Dr Alex Cruikshanks

That people want to stop Streeting more than they actually want to be leader themselves should make Streeting's (lack of) prospects very clear.

"Biological women."

Is that a bit like "racially British?"

Producing the incredible situation where ultra MPs cited their privileges under the charter and parliament to argue that there shouldn't be a charter or parliament, while the King tried to circumvent the charter and parliament to defend his position that there should be a charter and parliament.

Clarification: they don't have any competently organised competition.

I think Thomas figures he'll be dead by then, possibly Alito too. Not sure about the others.

Yeah, "promoting" them to university status wasn't so much about changing what fields were being taught, it was about giving them a sense of greater prestige that would attract students more.

There's this weird perception that old polytechnics being rebranded as universities in the 1990s meant they abruptly shifted overnight from teaching Civil Engineering to teaching Classics.

Half the universities already are de facto vocational colleges

Clinton got more personally involved than Bush and was obviously starting from a more difficult position, but what Bush had persuaded Israel to offer by 2008 was considerably better and more viable than Clinton had pushed them to in 2000.

Guaranteeing that there'll be trans women there but not allowed to participate increases chance of protests, incidents, etc

This is honestly even worse and more likely to end in disaster than before

It's one of those facts that sounds astonishing but when you think about it really is true: the US President who has genuinely made the most sincere push for a real two state solution in Israel-Palestine, and the one who came the closest to achieving it, is George W Bush.

Stuff like this gets a "Oh thank god that's a huge relief" reaction from genuinely medically unvaxxable folks, but a "How dare you treat me as DISABLED!" from conspiracists.

I remember that video of a woman annoyed that a supermarket wouldn't let her in explicitly unvaxxed and umasked, even though when she (probably lying) claimed to have a medical exemption they offered to send an employee to take a list of what she wanted and get it for her. But she didn't want that.

The noticeable difference between the ideological conspiracist antivaxxers and those who have a genuine medical obstacle to getting vaccinated is that the latter are generally perfectly happy with some sort of alternative provision, whereas the former hate it.

Ireland

And it will fail again, and he will once again walk away still having lost nothing and taken no responsibility.

Relocating to my other homeland looking more tempting by the day...

They obsess over precise codified answers to "What a woman is" because they need that to deprive women of voting rights.

Are you including him dying during the term within this?

Shame they didn't blur the foreground, then it'd just look like they had a huge ton of cocaine on the table.

Quick 5 minute cursory check, and what do you know, it's someone who wants the fascist site back.

Anti-Trans Activist Kirralie Smith Ordered To Pay Almost $100k & Issue Public Apology Following Vilification Ruling - Star Observer Anti-trans activist Kirralie Smith has been ordered to pay $95,000 and issue a public apology after vilifying two trans women.

“Anti-trans activist and Binary Australia spokesperson Kirralie Smith has been ordered to pay $95,000 in fines and issue a public apology after she was found to have vilified two trans women earlier this year.”

Look, it’s possible to hold transphobes accountable for abusing trans people.

Yeah this is a fair point I hadn't considered before with regard to online abuse experiences. For older generations it feels new and horrific but for younger folks (esp. minorities) who've grown up with the internet it just feels depressingly normal.

Blue Man Group

The realisation that it's not (which, given Hegseth isn't that old, will most likely come for him one way or another) is going to hit them like a ton of bricks.

Not from any sort of guilt, of course, just from the horror that they might be toys in someone else's game.

Ironic considering much of the effort to build up a distinct "French Canada" identity went hand in hand with trying to defang Quebec separatism previously, that Quebec independence was betraying and abandoning Acadia and East Ontario to Anglo domination.

A tad more generously, we've seen this same dynamic play out in other issues like immigration. Enlightened moderates attack anti-bigots as too intolerant of bigots, demand the bigots be given attention and platforms, bigots get more extreme, which the moderates then blame the anti-bigots for.

*quite explicit

Yeah, just reading it now and later in the interview he's quite explicitly that he thinks there should be thresholds and criteria of some sort under which trans people can participate in serious competitive sport, and that any strict rules on noncompetitive and young kids' sport are stupid.