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Scotland is the first country to approve LGBT school lessons
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Scotland is the first country to approve LGBT school lessons
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New “small talk” campaign aimed at preventing rising number of suicides on railways
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Proposed ‘meat tax’ could increase price of meat by 80% – adding £1.40 to a pack of bacon
National Trust branded ‘ridiculous’ after hiding male artwork to give women a ‘chance to shine’
6/11/2018
Doctor Who ratings plunge after Jodie Whittaker takes over with PC plots
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5/11/2018
Fury as Sadiq Khan admits London’s violent crime could take a GENERATION to solve
LGBTI activist given inaugural MTV Europe Music Awards Generational Change
Hundreds more police on duty after spate of killings in London
‘Self-Harm Contract’ Set Out Rules For Kids Hurting Themselves At School
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UK.gov to roll out voter ID trials in 2019 local elections
Political correctness fury as CBeebies presenter calls snowmen ‘snow people’
4/11/2018
Rose West to WED new prison ‘lesbian’ lover
700 foreign killers found to be living in the UK
“I’m still Debbie”: Man reveals sex change was “greatest mistake” – and he wants to be a woman again
Government throws £1m at school LGBT propaganda unit’
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3/11/2018
Brazen grooming gang member told victim’s mum: ‘The police won’t touch us, they don’t like P***s’
‘School is very oppressive’: why home-schooling is on the rise.
A meat tax of 80% would add £1.40 to a pack of bacon (or any other meat) only if it cost £1.75 in the first place. If it cost £1.40, then £1.12 would be added; if it cost £1.90, then 1.52 would be added, and so on. So I find the Sun’s headline curious !
The great question is whether this would be good or bad. As with all nutritional questions, it depends who you are and what you are eating already. Children particularly need more protein than the roughly 10% in wheat and other staple cereals, and in our society it will be a long time before parents stop normally trying to provide most of this from meat.
The existing tax on sugary drinks assumes that everybody is on the verge of becoming obese, but this is not the case. In practice manufacturers have replaced the sugar with sweet chemicals instead (there are exceptions, especially some fruit-juice drinks and milky drinks). For those who are underweight, and they do exist, this has made it difficult to use sugary drinks as an easy way of taking in the extra calories they need, unless they read labels very carefully. (Caramel-flavoured milk, and simple pineapple juice, are both a good bet). I suppose if this happened to meat, one would be seeking out the cheapest sausages and faggots, possibly not the best idea for the children.
On one memorable occasion I saw what was definitely a snowman engaging with what was definitely a snow-woman, and drawing crowds of onlookers to the delight of their very talented creator. (Phot o available, but there seems to be no way of adding photos here),
On that occasion it made sense to differentiate. But as with all these things, on most occasions it isn’t. If a “postman” delivers your letters, or a “policeman” deals with a traffic accident, the one word stands in very adequately for a male or a female, and it always has done in most languages. “Le boulanger” might very well be a woman. So what ? Who cares ? Nobody is trying to say that it shouldn’t or couldn’t be a woman.