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I guess I see it very differently, but that's life! This forum can be great (and useful) for expressing different points of view fairly respectfully, so I think at least that aspect is a comfort. And I hope to see it replicated in other places as time wears on, there was a time when this was...

Mark Brydon is the only other one that I know of!

Goodness, I think Roisín Murphy has a beautiful voice, that album Mi Senti - just dusky loveliness...but each to their own opinion, which is hopefully the way forward :)

I will listen to anyone making reasonable points. I think many people are living through many things - I listen to considered points, and we all have to arrive at our own positions, I guess hopefully we can agree on that if nothing else. Edit: I also meant to say that half the time I seem to...

If people could stop referring to people as "terfs" and "transphobes" every time someone might raise a concern about certain related elements on this subject, that would be my wish. As I mentioned a few times in different parts of this forum (and probably this thread), it makes me really uneasy...

I must look that Louis Theroux documentary up, I tend to like his approach :)

Just in terms of the UK (given that book I mentioned) there was a court case a few years back that initially established a legal principle that young people under 16 could not be given puberty blockers and cross sex hormones, as they weren't viewed as mentally "competent" to understand the...

It is a minefield, but the book clearly shows that a lot of bad decisions were made, and often relating to children, some of the cases are children younger than 10. You're right, this book investigates the Tavistock clinic in the UK, but there are different parallels with the U.S. and some other...

As I said, I would almost hesitate recommending as it might ruin your week, but I wanted to read something that was based on evidence, it took her years of research...and it's really upsetting. But it's also fair-minded. I guess her approach is one as an investigate journalist - she follows the...

It's actually a bit more complicated than that - I read this book a few weeks ago, and it made for some harrowing reading - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/19/time-to-think-by-hannah-barnes-review-what-went-wrong-at-gids -as ever, nothing coherent seems to emerge on Twitter or...

I am not sure Steve Albini knows what he is talking about either, on many subjects, but that's just me. I guess Twitter keeps on twittering inconsequentially, and the world keeps on turning 🤷‍♀️.

...the general state of things. I really didn't think this needed to be restated. A number of other issues I can write about the nuances of all day long, so get ready for 6 more pages, as I am now warming to a theme.* *I actually won't warm to that theme, although I very definitely could...

You have really hit on something there - I come from a rural area, but live in the city now...I hadn't thought about it that way, and it makes sense to me. As for the picture, I know, she's so beautiful - Nastassja Kinski - it's a still from Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas. I can't remember the last...

Most of the time I do, as I find the online world pretty deadening, with everyone shouting into a void - no-one actually taking other people's points when they might be valid, even though they might not (generally) fit with one's overall worldview (whatever that even means) - and, not to come...

And now I see it's by Mark Fisher (RIP) - who I have lots of respect for - and have drifted in and out of liking some pieces by him and not so much others - so I am eager to read this!

Don't worry about me - I won't take a hard time on Thumped! Everyone is entitled to their own opinion :) I like Applebaum - I came to her work years ago, I was reading one of her books on Stalin - she's fairly well placed to identify patterns of totalitarianism I thought - which is why I find...

Think it does - if you click the image it gives you the option to download it at the top right hand corner :)

Hope this works! :)

Oh sorry I didn't realise it was paywalled - I read it ages ago and have gone back to it a few times, have a pdf somewhere, let me just check!