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The has to be a certain amount of ego trip to have an attitude "I must disrupt the enjoyment of thousands of people because I know and care much more than they do".

It's a true but worthless contribution to the debate. Why is the population increasing so fast? Because better medical provision in the poorer countries is helping people live longer and helping more of their children grow up to adulthood. What's the solution?

Certainly not poor in global terms, but I'm talking about "relative" poor. There are people living in official poverty who can manage a foreign holiday.

All problems affect the poor first. But I'm not talking about the starving poor, I'm talking about the one-holiday-a-year poor. Persuading someone that if they never go on holiday with their children will be better for the children than if they have a fortnight in Spain, is not easy. (Well...

I think you're a touch optimistic there. Most people in this country are not willing to materially lower their living standards in a bid to cut emissions, and the rest of the world won't cut theirs unless and until their living standards have caught up with ours.

A common denominator in most of these protestors is that they are rich. It's easier to say that we must give up a car if you have two cars. People who only have one car are less keen. One of the problems in getting people to agree to cut emissions is that the mechanisms to make them do so...

There is still a largish school of thought that reckons if you say anything bad about a woman, you refer to all women, as if men could be individuals but women are an amorphous mass that are all the same. I remember Ian Hislop on Have I Got News for You, saying to a woman who had been quite...

There's no logical reason to watch football either. I do it because I enjoy it, not because it has a logical reason. I don't need a logical reason to eat meat. Do I see humans as above animals, with the right to eat the animals but the duty to see they are treated humanely (arguments later...

No, I wouldn't agree with you there. If you believe that women are thick, don't quote me talking about just one woman who died over 100 years ago as if I was backing you up.

So what should we do about it? Obviously some animals are more repugnant than others - badgers, for example, being among the worst examples, the way they unroll a hedgehog so they can eat its stomach without troubling to kill it first - but many, many animals carry out this barbaric practice of...

earing in mind that Emily Davidson had a return ticket and left no suicide note, the reason she threw herself in front of the King's horse is perhaps because she wanted to pin a ribbon to its bridle and didn't realise how hard that is to do with half a ton of horse galloping at 40 mph.