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  1. MalcSB

    City's Scottish XI - Take no Picts

    Gerry played for USA, Joe played for England.
  2. MalcSB

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    My observation is that whenever there is a crisis there always seems to be some scientists who want to jump on bandwagons. Imperial have hedged there bets - it could be 500,000 deaths, now it could be 20,000.
  3. MalcSB

    City's Scottish XI - Take no Picts

    PS look at the state of the pitch
  4. MalcSB

    City's Scottish XI - Take no Picts

    It was Baker, Hannigan, Martin, Carr and Gibson ( which I remembered), against Chelsea at home (which I found in a CT article) Hannigan scored the only goal.
  5. MalcSB

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    I’m not entirely convinced, but if you are right you have just destroyed the basic premise of my favourite Bond movie, Goldfinger.
  6. MalcSB

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Probably.
  7. MalcSB

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    They don’t ask for permission to record the numbers of deaths. If the times for collection of the stats has changed, there will be a one off blip and then it will proceed as normal.
  8. MalcSB

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    That’s ok then.
  9. MalcSB

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Apparently not.
  10. MalcSB

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    And stopping people going to second homes. Where are the Royal Family by the way?
  11. MalcSB

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Why does everybody buy gold when the shit hits the fan, it would have come in handy now?
  12. MalcSB

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    I would say more than a decade and the system needs a total rethink, as does social care.
  13. MalcSB

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Of course normally outgoing chancellors are joking.
  14. MalcSB

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Gordon Brown had sold of most our our gold reserves at a time when gold was at a low price. On this occasion, the note was a true reflection of the position. The point is that reasons for the NHS being where it is goes back through many years and many national administrations of all political...
  15. MalcSB

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    It was reported at the time, and subsequently given as a reason for poor election performance in 2015 by the bloke who wrote it, Labours Liam Byrne. So yes, it really happened.
  16. MalcSB

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Didn’t the decade of austerity follow the banks fiasco and Labour famously leaving the note on leaving office saying not to bother looking for the money - there isn’t any?
  17. MalcSB

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    They really should have cancelled Cheltenham races.
  18. MalcSB

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Fair enough!
  19. MalcSB

    Coronavirus Thread (Off Topic, Politics)

    Should be the opposite.
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