And you could find plenty of questionable things in the Bible. I mean, it wasn't exactly healthy how Jesus bonded with his mother's rapist.

I guess what I'm really getting at is, don't just blindly follow anyone else's teachings. Work it out for yourself from first principles.

You could take the message from Thatcher that small and medium enterprises -- and, by implication, the workers being close to the means of production -- are a good thing, and society can only exist if people make some level of active effort.

Those things are humanist values that do not depend on the existence of any supernatural beings. What's so bad about just being a good person?

The thing is, in the USA, the people have decided that other people's right to own and use machines expressly designed for the purpose of turning living, breathing people into lumps of minced meat and bone splinters outweighs your right not to get shot. So what can you do?

I'd go so far as to say all the kids who are no longer with us because they were refused healthcare did not die of suicide, but were murdered. In cold blood. By grinning fascists.

All politicians should be required to make a public affirmation that they will prioritise the needs of the real people in their constituency, including those who did not vote for them, over and above the whims and caprices of any imaginary deity.

Like me, when I called out the air conditioning engineer when the aircon in the server room didn't restart after a power cut, and it turned out the circuit breaker had popped.

I'm supposed to have an engineering degree.

Has anyone suggested banning actual, non-trans men from coaching women's sport?

This hits harder this year. RIP Jonathan

Honestly surprised people aren't just opening fire on ICE agents.

We need to complain separately about every story in which they use this. That phrase is no less offensive to trans women than the P-word is to South Asians, and its use should carry similar consequences.

It's not progressive enough as long as a single billionaire remains in this country.

What makes them imagine that is one iota less offensive than "p***" ?

No, indeed. But when you're used to privilege, a taste of equality can remind you of what you have been dishing out to others.