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The suburb of Battlefield is on the site of the Battle of Langside, hence the name. Mary, Queen of Scots and all that.

ooh-ah, Allo-ah, sing ooh-ah Allo-AH! 'mon the mighty Wasps!

Well, they are just being angry as well. Or do you have some reason for supposing your anger is more respectable? Poor students, poor prospective students, their families and their communities are under attack from a bunch of rich, self-serving scum, and they are taking it out on inanimate...

I heard a very decent answer from somebody at the Adam Smith Institute* the other day. He said return to a situation where liability for losses is held by the banks (staff) and their shareholders. Currently, they can gamble as much as they like because they know that liability, practically, lies...

Obviously football fans would win in a fight, but I don't get the distinction you draw between taxpayers and students. What about taxpaying students? And what about taxpayers who think that it is important for the country that people are educated? And then there are the taxpayers who work in HE...

Surely racist Irish people support Rangers? Now, a great many sectarian Scots of Irish descent support Celtic (most Irish couldn't be bothered), but the real racists - the UVF/UFF-BNP contingents - support Rangers. Personally, I hate the Old Firm as a single institution. I fail to see any...

Still do. And rugby. And, of course, the real thing. One of my subbuteo football sets is currently on display here: http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/our-museums/scotland-street-school/whats-on/toy-stories/Pages/default.aspx

In Pizza Hut? Can anybody who eats there really claim to be all that? I mean, I would understand treating everybody else in there with contempt - they are Pizza Hut customers and staff, after all - but then they are there, too.

The Howard League are one of the more decent organisations around. And she has a point - they are ex-offenders.

Cricket, rugby union, rugby league, then pretty much all of the rest of the team games roughly the same (except American football which is rubbish), cycling, then pretty much all of the other non-team sports (except golf, which is an abomination). The only 'sport' I dislike more than golf is...

MK Dons, of course. Whatever you think of Palace, Pompey, ManUtd etc, at least they are proper football clubs with proper fans. Now, I will happily accept that not all of the fans of these clubs are proper football fans, and that many are utter scum, but MK Dons 'fans' are 100% utter scum.

To some extent, I agree. Certainly it's more about the money than about the fans - but then that can be directed at our own FA - but there is a clear difference between the decision to go for Russia and the decision to go for Qatar. Yes, they both involve major infrastructure projects, and yes...

Although I agree with your point about Qatar being unsuitable (although I would specify moral corruption), I must take issue with the point in your last sentence. There are a lot of very poor people in Qatar, including bonded labourers and perhaps the majority of the non-citizen residents (and...

Allez les Etalons!!!! On a more serious note, seeing as all of the candidates were European, and the Russians pointed out that in terms of previous World Cup hosts, it's western Europe 10, Eastern Europe nil, it seems odd that anyone is surprised by this decision. Of course Russia were going to...

If the Panorama and Sunday Times investigations had any impact, that reflects badly on FIFA, not on the BBC or the Sunday Times.

Well, precisely. FIFA is a corrupt (and by that, I really mean a morally corrupt) organisation. That's why I didn't want them or their World Cup, with all of its objectionable demands, anywhere near our nation. I can't really see there being any change, unless there is a massive push against...

Thank f*** for that. Didn't want it.

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In my experience, having worked in the private sector and the public sector, and having been self-employed (and I'm currently self-employed half the week and public sector the other half), I would guess that the private sector workers are more likely to be off, with the public sector workers and...

Not me, for the second day. Couldn't get out on Monday, either, although I wasn't due in then. Probably won't be going in until tomorrow. Dunno what the excuse for those living in the south is, though...