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I believe in some kind of intelligent creation and I believe that there is a power (or powers perhaps) greater than me in the universe. I'm less convinced that any one religion has accurately understood that power (or those powers) - religion is, I suspect, the human attempt to understand that...

It's not a case of 'fingers crossed' or 'hopefully'. I can obviously only speak for myself, though I know my experience is echoed by others. I once went camping because I didn't want to drink. I set up camp, sat down, then stood up for my wallet and walked 6 miles to the nearest shop and bought...

Makes sense. Thank you

While it doesn't have to Wi-Fi and you are right about it being a Bluetooth connection from phone to PED, doesn't the PED need an internet connection in order to communicate with your bank and complete the transaction? I remember getting caught out about a year or so ago buying lunch at Tesco...

Been there dude, it's no way to live - I found the only way to control what I drank was to drink nothing. Once I had one, my off switch stopped working - been off it nearly 7 years now. If you are in Glasgow, I don't live too far away - happy to chat, meet for coffee so feel free to get in touch.

You don't need to persuade me. I believe the moon landing to be real. And I agree that any real scrutiny leads any reasonable person to believe the same. My point was simply that there's often an element of any CT you can't dispute such as that it was in the US interest that the world believed...

I think the the thing about most conspiracy theories is that there's just enough reality about at least a part of it that it's not completely impossible that some of it might be true. Take 9/11 for example. It's not inconceivable that US or US friendly intelligence services recognised...

I think you could do worse than the Moray coast - lots of walking, beaches and coast line. Plenty of small (and larger) towns to drop into should the weather be a bit rubbish and some tourist stuff like dolphin watching distillery tours for you to mix things up a bit. Plenty of options for wild...

For such a small country Scotland is incredibly diverse in terms of landscape. What are you looking for? Lochs? Mountains? Coast? Do you want to spend the time without seeing many (if any) other people or do you want/need to be close to a population centre? Are you looking for campsites (and if...

Really? There are surely good arguments to suggest otherwise. How else do you explain the disproportionate numbers of deaths during arrest/in custody of black Americans? What about those woman killed by their partners or ex partners? Do homophobic attacks not happen? While obviously these things...

Surely the most sensible thing to do with an email you believe might be of that nature is to phone 101, ask them for an email address you can forward the message to (they probably have a dedicated CP team) without opening it?

I definitely fall into this category. I turn up on time, take only the breaks agreed, perform my job to (by my employers own auditing standards) a 'highly compliant' standard and work until the moment my shift ends but I've mentally checked out. I won't do any more training than is required to...

Out of curiosity, as someone who loves in London how many stabbings have you seen on the tube? If it's too many to count individually then I'll accept a number per week or day.

That's a long term solution. It takes 5 years of medical school to qualify as a doctor, 3 or 4 to qualify as a nurse. Similar for a paramedic. Just training more people, assuming you could find them from the existing UK population is not going to fix the recruitment and retention problem.

you can take it like that I suppose. On balance though I think there is quite a lot to be proud of too. I just recognise that things aren't perfect and that some things are ****.

That's certainly a way for governments to abdicate the responsibility for fixing it. I'm my opinion the jury is out on whether, on balance, that's best for patients. Certainly the evidence from America does not convince me its a more user friendly and efficient way of providing care.

I doubt many, including those of us who work in Ambulance Services, really understand the issues at play but I have a few observations: 1: Demand has increased, though I suspect that staffing numbers have increased too. I don't think it's fair to blame users of the service for the problems. At...

I find it hard to describe. I felt better pretty quickly - the absence of the near perpetual hangover and jitters made me feel better fairly quickly. I thought I felt well at that point, perhaps because I had become so used to feeling so rubbish that any improvement, even very rubbish to...

Yup. and of course now news can be 24hr and be spread by less traditional methods it means we are aware of things we might have not heard a generation ago. Though given its affected Fukushima with its fairly recent problems with similar events I accept this is not likely to be something news...

I'm not sure anyone here can answer that. If he's more vulnerable and/or likely to need the pastoral care offered by USE to come out the other end with a degree at all and as a happy well adjusted member of society then perhaps that would be a better option. A law degree is better than none for...