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The Fabian Women's Network is advocating a ban on shops displaying lads' magazines. The rationale is that these magazines degrade women, could be construed as causing sexual harassment and have the potential to corrupt young people, especially boys. Do you agree? Or has The Fabian Women's Network gone off its trolley by attempting to take political correctness a stage too far?

If so, following intercourse with man number 1, during which you achieve orgasm, how soon before you can have intercourse with man number 2?

I am asking this because I’d like to know if, in general, a woman’s sexual apparatus and/or psychology has any involuntary mechanisms that tend to resist intercourse with a man shortly after satisfying intercourse with another man.

This a UK question.

My cousin is unable to walk more than a few steps and has a car with a blue badge permanently displayed on the front windscreen. On the rare occasions he uses the car he has a small electric mobility scooter in the back for getting to wherever he is going. Recently my cousin has also been diagnosed with lung cancer and, as a result, has been making several trips to his local hospital for tests and treatments. Almost invariably when he turns up in the hospital car park all the disabled bays are taken, quite a few of them by cars not displaying blue badges. Then he has to park in an ordinary bay, which is no great hardship.

However, this morning when he arrived at the hospital all the parking places were taken, disabled and non-disabled, which meant that my cousin had no option but to park right at the end of one row of disabled parking bays where there was a very wide space being unused. By parking here he wasn’t blocking any other vehicle or causing a nuisance to anyone. On emerging from his car he noticed once again a few cars in the disabled bays not displaying blue badges.

When he returned to his car after his appointment there was a parking ticket stuck to the driver’s side window informing him that he was due to pay a fine of £40 for not parking in a disabled bay. This fine is being levied by a firm called CP Plus Limited PO Box 14836 London NW3 1WT. They have a web site at www.cp-plus.co.uk.

My cousin is disinclined to pay this fine because he thinks that, if CP Plus parking attendants prevented (and ticketed) cars without blue badges from parking in disabled bays, this morning there would have been several for my cousin to use and he would not have had to park in the only sensible place available that was compatible with his needs.

But CP Plus says that ‘further action’ will be taken if the fine is not paid within 28 days.

So, what can they do to enforce this, and how does my cousin stand?

I'm asking this question because recently the son of a Catholic friend of mine did very well in his exams and was offered unconditional places at Glasgow and St. Andrews Universities to do the same courses. The lad chose Glasgow on the pretext that it would cost too much too keep him in lodgings at St. Andrews. Yet, given that St. Andrews is a more prestigious university than Glasgow I am wondering if there was perhaps another reason for this young man's choice.

I live in London. It’s late evening about 10pm and dark. The road is quiet. Not much traffic. I am riding a motorcycle and approaching a double set of traffic lights I know well. The second set is around one hundred yards beyond the first set which serves a T-junction with a right hand filter lane. There is a short queue of cars in the filter lane waiting to turn right. I have unrestricted view of the road to the right into which these vehicles intend to turn. From that road there is no vehicle approaching the junction.

For some inexplicable reason I go through the first red light and realise at the last minute. I jam on the anchors and manage to stop with my front wheel in the yellow hatched box area. I reverse over the white line just as the lights change to green and I carry on my way.

I don’t know if there was a traffic light camera on the red light I went through. But there was no flash. My only concern is that I may have been picked up by a CCTV camera mounted on one of those tall poles.

So, assuming I’ve been caught, a couple of questions.

1. How can a traffic light camera catch a motorcyclist who goes through a red light when the motorcycle number plate is only on the rear?

2. If I do get a letter notifying me of an intended prosecution, what are my chances of success if I deny all knowledge of the incident and say that, although I own a motorcycle of the make, model and registration number they have on video, it wasn’t my bike or me riding it because I was at home that night watching television? In other words I would seek to imply that my bike reggy number had been copied and applied to another bike of the same make and model. I believe this is called ‘ringing’ and criminals do it quite a lot.

If the state decides to prosecute I am keen that it spends as much money as possible on doing so. Whereas, they won’t get much from me cos I only get the basic minimum wage and have no assets.

Some people say that a cure for cancer would have grave implications for the world economy. Why?

Am I correct in thinking that The Tavistock Institute is a UK-based charity that specializes in formulating psychological techniques for controlling and bamboozling people and that this organization works for governments worldwide?

Also...

Why do I never see anyone collecting for The Tavistock Institute and no ads seeking donations?

Do British schoolchildren get taught about the law - their basic rights etc. and what best to do if/when they come into conflict with the law?

Algebra, geometry, calculus, trigonometry, statistics...? Most 12 yo kids get these subjects shoved down their throats at school even though most kids of will never need to use 'em. Me and all my friends have so far had very successful careers without needing or having to use any of that stuff. So why did we get so much of it? Just to keep mathematics teachers off the dole? Looks like it.

You know? A special secret department that creates news to manage public opinion in favor of, or to mask the effects of, government policies... Indeed, does every government have such a department?