Wings Over Scotland

liz g so’s you & ither Winger wummin in the loop watch oot for Ian Brotherhoods posts re the change of venue for Wings night out 2nd Mar .

RE: avatar

Create an account here:-

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Reading the comments below the line here on Wings is a lot more enjoyable and informative, now that some disruptive voices have been banned/gone missing.
I don’t have good access right now so I’ve missed some of the event. Can someone tell me what happened to Rock?

For all Scots Cringers who attend Burns Nights: go funk yourself.

After this fashion, of course…..

link to youtube.com

Turn up the volume, Poindexters.

@TC –

Great choice of sounds there.

🙂

RE: Rock.

See,

link to wingsoverscotland.com

@David: sublime choice. That track would be on my DID list.

Thanks, BDTT for your elucidation.

@Ian B: this looks like a job for Tinto’s Special Savoury Rice.

Laters, haters.

All I can say, Ian, is that it’s wholesome, organic and tasty. Made me wot I am today 😛

May even offer vegetarian and meat versions for the discerning Winger.

May even wash my hands 😉

I’m not giving out my kwality recipes for free, Ian. Every craft has its mysteries 😛

Just to complicate matters, may offer brown and basmati rice options.

That’s four ways to orgasmatronic experiences.

Love potato salad, me. Looking furrit tae it, Ian.

I’m leaving this here for Gammons everywhere. Hope their BP doesn’t blow gaskets.

link to youtube.com

Bonsoir, mes braves.

Ib my other post has disapeared, put me doon for maybes aye, along with my special apple and date cake with a coconut toffee crust ? better than sticky toffee pudding ?

RE: March 2nd

I’m hoping to be in Glasgow that weekend. Keep you posted nearer the time, but I’d love to catch up with some folk. 🙂

IanB i’ll be contacting Jock Scott tomorrow so he might be our DJ.

Cheers abody for the responses so far. Shaping up to be a good one.

@Crazycat –

Aye, it’s right outside Queen St Station if you’re leaving the west exit. Canny miss it!

😉

@ Ian

Ta. See you there.

Hope to be there. Shall I bring some gammon sandwiches in case Rock turns up?

@Fairliered –

Great you can make it. Gammon pieces always acceptable!

But should you use pan or plain…

???

Ian,
I’m hoping to make it too if everything runs smoothly my end.
I haven’t been to any Wings get togethers since the first one you organised at the Counting House in April 2014 so it would be good to catch up with old and new wingers alike, lurkers or not.

Are you still on the Guinness?

@Breastplate –

Great you’ll make it! Your name too has gone on the list!

Guinness? Naw, had to give it up friend, I ran out of underpants…

🙁

I’m a “very likely” for this but, I might be refused entry for not being sophisticated enough. 😉 I’m only coming if you all promise to talk to me and not leave me muttering away to myself in a dark corner like you do in aff topic. 🙂

William Wallace: I’m not sophisticated, I’m from Ayrshire.

Ah, that was you, Willie Wassal!

See you on the 2nd, no doubt?

Hi Ian B.

Me, Pete and Chris will be there, at some point.

I can’t make it, money not time. Low-earning time of the year keeping going on any cushion from the summer season, it’s tight as a drum and there’s a couple of (family) expensive things going on soon after but before money really starts coming in.

It’s a shame, I would like to discuss tactics with like-minded trustworthy people. Operating alone you do get feedback from other forum posters (this is elsewhere), but there are some basic questions. Basically – is now the time? There’s no Ref on yet, is it better to save some things until it’s announced, and maybe even until it’s in full swing? It’s frustrating holding off, but shoot the bolt too soon and Bernie will laugh his head off. As well as get a shield and new weapons.

Ho hum.

Hi Ian B.

Can you not count past 2?

8=)

@BDTT –

Must confess, I took a liberty and already had you on the list!

😉

The weather Where I Am:

link to youtube.com

And the guga are flying low…..

We had a nice wee Burns night in the YES Dunoon Forward Shop at the weekend so I asked the man to give us some up to date verses

ODE TO FLUFFY
Fair fa’ yer beardie, sleekit face
Great chieftain o’ the nawbag race
Aboon them a’ ye tak your place
For selfish reason
As House o’ Lords reward ye chase
Tae mark your treason
The damp soiled benches there you’ll fill
Your hurdies like a fluffy hill
And Ruthie, Dick and Willie will
Be keen tae follow
But Scotland freed yer hopes will kill
In shame you’ll wallow

But Mundell, thou art surely vain
In well proved foresight it is plain
The best laid schemes of mice and men
Gang aft agley
You’ll be aye remembered, to your pain
In London’s pay.

OOR WEE MICE
Wee cowrin, tim’rous Britarse lickers
Wae Union Jacks on bumper stickers
(And likely too on vests and knickers)
What makes thee crawl
Tae tax avoiding city slickers?
That screw us all

O’ wad some pow’r the giftie gie ye
Tae see yerselves as others see ye
And understaund that we can free ye
Frae spineless plight
We’ve backbones here we’ll gladly give ye
And prospects bright.

“And how was The Great Man looking?” Looking…for lassies I would imagine

Evenin’ David ~

Ah’ve never watched the movie before (ah know of it though)

Gonna give your link a shot at midnight.

Cheers.

@HandandShrimp –

I saw your appeal on MT but didn’t feel qualified to answer.

Sadly, I don’t think it’s possible, it the Alexa thing is anything similar to the Google ball thing. The Indyradio station is, technically, an ‘app’, so, far as I can tell, you’d only be able to get it via laptop or smartphone.

Others will know for sure but that’s my guess.

🙁

@HandandShrimp

Don’t know if it helps much as I’ve no idea how Alexa works, but if it can use apps then there is now one available for Indylive Radio.

link to play.google.com

Hackalumpoff As is normal some of the Wings women do the Raffle ( there smiles are better than mine lol ) .

Jock Scott was in Dows today we can hire their system at a cost of £50 , Jocks got microphones & stands .

Anybody with musical instrument/singers let Ian Brotherhood know via Twitter/or OT.

Thanks to Tinto Chiel and BDTT on previous page for info on gravatar.
I’ll have a think about it. Thought an avatar pic would be useful to make it clear I am Dan, not the loon Danny that seems to have now been banished from the site. As he’s gone it’s less of an issue.

I’m not sure, Ian.

I have to be in Inverness every third thurs night at the moment and that (on current schedule) will not be one of those weekends when I am halfway there already. So I will have to decide later whether I want another long trip on a ‘free’ weekend.

Obviously, I want to come so I will have to see.

Cearc
Should I save up my egg cartons just in case?

Hi Ian B.
Just testing.
I submitted a comment with a Google Maps link that hasn’t appeared.
So I’m sticking in this one to see if it appears on a reload.

Ian B.,

I’m intending to turn up to the next get-together in a months’ time.

I’m not sure though where it is! The only Sammy Dow’s I could find was on the South Side (Strathbungo?) but that has recently (I believe) become another Lebowski’s. There is a Dow’s Bar right next to Queen St. station, so is that the one..?

Chas, might be an idea!

@cearc: hee hee! Hope you can make it.

Sadly, for lovers of wit and wisdom, I intend to be there (official notice for Ian B).

Dow’s Bar, Dundas Street.
Dow’s Bar, Dundas Street.
Dow’s Bar, Dundas Street.
Dow’s Bar, Dundas Street…

I’m bringing an Indian chef and all the ingredients for a braw curry.

Who’s gonna bring the cooker, pots and pans 🙂

Cactus mind bring the guitar and a big pot LOL

Mornin’ Thepnr, aye, n ah’ll see if ah can get a haud of Dixie 2.

Between now and then…

There gonna be a whole lotta shit a goin’ on down there partner.

Dow’s is the entrance, West of Independence Square ’19.

That BDTT track put me in mind o this, for some reason. Principal ingredients: dirty Hammond, psychedelia, large quantities of mind-altering drugs, free spirits:

link to m.youtube.com

Kick out your jams, brothers and sisters!

OK I think I’m getting the hang of this now. 15th October sees the launch of the crowdfunder for Scottish Independence Convention to do research into what’s needed to raise support for Independence. 3rd February sees the launch of the Progress Scotland crowdfunder to do research into what’s needed to raise support for Independence. 19th May sees the launch of the We Need More Research crowdfunder to do research into what more research is needed to raise support for Independence. 1st September sees the launch of the WTF Happened crowdfunder to do research into what happened to the research into what’s needed to raise support for Independence. 15th December sees the launch of the Rebooting Research crowdfunder into resarching to see if any more research is needed to research into raising support for Indepenedence.

It was a dark and stormy might, the rain came down in torrents. Alistair Duran the chief of his clan said unto his man “Come, tell us a tale”, and he began as follows. It was a dark and stormy might, the rain came down in torrents. Alistair Duran the chief of his clan said unto his man “Come, tell us a tale”, and he began as follows. It was a dark and stormy might, the rain came down in torrents. Alistair Duran the chief of his clan said unto his man “Come, tell us a tale”, and he began as follows.

Now I get it.

yesindyref2 at 6.33
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Exactly

@DMcEH / @Sarah
Thanks for that. I didn’t post it on the main thread, not because I’m afraid of being called a fake indy supporter, who cares? That’s been done to death anyway. It’s because I don’t like being negative, so I didn’t even post anything like it on the National or Herald. And it’s got 9,000 signed up already it seems – a monthly payment presumably. Wow. If it had happened 18 months ago I’d have been wild for it, but now?

It’s 8 weeks time and we’re very likely out of the EU, no Indy Ref till next Holyrood session and none then because the SNP will lose votes and support like it’s going out of fashion. It really will be lost for a generation, a long generation, well past my best before date, and we didn’t even get to vote. And if these stupid politicians took their noses and ears and eyes out of their own self-importance, they’d know we’re so very close, the chances are all we need to do is hold the Ref. If we hold it, they will vote.

I remember talking to TJ at Glasgow Green 2015 (?) (his wee daughter with him) as we were queuing for a written up passport (mines’s for son), and he was inconsolable having heard Robin McAlpine talking about 2022 or something. “I want my life back” he said. Well, R McA is front page of the National, columnist saying like “in April we’ll know if the UK has Brexited”, Sturgeon is talking weeks as though they’re weeks not days to announce timing and commending this Lack of Progress Scotland Uninitiative and guess what, I want my life back too. Once I’m rid this nasty nasty bug, I think I’ll go for the Cobbler. Then Ben Lui, then …

@DMcEH – I don’t listen to these speech things, not my thing. I like the atmosphere, looking around, maybe eavesdropping on conversations, talking to strangers, the police as well of course. Problem is that RMcA seems to be gaining ground, and from comments all over the place. a lot of Indy supporters now have given up on a Ref before Scotland is dragged out the EU. Well, I nearly have too.

On the thread on the Herald a little off the ball stuff btl, and this from a good guy unionist I’d happily have a pint with as long as we avoided Indy!

“4. Finally, can I take this opportunity of stating that Peter Piper is one of the best commentators in this forum. Both moderate and willing (on occasion 🙂 to concede on points made. Without the quality of post and debate Peter brings, the forum would have been very much diminished. There are not many Scottish nationalist posters, with their comments would have changed the voting intention of a soft supporter of the status quo or brought over to the “yes” side a “don’t know”. Peter is one of the few who could and suspect has. A worthy opponent.”

There’s been similar when some silly troll has had a go, but not gone as far as that last bit. But very bitter-sweet reading that, because, what’s the point? What really is the point if there’s no Ref in sight?

Anyways, don’t let me put you off, I’m ill and not feeling great, happy though apart from Indy having done family duty helping move two loads with my small van and made myself sicker in the process as one does going out before fully recovered, so I’m off to the AOM campaign which it seems I never finished before 🙂

@Sarah
On the other hand …

Indy’s an objective, it’s long-term, medium-term and if it happens, short-term. SIC and PS can be used all three if neccessary, and they have funding and contact details. So I guess if Indy Ref 2 was announced quickly and short timescale, they’re ready to go. Plus the ring-fenced nearly a half million from whatever it was called, ScotRef or something.

Ho hum, back to the game and some strategy for the next level 🙂

Five years old but fresh as an oyster (other fresh things are available):

link to youtube.com

Owing to the cerebral nature of most soffisticates on here, I append this film which I saw when I was a nipper. Along with The Maggie and Geordie, it was one of the few films on the BBC which had any Scottish content:

link to youtube.com

It’s also good for brushing up your colloquial Greek.

Enjoyment may be increased late at night by a couple of two-finger drams…..

Bad, bad boys…..

link to youtube.com

And more than 50 years ago, too.

@Thepnr: yes, Big Bad Gap-Toothed Dan was Da Man back then. Dunfermline’s finest, imho.

I might have played it a little later but I had to go to my flower arranging class and forgot all about it.

Did you say, Bread, old fruit?

link to youtube.com

Hankies oot…

🙂 This one’s for Tory MP Ross “Groper” Thomson:

link to youtube.com

“You Need Hands” – Max Bygraves

Yellow shirts too…

link to youtube.com

Great track and saturated colours.

Alan Price, ya bass!

“I can see colours, man.”

link to youtube.com

Singularly weird.

Ross Thomson says that it is all a big mistake.As he was only doing his Tory Handcock Impersonation. ? ? ? ? ? ? ???????

@TC –

That Beatles track is a belter, first time for me. And it was recorded in 1966? Blimey…out-Floyding Floyd?

I have my music set to play random all in the car and this turned up today. link to youtube.com

Do we have any modern Scottish protest/rebel songs like this?

Is there a Scottish Christy Moore who can raise the roof wherever he plays?

Is the Interim Interdict still a thing?

If it is maybe a “class action” of x000 of Scots applied for an Interdict on Loss of Human Rights, Loss of European Citizenship or whateffer could put a spoke in the wheels of Brexit.

Whaddayasay Ronnie Anderson court marshal/jester.

I can’t be arsed with those main treads anymore, severely pissed off.

Hi Ian B.

Then, of course, there is the first Beatles instrumental, I believe from their sessions with Bert Kaempfert in Germany, around 1961/62.

link to youtube.com

As far as I can recall, they didn’t do another instrumental until “Flying”, on the ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ double EP.

link to youtube.com

“Sounds Nice”, who had a UK hit with an instrumental version of “Je Taime” (Jane Birkin & Serg Gainsbourg), did a version of “Flying” on their album. I prefer it to The Beatles’ version. After all, it does feature Stylophones and some funky organ!

link to youtube.com

Hi Tinto Chiel.

How about this one? OK, it’s from the 60s but what’s 50 odd years out of over 300? The video is from 2012.

link to youtube.com

All that’s required to be a part of “the clique” is to turn up at an event, any event whatsoever and meet other people who post on Wings.

That’s it, you’re now in the clique 🙂 Simples.

As there appears to have been a complete lack of concrete planning regarding the future of Brexitania, it’s most unlikely that any consideration will have been given to the long-term planning of the Scottish NHS. It is this lack of consideration and the likely harmful impact on Scotland’s public health, that tells us that Brexit is not only an articulation of English cultural chauvinism, it is immoral public policy.

Where there is no vision, the people perish: a utopian ethic for a transformed future
link to cusp.ac.uk

As I don’t think there’s an official Brexit anthem, I offer this as an encapsulation of racialised authoritarianism and narcissistic impotence. Brexit in a nutshell.

Eric Cartman – Come Sail Away
link to youtube.com

@Church of Scotland
I’ll ask again. Do you consider yourselves agents of moral good or do you continue to support British nationalism?

Brexit demonstrates the need for a normative theory of political disintegration
link to blogs.lse.ac.uk

The Ethics of Brexit?
link to divinity.uchicago.edu

The Institute of Applied Ethics presents: ‘What Brexit tells us about the British’
link to culturenet.co.uk

Sorry to keep going on but Brexit really scares the shit out of me. Not only does it annihilate the principles of the Treaty of Union, the political authority of the British constitution has subsequently been considerably diminished. It can no longer justify its’ legal force, IMHO, yet this is the authority that will forecastle amend the legal identity of Scotland’s inhabitants.

From the perspective of Political Realism, continued yoonyawn not only represents an attract on the doctrine of international law, but also the rational basis of politics itself. Brexit also appear to be an attack on the “Precautionery Principle”, which isn’t surprising as Brexit’s a dream come true for the English New Right. And the English New Left, come to think of it.

P.S. I might have mentioned this before but pragmatism without recourse to ethics is simply clown-shows fascism. That’s Brexit that is.

Beyond Brexit – International trade and health

Key points

–– At our annual representative meeting in June 2018, doctors made clear their worries that Brexit poses a major threat to the NHS and the nation’s health. Given what is now known about the potential impact of Brexit and especially the dangers a ‘no deal’ Brexit presents, the BMA voted to oppose Brexit and to support the public having a final say on the Brexit deal. We support the UK remaining in the European single market and maintaining open border arrangements with free movement of healthcare and medical research staff.

–– The international trade agreements under which the UK, as an EU member state, currently trades with global partners provide vital protection to the NHS, safeguard the UK’s right to regulate in the interest of public health, and set high health and safety standards on imported products.

–– Depending upon the nature of the final Brexit deal, the UK may not be able to trade under these agreements after Brexit. The UK Government would have several options for trading globally after leaving the EU, including:

–– trade with any of the 164 WTO (World Trade Organization) members under common rules without any preferential agreement;

–– join the EEA (European Economic Area) or EFTA (European Free Trade Association), maintaining single market access with some freedom to negotiate new trade agreements with non-EU countries; or

–– negotiate its own free trade agreements, ideally maintaining favourable access to current trading partners and striking agreements with new partners.

–– The UK is already coming under significant pressure from non-EU countries to liberalise aspects of its trade policy in ways that could negatively impact health post-Brexit.

–– The UK Parliament does not currently have sufficient powers to guard against these potential impacts through scrutiny of trade negotiations, including access to negotiating texts and an automatic positive vote on the final text of trade agreements. Both EU and US legislators have such powers.

–– To minimise these potential impacts the UK Government should commit to exclude from any future trade agreements:

–– the provision of healthcare services, particularly the NHS, and any clauses that could lock in competitive procurement of publicly funded healthcare services;

–– investor protection and dispute resolution mechanisms that could limit the UK’s future ability to regulate in the interest of public health;

–– any weakening of current high product safety standards, including the animal welfare and environmental safety standards for food items; and

–– strengthening of IPR (intellectual property rights) that could limit the ability of lowerincome countries to procure generic medicines.

–– For the UK, this approach would:

–– prevent further commercialisation of the NHS and safeguard future options for rolling back privatisation;

–– ensure that the threat of challenges under investor protection mechanisms do not deter, delay or block public health improvement measures;

–– maintain high standards for imports to protect consumer health and the environment, and avoid raising barriers to trade with the EU for UK exports; and

–– protect the current flexibility of IPR, supporting affordable access to essential medicines in developing countries.

Should there be a failure to secure UK trade agreements with current partners, including the EU – or, at a minimum, transitional arrangements with these countries to maintain favourable market access from March 2019 – the UK would be forced to trade under WTO rules. This would increase taxes on exports in some sectors, including agriculture, and would likely have a significant cost for the UK economy. Mounting pressure to avoid this scenario given the increasing likelihood of a ‘no deal’ Brexit, and the current lack of adequate Parliamentary scrutiny of trade negotiations, create a significant risk of Ministers entering into agreements that promote economic benefits over health.

link to bma.org.uk

The precautionary principle under fire
link to ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk

The Impact of Brexit on the Environment: Exploring the Dynamics of a Complex Relationship
link to cambridge.org

Hey groovy cools ~

Question Time – 07/02/19

Ah was having a look at the still photograph of Billy ra Bigot and the remainder of the audience behind him… (via WOS twitter.)

Recognised one of our Yes peoples from the AUOB marches and other events.

If ye look 5 rows up and to the immediate left of the guy in the checkered shirt… he the guy with his hand / finger up, ye may remember frae efters at The Clutha:

link to twitter.com

Yes always has a presence.

I’m not sure those hit the mark.

Rethinking the biopsychosocial model of health: Understanding health as a dynamic system
link to onlinelibrary.wiley.com

The Biopsychosocial Model in Health Research: Its Strengths and Limitations for Critical Realists
link to researchgate.net

A biopsychosocial model based on negative feedback and control
link to frontiersin.org

All the talk about a re-unified Ireland:

Just watching the rugby and it has always struck me, going back to the days when it was just the “4 nations”, that the Irish RU team is, in fact, a unified team. The IRFU has always had jurisdiction over rugby for the whole of the island of Ireland since its inception in 1879. There is no such thing as a N. Ireland rugby union team, not in the realms of international rugby at least.
The politicians should take a leaf out of their book.

The actress is Daniella Nardini. She is a Largs Nardini and lives in Glasgow but has family in Largs / Fairlie. Don’t think Peter Nardini is a Largs Nardini though (although I could be wrong).

Lovely day Where I Am. It’s made me wot I am today.

link to youtube.com

I see Kevin Hague is yapping for attention, again. When has accessing inalienable human rights ever been immoral. Pure cultist.

Postmodernism, geography, and the social semiotics of space
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.476.5357&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Development economics: from classical to critical analysis
ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2103&context=artspapers

The Complementary Roles of Human and Social Capital
link to oecd.org

I was right the first time. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve typed that word but it just looks wrong. I suppose that’s just the way my brain is wired. A bit wonky.

link
link to pdfs.semanticscholar.org

Anyone know if all is well with Macart? I’ve noticed he’s not been on the threads for a while.

If you are reading Sam, hoping all is well with you.

@Macart

Good to know you are still here, although you may be better of staying away. It’s pretty ‘wild’ out there in indy land at the mo.

Nerves of steel required and perhaps the occasional libation or two 🙂 in the evenings naturally!

If youse are pure wanting to edumacate yirsels further, youse may enjoy this:

link to youtube.com

Some serious disputations btl, btw.

@Nana

” although you may be better of staying away. It’s pretty ‘wild’ out there in indy land at the mo.”

Heh! Know what you mean. 🙂

There’s not much to comment on at this point tbh Nana. There’s only some folk looking to blame someone else for their woes. Some folk are also dishonestly looking to apportion blame where it’s not due to further their agendas du jour. Some folk know exactly who to blame, but are still looking/hoping for a miracle and a last minute save that probably won’t happen.

But mostly though? People are fearful. And for all sorts of reasons. End of the day, we are where are because some bods chose poorly a little over four years ago. Screaming in a dark room won’t help. (I know, because I’ve tried…cough)

Near as I can see it, and probably the best thing to do right now? Is just to keep talking to people and convince them they may have an opportunity to opt out of this shit show very shortly. That and help folk out where we can.

@BDTT: know what you mean. My Auntie Mary (who had no canary) sang that slowly to me once and then I got it.

David Lynch is a very strange man: ever seen Eraserhead? May put you off chicken for life. Also, some little creep nicked my brand new raincoat during the performance probably because I wasn’t wearing it.

That’s the GFT for you: you get a better class of scumball there 😛 .

Time for some international legal theory and new natural law?

A Normative Theory of International Law Based on New Natural Law Theory

I. The New Natural Law Conception of Authority and Law

1. Authority
According to Finnis, ‘authority’ connotes the presence of good and sufficient reasons, among persons subject to authority, for acting in accordance with that which authority decrees.1 Finnis notes that authority is significant for its particular impact on practical deliberation: according to Finnis, the existence and exercise of authority gives rise to an ‘exclusionary reason’, that is, “a reason for judging or acting in the absence of understood reasons, or for disregarding at least some reasons which are understood and relevant and would in the absence of the exclusionary reason have sufficed to justify proceeding in some other way.”2

The purpose of authority, according to Finnis, is to coordinate the activities of members of a community for its common good. As already seen, new natural law theory maintains that the common good – the set of conditions that facilitates human pursuit of the basic values – constitutes a shared objective for members of a political community.3 Pursuit of the common good, however, may be reasonably done in a variety of ways, and members of a political community may arrive at divergent conclusions in this regard: there may be multiple plausible options, for example, for ensuring the security of the community against external threats, or for catering to the health needs of its ageing members.

The plurality of possibilities for realising the common good gives rise to what Finnis describes as ‘coordination problems’ – situations in which there is more than one reasonable manner of proceeding to address a particular issue, and where one of the available options must be selected in order to achieve progress.4 The need accordingly rises for definitive selection of a course of action that puts an end to deliberation within the community regarding other possibilities, and is recognised by the community as articulating the course of action which is thenceforth to be universally followed for pursing the common good. Authority, according to Finnis, is the only means (apart from unanimity, which is practically impossible to achieve) for realising such resolution of coordination problems in a political community.5

The foregoing account brings to light the extent to which new natural law theory interprets the significance of authority in terms of its relationship to the common good. The common good, which is essential to furthering human fulfilment, requires that the coordination problems of a community be solved. The new classical theory accordingly locates the basis of authority in the opportunity that authority presents for promoting the common good by resolving these problems.6 It may also be noted that by the terms of the new natural law characterisation of the common good, authority may itself be understood as being part of the common good: the resolution of a community’s coordination problems, and the means for resolving such problems, are themselves components of the set of conditions that facilitate human flourishing.

etheses.lse.ac.uk/999/1/Searl_A_Normative_Theory_of_International_Law_Based_on_New_Natural_Law_Theory.pdf

Or to put it another way, continued support of the GRA extends legal doctrine’s scope of interest from being that of human action, to also include human thought. Welcome to the era of proscribed beliefs and thought-crime.

N.B. Sex is biological, sexuality is psychological. Biological women are not subjective beings claiming identarian rights to a sexuality, they’re biologically women already. Their sex-based rights need protecting from the colonisation of their sex-class by privileged (white) males.

From being sexual to having sexual rights

….With the help of Massad, I contended that in order to be transmuted into a set of rights to which an abstract subject is entitled, sexuality remains tied to a sexual epistemology that turns it into a universal ontological reality based on naturalised notions of sexual orientation and identity. In this context, I proposed a distinction between identity categories and categories of field or domain, which would describe the conditions that shape this identitarian onto-epistemological framework. I argued that the sexual epistemology of the sexual rights bearing subject preconceives sexuality as a property that a self-owned subject is said to possess.

This is a subject who will relate to its sexuality in a possessive modality, as the owner of its body and of the sexual properties that come with it. The possessive character of the relationship between subjectivity and sexuality is, in effect, indebted to the liberal subject who will be defined precisely as a subject insofar as it is in possession of its own being. It is through this possessive modality, as one of the conditions that make possible the emergence of sexual onto-epistemological categories of identity, that sexuality is translated into a right.

link to eprints.lse.ac.uk

Cameron B Brodie @ 2.40
I’m waiting on the rage…
After I successfully sue club 18/30 for not recognising my right to go on holiday with them because I identify as 25..
When everyone on job seekers identifies as 12 and wants to go to High School and,and get family allowance/child tax credit!

Liz g
Sex is immutable, it can’t be changed. Gender is fluid and can change over time. I generally look to support the marginalised interests but not at the expense of reason. Btw, this attack on legal reason is an attack on all our human rights.