Tuesday, 10 May 2022

The Queens' Speech?

We shall have to see the detail on renters and on seafarers, but there is promise. I am no friend of Extinction Rebellion, since I refuse to celebrate the defeat of the miners in 1985, but if locking on had been illegal, then Priti Patel would never have had the vote.

The proposed amnesty for British troops in Northern Ireland, whose alleged actions must have been illegal at the time or the prosecutions would be impossible, is mindbogglingly ill-conceived in view of the recent election result there.

And things like electroconvulsion went out with the Ark, so what is conversion therapy? Most gay men and almost all lesbians have had heterosexual experiences, and many, who also tend to be concentrated among the various species of clergy, are proud of being able to "turn" people. Why criminalise the articulation or encouragement of the reverse experience?

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