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I think perhaps they're more worried about whether a Brighton fan who watches Whitehawk when Brighton are away, would stop watching Whitehawk and watch Brighton on the telly instead. I suspect (might be wrong, of course) that Whitehawk and other local clubs get bigger gates when Brighton are...

This is something that I've often heard quoted. And yet the recent "who wants to build a wind farm" auction of licences, nobody bid because the subsidies the government was offering, were too low. Why would we need to subsidise a form of electricity generation that is cheaper than what they're...

Electric car technology might be in soon, although as so much of the infrastructure depends on the government getting its finger out and acting efficiently, it seems unlikely that the grid will be ready. At present a house with gas gets about 4 times as many kwh of power from gas than it does...

I doubt there would be much point in waiting for the police. I'd be surprised if they turn up at all unless the people being impeded start getting violent. They won't come if the people getting held up just sit and take it (which, in theory, they should; but it's understandable, when rule of...

It will put some people off. I have a season ticket at Burnley and at Accrington Stanley, who mostly don't clash. If Burnley were playing live on TV at 3 pm, I wouldn't go to watch Accrington. (Bearing in mind their small gates, they do get a significant number of supporters from Burnley.)

Its only worth is that someone in future will pay for it. It's not like, say, a share where there are assets and potential future income that provide value, or cash that is backed by (to some extent) gold and by future government taxes. That's what I mean by inherently worthless - its value is...

So when we have done our research and discovered that bitcoin has no ownership, the assets are inherently worthless, and there is no-one in charge when things go wrong - is that when we invest?

How do you do that research? Is there a government regulator that you can ask? Where is the balance sheet of bitcoin that shows the coins issued and the underlying assets backing them up? Who are the individuals on the board of bitcoin that are ultimately responsible for the performance of...

Ice hockey also has a policy of not having own goals - the goal is credited to the player on the scoring side who last touched it. So after one of those 20-pass moves that ends with a back pass to where the goalkeeper isn't (and it does happen in ice hockey too, occasionally!) then someone gets...

Yes, but if polling staff are told not to take action if they spot someone voting illegally, it will hardly be a surprise of polling station staff haven't been seen to take action against people voting illegally. I agree that postal voting is a far more likely source of fraud, but the absence...

To be fair, a lot of the absence of evidence is because they aren't looking for it. The people manning polling stations nowadays in our area were told (2010 or so) not to challenge people who come in to vote twice, or who fill in the paper for their wife (always that way round). Nor to report...

My mother has one from Multicare, though obviously a Lancashire branch. Whether their quality of service is uniform nationwide, I can't say, but she's had no problem with hers and the annual service was done efficiently.. I think hers was second hand and it cost £1,100 for a straight chairlift...

A grass is someone who was involved in the crime but then told the police or gave evidence against his fellow-crooks. The people who testified against Lucy Letby, for example, aren't grasses. They're witnesses.

He had 181 public engagements in 2022, but of course many of those would have been before he became King. He will have more ceremonial duties re. foreign dignitaries and also the weekly meetings with the PM and other constitutional duties, so I dare say his public appearances may have dropped a...

Forcing them out of the Commonwealth might be a good start. Which former colonies do you have in mind that lack full independence? t's interesting that the Elysee Palace is fully accessible to the people. (Albeit only 3 days per year.) Have you seen Macron's private apartments? What are...

Of course it's comparable. It's a professional ball game with tribal support. It may be different, but it's certainly comparable. I accept that some people like the "two tribes at war" attitude and the hundreds of policemen and enforced segregation and risk of harm to those in the "wrong"...

I went to a rugby league match Keighley v Barrow last week, and stood among a group of Barrow supporters - one of whom was wearing a Keighley shirt in tribute to Danny Jones who died on the pitch a few years ago - and we all had club colours and we all celebrated our own sides' tries. It's a...

If the police believe that sending a letter by Royal Mail is sufficient to make the assumption that they have received it, then they haven't been living in the real world for quite some time. Quite apart from the irony of noting that Edouard's English isn't very good, while their own language...

If a player transfers (aged under 24) when he is out of contract, a transfer tribunal determines the fee if the clubs can't agree. That, of course, only applies if the player has previously had a contract and has been offered a new one, but it shows how it could be done.

I had virgin (TV including Sky Sports and TNT Sports, second box, broadband, landline) and because I had let the contract lapse (and they hadn't bothered to warn me) I was paying £160 per month. So I placed an order with BT and BT told Sky I was cancelling; a man from Virgin rang up (during...