Obviously I didn't get a poll card because postman can't be arsed to deliver our post more than once a month or so, but I emailed them yesterday to ask if I could still vote and I could, so fair enough ( Read more... )

Here is a list of what I believe parents have a responsibility to do for their child/children.

Follow up-to-date medical advice on maintaining the health of the child, for example:

• Breastfeeding to at least the age of six months, where physically possible,
• Following national vaccination programmes, which are medically proven, rather than gormless ( Read more... )

Sometimes I wonder if other people would make more sense if I could somehow lose any grip on rationality and just go around throwing random emotional crap at people. Other times, I'm completely sure they would ( Read more... )

I'm getting slightly bored with finding people whining about 'positive discrimination'/affirmative action/anti-discrimination rules. Especially when it's supposedly egalitarian people who should know better than to pull out bum-sourced arguments about how it is 'not fair on [privileged group]' or that it means someone is getting a job 'just ( Read more... )

Dear Sir/Madam ( Read more... )

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/08/women-lap-dancing-licensingRead more... )

Poll The Bollocks and Other Srs Business Poll

We apparently start charging them ( Read more... )

This is going to be far less polished and intelligently written than I would like, because I've not been feeling too good and am thus rushing it ( Read more... )

There's been a backlash (spearheaded, judging by grammar and general intelligence, by teenage boys) against body acceptance activism going on for a while. The thing I've always found most strikingly disingenuous about it is the claim of concern for womens' health. In most cases, the absurdity of this reasoning is obvious (yeah, d00dz, you're so ( Read more... )