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Never go into stocks and shares if you make emotional decisions like that.

Dabo and DaCosta need to come back asap. I like Pask, just don’t think he’s a wingback.

Probably needs competitive game time. Imagine Sheaf will start v Gillingham.

Still early doors, but my first impression of him isn’t great. He’s young and just needs to settle into the team I reckon.

Set pieces need to be better, but we have settled into this game now in open play!

As long as we’re above 22nd, I’m not too fussed.

46 game season and this one hasn’t even ended yet.

I fancy us to win today! It’s going to be a difficult season, but a lot of us have probably built the Championship up in our heads a bit. I know I have! Solid in defence, and we’ll take our chances when we get them. 1-0 or 2-1 to us!* *I’m a hopeless optimist running off the high of last season!

You’re right. There is a fine line between inciting violence and freedom of speech and there is nothing wrong with scrutiny. We have gone off on a bit of tangent and debated some v extreme examples - which is interesting! Genuine question: on his show, did he actually incite his audience to...

The he was entertaining on a podcast he appeared on with Joe Rogan. It’s the one of the most watched podcast episodes on the internet. Only his show with Elon Musk has more views. To make this point obvious, Joe Rogan is a comedian. Do not conflate that with some outrageous comments he’s made...

Firstly, there are laws against inciting violence and disturbing the peace. That’s very different. I quickly googled the incident you referred to, and admittedly, I’m not really familiar with it. But, I’m aware of some of the absolute nonsense Alex Jones comes out with as I’ve watched his...

Even if that is the case, most of the people shut down are not guilty of persecuting people. Ultimately, speech that is based on bigoted and hateful arguments is discredited in the public when confronted with empirical evidence. Liberal values have to protected at all costs, and freedom of...

Agreed. There’s seemingly no room for forgiveness when someone may say something out of line and maybe a bit misinformed. Cancel culture will eat itself alive anyway. Robin DiAngelo, who wrote ‘White Fragility’, faced a bit of backlash because she is a white woman In general, atomising...

Yes, but there’s clearly an issue with student groups in universities pressuring their institutions to cancel speakers from the centre to right speakers. This has even spilled over to certain left wing speakers who may have a single controversial view. Going back to Germaine Greer, she was...

Cancel culture is not a myth. You’ve got universities cancelling events for numerous speakers. Yes, predominantly conservative speakers, but people like Germaine Greer have been cancelled because her feminism isn’t inclusive of trans people. Freedom of speech shouldn’t be curtailed at all...

I wonder what’s happened to Al Murray? I found him He’s not right wing, but ironically polled v favourably with BNP voters back. The joke was on them as his act was lampooning the ‘little Britain-er’.

I imagine it’s something said very much tongue in cheek. Does anyone really think they’re going round asking students/local in a night club how much they/their family is on? Durham Uni has one of the highest % of private-educated students.

Pompous idiots. But, they’re effectively being condemned and potentially punished for speech. I’m suspicious of any policing of speech. People should have to right to say ridiculous things - that’s also a two way street. Agree with @shmmeee, a slippery slope indeed.

The US has been polarised for quite some time. Democrats have been arguing that successive Republican nominees are ‘dangerous’, with McCain, Romney and most obviously Trump. Certainly a case of ‘the boy who cried wolf’. Even then, the Trump presidency wasn’t as bad as has been made out. Had it...

I think the government, if push came to shove, would say they won’t police the border and put the onus on the EU to police it, if at all. The issue here is that NI would be staging point for smuggling between the EU and the UK. The issue is the customs border, because as things stand, the UK...