> Aragorn son of Arathorn, who is certainly masculine, but is neither stupid nor wantonly destructive. We may ask ourselves: would Aragorn do this?

I shall call it the Strider Decider

To pretend all disability accommodations are like performance enhancing drugs, that will advantage all able bodied, neurotypical people, is an outright lie. I say this as a neurodivergent, chronically ill/ physically disabled teacher who has worked with disabled students for 15 years.

You want there to be a legal challenge to this? Support the one that's already in progress that, if successful, will remove the risk of legal action against Guides and WI, or other organisations, for being trans inclusive goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

Mind you, with enough organisation you could put together a very good programme of carols for a counter protest, many of them familiar, in their original non-English language. Infant Holy in the original Polish. Stille Nacht. The Angel Gabriel in Basque. Etc.

I once started a conference paper about the number of churches in the medieval City of London with a quote from Buffy the Vampire Slayer:

Giles: "forty-three churches in Sunnydale . . . seems a little obsessive"
Willow: It’s the extra evil vibe from the Hellmouth. Makes some people pray harder"

God, in His wisdom, made the Void so we would have something to scream into.

If you think that the current state of trans healthcare in the UK is because of concern or caution, I'd encourage you to think again.

It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.

And it costs lives.

But Badenoch is *totally* wrong, as the idea that the poor deserved special care and attention was essentially a Christian idea, adopted by the state after Constantine’s conversion.

If you are eligible for the mobility component of PIP and you want to spend *your own money on top of that* on having a nicer modified car, why shouldn't you? Should screen readers only work on Chromebooks?