@thane16 Syzygy Snr

Okay, Brexit. It’s fairly difficult to be detached on Brexit, because I’ve spent the last three and a half years having people inform me that the most carefully researched vote of my life was made because I’m a racist, xenophobic, knuckle-dragging idiot. In fact, there was a point when I didn’t come on this forum because that…[Read more]

@thane16 Syzygy Snr.

Good questions all. I’ll try and answer them without slipping into party politics.

The reason you are confused about proportional representation in the UK is that it does exist, but not in national elections. There was a referendum in 2011 to change to Alternative Vote System, turnout about 42%, verdict ‘No’. So there we…[Read more]

@pedant

Our electoral system may be ‘broken’, but how many times do Leave have to win under the rules in force?

We’re now looking at an absolute majority for 2016, a majority for parties who promised Brexit in their manifestos in 2017, the Brexit Party the largest single party in the European elections and now a pro-Brexit party as the largest…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave and @fatmaninabox

London largely went Labour, or stayed Labour. The ‘red wall’ in the heartlands is breached; one of the suggestions for the loss of seats that were Labour for generations is “It is not rocket science that calling your own voters fascist scum and trying to erase their democratic vote would not end well.”

I…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

I’m afraid the tactic of many young, enthusiastic Labour activists was to tell people who were mildly further to the right than they were that they should ‘f*ck off and join the Tories.’

Looks like they did.

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@Blenkinsopthebrave

My favourite Miller production was his The Mikado for the ENO. He had a knack for blowing away tradition and saying ‘well, why can’t we stage it this way?’

Agreed. If you haven’t read or seen anything of his, you should try to.

@thane16

Hi! Resolution was the New Years Day Special for 2019. It’s not on the front page anymore because of the two retrospectives.

You have to buy the DVD separately from the Series 11 box set – which is probably why you’re not remembering it as part of Series 11.

The forum for Resolution is here. You didn’t miss much – for some reason it…[Read more]

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@thane16 @pedant and @mudlark

How To Boil An Egg by Jan Arkless is still in print in the UK, so might be available in Australia. It’s been updated since our time, with more veggie dishes and a few more modern recipes. I second @pedant – great book.

Another fun book to read when you set out on your own is Katharine Whitehorn’s Cooking in a…[Read more]

@janetteB

There is no Elmo,and A Muppet’s Christmas Carol is brilliant. Surprisingly faithful to the novel, as well, considering there’s a blue furry Charles Dickens.

@thane16 Congratulations O Spawn for completing Year 12! Special congratulations on surviving both your philosophy teacher and your history teacher.

I have to admit, “The Uzbeks are orthodox Jewish people from Slovakia or Slovenia” is the spectacular mistake which worries me most. It sounds like a badly remembered alt right internet meme.…[Read more]

@whisht

I’m not sure I agree. Firstly, ‘Missy’ is a very particular choice of Nom de Guerre, especially given the nature of the character when our Missy joined our forum.

Secondly, how do we teach children and young people to defend themselves against the genuinely offensive if we allow them to protect themselves against ever hearing contrarian…[Read more]

@missy and everyone

I must have missed this one the first time round. Oh, the life of a gender neutral job title. 😀

Anyway, the use of ‘actor’ for females as well as males predates PC culture. There’s two reasons for it – one is simply that an actor plays both male and female roles. I’m an actor (f) who generally plays roles (f) – but I’ve…[Read more]