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Number of daily deaths in London from coronavirus on Sunday: zero First time since September

I think he was saying you can't play Rice on his own this summer, which seems fair enough to me.

Think this article (and the reaction to it) is aimed at a lot of you in this thread https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2021/mar/28/southgate-should-ignore-england-critics-and-stay-pragmatic

Nick’s director’s cut of Selma would be a very different, much shorter film.

There’s a very vocal minority of radical Muslims who actively want a confrontation, yes. The more they argue, the more they get to shape the public’s idea of what an ordinary Muslim is like. The question is whether you want to give them what they want.

There’s a genuine and justifiable reason to be offended by someone insulting your religion, deliberately or otherwise. You might disagree personally with that, and it doesn’t subsequently justify crimes of retribution from those who were offended of course. But protections for them nevertheless...

So what happened here, in your opinion?

My issue is with the protests. They’re disruptive and divisive. I can tell from the rest of your anti-Islam dribble that your preferred method of preventing them is an endless culture war waged from the safety of your keyboard. I think there’s an easier way.

I don’t believe so, but I think I read most of the pupils are Muslim? I’m sure there are RE teachers up and down the country who have shown pictures of Mohammed in schools with no Muslim pupils at all, and I don’t really have an issue with that at all. Obviously I haven’t seen those - what...

Well he did something which many Muslims find to be an insult to their religion. I’m not saying I share their feelings (I obviously don’t think it justifies murder!), but had it been me planning the lesson, I probably would have taken that into account, and girded myself for the consequences if...

I’m not saying we should kowtow to religious fanatics, or ban all criticism of a certain religion. I’m saying it’s dumb for people to be setting the table for an endless culture war (in a secondary school, of all places!) when there’s no tangible benefit to starting the argument in the first...

I understand why you would naturally back the teacher in this scenario, but it seems to me like he’s failed in the most fundamental part of his job, which is ensuring a safe learning environment for his pupils. Not sure I’d want this guy teaching my kids, knowing he’s prepared to gratuitously...

Well assuming he knows the potential of pictures of Mohammed to offend, presumably he decided it was so important to his lesson plan anyway that it was worth the potential controversy/disciplinary action. Was it really worth it? If he didn’t know, I’d suggest he maybe wasn’t the best person to...

Was it crucial to the lesson plan that he showed it? Did he deliberately plan the lesson knowing it might cost him his job?

OK, I'll bite. Who benefits from this? Or are you just trying to show how angry this makes you? (Because I get it, if so!)

I've got nothing but sympathy for you trying to keep it together in the most crazy trading environment in modern history. And I don't doubt that government policy has for years given big businesses a leg-up over small/independent competitors. I just don't see any evidence that this particular...

I don't share your view that this small group of fanatics is suddenly going to start dictating curriculum policy. I do think that if teachers are a bit more discerning about how they handle culturally sensitive stuff, then you can easily remove any reason for these guys to show up in the first...

Oh good, this again. The cranks organising the protests are the kind of people which every school can do without - even local Muslim groups say they’re unhelpful and wish they’d stay home. But they do it for a reason, and to provoke a certain reaction, and as long as the same people keep giving...

Sure, but there’s a big difference between ‘free market’ economic policies being awful for independent pub owners, and this claim that the Tories have some deliberate targeted campaign to kill off all pubs through public health measures. Who would want to do that? And on what grounds?