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650+622=1272 622/1272=0.49 Therefore 49% of UK trade is with the EU not 44%. If you don't even understand your own figures or can't read: "The EU, tak...

You cherry-picked the statistics again. 44% represents exports only. 53% of all imports come from the EU.

Halfway through this. Definite thumbs up too. The section on education is particularly spot on and gels with my experience (only I never expressed my ...

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I suppose it's possible that like Terrapin he thinks we're all morons, in which case maybe both of them should get a room and work at repopulating the...

So...? About half of the UK's total trade is with the EU: https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CBP-7851

https://www.predictit.org/markets/5/World Chances of official Brexit by the deadline currently hovering at around 25% according to those with skin (i....

Another lesson in how not to write an OP. Please argue for your view on the answers to these questions before inviting others' opinions. If you can't,...

I don't know, but a no-deal is not inevitable nor is any Brexit at all (though some kind of Brexit is more likely than a no-deal imo). And I don't exp...

You may as well try and nail some jello to a wall.

I'm deleting the racist image now. Be more careful about what you post in future.

Yes, it does. What point was it supposed to make and why did you choose that pic to make it?

This requires an explanation.

Sure. I was being facetious. :up:

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/eu-could-extend-brexit-deadline-if-london-provides-good-reason-11130682

At the very least make sure to make his work-life a living hell. That would be completely unfair and inappropriate, but will surely make you feel a lo...

Maybe if you sit very hard on him, you can squeeze some of that extra money out of his orifices. Or ask for a pay rise?

I'm not stuck on the nomenclature. Just making the point that the testicles angle is probably not the most effective evidence for the overall issue da...

We should allow lying under oath too. What possible good could it do to put legal pressure on folks to tell the truth in a court of law? :chin:

I have to admit I'm not immune to that reaction. In fact, I'm all for slapdick comedy. :halo: But... it's unnecessary as evidence to establish the exi...

Well, call me a Pollyanna, but I still reckon Jacob Mouse-Mugg is more likely to get eggs Benedict all over his face rather than the Bulldog's breakfa...

She wiggled her way out of supporting a hard Brexit by dumping her red lines in the Irish sea. As a consequence there was a leadership challenge which...

(Just to see off any potential strawmen. I'm not against free speech, only absolutism in the area. I think the U.S. has the balance about right.)

I'm convinced that May will find a way to wiggle out of the Brexit that she never wanted and blame someone else for it. She's good like that.

Do a bit of reading. Words can have lasting physical effects in some circumstances*. That those circumstances may be more limited than the effects of ...

Well, I reckon DT is doing a fantastic job. (Of losing the next election and causing irrevocable damage to the Republican party's image.) I wish every...

This is obviously false unless the word "completely" is mercilessly gerrymandered to fit your pre-determined position. I was going to give an example ...

@"Terrapin Station" You've got yourself in a muddle and are resorting to an absurd level of special pleading. An aggressive act (whether it be a speec...

"physical assault can't be shown to be causal to any particular harm, because regardless of the assault in question, we could take two different peopl...

It's really the second half of my post that's most important. I see you hand waving on the issue of potential harm through verbal means. Speech acts a...

I know. And that's how it should be, which is what I'm arguing in contrast to the absolutist position.

So, it's fine and dandy to psychologically torture vulnerable targets with threats and intimidation and that shouldn't be controlled. It's their own f...

Ah, the good old bad old days... :starstruck:

@"Paul" hasn't frequented this incarnation of the forum since the early days. There's plenty of back-story spread across a few of the early discussion...

Just to add to @"Hanover"'s examples, what about a sustained written and verbal campaign of intimidation aimed at psychologically torturing a vulnerab...

Excellent distillation of what a ton of books on writing novels take hundreds of pages to say. :up: Of course, some of the best novels ever take this ...

If the reader knows it's fiction, it's not a form of deceit, so whatever form of lying remains is fairly harmless.

There's a danger of getting too caught up in semantics here, I guess. I suppose there's a certain amount of creativity involved in academic writing et...

Ideally, the point of writing a novel (worth anything) is to give a reader something they couldn't have got without reading it, whether that be a type...

You can just PM me your preferred name and I'll change it.

It is. Especially if you've got a day job. But I'd still advise you to pick a number (whatever seems feasible) and stick to it. It quickly becomes a m...

No, in that world he'd tell the truth.

If you can get into the habit of writing a thousand on-topic words a day, you'll have a book worth's of editable material in around two months. By the...

Alright. Maybe it was a bit full-on considering the context. I will say I've seen writers go on for years at the same not-very-good level while receiv...

Anyhow, my intention isn't to put Andrew off. Developing a decent writing style is achievable with hard work. Actually having something interesting to...

Completely honest criticism is what any aspiring writer should want before anything else. Writing is not some special profession where you don't have ...

That's sounds OK. My suggestion simply is that if you want to be a writer, try to maintain, first and foremost, a consistently high level of quality i...

Also, I'd recommend against trying to write a "philosophical novel". It's likely to come out contrived, derivative and unengaging. Better off to just ...

If you're going to engage on the mammoth task of writing any novel, never mind a philosophical one, you should probably begin by at least demonstratin...

That only gets brought up with those who specifically raise free speech issues themselves. Often these posters haven't read the guidelines or don't un...