Jo Lonergan

"They make a desert, and call it peace"

Any money allocated to these children will go straight back into the economy

Not much alternative, though, when you don't know how dangerous the attacker is. And he was responsible for all the deaths and injuries

Health care is free at the point of use, but it's paid for through taxation. This is, of course, by far the far the most efficient way, avoiding enriching health insurance companies at the expense of patients

I think you'll find he wasn't drunk, just tired and emotional

As I remember it they were actually better made. My mother would inspect the seams and turnings before buying anything. Clothes were a lot more expensive, relatively speaking, and were expected to last more than one season.
It's true that people were thinner, but Hepburn is hardly a typical example

Depends on how it is used. I've lived for 50 years in a country where carrying ID is obligatory. In that time I've been asked to show it by the police once, as a possible witness.
Of course I'm not brown or young, and have never been male

The huge majority of immigrants are lawful

Pain relief? Aren't women supposed to just tough it out?

Or at least to pocket the money, without doing any work. He'll be pocketing the pension too, in 18 months' time

Exactly. I do wonder, given that they walk around with a mobile phone, post personal stuff on social media, and have no problem with being tracked by CCTV whenever they leave the house, why people find having an ID card so intrusive

My first reaction to the news

It would be a civil court, presumably? Though he has probably granted himself immunity from civil liability

In Switzerland it's all private, but all essentials are covered by the basic insurance, which everybody must have, and on which insurance companies aren't allowed to make a profit. It's still an expensive system, as you can see from the figures above, but nobody is denied care

I wonder if the firm that markets it as Tylenol in the States could sue? I'm sure Trump's idiot supporters will continue to take other brands

That statement had a distinctly Trumpian vibe. I wonder whether he has been practicing?

"Sutor, ne ultra crepidam", a Latin phrase which means that the cobbler should stick to his last. Does anybody still use the English version?

And the really wealthy, at that.

And the private insurance would presumably be expected to cover the expensive stuff which at present is passed back to the NHS

Exactly, and the same goes for law and order

He's also an opportunist. In fact, if racism wasn't working for him, he probably just drop it in favour of something else

So we're to line up with the United Arab Emirates? Can't they find any Western country as a model?

Don't some fundamentalists support Trump because they hope he'll bring about Armageddon?

And all the others?

They only picked on Potter because the books were such a success. At the same time Philip Pullman was writing books that were out-and-out blasphemous from their point of view, and I'm not aware of any of them noticing

Hardly fair to them, though

"I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage."

They literally can't believe anything that doesn't support it, because that would bring the whole edifice crashing down

Also "I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage."

That's why I'd never buy a lottery ticket. I'd have to go on buying one every week, in case those numbers did come up