Boko Haram are terrifying. There's also a suggestion in some circles that the injuries their leader sustained recently included neurological injuries...I'd be willing to accept that, seeing the video. Look at him!

I am mad all the damn time. I was mad when the Taliban were something unknown to western media. I was mad when my Plymouth Brethren friend at school was taken out of full time education and "wedded" at 13. I am mad when an asylum seeker friend in the UK is deported for her children to face genital mutilation. I am mad…

unofortunately, controlling access to education is incredibly effective. Which is why so many fundamentalists oppose it, from the Taliban, to Boko Haram, to religious groups in the West who prevent girls from being educated "out".

This is an absoutely dreadful situation. Boko Haram's intent is to make Nigeria ungovernable, and alas the utterly spineless leadership shown by president Johnson is helping them.

Also let me totaly flippant and offensive and say y'all manage to drone the living bejeebus out of those you're really peeved with.

Sigh. I don't know. Political pressure? Anything...Maybe that's naive... just the tiny degree of outrage/total ignorance in world media makes me despair. This is a couple of hundred young ladies just had their lives destroyed for the crime of wanting education. Imagine if this had happened in New York.

Seriously. America.

Also he wasn't the boss. The boss (who was one of the world's worst assholes himself) fired him...for not being tough enough...

Well..it was one of the oddest experiences of my whole life. He was a wee sparrow of a man. Tiny wee skinny thing. I was 105lb at the time and he made me look buff. I was confused... if it had been my Massive, Ex Marine, lifter PhD student going "Yo! good god girl... let carry all that shit for you, there's tons of…

Well, I woulda. I would now. Now that I'm a perspon who can say "No that's DOCTOR fucking Skadi to you sir." Back then I was a wee, tiny student. 98lb wet, and very shy. We all learn. Anyone who does that to me in my thirties will have to visit a proctologist for removal of said equipment ;)

Hmmm... I'm kind of conflicted. I totally agree that you shouldn't be singling any one (or many ethnicities out, but for me, right now, i have a 50: 50 choice between great UK natives and polish graduates.... and those polish graduates have on average 2 degrees and speak 4 languages.... I try to be as equal as I…

My newest hire (literally, this weekend) is British, male, Scottish and Muslim. (nice combo! I am British, female, Irish and Atheist..)

I can only speak for myself. I want the best people for the job. I don't give a toss about Gender/race/color/orientation etc. I can only say that I have made sure I have kicked my management's backside when I hired the super smart whizz lady in a wheelchair (and MADE them put the ramp in that they should have been…

hmm... no. I always take the CVs that are given to me and I appraise them on merit. I am very aware of how much "the disabled" can be a great hire. I have a friend (alas, totally different industry, or else I'd hire her) who has a colleague with cerebral palsy. She is ...terrifyingly smart. if she was in my industry,…

Yup. Or alternatively you just hire people who are great for the role, whilst making sure that you're not overlooking a candidate who might have a disability but be great at the job.

That's a good point. I see my colleagues as being "good at their job" or not. We all work remotely so I don't give a toss what ethnicity/etc they are. I only care if they are good at what they do.

Yup. Sounds like my approach to woring life...i-e "be decent"

Yes, I know. I wish women could all act as one moral mass and be great... but I suppose that's just like saying most men are lovely but % percent are wife beaters and rapists, yes?

There are different sizes. There are paediatric (weep that they are needed) and there are Graves' and Pedersons' - each of those have 3 x sizes. It's very possible they used a slightly larger bit of kit to get a better view. Sorry that sounds a bit crass but that's how these things work. A better view means a better…

It's also very individual. I've had a bunch of (ahem) crazy fun times and the only UTI I ever got was from sitting too long at my desk without a wee break. (I know...I feel like iHave let me generation down..)