The NHS has issues, but most of them are due to lack of funding, and largely as a result of its own success a massively increased burden in terms of long term care for the elderly and chronically ill, groups that without the NHS would suffer significantly higher mortality rates.

thats a bit of a unfair comparison to Henry VIII at least at the point at which he divorced Catherine, the marriage had been primarily political and his dynasty was under significant pressure to produce a male heir, once it became clear she would not be able to have more children and once he was in love with ann boleyn…

my favourite pub in my hometown is always happy to let people have free samples at least of the stuff thats on tap, but then they are a Sam Smiths which means they pretty much only sell the breweries stuff and while they have a fairly decent variety, it isnt the same brands as the other pubs and bars have, so they get…

not his choice, he submits report to DoJ, DoJ currently run by trumps sock puppet, gets to decide what gets redacted from released version.

minor point but Elizabeth didnt execute Mary Stuart for being catholic, she had her executed for being a arrogant backstabbing bitch who was too stupid to live.

there are also some of us who just agree with the idea that a woman has the right to choose, and that life doesnt begin till some point after 22 weeks.

kind of a tricky one, I was never anti choice to begin with nor do i know any guys who are - although its worth pointing out that i am english in england and abortion law is pretty much settled here and more liberal than the US - but I think the issue is that until the foetus is viable outside the womb I dont think…

the flaw in your logic is that you seem to believe that everyone must have something they want to hide in their tax returns, this is demonstrably not the case as most candidates voluntarily publish their returns during their candidacy.

what part of ‘NYPD officer’ was unclear?

and the problem with that is?

its not too much freedom, that is a oxymoron, it is the case that birth control options are restricted and in the US rather too expensive, there arent people out there getting abortions for fun, they get abortions because they are pregnant and feel unable to meet the obligations inherent in carrying a child to term,…

the problem with your argument is that those people most loudly campaigning against abortion are also the people most often opposing and campaigning against things like effective sex education in schools, or the availability and ease of access to contraception methods, who starve social services of any funding to deal…

or a condom, or IUD or the pill, we arent animals. we have learnt how to control fertility, in the same way that the natural consequence of a infection is death, the natural consequence of sex is pregnancy.

millions, literal millions more people voted for hilary than for trump, there are other issues than simply a uninspiring candidate at play here, the system is at best fucked, at worse deliberately rigged.

ironically one of the major drives of the initial establishment of british colonial outposts in large parts of africa was the suppression of the slave trade.

and that in itself should trouble you...

there are nuances to doesnt want to be king dependent on personality.

its not that everyone has suddenly become experts, so much as the tactics used on the show are so fucking awful that even non experts can clearly see how bad they are.

well we cant vote on american politics its true, but outside commentary on the nature of your political discourse can be informative, if you are consistently being viewed as extremist, crude, irrationaland angry it might be worth considering the fact that you may well be those things.

I think part of why he is so sharp with figures like Alex Jones and Sharpiro is a sense of genuine disgust that these individuals are theoretically on the same side of the political divide as him, he isnt going to give up his own conservatism but he seems to genuinely wish they would STFU and go away as they make his…