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hathycolIt is probably a bad sign that I have an exam tomorrow and have yet to learn the stuff for it. I look at it, I get confused, I put it away. *flails*
In other news, I cried last night at How To Look Good Naked because at the end she looked so beautiful and happy. The end is probably nigh. On the bright side, it's all over tomorrow and I can go to the safari park and get ratted and other such fun.
ALSO: democracy. WELL DONE PARLIAMENT for passing some extremely sensible and logical things recently after the debacle over the 10p tax rate. Thank you for not giving in to the nutjob fundamentalists who to be honest shouldn't have been allowed to let the bills get so far as it is, but hey ho, on the bright side I'm not American.
However POOR SHOW Europe. Dustin the Turkey not through to the finals of Eurovision on Friday!? FOR SHAME.
Er. Yes. Currently doing some scribbling rather despondantly titled 'Scottish legal stuff' and underneath I currently have details of the Treaty of Perth and other such fun. I honestly don't think I'm going to be able to put questions together tomorrow, but as long as I get three topics I can vaguely hammer an answer into - emphasis on the vague, come on Western Isles, Conquest of Wales, ideas of nationalism or the Scottish wars of independence and at a big push Toom Tabard - then we might all be okay. If there were any damn past papers available it might help.
In other news, I cried last night at How To Look Good Naked because at the end she looked so beautiful and happy. The end is probably nigh. On the bright side, it's all over tomorrow and I can go to the safari park and get ratted and other such fun.
ALSO: democracy. WELL DONE PARLIAMENT for passing some extremely sensible and logical things recently after the debacle over the 10p tax rate. Thank you for not giving in to the nutjob fundamentalists who to be honest shouldn't have been allowed to let the bills get so far as it is, but hey ho, on the bright side I'm not American.
However POOR SHOW Europe. Dustin the Turkey not through to the finals of Eurovision on Friday!? FOR SHAME.
Er. Yes. Currently doing some scribbling rather despondantly titled 'Scottish legal stuff' and underneath I currently have details of the Treaty of Perth and other such fun. I honestly don't think I'm going to be able to put questions together tomorrow, but as long as I get three topics I can vaguely hammer an answer into - emphasis on the vague, come on Western Isles, Conquest of Wales, ideas of nationalism or the Scottish wars of independence and at a big push Toom Tabard - then we might all be okay. If there were any damn past papers available it might help.
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Date: 2008-05-21 04:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-21 06:45 pm (UTC)(The British system is ever so complicated to explain. I can extrapolate in comments if you want more on the Parliamentary system.)
1. Whether human embryos with the intention of medical research can include any animal DNA: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7407589.stm Within the same bill was the question of 'savious siblings': http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7409264.stm I'm in favour of both as the embryos are destroyed after fourteen days, and the whole 'saviour sibling' thing comes under the legislation for IVF, wherein people have to be assessed to be seen to be suitable parents, so the child will be loved thoroughly whatever happens.
That was a couple of days ago.
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7410934.stm In the aforementioned IVF guidelines, whether 'a suitable male father figure' had to be present for IVF, which would effectively ban lesbians and single women from getting IVF. As long as someone is an effective parent, I don't care what gender they're brought up by. (A friend of mine who was brought up for most of her life by her mother and her mother's female partner declared at the telly last night 'No, it's true! Grow up with lesbians and you'll catch it! My brother likes women, you know!')
3. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7409696.stm This also came in with a vote over whether the abortion limit should be cut down from 24 weeks (the current time a woman can get an abortion) to a variety of weeks.
Now, all the issues seem fairly mild by themselves. They are, really. But they're such large issues, and there is a growth in a fundamentalist right-wing movement in Britain that tends to knee-jerk against all these issues - the abortion debate and the IVF argument are the two that spring to mind - that is comforts me to see a range of opinion in our politicians and quite a few seem to have made fairly reasoned decisons that aren't along party lines. Huzzah!