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I'd pay good money to see the Tory party split in half like that, but I'd also worry that there's enough people who'd vote for him as a leader that he might actually get elected! The Boris effect - bit of a larf, likes a pint, tiny bit racist but then who isn't, eh.

Best hope might be for some hideous weather so that it turns into fifteen-a-side bog snorkelling. Our Leicestershire contingent at least have webbed feet to help them then. 😁 Joking aside, is there a roof on the stadium does anyone know?

Yep, that's probably the depressing truth. There's always the vague hope that one of the multiple lunatic fringes blows up and supports a vote of no confidence I suppose. It might be easier if the lazy bastards were obliged to turn up and do some actual work for a change. They can just suck on...

Yes, because the shady fuckers running what's left of the club haven't given up on stitching up another team (Worcester ) yet. So it's interesting keeping track of it. Plus, as above, if people want to discuss it, who is anyone else to say it should be shut down?

If so, that's a scandal... I wonder if the best chance of getting there earlier is some kind of giant catfight in the Tories as their impending doom becomes obvious.

It seems broadly accepted that Israel were happy to see Hamas in control of Gaza because it undermined the two state solution that the more moderate Palestinian Authority were willing to negotiate over. Like Israel's current government, Hamas isn't prepared to accept a two state solution, they...

Good Lord man, find someone who hasn't called out the atrocities committed by Hamas (or other Islamic terrorists. You are despising something that exists entirely in your own head - you're literally making it up. What people are saying about Israel isn't that it doesn't have the right to defend...

Given it seems accepted that the hospital was warned a strike was coming by Israel, that it had been hit twice already by Israeli missiles, and that neither of those strikes seemed to have caused huge craters, I think it's a pretty big leap to assert that it definitely wasn't Israel...

Let's not get overambitious, eh. :)

I think it's the top 10 countries combined, but even that might be a bit of a myth, especially when it comes to China. https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/09/19/china-defense-budget-military-weapons-purchasing-power/

Global fanbase my arse. Two expats in Australia, and a bored bloke in the US who watches a dodgy stream twice a season and thinks that the kit looks cool. Tops. Bless em, they don't half kid themselves...

From the Guardian: Puts the lie to the IDF claim that they wouldn't target hospitals. The direct quotes are from Hosam Naoum, Anglican bishop of Jerusalem. The hospital is run by the Anglicans... “At that point in time [of the blast], we know there were thousands of people there,” he said...

I think the Palestinians would say that this is about their simple right to exist. Israel would say the same of course, but the power imbalance here is obvious.

Genocide in Gaza? That's what the legal scholars are saying... https://twailr.com/public-statement-scholars-warn-of-potential-genocide-in-gaza/

I'm just trying to get this scarf finished before Christmas...

My line on it mate, I can't tell you who to stand with, but don't get too distracted by a single, contested incident. So personally, I'd say... Stand against those who murdered innocent civilians and children in Israel. Stand against those who are doing the same to the innocent civilians and...

Unless there's strong independent evidence, I suspect Arab countries will just take this as another example of America (and the West) taking Israel's side, right or wrong. Regardless, it doesn't really change the rest of the situation, where Israel is in effect brutally punishing the entire...

I hate it when people derail knitwear threads with football stuff...

Shotgun trolling. Not worth the effort to engage, imho.

Let's just say for once, that the IDF are telling the truth (this bearing in mind that it's an organisation with a long and proven history of misinformation), then there's still a massive amount of hypocrisy in their approach. If you watched the BBC last night, the IDF spokesman was outraged at...