I get the argument about stock being tied up and assets, but Seven and a half percent of his income is not a lot of money. I'm pretty sure both you and I pay taxes at a much higher rate than that. 

By actually paying their taxes at a normal citizen’s rate, the average citizen is contributing a far greater proportion of their income to our collective well-being than he is.

There are ethical and legal boundaries within which she ought to operate, though. And she shouldn’t be an arbiter of morality or the law, that is for the court to lay down as a standard of behaviour she needs to meet.

She even had that extended passage in one of the later books where the main characters were walking round in bodies not their own, and the disorientation of that. I mean, way to get REALLY close to a position of empathy and just swerve right past it.

See also the Worst Witch, A Wizard of Earthsea, lots of classic British fantasy besides: Harry Potter is like a greatest hits remix of the British kids fantasy genre. I enjoyed the books at the time but they’re like a Disney version of the genre I love. I even remember a radio satire of the Boarding School Adventure…

Best summary of the issue I’ve seen. I’m not an expert by any means, but a pal of mine came out as transgender very unexpectedly a while back (she was presenting as quite a laddish man before, let’s just say that lol!) so I did a bit of reading to get my head round it. I was so blown away with how sex and gender are…

Her attitudes towards the Scottish Independence movement have been a bit unpleasant too. Feels like her PR team have slowly lost control of her image. I mean, she’s clearly a person with good and bad in her, and there is a whole hospital wing in Edinburgh that the Harry Potter books paid for, but this is part of a…

Well, TV one thing is that the books do seem to uphold a certain point of view, that of tolerance and fairness, about outsiders finding a place. That was part of their appeal. Imagine if you liked the books because they gave you that feeling, and their popularity made you think 'wow, so many people are tolerant and…

This remark of hers has given extra context to the wizard shitting thing, proving that she is absolutely fine with the equivalent of shitting yourself in public.

When Prince Phillip is the guy explaining to you that your public transgressions are a bit much, you know you’ve really gone too far.

My wife met her through work a few years back. Absolutely lovely, apparently. Kind of a wild ride on nights out though. 

Someone I know recently posted pictures of a Star Wars Larp event they went to. Someone went as a Gonk Droid. A whole weekend, wandering around with a box covering their entire body, just saying ‘Gonk,’ over and over again. They made a lot of people very happy. 

Well, now you made me imagine what Trump’s ass actually looks like. Thanks a bunch. 

If you are of my generation, and didn’t feel like you got closer to a Falling Down-style rampage every time you heard ‘Hakuna Matata’ or ‘Under The Sea’ for the millionth time, we would not have been friends.

Looking at the films you pick, could it be you liked them when you were a kid, but were older when you saw Frozen?

I think Brave got marketed in a weird way: my expectations for it, as formed by trailers etc, was that it was a sort of Brave heart narrative with Merida leading her people. Other people I've talked to said the same thing: I think people expected one film going in and got another. 

Most clear example of 'I regret to inform you that the milkshake duck is racist' since that weird Bone guy. 

Yeah. Loads of countries achieve those things, the Scandinavian ones in particular seem to do very well at those. The compromise America has made is that you can’t do that and make a small group of people at the top extremely rich. THAT is what makes things like free college or Universal Healthcare impractical for…

Yeah, one of the things that I associate with her is a genuine warmth. I think she has that uplifting quality that can inspire, as well as a real focus on the fact there is a real battle to be fought.

‘Cock socket.’ You fucking charmer.