Inevitably we drift treads here all the time, and that includes me. and there aren't clear divisions. I think it's fair enough thta a topic should widen out to cover new aspects sometimes, rather tnan a fresh thread being started. But when there is already an active thread about one particular aspect of a live issue, it seems to me that it is better to put those posts in that thread, because it makes for clearer arguments and means they contribute to that more effectively.

We've got a thread here about whether there will be a war, and a thread about whether there should be a war, and they are both still fairly active. I think that is really where the arguments about the rights and wrongs of this planned war really belong, rather than in a thread about who is going on a demonstration tomorrow. And that in itself is an iteresting thing, over above the issues involved, because of the way it's happening on the same day in all our countries, and just about all the others as well.