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Oh no, surely not another Chris Houghton thread?

What happened to the famous fish tank in their ofices? I think that we should be told...

DHL scam I got this to-day from 'DHL Express Delivery Services <little_toshy@mail.bg ' Your package has been returned to the sender. You have exceeded the delivery time. For the return of your package. Validate your shipping address to ensure timely delivery of packages: View digitally signed...

Somebody on here called him 'The Diver' which I thought really worked...

Brilliant analysis. Dodgy foreign asset strippers. If you read Geoff Knight's book you'll remember that the then Football League demanded all sorts of deposits in the Gillingham era. But they didn't bother with this bunch. I do hope that they're not all running around in top of the range Jaguars...

Think it's gotta be Bobby Smith

The short history of aerial banners seems to me to be something of a nightmare. Who, for example, could forget that image of Nigel Farage outside the crashed plane carrying his banner? Or the ones ‘Moyes must go’ over Old Trafford during Moyes’ tenancy there? I am puzzled that individual pilots...

So how were they supposed to stop it? - which is what you imply. Clearly nothing to do with Burnley FC so can you imgaine the conversation with police or (even) the RAF demanding fighter cover for the Etihad? A response of this kind was always going to happen given the scale of recent events

There is a vaccine for this which you can get privately, but it's somewhere close to £200, On the other hand it's free in the year of your 70th birthday. I thought that I was at risk of this with 10 grandchildren so I took the free offer!

There's a tribute show on BBC1 tonight to her @ 7.30. I'm not sure that I dare watch it though - to me she was everything that's good about England. No scandals about her, happily married and was what I'd call an honest performer - when I heard her sing I always felt that she was projecting her...

For too many years we've been giving taxpayers money (which is really yours and mine) to strange causes. We send aid to India - except that they've got their own space programme. We've equiped all sorts of strange dictators with state of the art palaces and aeroplanes. Boris is right about the...

The shirt on the guy in the middle seems oddly familiar. Does wearing a tag prevent you from ravelling to Central London from Croydon? And he doesn't seem to have a BLM message on it either

It’s your money and obviously you can and will spend it how you wish. Nevertheless, if you choose to announce your choices publicly then it is not unreasonable for others to be surprised at and comment upon your actions. Liam Rosenior is a decent journalist. I commented upon his ‘open letter’...

The Bail Project you refer to is in the USA. What connection is there with the UK? As far as I know, bail is usually and often offererd to defendants in British courts unless they are up for serious or repeated matters. Oh, and I've just re-read Rosenior's open letter. Whatever points he was...

Just maybe all this will go away. But my dog (who is black) wants a movement to say 'dogs lives matter.' And there's a bunch of cows near the London railway line who're talking about a 'cows lives matter' movement. This one could run and run. True movements result in the events we saw after the...

Albert Pierrepoint;s memoirs are still available in print and probably from your local library. He was I think the last executioner in England. I believe that after he'd retired he became an advocate against the death penalty. The state doesn't give life, so surely shouldn't take it away? A...

Sure about that? These are the issues that usuually lead to more complaints to the police than anything else. Keeping people safe surely means preventing them, for example, from fighting with noisy neighbours. Someone has to do it..

'Acceptance' has a double edged meaning, Not so many years ago black players were greeted with monkey noises and bananas thrown onto the pitch. Things have moved on since then, which is the point I was trying to make. As for 'whataboutery' I don't think it unreasonable to speak of an...

There's another side to this, though. I have an annual appointment with a specialised nurse (who also treats 'ordinary' patients) to deal with my COPD. Last time I went I found the nurse, a pleasant hepful and caring (white) woman approaching 50 who's worked all her life in the NHS, in tears...

What no-one seems to have realised is that the demonstrations, looting etc will so frighten middle class American voters that Trump will get their votes in November. All that he has to do is act or appear to act tough...