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Got to be support for the sectors for which there will be jobs after this all blows over e.g. hospitality, theatres, etc. No point delaying the inevitable for those jobs that will no longer exist afterwards - these are primarily office jobs where, if as it is clear no there is no demand for...

Fair enough if you think I'm signalling a virtue. I'd argue that not condoning evidence of paedophilia isn't, but each to their own.

Member of the Royal Family marries a half-cast girl: 'You're a disgrace'. Member of the Royal Family is a paedo: 'Sound, we'll accept you for who you are. We'll protect you, you're above the law.' Shows where priorities lie in Britain.

Difficult to say. Both are very good strikers at League One level and unknown entities in the Championship (obviously Walker's being signed from Notts Forest but he did not really play during the past two seasons), and they offer different things with similar overall outcomes. Granted, Walker is...

Would love for Walker to start so I agree, although I think there will be the classic dilemma where a 'striker who does well coming off the bench cannot win'; in that Robins may view Walker as an effective off the bench option (with yesterday's goal being confirmation of that). It kind of makes...

I think city centre areas are fast becoming dangerous places to live, although not necessarily to work. So much trouble among the youth of today, being in the wrong place at the wrong time can be fatal. It's why we're seeing a lot of people in London desiring to move 'up north', so to speak, and...

Reminds me of when Clarke Carlisle described Javier Mascherano's tackle on Arjen Robben as 'utterly delicious' during the 2014 World Cup semi finals.

Oh absolutely. The goal is just a snapshot and exemplified what only those who have all of the attributes you mentioned are capable. Very few who are deficient in at least one of those attributes would be able to come up with something like that. There's something about the fact that he is a...

Interesting - I originally thought that since 2014 or so all young people have to be in some form of training or education until 18 - is this to make it a full time thing? I can't see the grade inflation being too much of an issue in schools where teachers know their students well and they won't...

You only need to replay that solo goal to see what a complete player Walsh was, If that clip was played to all voters, the unbiased neutral would have a hard time thinking of many players they've seen in previous League One seasons who could come up with the goods like that.

That's the issue when money rules the world, and football is no exception. Happens in business - top level executives get away with sexual assault etc, but they are kept on by their companies because they bring in the revenue and the cost of paying off victims to sign non disclosure agreements...

That's exactly the issue we're seeing with universities. At an aggregate level, the capacity is there. The courses that are unduly frowned upon e.g. vocational will be ditched in favour of, for instance, Maths, and we'll have a situation where there are not enough Maths teachers to meet the...

Agree completely that if it was done at the outset, teachers' predicted grades was the way to go, with some adjustment to apply to all grades to deflate them back to normality. It would help if there was some kind of grading system that ranked by percentiles rather than arbitrary cutoff. The...

I have heard many stories of students who by heir own admission admit they were not going to reach their predicted grades this year stating that they will 'have a go' for Medical schools and other top university courses. It was a catastrophic decision to cancel the exams. As much as I disagreed...

He has been training from what I can tell, or at least I've seen the photos at Ryton. I think a lot of it may be to do with the fact that he has done relatively well for someone who had only ever played Sunday League age group football before and for Strachan to be thrust into an academy...

At an individual level it is impossible to tell but at an aggregate level grades are inflated by over 40% since they have reverted back from the 40% adjustment. It is worth noting that even in the adjustment there would have been growth in the top grades, so this is mayhem. I feel sorry for the...

The issue is that handing people the grades they want is a short term solution but it can cause real damage for all parties (including the people they were awarded to) in the long run. I'm sympathetic to the entire cohort of students who were not able to prove themselves in the last set of...

Which was my original point about competition for places at for instance, Medical Schools and top universities will have only limited places. This year's cohort in the aggregate have had grades massively over-predicted at the top end. A lot of students who get their teacher assessed grades this...

This will screw over competent students from next year who will have missed months of teaching and also have to take the exams. I'm all for the concessions but the grades from this 2020 cohort must be presented to employers in future as a 'teacher predicted' grade and only that. Also...

Enough capacity in the aggregate (across all universities) but it creates a huge problem for the top universities where we suddenly have a situation in which everyone who was given an offer has qualified to get in. So then the question of how we allocate these students across the universities...