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Here's an interesting development in Amsterdam. Amsterdam refers case of British nationals wanting to retain EU citizenhip to ECJ. Judge Bakals says no referendum in a democracy should prejudice a minority...

There were thousands marching in London on Sunday, protesting about the treatment of the NHS by this government, but it hardly got a mention on the news bulletins.

Of course they were working their fingers to the bone, but it was generally at home, or in service. In other words, domestic work. Even nursing was more domestic work, than actual medicine.

Yes, I do. It was the first time women had died whilst serving. They also worked as railway guards, ticket collectors, buses and tram conductors, postal workers, police, firefighters and as bank ‘tellers’ and clerks. Some women also worked heavy or precision machinery in engineering, led cart...

If you read my post 58, I said arson is a crime ('is' being present tense).

Why was it an error to jail someone for arson? Arson is a crime. As I said, women were given the vote in 1918, as their value and contribution to the war effort spoke volumes, rather than acts of 'terrorism'. Switzerland didn't give women the vote until 1971, but I don't remember wholesale...

What is the point of pardoning women who have been long dead? They did break the law to try to force the votes. The first world war did a lot more for pointing out the value of women (such as the formation of the WRNS) some of whom died for their country. It cannot be compared to pardoning...