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Yep. Seeing again England can't bowl on flat wickets. But this cricket is brainless. You've got to get through 15 -20 overs of the new ball then it's a batsman's game. Then you can bazball to your heart's content. But the bowling is so poor. That first session day one was decent and they didn't...

Same rubbish bowling attack that let them score over 800 at Headingly.

batting out the draw is a win. Attempting anything is ridiculous.

Piss poor from the tail there. Just a question of how brave India will be with the declaration after last time

Again how does it take three years from arrest to charge? No wonder some women don't go through with cases or drop them. Being badly let down.

New ball was doing a bit. Different umpire and woakes could have 3 wickets day one (Inc 2 before lunch both clipping the stumps so umpire's decision)

ok but i'm going to do a Grendel and bookmark this for 6 months time - just in case :)

It's early days yet - not even 24 hours. Sitting MPs will wait and see how the Govt agenda is progressing. But another battle like the Welfare Bill could see some movement. There's going to be those on the left of the Labour party waiting to see how much influence they can exert on policy on the...

People said the same about Farage and Reform after Brexit went through. New group provides a rallying point for those further to the Left. Starmer & Reeve could find themselves facing similar issues to the Welfare Bill where they struggle to get their programmes through.

Little chance of being "major" party but capable of attracting significant support amongst certain groups eg 18-24 year olds. Corbyn still more popular than Starmer with some large Trade Unions. Greens get around 2 million votes and still perceived primarily as a single issue party. This new...

Will be interesting what support they can garner. Early polls seem to have them at 10%. Initial reaction would be how they could impact marginals like Reform did for the Conservatives. Hard to see them having an impact like Reform though. But a headache for the Govt if Corbynite MPs jump ship...

This is like a "traditional" English bowling performance in India. Don't seem have a clue how to take wickets.

Makes no sense whatsoever.

Every political party in UK has a target group(s) that are responsible for the bulk of problems - can be immigrants, business, trade unions,wealthy, over-educated, under-educated, nationalists and so on. Reform aren't going to win an election on immigration alone. All parties legislate to...

It's the 300bn in cash ISAs they want to "push" into investment etc

More the argument that cash ISAs are tying up money the Govt would like people to invest in other things eg stocks & shares to stimulate growth. It's the total amount tied-up rather than individual benefits. Unsurprisingly it's the investment firms and big business that would like to see cash...

Braver umpires and India are 40/3 and in trouble. Change bowlers then threw away all the good work of the openers (Tongue in particular)

This refers to Modern Monetary Theory. Simply that taxpayer money is paying off Govt debt rather than financing Govt spending.

They are just finding out Govt is difficult (lack of practice). You can't do everything, you can't keep everybody happy etc

Just as insidious is the increasing control it gives to these corporations/big businesses these ultra-rich tend to own/control. Three investment companies between them have controlling interests of over 80% of the fortune 500 companies. A lot of the rest are mainly dominated by one...