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Is this one of those times like when you get a few eejits in a crowd of 50,000 at a football match filmed for TV news and you get upset that its not typical or representative?

Is that based on your long experience in senior police operations? Or just vacuous nonsense blaming a lesbian Police Chief for a rape and murder?

No idea. It's a real problem very smart lawyers and civil servants have tinkered with for years. Everybody knows too many rapists are getting away with it, but reducing the burden of proof isnt the answer either. I do think there might be a problem with sentencing though. Date rape where both had been intimate before and were pissed should be treated very differently to stranger attacks

I highly doubt that. On what basis are you making the claim that the middle east has the biggest problem with sexual crime? If I had to guess it would be be 'Catholic' South America or Southern Africa - also not known for its Islamic fundamentalism

Unlike almost every other crime which hinges on whether or not something took place - theft, murder, fraud, criminal damage whatever rape hinges not on the act but on consent. By nature there are rarely witnesses so it becomes her word against his - almost zero chance of 'beyond reasonable doubt'. Few women are going to want to go through a trial with those odds.

I used to know an attractive American lesbian who moved to the UK. In the states she was used to guys really overtly checking her out in the street and hated it. But in the UK they didn't (I think we're just a bit more discreet). Although part of her liked that, it also dented her confidence. She knew it was a contradiction.

That's an often heard argument, but it makes no sense to me. The opportunities to export to the rest of the world haven't increased to compensate for reductions in exports to the EU.

Its not a Green Party suggestion. Its just one person in a house of 800 expressing her personal (ridiculous) view

The white straight guy? Don't be ridiculous 😂

I blame the Queen

UK exports to European Union drop 40% in January UK exports to European Union drop 40% in January - BBC News Coincidence probs...

You know you're wasting your time trying to explain things to him right? The Met has 42,000 staff dealing with nearly 1 million crimes pa and he cant understand why Cressida Dick didn't personally investigate an indecent exposure case.

Is dipping them mandatory too?

Depends. You can get awesome vegetarian food - Sainsburys do a really good mushroom, truffle and pecorino sourdough pizza. Probably the best restaurant in Brighton is veggie. Vegan on the other hand....

Just a heads up. Repeating shite you read on the net whilst off your face on cheap booze does not constitute an inside track.

Lol. Still preferable to a night in with Prince Andrew

In a class of your own special as always. Just about all little girls growing up want to be a princess just like lots of boys want to be policemen. Oddly the reality of breaking up fights, getting abused and having sick on you on a Saturday night doesnt live up to the dream. Nor does being a Princess apparently.

"Marry me and it will really fuck your life up". It's not a great pitch is it?

Why? If you're a Brit maybe. If you're a mixed race American growing up in California why the fuck would she?

As soon as they expand it to 100 clubs they will be. Just.

Obviously he would have gone on global tv to mention it if Princess Charlotte had quizzed him on the role of genetic selection in melatonin inheritance . Seriously wtf is wrong with you?

The Daily Star headlines can sometimes be pretty funny when all the others are reporting 'man changing trousers' as 'the sky is falling'.

That’s how I feel too. But it’s largely the media obsession which makes it into a freak show. They pore over every detail every dress every comment and treat them as either angels or demons . Meghan has basically been stalked and character assassinated like Diana was (until she died and became Princess of Hearts again). The Royal Family I don’t really care about either way but the media coverage of them makes me heave.