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They won't get punished. The PL has already heard their feeble excuses and has buried its head in the sand, as usual.

I doubt they'd be allowed to. Wimbledon is the only independent tournament, the others have to do as they're told.

It's fairly common in times of war. Last time Britain was at war, some Germans and Italians were allowed to roam free as long as the government was convinced they were safe; but those Germans and Italians who proudly boasted of being German and Italian, who didn't condemn their governments...

Then surely the hypocrisy was in 2016 and he is just run-hypocritising himself? I don't see why changing your mind, even repeatedly, is hypocrisy. And I don't see why it should cause a Tory meltdown either, for that matter. He's not a Tory official.

Why is it hypocrisy? Stanley Johnson is half French via his mother, he's a former MEP and former employee of the European Commission, and he supported Remain at the referendum. Nothing remotely hypocritical about applying for French citizenship.

The accusations at Javid are nothing to d with the investigation. The accusations at Javid are that the police department charged with the investigations has finished their job, and Javid's department has been charged with answering the people that reckon the first department hasn't done its...

It's a bit pathetic. What they're complaiing about is that Javid's brother is a policeman. That's all. If they want the PM's office investigated, and then they don't like the result so they want the investigating department investigated, then it's hardly a surprise if they eventually get to...

You've educated me about Channel 4. All the sources I have googled say that it is a government corporation, owned by the state. Assuming all those sources are wrong, who actually does own it...

It might be worth pointing out that during that Tory rule period, 7 separate Labour MPs have received a jail sentence for criminal activity. (1 of them was a suspended sentence.)

If it's taken the police two years' investigation to find evidence to charge him with, then presumably the Tories would have needed to start their investigation in 2017 for the 2019 election.

Do you think the Home Office's incompetence at deporting criminal immigrants at the end of their sentences, is deliberate Tory policy as well? I think you sum up the Home Office policy quite well, actually. The government would like to treat Ukrainian migrants as a special case because there...

If the civil service is incompetent, it will make no difference which politician is nominally in charge. It may be the politician's job to sign the £20bn contract, but it's not the politician's job to do the admin work involved. The politician's job is policy. Here's a specific example. My...

I doubt that. If you have an ineffective committee of 50 people, you don't improve it by making it a committee of 100. You improve it by getting rid of the 40 with least to contribute. The people with supposedly routine jobs like tax helpliners and passport issuers might be missed, as in deed...

It's a stretch to call their win over Chelsea "quality". They relied heavily on Chelsea's inability to hit a barn door on the night, and they only scored because Chelsea literally gave Richarlison the ball on the edge of the penalty area for a free shot. I think they'll stay up, but the very...

I wonder if the VAR people and the lawsmakers look at this sort of thing, and think "what a good job we're doing - it's a big improvement to the game if random penalties are given for accidental handballs that don't affect the game".

He's tried kicking someone to get suspended, he's tried throwing flares into the crowd to get suspended, it hasn't worked. The PL isn't going to suspend Richarlison, full stop. I note there were numerous flares thrown on to the field when Everton got their first. Presumably since neither the...

Do either of them know about the potential concussion substitute?

The last pit in Burnley closed in 1971, though there was one in Hapton (Accrington way) that lasted till 1982. It was generally exhaustion of coal reserves that closed them, not politics. I believe John Major's government closed more pits than Margaret Thatcher's.

None taken. Frankly, I said the same about Brighton last summer - I expected you to struggle so badly for goals that you would be well down there. Shows what I know.

Burnley's prosperity was built on cotton mills and coal mines, both of which were long gone before Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.