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As I said, a wise point and one I agree with. Perhaps we will soon see if Scotland puts money above independence. If I had to guess I'd say they will. In the matter of Brexit I feel that Independence is a red herring. In an interdependent world there are very few nations that are truly...

Fancy a bit of Beethoven's Ninth myself. (Along with a spirited rendition of William Ward-Higgs, obviously.)

A wise point, although it is worth remembering that the situations in Scotland and the United Kingdom are very different. The United Kingdom is, always has been and hopefully will always be a strong and independent sovereign nation with its own head of state and armed forces, bound by whatever...

Just once in the history of your life answer the question you're asked.

OK, so you're furious about the £2 a year asylum support costs you, assuming you're a taxpayer. Can we assume you're 1500 times more furious about the £3000 tax fraud costs you?

I agree with your general point about manufactured controversies designed to shift public opinion in a certain direction. I also agree that it is those of the right that usually happen to practise it. I'm not sure that the motive is necessarily (or even usually) to grind down the poor and...

I agree with this and have no anxiety about him. Having said that he seemed a shade off his usual standard in some of the lockdown games. His distribution is hardly Kuiperesque but it's not brilliant.

Forgive me for not wading through the thread but it's a lovely day. As I expect has been said, Rule Britannia has wonderfully flowery lyrics and was first performed more than 250 years ago to support a spat with the Spanish, who had apparently been enslaving Britons (hence the slave line) and...

In one horrible week, culminating in Nice on 27 June 2016, my affection for England was terminally dimmed. The Albion, I support with my heart and soul.

There is illegal immigration, but we were talking about Mr Hassan and his successful application for asylum.

You don't have to debate of course, but your preference for deflecting is noticeable. Just for the record, I gave some examples of refugees/asylum seekers/resistance fighters and asked if you would refuse to listen or learn from them just because they had, at some point in time, broken a law...

I don't want to be picky but it must be the case that the great majority of refugees and asylum-seekers break at least the odd by-law when making their way to another country. Jews fleeing occupied Poland during the war probably didn't have the correct paperwork and the average East German...

It is the case that someone can't be prosecuted for entering a country illegally if they are coming (as Mr Hassan was) to claim asylum. There is the issue that they must have set out from a country where their freedom or safety was in jeopardy. English law has established that this threat...

Who doesn't want Biden to beat Trump but it's worth mentioning that he has been critical of "Britain's recent foreign policy direction" and it is likely that he will see Germany as the US's prime ally in Europe. The UK's influence in the world will continue to slide under a Biden presidency.

Is it possible for a player to turn down a contract offer if they are already under a contract they previously signed up to?

The French have about three times as many asylum seekers, the Germans four times. The Italians have had far more than Britain's 2020 aggregate in the past month alone. The total number of asylum seekers in the UK since the start of LAST year is less than that at a rainy Saturday afternoon at...

I wonder if this extract from the best of Brexit Blogs might be helpful? (Actually, I know it will be helpful; my uncertainty is about whether you will bother to read it. If you feel it's a bit long, perhaps I can summarise it. "IN PRACTICAL REALITY, BREXIT IS LIKELY TO GIVE US LESS CONTROL...

As he's your friend, could you ask him to stop putting the word 'admit' before every quote from a player (as in "Lewis admitted he enjoyed scoring the winning goal")? It was what finally tipped me over the edge when it came to reading the Argus.

I thought it was a women's team.

The Albion's graphic design discipline is, nearly always, superb - better than almost any other Premier League club - and the DIN typeface is elegant and restrained. (DIN stands for Deutsches Institut fur Normung by the way - can't imagine why you don't like it.)