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Fun fact, Block 9 is also the name of the area of Glastonbury dedicated to techno and the festival’s biggest gay bar.

Martin O’Neill?! That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time etc etc

I don’t know, it feels like racial identity is a slightly more pertinent detail to the stories of Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela than for the other people you mentioned.

There weren’t any soldiers speaking modern English at the Battle of Hastings either. Adverts and TV dramas do what they need to do in order to be most compelling to their intended audience. I’m not sure how or why “social programming” would come into it.

Pretty grim to be charging £45 for Championship football at Christmas imo.

It’s 10% of GDP and a quarter of all government spending! Where?

He hasn’t asked me anything about it

So you don’t think he’s suggesting there’s a choice to be made between the two? In the preceding sentence he said that mass immigration and a comprehensive welfare state are “contradictory” priorities!

???

Canada has a higher immigration population% and higher average annual incomes than the UK, as well as a comprehensive welfare state. Norway’s the same. You were seeming to suggest this was impossible? You’re desperate to frame our country’s problems as a binary choice between mass immigration...

“We’re not starving the patient, we gave him a piece of toast only yesterday!”

This is ridiculously disingenuous of you

Canada? Sweden? Norway?

What is "alarming" to you about having fewer white people in the UK?

I don’t think there’s anything rational about it, it’s just like people who don’t like teams who keep a lot of possession at the back. I find waiting for the throw-in taker to trot over to the touchline (and then towel off the ball, and then organise the players, and then take a big run up etc)...

Hate them as a tactic but I’m not complaining with the results…

FWIW Rudoni already drifts out wide a lot, especially to the right

Including at LB at the end of the Robins days! Maybe that’s how we keep everyone in the side once Rudi’s back (sorry Jay)

Football fan will always prefer to blame someone for poor results rather than chalk it up to bad luck. You are right that both factors are probably to blame though.