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Imagine it like a football match. Brighton are playing for the League Title, the ground is full, and a thousand people are trying to climb the wall to get in. The police are worried that they wil impale themselves on the fence, so they say they will allow an extra 250 people to come in if...

Sorry about the article date error. I have seen a very similar article several months ago. The point of the second paragraph is that some people are coming to the UK in small boats because (however it works) they cannot get here an easier way. The only way to stop them coming is to give them...

I think it's a reasonable speculation. Why do people get on a small boat in France to come to England? I stand by my belief that it's because they want to leave France and come to England. I don't think that's controversial. ;)

I've seen that article before, and the point was it doesn't give any numbers. The number of asylum seekers whose cases had been processed was tiny, single figure percentage of the total applicants, from memory. But it stands to reason anyway. Anyone who at present is so desperate to get to...

If that's a joke, it's in disgustingly poor taste. But if it's serious, and you genuinely think that the treatment of asylum seekers is completely akin to how the Germans treated the Jews and other minorities, then you really need to study a bit of history. Have you even heard of Belsen...

I think the last sentence of point 3 is a fallacy. People who arrive in small boats do so because they know they have no chance of getting here via establsihed channels. If we change the rule to allow more people in but these people still won't be on the list, it won't stop them coming by...

Every chance they always wanted to come to the UK. But the reason they get on those pitiful boats in France is because they want to leave France and come to England.

Why not go the whole hog and launch (pun intended) a campaign to keep the boats running? One of the things that really needs looking at, but keeps being glossed over, is what is it about France that makes it such a hell-hole that people want to leave so badly?

The point of self employment is that is saves both employer and employee quite a lot of money, especially as regards National Insurance,. It may not be all Lineker's fault, because the BBC have a record of ordering their presenters to claim self-employment rather than employment, probably...

Politics is banned on Burnley's forum. Too much intolerance, and in more than one direction.

Is it permissible on this board to abuse people on the basis of their skin colour or their gender? ;)

Bear in mind that the pedestrian may be stone deaf and unable to hear either the cough, the words, or the bell. My mother has been more than just startled on occasion by a cyclist zipping past within touching distance because he or she assumes that ringing the bell gives them the right to speed...

It's not a mental health issue, by and large. On an individual basis, it's just linguistics. Ever since human beings existed, the difference between male and female has been based on genitals, and essentially (though they didn't know it at the time) chromosomes. Have a Y chromosome, you're a...

If it's still being talked about 40 years later, then it's a very good marketing campaign.

That's a very fair point. How can we presume to criticise Saudi Arabia for executing female adulterers, when it's still legal to laugh at sexist jokes in this country?

The policy is to charge people £70 if they drive from one zone to another. They hope is to create a "15 minute city" as a result, whereby all zones have shops, doctors, and the rest within 15 minutes walk or bike ride of home. (Which obviously for pensioners means about 200 yards, though with...

I suspect the answer may be that sheep are fat round woolly things, with very heavy fleeces when soaked. Humans are more streamlined (most of us!) and more likely to slide over the top.

And the Man United one isn't three minutes' walk away from the ground either, so it can't take 6 minutes longer than Spurs. At Burnley you'd have time to get the fish and chips and be back for your bene and hot. No probs.

They could improve this by simply going back to the old rule of "level is onside". I have no idea why the power-that-be have chosen not to apply this rule, which could be checked in 10 seconds without recourse to inaccurate lines on the screen. Clearly under the old rule the goal was good...

Why leave a conference call? I'm sure conference calls can be so irrelevant and boring that you wander off to look at the ducks, as long as there's no-one about and you can trust the dog to see the phone doesn't get nicked. Talking the dog for a walk while the call was going on doesn't suggest...