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Rather than change your username, you should change your attitude towards the onset of maturity. Being a senior member of society is a great privilege, and brings with it countless benefits, despite inching closer to oblivion.

The Boris Johnson book is being promoted and serialised now to coincide with the Tory Party conference. It often happens. Your Tory analysis seems potty. Reform cost the Tories a large number of seats and will do so again unless they address the issue. They can’t afford to ignore them. There...

Minor league baseball is superb. I always tried to find a local game when I was over there for some reason. Did a lot of walking in Switzerland when I lived there. Again, wonderful though I preferred late spring and early autumn to mid-summer as it can get surprisingly hot in Switzerland. Often...

I did London, Berlin, Boston, Chicago. Never did the other ‘majors’ and never will now. Also did Zürich, Hamburg, Copenhagen.

Well, we don’t have stats to prove either way but I suspect very few people looking at this question have been to all away games (except Ipswich) in recent times. The opinion of people like you is valuable here because you’re one of the few who have. I go to several away games a year but for...

Very few people will have been to all of those clubs in recent times, and even fewer if you include only the new grounds. I’ve been to 15 of those clubs, but much fewer if you insist on only recent games. So TBH it’s impossible to say.

It’s not hard, is it? But OK, I was being rhetorical, and as you hadn’t realised that, let me spell it out for you, and for the other hard-of-thinking types: It’s very easy to resolve a pay dispute when coming into government. You accede to the wishes of the strikers. This is then declared a...

Yes, that’s (partly) what started the line of discussion. Apparently nothing proposed or agreed re productivity, future efficiencies etc. Let’s see how this pans out.

The obvious point I was making was that there will be major issues to come re industrial action, particularly in the public sector and with the traditionally militant unions- transport etc.

You missed the point I was making.

It’s very easy to resolve pay disputes in the short term by simply giving people what they're demanding. The reason this is a very bad, short-termist idea will become apparent quite soon. I won’t spoil it for you. Just wait and see.

Bloody hell, you're doing it again. My complaint about your hyperbolic, blinkered bullshit is now turned into me wanting to eliminate 'great literature'.

Emotive language of prejudice. ‘Finest wines’, ‘the country’s ticket’, ‘the plebs’, ‘banged up on house arrest’. That’s why it was a silly comment. The social gatherings between colleagues to mark people leaving etc have been turned into something akin to great banquets and raucous piss-ups by...

That’s an absolute travesty of the truth, but such wilful misrepresentation is why I’m absolutely thrilled from head to toe to see Starmer and co so regally f*cking up, and watching his popularity drop to even below Sunak's lowest point. Johnson's 'crime', such as it was, wasn’t "carousing into...

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What sort of supporter posts such a message? Since he joined us we’ve played a total of 12 games. We’ve lost one of them. F**k right off.

Pisses me right off when they don’t show the lyrics, as happened vs Wolves on Wednesday as well. No one singing until the chorus. What an absolute bunch of whiners people are, as if anyone should freakin’ care whether or not the words are shown on the screen. I’ve no idea what the full words...

I had an almost identical experience at the Wankdorf in Bern.

Kevin Spacey certainly seemed like a lovely smiley chap when I briefly mat him in Hyde Park one New Year's Day about 15 years ago. I’d just run the 10K race and was feeling suitably knackered. He grasped me by the hand, congratulated me, and wished me a Happy New Year, before continuing his...

From the Guardian/Observer today: Honeymoon over: Keir Starmer now less popular than Rishi Sunak Opinium poll for the Observer finds a 45-point drop in the prime minister’s approval rating since he won the election Keir Starmer has suffered a precipitous fall in his personal ratings since...