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  1. exchemist

    For British Members: What Do You Think of Jeremy Corbyn?

    But he can win an election. At some point, people on the left have to decide between ideological purity, combined with permanent impotence as they will never be elected, or a messy and uncomfortable compromise with what the electrorate will vote for. Sadly for the ideologues, we live in a...
  2. exchemist

    For British Members: What Do You Think of Jeremy Corbyn?

    Starmer is going to win by a landslide. Corbyn failed miserably. No further questions, m'lud.
  3. exchemist

    For British Members: What Do You Think of Jeremy Corbyn?

    While what you say is undoubtedly true, it does not negate what I said about what she achieved. Those achievements were substantial. She had a couple of really valuable ideas, and the character to implement them. But she missed the other half of the equation, the social half, though there were...
  4. exchemist

    For British Members: What Do You Think of Jeremy Corbyn?

    They brought the monarchy back after Franco.
  5. exchemist

    For British Members: What Do You Think of Jeremy Corbyn?

    Spain?
  6. exchemist

    For British Members: What Do You Think of Jeremy Corbyn?

    Thatcher, who I voted for, got the country out of a mess caused by troublemaking far left trade unions and terminally loss-making state owned industries. So yes she pulled the economy back from a more socialist position in the spectrum.
  7. exchemist

    Should Christian’s Celebrate Pagan Festivals

    Here we go again…. It isn't called Easter in most countries at all. Pascha , Paques etc all derive from Passover, as the crucifixion and resurrection took place at the time of the Passover commemoration. It is only a handful of Northern countries, which did not have a Latin or Greek language...
  8. exchemist

    For British Members: What Do You Think of Jeremy Corbyn?

    Clement Attlee, the Labour Prime Minister in the postwar government who founded the welfare state, had a saying: “The People’s flag is palest pink.” No British electorate will vote for full socialism. Attlee got far closer than anyone since, capitalising (haha) on the degree of state control...
  9. exchemist

    For British Members: What Do You Think of Jeremy Corbyn?

    Corbyn was an aberration. He became Labour's leader by accident, due to a tradition in the party of putting up a far left candidate who never wins. However Miliband had idiotically sought mass membership of Labour by enabling anyone to join for a couple of pounds - and then they got a vote in...
  10. exchemist

    Bye Bye Tories

    Starmer is playing a crafty game to avoid giving the Conservatives what are called "attack lines". And don't forget he has spent a lot of time getting rid of Corbynite antisemitism in the party, so he is vulnerable to attacks on that score. His position is shifting now. I feel sure he will join...
  11. exchemist

    Vegan Nightmare: Meat Based Plants

    Frankenfurters cannot be far away.
  12. exchemist

    To save the climate we all have to be poor!!

    One of the worst distortions in the UK, in my view, is that electricity bills include a surcharge for investment in new grid and renewable generation, whereas gas does not, yet it is gas that creates CO2 emissions. The trouble is that making gas more expensive will penalise most people for home...
  13. exchemist

    To save the climate we all have to be poor!!

    Why has the cost of beef gone up so much in Denmark? Is there a carbon tax on it or something? We don't have that in the UK.
  14. exchemist

    Sun created on fourth day ?

    Do you imagine, then, that the sun has ceased to exist on overcast days?:facepalm:
  15. exchemist

    What if we accepted each others Religion?

    Oh I agree. The ones that do (chiefly creationists, JWs, 7th Day Adventists etc.) are not the type I have natural sympathy with, as you may have noticed. ;)
  16. exchemist

    Study finds chlormequat in Cheerios and Quaker products

    The key paragraph in the study paper seems to me to be this one: Current chlormequat concentrations in urine from this study and others suggest that individual sample donors were exposed to chlormequat at levels several orders of magnitude below the reference dose (RfD) published by the U.S...
  17. exchemist

    Where Does Your Religious Community Stand on Evolution?

    Women priests?
  18. exchemist

    Where Does Your Religious Community Stand on Evolution?

    I suspect it will be the Bible Belt that does it. There does seem to be more Protestant fundamentalism in the USA than elsewhere. It certainly surprised me when I lived in Houston.
  19. exchemist

    Where Does Your Religious Community Stand on Evolution?

    That will account for how the JWs score, at any rate.
  20. exchemist

    Where Does Your Religious Community Stand on Evolution?

    The US is a bit different from other countries. Here is a study by Birmingham University on acceptance of evolution in the population as a whole: Figure 4. People have different views about the origin of species and development of life on Earth. Which of the following statements comes closest...
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