stage…[Read more]

I am also upper middle-class but I’m old enough to realise that the working-class complain about everything, the middle-class complain about the working-class and the upper-class complain that they’ve have had to cut back and sell a a few thousand acres to pay for repairs to their country hice.

Oh, not forgetting the over 70’s – they complain…[Read more]

What about those guys who shaved their heads while they were in their teens and early 20’s during the 1990’s only to find, now that hair is ‘in’ again for men, they are nearing 30 and losing the ability to grow hair on top of their heads!

I went the other way during the ‘no hair’ era and grew mine long. I’m only thinking of getting it cut now…[Read more]

What about those guys who shaved their heads while they were in their teens and early 20’s during the 1990’s only to find, now that hair is ‘in’ again for men, they are nearing 30 and going losing the ability to grow hair on top of their heads!

I like cycling, I like walking and I like driving my car. But I agree that these three modes of transport do not mix happily. I don’t cycle on main roads because so many car drivers are careless. When I cycle on the canal towpath the pedestrians get in the way and when I walk on the canal towpath the bikes are a nuisance!

We need more cycle…[Read more]

Fat guys tend to be more likely to drive big 4x4s – especially double-cab pick-up 4×4’s. That’s just something I’ve noticed in our part of the world. So they probably have a bigger carbon footprint!!!!

I wonder if there is a clever, but evil logic behind Al Qaeda or whoever using doctors as suicide attackers.

We are seen as a tolerant nation generally and islamic extremists are generally described as a small minority. But stirring up Islamophobia among us ‘infidels’ could be made to play into the hands of the terrorists. By using doctors as…[Read more]

One attacker, who was ablaze from head to foot according to one witness, ran after a policeman and attacked him.

One terrorist is now in hospital in critical condition with serious burns. Given that suicide attacks are an odious fact of life these days, perhaps this is the most appropriate outcome -attackers seriously injured but left alive to…[Read more]

We have an element because we (a very powerful christain country) invaded a weak Muslim country and we are still there, slowly assisting in the death of a nation- it isnt rocket science to see why fruitcakes pick on us

Rubbish! Anything we do is twisted by the islamsists to justify spreading hatred of tne West. Before the Iraq war they were…[Read more]

We have always had isolated cases of perverse decisions by dotty judges. Hopefully people who feel aggrieved will be able to follow procedures that can get the decisions reversed.

I remember reading about a perverse decision the other way some years ago, where a young man had originally been sentenced by a mad judge to prison ‘at her majesty’s…[Read more]

I think Brown is going to soon be seen as a caretaker PM, he’s already damaged by the Ashdown affair. However he’s the only PM on the menu, as it were, so I hope he does well.
Why do we want to see PMs who are failures just so they lose the next election that might be years away? Surely it’s best to hope that whoever is in power does a good job…[Read more]

Not only has the Qatar royal family bought 25% of Sainsbury’s, but it’s reported they might be wanting to gain ownership. I remained a loyal Sainsbury’s customer, even after a nice new Asda store has opened closer to my home, since Sainsb’s is British owned while Asda is foreign (American) owned. If Sainsbury’s falls victim to the advancing…[Read more]

It seems odd top me, as a British person, that Americans are allowed to carry guns (in Britain handguns are totally illegal for ordinary citizens) and yet someAmericans can be banned from wearing certain fashions or from gambling on-line.

I would be the first to admit that Britain. too, has some wierdnesses. For instance we call ourselves a…[Read more]

Should smokers and alcoholics or people who have ignored previous medical advice be denied treatment? What about anorexics or very obese people? Or, with road accidents, should blame be established before the paramedics decide who to help first? What about sports injuries – especially from boxing – should the NHS pay for treatment of those?

We only discovered how many unwilling ‘communists’ there were in Eastern Europe after the fall of the the Iron Curtain regimes. We only discovered how unpopular Saddam Hussein was after he was overthrown (although the aftermath has been terrible).

So it is reasonable to assume that there must be quite a proportion of ‘unwilling’ muslims in…[Read more]