Reading Stay Alive, the biography of Stuart Adamson. Some desperately sad parts, but some funny quotes from Bruce Watson. This is just after he and Stuart - by then an established rock star - had been joined in Big Country by Tony Butler and Mark Brzezicki, who were sought-after session men:
Women had ovaries before they were identified, as did all the female mammals over the past couple of hundred million years.
It's not only male people who are deemed as having an advantage, and so excluded from female competitions. Similarly, adults are not allowed to compete in junior competitions, because they're not juniors.
How are you defining "those who transition"?
You can argue against the existence of women-only chess competitions if you like (I wouldn't, because of the social disadvantages that women face), but it makes no sense to say that they should exist but should allow in some male people.
There's no ban on trans or "intersex" people. They just have to compete in the right class for their sex, like everyone else.
I interviewed him once for the BBC World Service, about police reform in Northern Ireland. Very intelligent and articulate, but his attitude was: "We're right and our opponents are wrong, and the way to resolve the problem is for them to accept that we're right and they're wrong."
I suppose she could live on rats and wood pigeons.
Experts call for restrictions on pet flea treatments that harm UK songbirds www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How is its fire resistance?
A big factor in Field Marshal Slim's success in Burma was his insistence that officers make sure their men took their anti-malaria pills.
"Trans women" are not banned. They can compete in the appropriate category for their sex, which is male.
Getting low over Herefordshire yesterday. Flew 44 km from Malvern to deepest marches.
Watergate?
You can't expect the Yanks to know about things like different time zones in different continents.
The Southampton of cricket.
The sky upwind from my landing field... and downwind. The initial climb nearly blew my socks off, but eventually it clouded over as forecast. 43 km from Malvern to Newton St Margaret's.
If you see this, post something orange from your gallery. Yes, he's Dutch!
The people at Leon are very nice. And in 1981 I had many nice experiences there!
I've thought that about every Rolling Stones song.
Tintin's quiff is stiffly waxed, not floppy.
So the health service should switch a proportion of its spending from health care to providing free parking?
VAR is checking whether "international" has four syllables or five...
*biased
Yes, I did land my paraglider here, but there was no need to put up rude signs about me.
Cover of Willie Nelson!
I'm looking forward to my vintage Gouda for £7.99 a kilo.
Someone should ask him why "trans men" are not a threat. It might possibly make him think a bit, but probably not.
