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As a parent I would say that these rules are a good idea. I can see problems with booster seats where, say, an 11 year old boy under 4ft 5in has to use a booster cushion while his taller friend of the same age can sit next to him without one.

I think minimum ages for cycling on public roads should be introduced. Perhaps 6 for a child…[Read more]

We should have faced up to them after the Fatwah on Salman Rushdie.

Before that, even. The world should have intervened to prevent the Ayatollah Khomeni’s lot gaining power in Iran in 1979. It could have been done then but we can’t turn the clock back. Come to think of it, that’s exactly what Khomeni did do!

Sorry, a typographical error! I know Saddam had ambitions to take over part of Iran but…

More a case of minding n’s and q’s than p’s and q’s. If Iraq splits up, like some now forecast, bags name one of the bits Irap!

Blair’s speech was visionary and I agree with his view that so many people are blind to the reality of the situation and are in denial of the threats that exist against us. Even 7/7 didn’t pull everybody’s heads out of the sand, so it seems.

People ‘buy half way’, as he said, into the fact that we brought about the bad things that are going on…[Read more]

Bush: “axis of evil”
Blair: “arc of extremism”

Afghanistan (under Taliban), Iran (under Saddam Hussein), Iraq, Syria – What would you call it? A chain of cuddly fluffy bunnies?

On another discussion site I’m being called a fascist by an extreme lefty. Here I’m a liberal traitor.

So……I most be a moderate, staaaynds to weeezon, dunnit!

I can still sense that liberal waiting to burst out! Stand back everybody!!! I can already hear the sound of colours being ripped from masts.

Liberal ba stards.

Communists liberal???? Liberals were in love with a false image of communism that bore no relation to the real thing. And now they’re in love with a false image of radical islam.

Except me, of course, I’m a liberal with no illusions. :?

Good question, at least there was some sembleance of order in the cold war. I’d prefer the geographical layout of the world twenty five years ago than today, anytime.

It seems we did come quite close to nuclear war twice during the Cold War. Once in 1962 when Kennedy threatened the USSR over the Cuban missiles, and also around 1973, when…[Read more]

You’ll see, sometime in the future your kind will be having your severed heads posing on pikes for all your high treasons.

Will I be let off if I help re-conquer the rebel south of Ireland? :lol: :lol:

I thought you supported a resurgent Britain taking on the rest of the world, without the need of allies!

We still haven’t got over giving away a big part of our country in 1921 because a few hothead traitors started a riot in Dublin in 1916, while British soldiers were being slaughtered by the hundred thousand in Flanders etc. The loss of the…[Read more]

I said I wasn’t against the US having overseas bases. I know we do have a few too – Cyprus, Gibraltar, one in Canada etc. India has recently opened its first overseas base, somewhere in former Soviet central Asia.

What I’m querying is whether WE here in Britain need all these bases. The USA should be building more bases in Afghanistan, Iraq…[Read more]

And the man in the skirt in that photo? He looks like the only Irish Basque Jew in the world, let-tt alawwn the veel-age!!

As an aside, it seems that Bin Laden’s number two, Al Zawihiri, is taking a higher profile. Hopefully this might work against A-Q.

Bin Laden had a sort of evil guile about him, smiling and serene. He appeared charismatic and was no doubt a heroic inspiration to those lured onto his path of wickedness.

Al Zawihiri, by what we see, is a…[Read more]

All the evidence suggests that Iraq wasn’t involved in 9/11. Saddam Hussein would have been a hindrance in the War on Terror, though, and maybe the US thought they would be doing Iraqis a favour by getting rid of his regime. More importantly, the US being in Iraq and Afghanistan meant that they were in place one either side of Iran should things…[Read more]

HAHAHAHAHA. Id like to see most city folk providing their own food!!!!

Haven’t you heard of Sainsbury’s? Tesco? Asda? What about or Lidl?

Farmers might grow the raw ingredients but I bet most of them wouldn’t know how to boil an egg!!!

Perhaps they are catching more people. Some cruelty is neglect, where the owners are inadequates who are, or have become, incapable of caring for pets. Other cruelty is deliberate and malicious,and that is worrying. Other cases might be due to children not being aware of the consequences of ‘experiments’ on animals.

Tommy – you’ve fulfilled your ambition to become a member of an ethnic minority, i.e. yokels! It’s the city folk that keep farmers in their affluent, subsidised lifestyles that they like to complain about so much!!!

Again – another thread taken over by liberal attitudes

Have none of you ever seen big cats stalking and chasing their prey – bringing it down – snapping it’s neck then severing it’s neck

It’s nature it happens

You’re all thinking of a fox as a cuddly little Basil Brush puppet

Foxes cause all sorts of serious damage – look at what’s left of a…

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My opinion is that fox hunting as a sport or leisure pastime is wrong.

If fox numbers need to be controlled, then it should be done by professional ‘huntsmen’, i.e. trained tracker-marksmen, as is done in parts of Wales.

Pro-hunting people claim that hunting isn’t cruel but that is clearly untrue, as anyone with any common sense…[Read more]