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IMO it should be removed but can see why it remains as he was the catalyst leading to modern parliament (even if his actions were effectively King in all but name) and without it we may have remained under an absolutist monarchy for much longer. He was, in modern terms, a religious extremist...

But the thing with Colston is was at the time such an attitude wasn't just acceptable it was pretty much expected. In hundreds of years time the entrepreneurs of todays may well be looked upon as despicable because they paid their workers far less than was fair and there was huge inequality. In...

Disagree. America massively airbrushes it's past. China completes hides theirs. I imagine a lot of less well known countries do the same. If we do have a troubled relationship with our past it's because we do try, in some way, to recognise that not all of it is pleasant. Other countries don't...

I agree about not obliterating history - the bad bits help you make better decisions in the future. But the problem is the history, as you put it, "is all there if you want it". Trouble is lots of people don't want it. They'll ignore it and just focus on the positive aspects and that leads to...

I assume you mean remove them from public view rather than remove them completely. We need to keep the memories of our mistakes alive just as much so we don't make the same mistakes again.

When you say those three pushing the statue down the round weren't blm are you sure you don't just mean 'black'. You know it is possible to support and sympathise with a cause even if it doesn't directly apply to you. But given you're a rampant Thatcherite which is all greed and me-me-me maybe...

Although I'm often in agreement with you it's not necessarily the case. Have you never had a conversation with someone who's fed up with the direction the country is going in and just asked 'why don't you leave?" Not in a bigoted or racist way but genuinely why don't you choose to emigrate...

Actually Gandhi was racist. Brought up in the caste system and believed people with darker skin were inferior. Churchill was a great leader but was a racist and a sexist. As for the swimming thing if true they're stupid.

Not sure about this as it further encourages echo chambers and bubbles. OK people who listen to O'Brien probably don't listen to Farage/Ferrari anyway but the issue we have with many papers/media is too much bias. Not that I think Farage deserves a platform for many of his views which aren't...

As a comparison to Farage, O'Brien is centre-left

Spoke too soon.

If you're arguing for that what you're actually trying to strike a deal for is part ownership.

Do Exeter still share?

I agree. Fadz as back up this season with the intention of getting Williams and Drysdale ready to step up as cover and eventually challenge for first team.

But he did do that run and cross......

I doubt it. Hope we sign him though because he told me once he's the best there's ever been. Also had a hugely misheard lyric in that song. After #devil's in the house of the rising sun# I swear the following lyric was #pulling his prick and picking his nose#

If you mean Lewis Green he went to America

Everyone would be avoiding going into the ground until kick-off.

But will be the same for everyone else. And most of those will have players on far more expensive contracts than us.

Yep the 'Moneyball' effect. Some people don't seem to realise that a flowing game like football has far more nuances than the stop/start nature of most American sports. Stats may show someone runs around loads and appears very energetic, but be totally ineffectual compared to someone who runs...