Well, yes... That's what the controversy is about.

Yes. I went to university at SOAS, in London, and a decent number of Islamic society meetings were segregated in some form or another. That never really bothered anyone until, if I recall correctly, there was some sort of meeting which wasn't just Islamic but where an imam who came to speak wanted to room to be sex…

She's facing 15 years in prison, so....

It's fucked up, but Britain is also a country where the alcohol-related emergency room visit rate is around 1 out of every 30 people, per year. In the US it's 1 out of every 77 people. Much of that discrepancy is driven by the fact that in the US the difference in alcohol ER visits between men and women is vast (that…

I think you're largely right, but I also think it's worth considering that these adverts may - for the most part, not sure about the first Northern Irish one - might be best viewed as anti-alcohol adverts and not rape prevention adverts. A great deal of (futile) effort goes into publicity campaigns in the UK to…

Honestly, I don't think this is a rape image... It looks like your standard 'DON'T GET TOO FUCKED AND BE SILLY' advert that is plastered over much of the UK.

Wait... A company? Not just that, but a FASHION company? IS USING MARKETING?!?

Yeah, I have to say this does seem like a somewhat less clear-cut case than those others (Steubenville, etc.). As others have said the police there haven't exactly got a history of letting football players off easily. Also, because the detective told the attorney this and not the victim, I'm inclined to let the…

Problem is, it's gimmicks like this - and a generally more playful/shameless attitude - that has meant that the UK press is generally avoiding the US "death of the newspaper" trend.

In slightly snappier form, calling them generic Arabs of an Israeli variety implicitly denies that they belong to any Palestinian nation. It's a very awkward position because the Israeli state effectively denies them any nationality. There is no Israeli nation, they obviously don't belong to the Jewish nation and…

Not really. A significant part of the change is just that people with bad, old ideas have died. Ask questions about the role of women to elderly people today and you'll still get a lot of rather backwards responses.

The safety issues are, quite rightly, regarded with a great deal of scepticism. What has to be considered though is that there are moral and political issues concerning genetically modified food. I am not against GM food (by this I mean crops: there are definite and very real concerns regarding dairy and meat…

When his selfishness kills a thousand of his employees, we can talk about this in the same breath.

They aren't referring to top shelf mags, it's more about FHM or The Sun when they have a page 3 girl on the front. I'm not quite sure if it's ever been contested in this form before, but I think the courts would be very, very unlikely to rule that closed copies of The Sun or FHM violate the Equality Act.

Individual men will lose out. These advances have a hell of a long way to go and are necessary and moral but I don't think anyone wins by pretending that this will be all positive gains.

Well, no, that would be New York, which has the second largest Jewish population after Tel Aviv.

They are, but they aren't falling as fast. For most people who had jobs before 2008 their wages have largely been cut into by stagnant nominal wages and the effects of inflation - for people entering since 2008 *nominal* wages have been dropping, compounding the impact of inflation.

I'm glad that it did for you, but do you really see this year as the moment when everything transforms and the economy suddenly becomes a world of rising real incomes and dropping unemployment?

That's fair and in that case I really do sympathise, but what I would point out is that in your age group that was an unusual experience, for people who have entered the labour market since 2008 that is a lot closer to the norm.

I'm just trying to ask if you were poorer at 27 than at 22. The key experience that marks out people my age is that, for the first time since the Great Depression, real income has been falling for our age group. There has been five years here where the incomes for people who started working in 2008 are a good 10-20%…