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Jan 12Liked by Michelle Styles

Hello Northumberland! This is Central Ohio calling.

Your articles on the Middle East were interesting. I only skimmed the Institute for the Study of War’s daily briefing paper. It was very detailed and informative.

The PO scandal continues unabated, I see. I'm glad Vennells returned her CBE and Davey should return his knighthood. There should be consequences. Of course Jenkins wants immunity. That was a great article on "Britain’s feckless new establishment" by the Telegraph. TY again for posting the links in archive today. I appreciate You going to the trouble, as I don't have a subscription to the Telegraph or Times.

I read the article about the FSU win with great interest. I'm happy for Carl Borg-Neal. Lloyd's should-a accepted him back again, but they tried to make two wrongs be a right. That never works, and I'm glad they were caught out at it.

Likewise glad to "hear" the case of Rachel Meade. That she should-a got in trouble for stating that male athletes shouldn't participate against women is just plain stupid. The Tribunal saw it right.

That males can strip search women is disgusting. At least to me, as well as You, Michelle.

I'm glad for You that the copy edits are done. And that You're enjoying Vera. I'm reading Ann Cleeves' first books now and enjoying them. And I can't help but notice what a handsome devil Paddy is. Dirty devil that he can be at times. Hope You don't have too much glamour and excitement. (har ;-)

TY Michelle, as always. Appreciate Your efforts, I hope Ya know.

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Jan 20Liked by Michelle Styles

Good to see Paddy is having fun. As a former US police officer, whenever possible female officers searched females for the male officers. We also searched males. Female officers were much more thorough and didn’t have to worry about false accusations. Male officers couldn’t always call for females, especially in the field or in exigent circumstances, and their pat-downs of females were more cursory. I never met a male officer who enjoyed patting down a woman. It was simply part of their jobs and a matter of safety and preserving evidence.

Often the women we searched were drug addicts, drunks, prostitutes or just plain dirty. No one enjoyed putting their hands on them. But we didn’t have any males identifying as females back in those days. If we had, my guess is that our officers would have called for a female who was born a female to conduct intimate searches. It’s safer and more considerate for the person being searched.

I am confounded by the idea that a man can just say he feels like a woman and poof! He’s suddenly treated as one. We may consider ourselves a superior species, but in my book we’re devolving into idiots.

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