draculina

Well, that will teach me to post on a football thread.

I was recounting horrifying scenes on the telly from childhood and I suddenly find myself catapulted into a discussion of the origins of the world and teh survival of the fittest.

Oh dear.

I’m also opposed to creationism, and accept that things can boil down to a survival of the fittest…[Read more]

Well, I got it..and I thought it was funny  

David Attenborough is even older than I am – yes, he is – and I watched his natural history programmes when I was a boy.

God, were they traumatic!!!

I watched as they filmed some poor gazelle eating peacefully as a cheetah or leopard or some such creature crept up on it and kept wondering when the tv crew would alert the gazelle, some siren or…[Read more]

You’ve asked me this before, and I’m afraid I have to announce that, for the moment anyway, yes, I am for real, though I’m just starting to realistically foresee a time when I won’t be.

But the rest of your post, stressing how #metoo is wonderful (I’ve said I think it’s a really positive force, too) doesn’t seem relevant.

My criticism of…[Read more]

Well, it’s really up to you whether you want to respond or not. It’s your right to defend your President, even though he was defeated by several million votes by Hillary Clinton.

But your country’s concerns aren’t yours alone for one simple reason.

The United States is the most powerful country in the world. Not by a little But by a long…[Read more]

10,000 people from all walks of life came to the cenotaph today to say thank you to the soldiers killed in the Great War.

Thank you very much.

if the Unknown Soldier could speak, I wonder what we’d hear him say….

And when they ask us,

and they’re certainly going to ask us…….

I really don’t know whether I should be posting on this thread, or start another.

I decided to add to this one as two remembrance threads seem excessive.

If Somer thinks it’s not in keeping with the spirit of his thread, I’ll apologise and start another.

I’m remembering not just the British soldiers who died in the Great War, or subsequent…[Read more]

we are the people just voted against him

or were they all rapists, traitors, thieves, scum of the earth?

Even Trump said he’d have to tone it down once the election results came in, but he can’t.

His success depends on the fears felt by ordinary Americans, and on whipping up those fears into a state of permanent alert against his…[Read more]

so why did most Americans who voted in the elctions last week vote against Trump?

He made it a personal referendum on himself, and the Democrats won.

The Republicans won the Senate, but only a third of the seats were up for re-election, and they were all conservative, rural  areas. The Democrats swept the urban areas, espeically the rustbelt…[Read more]

Well, he’s a fantastic campaigner…

QE – I think that this is a very important post, actually. I’m not offended, and I’m not going to be shouting racism. You may be a racist, I don’t actually know and there’s nothing I can do about it if you are, but the post reflects the way a lot of people thought when they voted to leave and most of them aren’t racist. It’s a difficult problem to…[Read more]

tick tock…..

A deal is within sight…by the end of this week?

tick tock….

two people have unsuccessfully tried to cut off debate on this, but even if they succeed and I’m typing on my own, I’ll continue.

For three reasons..

first, it provides encouragement to anti-brexiters in an otherwise brexit-loud site.

secondly, people who are…[Read more]

With apologies (sort of) to Linda

They claim that this is the biggest survey yet, revealed yesterday, and it shows Britain as firmly remain.

I don’t trust it. It’s not size of the sample that mattes, but selection, in counting the accuracy of polls.

Even so, it gives pause for thought.

With the Brexit fiasco deepening, I’m starting to question my opposition to a People’s…[Read more]

I’ve been assured here that all the guides and forum hosts have resigned – apart from GD, who seems really nice.

So who has the power to delete them?

Has Martin been trolling the chatrooms??

Rose,

the sensitivity of your poem had me in tears.

Your love for the man must run very deep

oi…

give away no secrets, please.