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Well, what’s he saying? Kids aged seven should be aware of being a boy or a girl and the differences between them, considering their friendships with other children and have learned not to hit people when they’re feeling angry or upset. It all seems perfectly reasonable. You did pass key stage one, didn’t you, Pete?

Oh, I know: If it’s in The Mail, it’s usually errant, rabid nonsense.

It’s actually quite rewarding to flick through the links. I don’t know what sort of publication the Canadian rag is, but there’s a rising spectrum of hysterical reporting from the reasonably sober Thunderer article through to the mad eyed Mail one. I don’t know quite what lesson to draw from it.

Do you often believe what you read in The Mail, then? If so, I owe you an apology. You’re quite right to be so angry all the time. The world must seem quite awful.

Not really. You see the link to The Thunderer that you post contains the paragraph,

He insisted, however, that very young children would not be given sexually explicit lessons. “We are not talking about five-year-olds being taught about sex . . . What we are talking about in Key Stage 1 [when children are aged 5 to 7] is children learning about t…[Read more]

Ah, The Daily Mail. That won’t turn out to be something perfectly sensible that’s been blown out of all proportion, then. Not something in The Mail. You can tell it’s honest, straightforward journalism at a glance. For a start, if The Mail had made it up, it would have had something about immigrants in it.

I’ll bet that’s a nasty bite. You should be ashamed, Pete. She seems just like anyone’s mum.

I’m not. I’m mocking to make sure my children’s faces don’t get eaten by a mangy old fox. It’s still working, by the way. Did stand on a rake at one point, though. I suppose you can call that a minor remise for fox kind.

I’m definitely getting one. Once I secure a really fuck off sized ruby, a swimming pool full of sharks and the security codes for NORAD’s secret project L.I.O.N.O.F.J.U.D.A.H., my plans for world domination will finally be complete.

No. Only if it comes down to a swap. Which it shouldn’t. It is just a thought experiment that lets myself gauge the relative importance of fox life to human life. I expect you have a different answer. If the great god Thoughtexperimentasmodeus visited you one night and said I am going to kill x amount of foxes or one of your children or…[Read more]

I think the country should practice what I preach. I’m quick to say that Israel should act like a mature, functioning state when their armed forces go a bit far. I don’t see how I could argue Britain shouldn’t.

The forces of the state shot dead over a dozen of its own citizens and wounded over a dozen more. Modern democratic states claim their…[Read more]

It is curious that it seems so easy to combine an abhorrence of vulpicide with a relish to get started with the homicide. I always think so, anyway.

In the end, these type of issues can’t be worth murdering for, since that implies a kind of eqivalency of fox and human existence. When I consider that, given a hypothetical choice, I would happily…[Read more]

I always knew you were pure evil. Machine gunning foxes is an awful idea. Think of the mess, man, think of the mess. Also, splattered fox clashes horribly with the powder blue of a boy’s room. You can’t win, though. Half-eaten baby’s face doesn’t go with the pink of a girl’s room. It’s a dilemma.

I must admit I’ve reconsidered the whole urban…[Read more]

Once we’ve decided we need to kill some, why not have a laugh doing it? I vote letting the chavs pursue them on their BMX bikes with their pitbulls. They could all dress in Glory Red England tops and get pissed on vodka and RedBull before they start for extra entertainment. It’d be like a community thing.

:lol: I’m off to bed.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of…[Read more]

Listen, lads, Will Scarlet and I will get into Nottingham Castle by pretending to be nuns. Little John, you and Friar Tuck get ready to swing down from the battlements amd rescue Maid Marian as soon as I give the signal … oh why bother? Let’s face it, there’s loads of them and I saw them sharpening their swords earlier on today. One of them was…[Read more]

We will we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, oh who am I kidding? Look, I think it’s only fair to warn everyone that the German paratroopers will have guns when they invade and we should all probably just give up and try not to rock the boat too much. It’ll be…[Read more]

What a ridiculous thought. You’ve basically just said that all oppression ever should have just been put up with.

Mark Steel: Of course, they were asking for it

It’s time the Israeli government’s PR team made the most of its talents, and became available for hire. Then whenever a nutcase marched into a shopping mall in somewhere like Wisconsin and gunned down a selection of passers-by, they could be on hand to tell the world’s press “The gunman regrets the…[Read more]