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He's also a human being. Who you are calling unpleasant. Its all very well calling hm unpleasant when he's alive, but he's a dead human being. Show some respect!

"Oppressive". "Unpleasant". The man is dead for god's sake. Show some decorum for fucks sake. He's a human being!

WHAM!

Glenda Jackson on Thatcher. Oohyah!

And yet, you worship it like a god. Weird.

What story? It doesn't make especially pretty reading...

What "facts" exactly are you wanting to emphasise?

Today, the Tories finally managed to do something that was welcomed in Scotland. Its taken a long time to achieve. Normally, everything the coalition do turns to fail up here. Well for once, the Tories accomplished something pro Scottish, and here you are, making it sound like a bad thing!

Ad Lib is such a typical Lib Dem. He even makes the few good things that the Tories manage to do seem shit.

Weren't you previously arguing that fetuses weren't human beings until they are born? At what point does a corpse stop being a human?

I'm not glorifying in her death. But it did perk my day up a bit. She did an awful lot wrong in her life, and she was never supported by my country. If anything, she did her very best to hold Scotland back in every possible way, and damn well near killed us. There is a reason the Tories were killed off in Scotland under her watch. So her death leaves the world no poorer. If anything, her death will help Scotland move on, and the untold misery she suffered on the world means that I feel no need to shed a tear. Apparently my wee sister made my dad a "Happy Margaret Thatcher's Dead Day" card.

I've always found this argument ridiculous. She's dead. Surely the time for respecting her feelings and treating her with decency was when she was alive? I've heard you say some quite awful things about politicians (as do we all), so why is it okay when they are alive, but not when they are dead? As it happens, I said awful things about her when she was alive, and I shall continue to say the same things now she is dead. A politician who did her very best to break Scotland. Hell mend her.

Weird story to break on the same day... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22066243

Isn't that something to do with the banking collapse?

Oh, and why is it okay to slag her constantly while she's alive, but as soon as she's dead, we're supposed to be all "respectful"? Wrong way round surely?

We're not wishing death on anyone, its already happened. We're celebrating it! Plus, out of respect? She's dead!

THere seems to be a spring in everyone's step this afternoon.

I was fearing the worst after the first couple years of Moffat, but I'm delighted, Dr. Who just seems to get better by the week! Must be gutting for the "hardcore" fans.

If the last series taught us anything, its that some Dr Who fans seriously overthink things!

I haven't watched for a couple of years now, but I noticed that there was a real lull for a few years in quality, but it picked up again imo. A great moment indeed!

Every time I walk to my office, I see this sign: We are supposed to be a fucking university, and every time I see that sign, I die a little inside.

He sings too? Whadda guy! Neil Gaiman gave us Neverwhere, for which I will be forever grateful.

After a lull of a couple of years, the current series of Dr. Who (i.e. the first part and this one) is amazing again. I would go as far to say as it is at its very best now. The turning point for me was the Neil Gaiman episode, the Dr's Wife. This series, it has been like they kept the best of Moffat, and also added in some of the best bits from the RTD era. Fantastic tv, I want to watch the episode again already.

Scotch students then? Supras is right, they're aye the worst. In my experience, scathing banter with the right students seems to get a positive response. Only with the right students though. Its a surgical job.

Elicit, surely? But seriously, I adjust my style depending on the class, but I tend to run quite relaxed classes (in some ways) so that people don't feel quite so unwilling to contribute. That tends to help things, as well as letting people answer what they can, and able to say that they don't know something. Of course, the flip side is that I expect people to have done at least a minimum of work in advance. Edited to add, Supras, the expression you're looking for is "Scotch cringe".