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Honest question, dead easy answer. Are you trolling, or do you genuinely believe this?

I waved at the Queen as she went past on the A45 near Allesley, as I recall, though I doubt she'll remember me. 😁 I remember more street parties but less on TV. I was at school so can't recall how much holiday we got, but I'd agree that it seemed like a big event, if shorter. In those times...

Arrived on a boat, illegally. Vagrancy at a railway station. Worked in the black economy. Convicted of theft. Escaped custody. Now lives in a big house in London without any visible means of support. Not white. Outrage! He'd normally be on the front page of the Daily Mail every day for a week...

Kind of hard not to have a passive interest in it, regardless of one's opinion on the monarchy. It was pretty much everywhere. I didn't actually watch the concert, but I dropped in on a bit of trooping the colour, and the flypast. I figure that since I helped pay for it I might as well see what...

For Wasps, it looks a bit like that line.... “How did you go bankrupt?” “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly!” If they do get refinancing, then anyway it stacks up it'll have to be a bigger drain on their business. They've also sold off a slice of their future profits to CVC, they've got...

So many variables it's hard to know for sure. Reuniting the ground and the club even under an OpCo/PropCo (Operating Company/Property owning Company) umbrella would have to be beneficial you'd think. Access to those ACL revenues has always been the key issue, apparently. Even if we build our...

I think the only issue I'd have here is that there's a common misconception that our royalty have no input into how our parliament conducts business, when in reality that's not quite true: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/08/royals-vetted-more-than-1000-laws-via-queens-consent...

In short then, this is the way I see it. If Wasps can't refinance the bond, the primary security is the 250-year head-lease held by ACL (for the purposes of this, ACL and ACL (2006), who actually hold the lease can be considered the same). One scenario is that the bond holders take ownership...

So here's the relevant section of the Bond Prospectus: Under the terms of the head lease granted by Coventry City Council (“CCC”) to Arena Coventry (2006) Limited (“ACL2006”) in respect of the Arena (the “Head Lease”), CCC have reserved the right to forfeit the Head Lease if ACL2006 becomes...

Big difference between being born into power, and being selected and approved by people who are elected democratically. https://fullfact.org/election-2019/ask-fullfact-eu-commission-unelected/

The other thing I'd add, is that I'm not going to let the right claim patriotism as their own. I love my country too, the difference between me and them is that I want it to work for everyone in it. At the moment the ones that need the most get the least, and vice versa.

There are many, many things to question about this constitutional monarchy thing, not least of which is the lack of a proper Constitution - but at least the old girl has some sense of decency and public service. That's considerably more than anyone in the current disgrace in Government can say...

Fellas, I know it's a bit rich coming from me, given my endless bitching with G, but can you just agree to hate each other, stick each other on ignore, and then go back to the actual debate, which was kind of interesting. At least to me... 🙂

8. Picture Yep, wouldn't disagree with that, but the site is so poorly done that I doubt people hang around long enough to generate much click-through revenue!

To wind the clock back to the time of Les Reid, I think it was fairly well established that the CET squashed stories about the secret deal with Wasps, at the behest of the Council (a major advertiser). I'm not sure that there's a conspiracy here, but I also wouldn't put it past them to...

I've not really noticed much on new signings, I'm not saying you're wrong, but who were you thinking of?

There's an interesting question. Imagine if a 250-year lease came up at a price significantly lower than building our own ground. I think the fan pressure would be intense, especially given we can't see any real possibility of building a new stadium elsewhere. I don't doubt SISU are secretly...

Ooh, I think that might be stretching it. From memory, and I'm entirely happy to be corrected, I think Cov might have looked seriously about buying Bedford for exactly that reason. This was in the early days of professionalism when the club had basically missed the bus. Truthfully, as a Cov...

Sorry I'm all out of barleycorns, have you got change for a groat?

I'd hate to lose him, but the teams that come down will have bags of money, comparatively - it's them I worry about. What I'd really hate is for him to go to a Prem side and then end up loaned out to a rival, that would really sting! It he stays, it will be an amazing result, I think he'll do...