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You shouldn't think that just because the North of England is such a hotbed of football compared with the barren south, that we don't have room for other sports too. :wink:

Hancock Tower and/or Sears Tower (or Willis Tower, or whatever it calls itself now). The Sears Tower has glass boxes that you can walk out on and look straight down. Hancock Tower is nearer the lake. Museum of Science and Industry. Big train, Coal mine, Enormous doll's house, German U-boat...

If that had been a spoof written by rugby union bosses who want to kill the competition, I wouldn't be surprised. They are taking all the things that didn't work under Maurice Lindsay, which have been reintroduced several times since and have failed every time, and saying they want to try them...

If that was taken literally to the nth degree, it would be illegal for a parent to buy a ticket for a child. Let alone when I ask my friend Joe to get one while he;s at the ticket office and give him the money later. I think general passing on of tickets at face value that you have bought...

It's the "project two" homes, the ones that don't have a loft or cavity walls, that I'm thinking about. And living in!

Aren't they trying to do this with the air-source heaters that are designed, whether accidentally or deliberately, to be too inefficient to heat properly? The idea being to force people to install very expensive insulation or else live in a cold, cold property?

Watford managers can only dream of reaching number 87.

Be glad Burnley were relegated. (Yes, I know, you already were.) Queueing up at Burnley's ticket office on matchday is no joke - I hope if and when we meet again, BFC tells BHA what they can do with their extra workload!

When you say "30% of of British companies exporting to the EU being wiped out in the last year", is that saying that these businesses have closed since September 2021, or is it saying that the HMRC figures for numbers of companies exporting to the EU have dropped by 30% between 2020 and 2021...

I agree the solution is idiotic. So we need to try a different solution, and it ought to be based on the idea of Northern Ireland being in the UK and the Republic being in the EU. Wouldn't you agree? So we have a border just like all other land borders between EU and non-EU. But, just like...

Why are you so fussed about the customs border being a breach of the agreement? Even if it were, your preferred solution of a de facto border down the Irish Sea is at least as much of a breach, so there's no moral high ground in claiming your breach is better than mine. Veterinary checks is a...

Goods sold from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland (and vice versa) would be recorded in exactly the same way as they have been for years. Businesses have always had to keep and report VAT transactions between EU states, that would not change. Large businesses always keep very detailed...

There is already a border between the North and the Republic, and has been for over 100 years. All that is in question is how the paperwork is administered.

No, neither of those things. I apologise if what I said wasn'rt clear enough, tohugh I suspect that a large part of you is so determined to assume I am wrong that you didn't read it properly. What I am suggesting is that post-Brexit, Northern Ireland should be treated the same as the rest of...

I'm saying nothing about the rest of his activities. Only that he doesn't appear to have been involved with this specific pilot and plane.

I've seen it suggested that it's insurance that's the problem. If Cardiff's insurance company deems that the contract was invalid, and not Cardiff's liability, then Cardiff either have to go to court because only a court order can force the insurance company to accept liability, or else bear...

The report does say that McKay chartered Henderson to fly the plane, who was a proper commercial pilot with the right licence. Henderson was the one who shifted the charter to a dodgy pilot in a dodgy plane, and I haven't seen any evidence that McKay was ever told that his client was flying...

I agree that breaking the Northern Ireland protocol for the sake of EU trade was a mistake, a bad mistake, but it needn't have been a consequence of Brexit. It would have been far better, and perfectly practicable, to have trade between the North and the Republic on the same terms as the rest...

Yes, there sub-context of your posts did escape me in the overall tone of the discussion. But even then, I reckon there must come a time when the complaints of the Scots Nationalists go beyond sympathy and understanding and trying to reach an accommodation, and enters "tough luck" territory...

And yet, most countries sent a head of state to represent their country at the funeral. They weren't laughing. Some countries didn't, of course. Russia and China, for example. I think you're right that Russia and China think our system is risible, but I wouldn't take that as a recommendation...