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It's not guesswork, Ian. It is taken from opinions expressed during a debate on the housing market on BBC 5Live with an invited audience of young people trying to get on the housing ladder. It was perhaps a small, unrepresentative sample, but isn't that what the BBC is meant to try and avoid?

Smaller houses take up less land (so you can more of them per hectare), are cheaper, and are what is needed for young people to start on the housing ladder. When i was growing up 35 years ago or so, the expectation was that you buy somewhere small and cheap to start out (mine was a new-build...

In our village, the local planning authority regularly undertake housing needs surveys to inform the decisions that are made by the planning committee. It was evident that there were many people who said they would want a 2-bed bungalow to move into, or a shared ownership starter home. So when...

You need everything in the property ladder. Flats, 2-bed "starter" homes, 3- and 4-bed "family" homes and FAR more 2-bed bungalows for older people who want to downsize/de-complicate, thus freeing up the family homes for the ladder. ALL of these types need to be on EVERY sizeable development in...

Rachel Reeves appears to have bagged a job in an amusement arcade. "Can i have 50p worth of 2p pieces please?"

Political leaders (of any persuasion) who appear on the campaign trail in a formal shirt (no tie) with their sleeves rolled up. If they are hot, wear a short-sleeved shirt. They clearly do it to make the point that they have rolled their sleeves up to get on with the job! Tossers!

The lines are shit; the line *drawing* has been shit. It needs an electronically-drawn VERTICAL PLANE. Wan-Bissaka's shoulders were further forward than Haji's foot. There is nothing in the Laws to say it is based on the foot - it is the forward-most point. I was in Block 547 so didn't have the...

You WHAT??????

I'm not sure i understand your reply - but the original thread has vanished from my front page despite me posting something on it recently. Anyone know why that might be?

Sad but true

Where has it gone?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-69055989

Never 'eard of 'em!

There has been much debate as to whether a trans woman taking feminising hormone therapy still retains that physical advantage if she has been through puberty as a biological male. I think some sports' governing bodies have allowed trans women in women's categories provided they have been on the...

Phil Brown was on the radio this morning talking about the managerial merry-go-round (or misery-go-round, as he referred to it!). He said when he got 'Ull up to the Prem, they stayed up and Boro were relegated. Brown was reflecting on the different paths careers can take - he is now managing...

Where the f*ck has SF, or me, or anyone else on this thread "sought the approval" of Oakey (i assume that is who you mean by the touching term "some random woman" - a borderline misogynistic comment if ever there was one)? Don't judge us by your standards. And just dial back on the aggression...

For what it's worth, I'm not a woman, but those are the arguments, yes. But it comes down to dignity and respect for women too, and many will find the presence of a biological male (a term which is not contrary to EA 2010) unsettling or anxiety inducing.

I know (personally, not anecdotally) of a trans-woman who plays for their university's women's football team, along with two other trans-women. That is not only conferring an unfair physical advantage on other women's teams but also denies three "cis-women" (i include the quotation marks because...

It's an easy mistake to make in this day and age when the terms are so often used interchangeably. I sit on a research ethics committee at my place of work, and authors of applications frequently tie themselves in knots with the terminology. It is one thing to say you are going to collect data...

It could be argued that there are a number of trans women who have chosen to change sex for cynical reasons to enable themselves to succeed in women's sport where they were also-rans in men's. I forget the names now, but there are several across a number of sports. I stand with @oakey