Gbye grey sky

Interesting that the couple of girls in the family saw it your way. Think that is called confirmation bias. You are assuming that the staff were insensitive and that the father didn't become enraged which then would have left his daughter in tears. And your assuming that the whole story isn't being dressed up in order to get compensation. But it seems that you agree that checks should be made by the hotel staff before handing over keys to a man and a minor. I also have to admit that at age 13 I am starting to feel uncomfortable myself with the idea of sharing a room with my daughter and certainly would be more so if my wife was not there. She is now very aware of her body and is highly self-conscious.

Personally I think you and others are being over-sensitive. I very much doubt that the girl was "interviewed" in a manner that was intimidating. All I can say is that my daughter would find the whole thing a laugh and I would feel encouraged that people cared about the safety of young girls like her instead of taking the easy option and assuming everything was ok.

I have a 13 year old daughter. If I ever took her somewhere and we checked into the same room I cannot imagine being totally affronted by staff checking she was my daughter so long as it was handled with sensitivity. My daughter would not be traumatised or damaged by the experience; in fact for certain she would find it hilarious. What irritates me are people who 'broadcast' this stuff whilst claiming that it is awkward or embarrassing. Oftentimes the intention is to obtain monetary compensation for their hurt feelings.

To all those slating Travelodge please consider what your response would be if you heard that a man had been arrested for picking up young girls and having sex with them in hotel rooms. I imagine the response would be something along the lines of......the hotel staff should have suspected something, they should have a policy, they were aiding and abetting a serious crime etc etc.

13 year olds do not generally carry photo ID.

Ordinarily I would agree but Trump is no ordinary President.

Highly likely that Trump's stated policy of leaving Assad alone emboldened him to use chemical weapons. Trump is proving to be unpredictable and prone to change his mind suddenly on foreign policy. Such an approach carries high risks but has certain advantages too. Essentially there is a petulant child in the White House.

I suspect you are giving them way too much credit here. It was more likely a knee-jerk response to the awful pictures of the people suffering the effects of the gas attack.

On the face of it is seems odd. Unless he is not so advanced in defeating the rebels as everyone thought. He had also been given every indication that the Trump administration would look the other way whatever he did and an attack of this sort would literally bring remaining rebel strongholds to their knees. Who else could possibly be behind this chemical weapons attack? Self-inflicted seems very unlikely and Putin seem less likely than Assad.

Don't know about the Chinese but Trump will probably talk about his election victory. The greatest in history apparently. It seems to be his prime topic.

He will just change his standpoint and act as if he knew Trump was a disaster all along but was playing devils advocate.

If he has any sense he will keep a very low profile on this thread while his whole 'house of cards' in the White House collapses.

What do the quotation marks around "little Englanders' denote? There was no such reference in my post. Anyway, hope you enjoy all the 'control' you have over your fellow countrymen but be sure to let everyone into the secret about what you personally will control in the near future. For my part I always lived in a safe Tory seat as were all the constituencies around me. My general election vote was irrelevant and my 'representative' in Parliament never represented my views. The vast majority do not elect the party in power (do the maths, about 60% of eligible voters take part and about 35% of them elect a government that has an unassailable mandate) at any one time and even the 1 in 5 that do find out that they rarely keep their promises. The 'control' you think you voted for is as illusory as that £350 million extra for the NHS. You might notice a fair few less East Europeans in the future and err, that is it.

Dysfunctional it may be but the UK will still have to deal with it and play by most of its rules when it does so.

You will still have no control. I find it amusing and a little quaint that people think that they will gain more control over anything at all. UK will have the same government and all UK laws will need to be redrafted to mirror the EU laws. You will have absolutely no say or control in the terms of Brexit. The UK Government will have little control either in effect. What transpires post-Brexit relies heavily on any deal that the UK can secure on future trade with the EU. At best the UK should be ok. Worst case is no trade deal leaving UK businesses with tariffs and quotas to overcome and a trade war with the EU. It is this potential worst case that has led to a massive collapse in the currency since 2015 (when speculation on the then upcoming referendum gave the market jitters). For example in 2015 I exchanged GBP at 2.15 AUD and it peaked at over 2.2. Since the referendum it has been around 1.6 to 1.7 despite the strong economic news coming out of the UK. And it is not just the AUD either, the GBP tanked against all major currencies simultaneously. The currency markets continue to be convinced that the UK will come out of Brexit badly. Currencies simply do not tank when the economy is strong unless there is an underlying concern.