I wasn't asking whether women were excluded from sport; I was asking specifically for evidence that sports are segregated by sex because men feared being outperformed by women

I've seen this claimed many times on social media but have never seen anything backing it up. What reading on the subject would you suggest?

Why do you say unequivocally that something is about to happen and then hedge with "if this happens"

If Starmer is going to hang his fate on the claim that "cleared by security vetting" means failing security vetting and then having that overruled by the Foreign Office - which I guess he's going to have to? - that's a bold strategy. S'pose we'll see tomorrow how it goes

"The vetting is what he was provided by the foreign office"

No, "security vetting" is the investigation carried about by UKSV as a component of the larger approval process by civil servants. The former is what PM failed and Starmer said he had passed

Once again, I assume you've seen the clip of the presser two months ago when KS was explicit that "security vetting...gave him clearance for the role". That is not a general claim about the overall process: it's specifically about the SV component which was failed. So he lied or someone lied to him

Ok, so you're saying Starmer *was* lied to by civil servants (or by McSweeney or whatever middle man). What's the source for this? I haven't seen No 10 say that in as many words

I promise I'm not. Starmer said in February that Mandy had been cleared by the security vetting procedure. The only possibilities I can see is that he was lying, or that the civil service had for some reason lied to him. Is there a third option?

And when the Mandelson story blew up seven months ago, No 10 didn't think to check that he'd actually passed vetting? I mean what

It's made up (maybe planted by No 10?). It's been famously revealed during this saga that for some insane reason ministers don't even go through developed vetting

So the civil servants lied to Starmer and told him Mandy had passed? Is that confirmed? As far as I can see no one has actually claimed that: Starmer has just said he wasn't told that he'd failed

It's completely bizarre that this exists. If the system is vulnerable to injustice you fix the system, you don't give someone the powers of a dictator and hope for the best. Throw it on the pile with "natural born citizens" and the rest of the framers' blunders

I dunno, that makes even less sense. Are they trying to say the screenshots of him posting it are fake? Trump went with a marginally less obvious lie so this is actually a W for him (relative to his comms team)

Is this a bit

So true. Next we should make gay jokes about Scott Bessent

He stole 2016 and 2024 but decided not to bother in 2020, the only election he actually presided over as president?

I'm wary of AI but I never understood this charge. If training an LLM on human-authored works is plagiarism, doesn't that also apply to a human training their own writing skills by reading?

If we're diluting the claim from "they literally said 'we cheated'" to "Elon bragged about how important he was to Trump's campaign", then yes, that definitely happened

Thanks but I meant a link to the Trump people admitting "we cheated"

Do you have a link?

If the ICC issue a warrant against him, then in theory the fact that the US is not a signatory does not stop him being arrested if he visits a country that is.

Obviously though none of this will ever actually happen and he'll get away with everything

Then you disagree with him, because he evidently thinks it's fine ("raise your hand if you think Israel has the right to defend itself")

Love it when buildings have huge letters on the wall telling you the name of the city they're in

A lot of people came here from Facebook I think

What is it satirising

Who the *victim* is, but yeah. HBO forced them to include that and I think it was the right choice because that first episode is confusing enough

They should also bomb civilian areas of the US, right?

I guess if you define "the country voted for X" as "X received any votes at all", then the US did indeed vote for Trump three times. And Canada has voted for the PPC in every election since they were founded

He was 4.5 percentage points behind Biden. The Liberals beat the Conservatives by less than 2.5 points in 2025, so is your position that Canada "voted for" Poilievre?

Biden won by 7 million votes and more than 70 EC votes. But even if it had been close, the US still only voted for Trump twice, no?