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The closest we will get to a debate between the leaders of the two main parties, which was basically the only chance that the media was ever going to hold May to account, happened yesterday.

Political headlines today should be about their response to questioning about their policies.

Instead,  the BBC is running pictures of Corbyn looking confused and images of a triumphant May with the headline "I'm ready for Brexit".

Theresa May - cuts to services, cuts to benefits for the most vulnerable, tax cuts for the wealthiest.  The person who has cut police on the streets, said that complaining about it was just scaremongering, then introduced the most intrusive surveillance laws ever seen in a democracy to keep us safe.  A PM who falls to pieces when questioned, who has done her best to avoid actual humans, and who claims that walking away from Europe with absolutely nothing is better than walking away with less than perfect deal.  The leader of a party who produced a manifesto lacking any figures.  In favour of killing foxes for fun.  Believes in "girl jobs and boy jobs".  Who insisted calling an election would be bad for the country, then called an election.

Jeremy Corbyn - forgot a number in an interview.

Guess which one of these is headlining BBC news.

[80 days]

80 days...an interactive fiction story, basically a partially animated choose your own adventure.  A steampunk version of the Jules Verne classic, where you play the part of valet Passepartout, organising luggage and buying tickets...alright, that sounds crap, but it's an award winning and original game, with a surprising number of twists and choices

Atwood resisted the "sci fi" label for years, on the grounds that everything in the story has already happened somewhere - the only thing sci first about the premise is that she has it happens to Americans.

"The aliens have arrived, and we only have a few minutes to save the earth!"

You have a time machine.  You could go away, spend a thousand years working out the problem then come back to now.

"The problem could be anywhere.  I'm putting all classified documents onto the internet so we can use Google to search them"

What?! They were already searchable...You own a supercomputer that could do this in seconds!  How does this make us safer! 

"I'm blind! The tech I built is for some reason strangely limited!"

Seriously!?  My phone can read stuff, translates it from any language and speak it out loud.  You had literally all the time and access to all the technology in the universe, but you've built something with such an obvious flaw?  Your decisions lack any internal logic.

Powercord!

The Handmaid's Tale, the sort-of-but-not-really-sci-fi series, started last night on channel 4.  Its a fanastically powerful book, and the series looks like it will live up to it.  Elisabeth Moss gives a still and seething performance, mostly in close up (it also has a striking cameo from author Margaret Atwood).  The first episode sets up the world perfectly, showing a strange world that follows a dark logic.  I would recommend watching it on catch-up.

C'mon Dougie...you had one job to do, man!  The hazmat suit and airlock doors are there for a reason!  I'm tired of this pro-incompetent scientist agenda being foisted upon us by the BBC.  This isn't why I pay my licence fee.

I certainly hope there are less priests in tonight's episode.  It's not that I have anything against priests, it's just that the show was better without priests.  I'm worried about the pro-priest agenda being promoted by the bbc, which is clearly an attempt at brainwashing our children.  I mean, there were hardly any priests in older shows, and I didn't have any issue with that.  Priest on tv are okay, but do we really need as many of them in family shows?

I had no college or university education and I wasn't taught how to argue properly during my state school days.

Jesus, did you just blame the state for you behaviour?  I didn't go to university, and I was also state educated.  (Horray for the existence of taxation).  Someone I managed to pick up the important lesson of not throwing insults around along the way.

You said that I "did not care about the holocaust" and regarded its dead as an "acceptable price", because I believe in democracy.

Then you tell the forum how much you love and respect everyone. 

When your hypocrisy is pointed out, you say that its okay for you to throw incredibly offensive names at me, because you accept me despite my flaws. 

Believe whatever you want to believe this week, but don't pretend you treat anyone here with respect. 

You can pretend that laws and taxes and trade don't apply you all you like, but let's not pretend you have any sort of moral high ground.  You throw insults at anyone who questions your view of the world, then play the victim.

I love every human being who posts here dearly as persons of infinite worth and value

You called me a holocaust apologist for arguing in favour of representative democracy.  When Jim pointed out how inappropriate that was, you called him a bully. 

To vote in the upcoming general election, you need to be registered to vote before noon tomorrow.  Registering can be done online and takes about five minutes.

https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

If you've just turned 18, or never registered, or moved house, make sure you are registered and make sure you vote.  It does make a difference.  They are not all the same.

Not that long ago, we had protesters in my local high street, trying to get people to sign a petition to oppose equal marriage.  I heard one lady, eagerly espousing the benefits of bigotry on the grounds that the existance of gay people is far too complicated and embarrassing to explain to children. I wonder what sort of world it would be if all social policy was decided in this way.

I'm not saying LGBT people shouldn't be treated equally.

Yes, you are.  Your saying that gay people should express the same feelings as everyone else in the same way as everyone else, in case children see them and get "brainwashed" into thinking that maybe gay people are just people. 

Some people say the show's whole core is about spreading tolerance or fighting injustice and oppression but that's mainly with Nu Who that people started coming out with those old chestnuts.   

The Daleks want to destroy everyone they consider racially inferior.  The Cybermen want to destroy or assimilate everyone to build their single-minded collective.  The Sontarans are a single gendered race who desire constant war.  The premise of many older stories is "guy goes to strange world.  Discovers people there are a bit different in their way of thinking.  Deals with it".  Its always been about fighting injustice and standing against villians who want to oppress anyone who is different.

And how far into the season will they keep [spoiler]poor Missy[/spoiler] in that vault?

Green MPs may as well go sailing

You can have a Green MP sitting in opposition and actually standing against Tory policies...or you can have A Lib Dem MP in opposition who may well have sided with the Tories and put them in power... or a Labour MP in opposition who will vote however it takes to win Tory votes...or a UKIP MP desperately trying to draw attention to himself as his party collapses around him.

I'd rather have Green.