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As someone who struggles to get out of bed on dark winter mornings, I don’t welcome the proposed changes to British Summer Time.
Campaigners say it would reduce accidents in the evenings, but surely it would just cause more accidents in the darker mornings instead?
The Daily Express is supporting the campaign — has anyone told them it would mean we were on the same time as… gasp! Europe!
I am proud that this country offers a safe haven to those fleeing persecution, which is why the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that gay asylum seekers must be allowed refuge in Britain pleased me so much.
A whole raft of tabloid stupidness has been unleashed, notably this morning’s Daily Express front page. It gets even weirder if you read the original Supreme Court judgment and realise that the reference to “Kylie concerts and multi-coloured cocktails” was not the product of a slightly mad Express sub-editor, but actually came from one of the Judges, Lord Rodger:
To illustrate the point with trivial stereotypical examples from British society: just as male heterosexuals are free to enjoy themselves playing rugby, drinking beer and talking about girls with their mates, so male homosexuals are to be free to enjoy themselves going to Kylie concerts, drinking exotically coloured cocktails and talking about boys with their straight female mates.
I think Gareth Thomas may have something to say about rugby being an exclusively heterosexual activity.