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I'm not sure it's much of a mistake. Corbyn doesn't want to get embroiled with a tit-for-tat dialogue with certain newspapers, reason being is that whatever he says they will either spin or omit. Can you see the Mail or Express sitting down for an honest chat and it being amicable? It would be...

Not a Brighton fan, as pointed out above, I find it saddening no matter who does it. Unaware that Murray is a culprit, I've always had Brighton down as a team which doesn't have a history of this.

If you took 'soft' , intent' and 'you can see he's just looking at the ball' out of the pundits' repertoire they'd have nothing to say. I'd change 'dive' to 'seeking contact'. Forwards look to try an initiate contact (or find it) in the area all the time. Started with Vardy running past his man...

Rogue One was a breath of fresh air because there was a genuine story arc, a beginning, middle and end. Many films these days seem to spend a majority of the time angling for spin-offs in case that character is a hit with the audience. Given the ending this wasn't as plausible. The film you end...

the cynic in me thinks this was a set-up, book in some 'activists' to react to you and hey presto. A very old trick but a good one.

Pretty much this, but the organisations involved don't want to be seen as committing either way so make out it's being forced on them by feminists/liberals/snowflake/small green aliens. It's their decision, pure and simple, made in alignment with a commercial plan. They have done very well in...

from what I understood there is some sort of restriction which wouldn't have allowed a youth player to have been eligible for the bench if they had played the day before. Can anyone confirm this?

I heard this and did wonder, either it's a very clever marketing ploy to generate a bit of faux outrage and get darts into the headlines (a bit like when a cereal or chocolate bar says it's going to change its name and then backs down). Alternatively it's Hearn realising he needs to reposition...

If that was the case then why change now? This isn't new as I remember Millie being in Viz way back in the day. It's easy to blame or cite a particular group as responsible. I'd say the reality is far more a conscious approach to rebranding. Darts has become big and it's got a wider audience...

Pretty much nails it for me. Sponsors have a huge influence in sport, for example remember Bentdner getting a huge fine for showing a non-approved sponsor on his boxer shorts? The reason for a yellow card for removing your shirt is that the shirts sponsor wants their name front and centre in the...

classic diversion tactics, probably the only positive job May can find for him. "We're being hammered over the NHS, Carillion etc, we need to speed up the news cycle and get something else out there. What we need is an ambiguous statement, the sort of thing which we can't be held accountable to...

Nope, and I have never made that claim. As for ignoring the incident, the Gulf of Tonkin was included because it's an instance where a Govt falsifies a military event to justify a military response or build towards it. As that was one of the points I was making it's quite relevant. As for...

Not at all, each requires careful consideration. My involvement, and that of the Gulf of Tonkin, was merely to comment on how a military invasion or event is easier to sell if you have been attacked first. If you have the political appetite, but fear that the population does not, this might be...

That's why I had the Gulf of Tonkin incident as separate to the other two instances, because it was different in that no attack occurred. I clearly stated this in my post. As for 9/11, the point I was debating was whether a government would allow an attack on its populace to occur (in order to...

The point I was referencing related to whether Governments would allow or permit attacks on their own populace and the perception that this would never be entertained. Two of these involved this theme (the outcome being a justifiable military response). The Gulf of Tonkin involved a faked...

Sadly it isn't without some precedent. Operation Northwoods, though ruled out, was authorised by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and this centred on false flag attacks on US citizens. The USS Liberty incident falls into this sphere. There's also the Gulf of Tonkin incident to consider. What this...

Not all 'truthers' (I hate that term) are the same. It's not a all-in club where you have to accept all non-standard theories. Sadly the most extreme ones often get cited and become the cliche by which all are referred to (in the same way that football fan = hooligan in the 80s to non-football...

Scotty's style revolves around his workrate, he's not the greatest passer of the ball but he's quick and works very hard. I'm speculating but getting older will impact on this more than other parts of his game thus having more of a detriment. From what I've read he has been offered a contract at...

I sense there's something of the tongue in cheek about this. As I understand it the Mail aren't fans of Nationalising the railways and Corbyn is pointing out the Mail is highlighting one of the issues with private companies running it (i.e. 'but your paper thinks privatisation is good?').

Big fan of Scotty and he represents a lot of what Dyche has done for the club. He was a free signing from Huddersfield who really improved under Dyche. I'm not so sure he's as effective as a CM though, his best work is from out wide, usually cutting in from the left. The only reason I can see...