I’m tired of hearing about this. The difference between Obama’s victory and Hillary’s loss was vanishingly small. You think you can’t do anything about this because you’ve already convinced the people who are like you. Do you talk to your taxi driver, your hairdresser, your relatives that live in Alabama and Florida?

The thing that comes from his mother is the 100% charisma. Philip was handsome but dull. HM, Charles and Anne have good works, but nothing else. Harry has the “IT” that Diana had in spades (and William and Kate are singularly lacking).

I always envied the people who were starred on gawker. I was starred on jez early on so that’s where I commented.

The only important thing here is that Virtue and Moir are going to lose the Olympic gold medal to Papadakis and Cizeron, not because they skated a better program, but because of horse-trading and corruption.

Oh my God I remember this. Please do turn up, gossip friend.

never mind.

Not me. Social mobility in this country is appalling. It’s better here than in the US (which is a low bar) but it’s not very good.

It’s The Handmaid’s Tale. By Margaret Atwood. She’s Canadian. The programme is great, but it’s important to get the facts right.

Well now that is interesting. For me, being silenced hours and/or days after the conversation in question is a very big deal indeed. It is anything other than benign. So, say what you will about me. Use whatever ad hominems you like. (I’m fat - you can add that to the mix. Enjoy). It’s very late and I must to bed.

Do you really not understand that dismissal IS veto authority? You don’t think, when you are having what seems to be a perfectly reasonable conversation, that you have to have a parallel conversation somewhere else just in case the first conversation is dismissed. And then you discover 12 hours later that the first…

The “silenced” refers to his habit of dismissing people he disagreed with. You cannot scroll past something that is not there. Because it has been removed by the person with whom you have been commenting. And it is not possible to comment elsewhere when the removal takes place hours or days after the conversation.…

I am a member of no mob, and no dogpile. I speak only for myself. And I didn’t say that his presence here was offensive. What offended me about his behaviour was that he silenced women who disagreed with him, hours and days after the conversations had taken place and for no reason other than that he disagreed with…

I’m not a “y’all.” I’m one person and I speak for myself. Trans women are women, full stop, and you are welcome here. As are cis and trans men. What you are doing is asking me to repeat what I have previously said. I will do it because you are very insistent (and, frankly, insulting) but you do not have a right to…

Isn’t it a space for women? Sex, fashion, celebrity, without airbrushing? It always has been primarily a women’s space, since it was set up in 2007. When did that change? (And Rich and Bobby have never silenced me. That’s the difference for me). I don’t expect you to believe me, but I don’t have a personal beef with…

Anyone who cares to look up my comment history can see what I said. Legitimate complaints. And for me, the dismissals are the most problematic part. He’s dismissed my comments before. Perfectly reasonable comments, no personal insults, just political disagreements about UK politics. And the dismissals usually happened…

I was not, and have never tried to “mess with” anyone. I speak for myself, and have here since 2007. I am sorry MD was banned, which I never sought to happen. I was trying to explain to him what was objectionable about his behaviour, as were many other reasonable people. As for dismissal, when it was introduced, it…

Never mind.

You have your own opinions, but I would urge you to read this thread as it presently stands. Note the blanket dismissals of comments by reasonable commentators. This is not how we behave here. Dismissal is for trolls, not objections. ETA am now aware of the situation.

Please ignore, I have now been informed.

I’m sorry if there were images of a dog posted in reference to you. I didn’t see them. I only click on posts I’m interested in, which means posts about the royals, figure skating, or something else that catches my eye. There have always been attacks on users as being too vocal, for the past 11+ years. I try to keep my…