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Been out canvassing etc for 10 days (in Dudley) People not very enthused. In order of frequency, issues raised are ... Need a change NHS Cost of living Energy bills Immigration Crime Potholes Of those who expressed a view ... One Conservative, 3 or 4 Reform, 1 libdem, 20 odd Labour but ...

And injured Palmer on the bench in PO final. At the end of last season we had 2 or 3 academy players on the bench, as there was no squad depth.

Any idea why people buy houses (especially new builds) with such tiny windows? Every room in my house has a window for its entire length. I would go crazy with so little light and view.

I think he left a lot of wiggle room by mentioning income tax, NI and VAT, calling them taxes on working people. We all know this is political rhetoric to cover future changes of direction. Labour will raise other taxes in 1-2 years time. He did say he can't write budgets ahead of time. He is...

Not if you don't wish to explain. Up to you. Maybe you already have. No politician except an ideologue or a time traveller can keep all their pledges. Perhaps they should only make vague broad brush outlines. Don't think that would suffice.

Answer a question with a question. Okay. You are the one who needs to support the assertion that he will break his pledges. I have not suggested he will or asserted that he won't.

As you are making this prediction, why do you believe Starmer will break his pledges? Do you think they are too ambitious, impractical? Will events make some changes inevitable? Does he have Machiavellian secret plans? Is he just insincere or incompetent?

So, what point are you making exactly?

Alternatively he has to herd cats leading the Labour party - so making pledges and then shifting when reality bites is the sign of a pragmatic person not an ideologue.

Like some do with Family zone tickets. Nobody suggests it should be made more difficult for families as a result. Quite the reverse, there was a long thread on here calling changes to the Family zone tickets a retrograde move. We don't do enough for disabled fans currently. I sit in a bay as a...

Both can be true.

On principle I think that making large concessions to families and adults with multiple children is not matched with concessions for disabled people with complex needs. Why should parents be given access to very cheap tickets but disabled people are expected to repeatedly demonstrate they need...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/04/met-chief-says-millions-of-men-are-danger-to-women-and-girls-in-england-and-wales An inconvenient truth? A toxic culture war fringe issue which only hateful bigots bang on about?

Full of logical fallacies, non sequiturs and wild conclusions - as are most articles nowadays ;)

It means unlikely to be as knowledgeable about the issue as the authors are. True of most journalists but especially one who didn't live through the era described by Sharron Davies. A good journalist has to listen well to first hand accounts.

Although it's interesting it's all beside the point for me and a distraction. If transgender MTF becomes as weak as a kitten it matters not. Sport has sex categories. I trust the two best known British biologists, Robert Winston and Richard Dawkins, who assert that Humans cannot change sex.

Read that review. A young journalist with a bias. Perfectly acceptable but one-sided.

It's mainly anecdotal. What's Joanna Harper's claim that she is 12 per cent slower based on? Who has verified this? Where are the peer reviewed studies that these doctors are referring to when making assertions that these differences are minor? It's anecdotal which is useful, but never...

The article seems to argue that a modified biological male, who now identifies as a woman, is so nearly the same as a biological female that it matters not, let 'em play. It cherry picks medical data about individuals and then generalises to conclude these differences are teeny weeny. It throws...

Those other issues do concern me but they are all contingent on the women's category being respected