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Yes, but there’s clearly an issue with student groups in universities pressuring their institutions to cancel speakers from the centre to right speakers. This has even spilled over to certain left wing speakers who may have a single controversial view. Going back to Germaine Greer, she was...

Cancel culture is not a myth. You’ve got universities cancelling events for numerous speakers. Yes, predominantly conservative speakers, but people like Germaine Greer have been cancelled because her feminism isn’t inclusive of trans people. Freedom of speech shouldn’t be curtailed at all...

I wonder what’s happened to Al Murray? I found him He’s not right wing, but ironically polled v favourably with BNP voters back. The joke was on them as his act was lampooning the ‘little Britain-er’.

I imagine it’s something said very much tongue in cheek. Does anyone really think they’re going round asking students/local in a night club how much they/their family is on? Durham Uni has one of the highest % of private-educated students.

Pompous idiots. But, they’re effectively being condemned and potentially punished for speech. I’m suspicious of any policing of speech. People should have to right to say ridiculous things - that’s also a two way street. Agree with @shmmeee, a slippery slope indeed.

The US has been polarised for quite some time. Democrats have been arguing that successive Republican nominees are ‘dangerous’, with McCain, Romney and most obviously Trump. Certainly a case of ‘the boy who cried wolf’. Even then, the Trump presidency wasn’t as bad as has been made out. Had it...

I think the government, if push came to shove, would say they won’t police the border and put the onus on the EU to police it, if at all. The issue here is that NI would be staging point for smuggling between the EU and the UK. The issue is the customs border, because as things stand, the UK...

It’s not that simple. In practice, once a legislation passes through parliament, only another act of parliament can reverse it. Our Supreme Court is not like it’s USA counterpart.

The key word there is convention. It doesn’t carry legal weight. The government has a 80 seat majority to force the Internal Market Bill through the commons and potentially new legislation to deal with a non-compliant Lords. Which let’s not forget is an unelected house. The Lords can only defer...

I don’t like Trump, but I think he’ll win.

That was the impression we got too, initially. Then talk of these stages and possibility of getting back to rugby by end of October, early November. With tightening restrictions, I’d be very surprised if that were to happen. I’m grateful my body has recovered from all the little injuries I...

Fuck you hahahahahaha. You have a point, I literally haven’t downed a pint since before lockdown and the season wound down!

The lower levels of rugby are still two stages away from return back to playing. At a minimum, and best case scenario, rugby won’t be returning until November for me. Positives: opportunity to get stronger and fitter, and of course watch the Cov games on Saturdays. Negatives: we all just...

Testosterone levels are measured in contact sports, such as MMA. I’m asthmatic, and even the levels of of the steroids in inhalers are measured in some sports testing. The most notable example I can recently think of is Froome’s test. Athletes even need to be careful buying (legal)...

The issue regarding trans-participation is a dicey issue. Some issues to consider: - biological males have denser bones than females - puberty increases the upper body strength in biological males (one study found the average female could throw a ball further than a male about 2 times in 1,000)...

When you bear in mind Brentford paid £10m for Toney, it’s probably a ‘fair’ price for Watkins. It is an inflated price, but the market has been inflated for a long while now.

Probably need another winger now JJ is injured.

Such a shame. Just as he earned a new contract too. If the club is willing to use the ‘best surgeon in Europe’, then there’s a glimmer of hope for him that we will look to keep to him on. He was looking good in pre-season too.

I’m encouraged by what was said about us in this preview. It’s nice to be a team who pundits are positive about us as a club and the recruitment strategy we have. An interesting point he made was about replacing Walsh with Hamer. That, given we’re likely to see less of the ball than last...

COVID is all part of the SISU master plan to obtain the RICOH...