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Sorry but that's lazy bollocks and if you thought about it for a nanosecond you're intelligent enough to see it. The moderate left with the kind of policies originally trumpeted and then hastily ditched by Starmer are nothing like the far right nutters wailing about boat people and wokery. I...

The Challinor thing, you mean? Dreadful mate, but it's one person not a whole party... If there's one thing that I'm certain never happens, it's that working people who aren't genuinely interested in politics (i.e. the majority of them), read party manifestos. Hence the usual trite bollocks...

Prepare to be disappointed, that's by no means as certain as once it was. For me at least, the far more worrying shift is from one-nation Conservatives, to the far-right extremism that seems to be taking hold in many of the current generation of Tories...

It's a tough one finding the space. With my Irish heritage I've also got fit in the illuminated sacred heart Jesus, the Pope, and JFK. It's getting a bit crowded next to the Queen (black ribbon, obviously), King Charles, Maggie, and Churchill. Might have to get a smaller Union Flag. :)

Frankly, I'm beginning to wonder if Starmer's got a picture of Thatcher hanging in his office.

Politely, I think you're just looking at an individual situation there. If you're asking whether there are 'poor' degrees out there, I'd say probably, and if you're saying does every job need a degree I'd say definitely not. However, I think my contention would be that a broadly better...

Gosh - it's almost like you and Rob are saying that making education market-driven was a bad idea. :)

It's interesting that so many countries don't seem to struggle to offer free university education (partial list linked to below). This isn't an either/or thing, imho. We don't need to dilute funding to other areas of education or the NHS to do it, it is (as with most elements of public...

I hate to be negative, but that seems like a reasonably likely scenario to me. Assuming I've worked this out correctly, I think it looks like this... Sunderland's game at Preston looks eminently winnable. Preston have got nothing to play for and aren't on a great run on of form. I reckon...

Spurs, 97, in the days when I still smoked. Listened to it on the radio and had so many tabs (and no little alcohol) that I threw up afterwards! :D https://www.ccfc.co.uk/news/2020/may/great-escapes-spurs-1997/

Exactly this. C'mon fellas, let's quit the fighting until after the game when we can have a big pile on about which was the best goal; Hamer's forty-yard scorcher or Wilson's overhead volley that sealed his hattrick. :)

Many thanks. If I get moving now, I should just make it. What's the traffic like on the ring road at the moment? :)

"Yes Constable, I accept that technically speaking I was holding a sawn-off shotgun whilst asking for a large cash withdrawal in unmarked, non-consecutive, low-denomination notes. And the ski-mask was perhaps was a poor choice of outerwear given the weather. So I suppose that some people might...

Same here - I've stuffed up rather epically on this one. Wasn't sure where I'd be this Saturday and left it far too late to get a ticket. Any ideas on iFollow etc. welcomed!

I don't suppose you could have a listen to this for us, could you? 😁

London Welsh tried Oxford, and it really didn't work out well for them. I can't see (London) Wasps doing much better. I think the clue is somewhere in the teams' names, but I can't quite put my finger on it. 😄

Entirely my personal opinion Pete, but I don't think that sort of person would actually be allowed to be a part of the current Labour party. They're currently too busy fighting for the Daily Mail vote to allow someone who stands up for the poor, the oppressed, or the working class, to rock the...

I'm so sorry to read this. I never met Mark in person, but you always knew that an OSB58 post would be calm, well-reasoned, and pretty much impossible to pull apart! We probably differed on a few things, but it was always done with such grace that it was impossible to take offence. Plus he was...

I did wonder about this idea of old tanks as artillery, turns out it's not a brilliant idea, but if you're scraping the bottom of the barrel it's a possible option. (TLDR: Nowhere near as good as proper artillery, but they will at least survive for a bit, unlike in combat against modern...