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Barnsley celebrating as though they'd stayed up, but table says not? Oh, hang on...is that the Wigan thing?

Infection rates seem to be staying fairly steady (albeit very low) rather than declining. The coronavirus symptom tracker (which I would regard as probably the most accurate 'real time' guage of case numbers) was rising fairly steadily (from a low base, so not too alarming) for the first couple...

There's an assumption (or maybe not as I definitely can't be arsed to read the whole thread) that White would rather be at Leeds because he's guaranteed a starting place. Well maybe, up to a point. I imagine it would be reassuring to start life in the Premier League knowing that you have...

You may of course be right, but I choose not to share your view. It won't happen instantly, or quickly, because the vested interests that were doing so well before, will want everything to go back to how it was. And are already doing all they can to ensure that will be what happens. But the...

100%. And obviously NHS staff. But also carers (both paid and unpaid) I hope. Massively undervalued, underpaid and (mostly) over-exploited. Let's tax the rich and pay the people that really matter in society properly.

Our poltical and business leaders have been seduced by dirty Russian wealth for decades.Indeed the role of big UK companies such as KPMG, Ernst and Young, Linklaters etc in ceating the whole corrupt Russian oligarchal structure that has supported Putin is well known (see private eye: 'looting...

Why would we? If we need money we can get £50 quadzillion from leeds for Ben White.

Large number of Care homes in the Uk are owned by Chinese State companies via tax havens. https://theferret.scot/scottish-care-homes-chinese-state-tax-havens/ (and making very good money from them, while staff are exploited and patients fail to be protected) This relates to Scotland, but same...

BTW - fair play for including link to both petitions. We seem to be getting the hang of keeping discussions out of the bear pit maybe

Exactly If we want to make the world better, post covid, we have to change the questions we ask. At the moment the focus is on 'how do we get back to where we were'. Which, is understandable, given the sh*tstorm we are living through. But that surely is the wrong question. Commuting is awful...

Thanks. Signed (the second one, obviously) Propper citywide cycle network. Brighton as the new Amsterdam What's not to like?

How about the FT? https://ig.ft.com/us-election-2020/ It's not that I think things can't change. But right now Trump is losing. Badly.

Eh? I just picked, at random, one of very many reports indicating the range of polling figures showing an increasing swing away from Trump. Could have been fox news, or could have been pretty much any independent polling organization. I don't 'believe CNN'. I believe facts. And whatever the...

This, plus the news on the new teatment today, begins to show us the likely route out of this. Science will get us there! Which is lucky as I have less and less faith in both our political leaders and the great British public to do the right things* (*This is maybe unfair, as the majority...

It's not impossible of course. These are unpredictable times. But something will have to change in a very big way - at the moment it's only heading in one direction: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/19/politics/joe-biden-donald-trump-suburban-voters-polling/index.html If Biden wins and the Trump...

My view would be that Biden may play better with right wing Democrats and has a better chance of winning over some of the (many) republicans that cannot stomach Trump. I hope that, plus the force of the anti-Trump vote, will be enough However, Bernie could have split Trumps blue-collar vote (he...

My point is that in global (or just sane) terms, the position on healthcare taken by Sanders etc would be entirely mainstream but has been framed as 'extreme left' by those in the US desperate to divide and conquer, at any cost. So what I can't see is who you are defining as the 'extreme'...

That division has been deliberately created, with a clear purpose. And not by the 'left' There is plenty of room in the centre and a LOT of people are there. The fact that they get called 'extreme left' for proposing that access to healthcare should not be dependent on financial status...

Oh yes, fine people on both sides. Pro-facist or ant-facist? Really, it's so hard to judge who's in the right. It is important to take a balanced view and not make any hasty judgements.