Is that a tattoo? Why is that OK (“Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves.”) but sex before marriage is not OK?

It’s called “positive action” in the EU. It’s not illegal. A simple Google search would show you that.

I think you’re confusing discrimination with “taking things into account in order to promote a societal goal”. For example, some English universities take a person’s background into account when offering places. So a person who gets AAA in their final exams may be considered less to a person who gets ABB because the…

So your anecdotal recollections are determinative of who is “more racist”? Every country has terrible people and terrible racists. What I can say (as a Brit who lives in the US (for the past three years and another two weeks) is that our terrible Islamophobic racists are consigned to shock jock-style columns and media…

This made me like Adele rather less:

Thanks for being able to look into my soul solely through the means of an internet username. I commend you.

No, we just expect working class people from less advantaged backgrounds not to forget that the UK helped them. J K Rowling certainly hasn’t.

Hi, nice to meet you. I do. That’s why I choose to live in a high tax jurisdiction (currently NY, usually UK) rather than any of the low tax places in which I can be easily employed (Singapore, Dubai, HK). I quite enjoy public services for everyone, and a safety net, and welfare.

It is not fascism. If it were, most of Europe would be ruled by fascist laws. It’s not unfettered free speech, but that’s a decision most democratically elected western governments have taken, with the consent of their electorate.

Rather excessive to view a law passed by a left-wing democratic government (Labour) with minimal penalties in this case, in a country with a different relationship with governement to yours as “fascist”.

It’s a cultural difference between the UK/Europe and the US. We don’t have a First Amendment and unfettered free speech in the UK. There are things that, if you say, are technical breaches of the law (this is a Public Order Act issue, not an Equality Act issue by the way).

Yes, if the use of minority was restricted to the school. But it obviously meant in the country as a whole. Which you obviously knew. Which makes you something of an ass.

I’m from the UK (but live in the US) and the idea of calling a cop to a classroom because of anything other than imminent harm/violence is baffling to me. I get that teachers have a hard time with disruption but it’s part of their job. It’s not the job of a policeman to use force in that situation.

Hello Giggles is utterly terrible: stories copied from Reddit/here/Buzzfeed, but with a simplistic, dull voice. Does it really have a wide readership?

Trump, O’Reilly, Coulter etc.

Yup. white conservatives are way better.

Isn’t St Germain and sparkling wine a thing? I’ve never seen it done with cava, but have with champagne and prosecco.

Calling all cola drinks Coke is definitely a thing. Under lots of countries’ IP law if a word becomes generic you can’t trademark it. Coke went through a massive issue because Coke was starting to mean cola generically. Which is why lots of places ask “is Pepsi OK” when you order a Coke. It’s on the instructions of…

So. I don’t understand the bread one.

The University I assume you mean? Charter from 1248 - some folk were teaching some other folk in Oxford in the 11 century, but hard to call that the founding of OU. The University picks 1248 as its date to celebrate.