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Astronautics and Space Engineering at Cranfield University. Hoping to find work in the space industry once it's all done - this uni has good ties with the industry. Going to be an interesting year.

Getting well into my Masters course...but by God the lecture I've just had made no fvcking sense at all. The lecturer is well-meaning and clearly knows his stuff but doesn't really know how to communicate a complex topic in a way that's even vaguely easy to understand. Still, I've got the notes and it's not an assessed module so I can look at it any time. And most of the lecturers are pretty good at explaining things.

Moral fvcking absolutism. There is more than one side to an argument, you fvcking moron.

Well, from what I can tell it's outlawed there (except in specific cases) and it doesn't look like the law is going to change any time soon. And (I might be wrong here) there isn't nearly as much political posturing and polarisation on the subject there as in the US...

Of course they should be free to hold those views. As with most other issues, it's when they then start pressing those views on others that the problems arise....along with the murdered doctors and blown-up hospitals. I still find it intriguing that the US is the only first-world country where this is such a sensitive political issue...I'm actually not really that sure why?

Certainly agree with you on free speech...Griffin should have the right to say what he wants to say through a platform. Of course, by the same principle other people then have the right to call him whatever they want because of it. Also, from what I can tell political slurs (on this board and out in the world) are not unidirectional. For every BNP bigot knuckle-dragging fascist you have a Socialist tree-hugging workshy person-who-doesn't-live-in-the-REAL-world. It's the absolutism on both sides that gets to me...people believing that a particular issue is utterly black and white and being totally reviled by any idea of compromise.

Private healthcare should be available to those who can afford it. But there should also be free-at-point-of-service, reasonable standard healthcare to those who can't. Hang on...isn't this exactly the case in this country already? As I've said before, money doesn't mean much when you're dead, and you shouldn't have to put a price on saving a life or stopping suffering.

I'd rather it be paid for through taxes than be loaded with a massive bill if and when I was unlucky enough to get ill or injured...when that happens the last thing you want to be worrying about is how much your treatment will cost. Healthcare and being cared for when sick or injured shouldn't be a luxury that has to be paid for. I think the NHS does a pretty decent job.

It's not, as what he suggested would never get passed as legislation as it wouldn't have enough support. I hope. It would however be dangerous if enough people in the Government thought the same way. I'm just thankful that (by and large) people in the UK are far more reasonable on this issue than some of the nutjobs across the pond.

Not in this country, anyway. The US seems to be the only place where it is. That said, I would say a womans right to choose about what happens to her own body is probably a political issue.

Your own private commercial jet for one flight. Awesome.

TBF that kid will have the best excuse for making his girlfriend pregnant ever. "Your fault, mum..."

I think it should be Wiggins, purely based on the fact that Murray will have more years and opportunities like this, and Wiggins will not. In fact I reckon Murray, now he's won his first, will win at least one more Slam next year. That should be the SPOTY in the bag for him in 2013...so let Wiggins have it this year. Don't really think anyone else is in the frame to win it.

I still reckon Wiggo will win it, but in any other year at all - any other year - Murray would walk it. Can't we just give a communal SPOTY award to a lot of people this year? It's been so fantastic...

Well...there's always Tomic...

I think he's actually numb. To go after something and get so close to it for so long...when you actually get it, you don't know what to do with yourself. But he'll get more.

What a match. 5th time lucky. Finally, the 76 year wait is over.

Come on Andy - here we go!

Shit...drops the service game. Get another break Andy!

Double break. Needs the next hold here.

Needs to back it up with a hold.

And it goes to 5. Murray started to come back into it later in the 4th though. Here we go...

Been a really high-quality match so far!

Which, I guess, speaks volumes about them as people.

Murray has just hit a wall here. Doubt has crept in. Kudos to Djoko for upping his game...Murray has still got time to respond but must hurry.