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Of course you're right that political leanings can affect the way we think about specific things but remember that the most damaging and meticulous criticism of the way this government approached the pandemic came from a broadsheet newspaper that backed Brexit in the referendum and supported the...

Not really. Of all the times I've voted, I've voted Labour the least. (What does happen quite often is that if someone disagrees with someone then they accuse them of party political bigotry. If they agree with them this changes to humane common sense, etc, etc.)

You'd have to work out what to do about playoffs. Just promote the third-place side?

If behind-doors happens, which I hope it doesn't, a piece in the Times today will be of interest. All PL teams except Wolves, Soton and Chelsea have (as expected) won more points per home game than per away game this season. Everton top the table in this respect with .99pts more. Palace...

I've got a dozen Albion flags from different years plus a socking great EU one. I'll start waving them this evening.

This was one of three solutions floated a couple of weeks ago. The others were basing final positions on points per game so far and stat-based predictions of the results of the remaining 92 games. The French-referenced one is perhaps the least fair. Under none of them would the Albion be...

I would have thought so but it doesn't look as though anyone else here is interested in this development.

The Express set out to give a blatantly misleading impression, rather like Cummins and his bus. I'm surprised you didn't call them lying bullshitters.

Ah, another thread designed to win the Paul Dacre Prize for making people really really cross. Actually, this one has succeeded as far as I'm concerned. I'm APPALLED by this from the Argus report: '“We’ve still got a few more to route out, but because of your fantastic door-knocking, we know...

I've seen weaker! It's just that I don't think we should demonise the owner of a medium-sized loss-making company as being money-obsessed when he tries to limit the extent of those losses. This is the situation many owners of football clubs - the Albion for example - find themselves in. The fact...

I have a friend with a small manufacturing business. He has recently invested - or spunked as you could say - over £400,000 on machinery. He didn't want to do it, just as I didn't want to blow most of my working capital on computer stuff when I started up, but he had to. He's in a competitive...

The press seem to be heavily in favour of behind-closed-doors. You can see why - a brief sudden death kickabout with millions at stake would offer great copy. The fact that such events would be unfair, artificial and run counter to the noisy, raucous, partisan and emotional spirit of British...

When I set up a one-man business I spent £15,000 on computer equipment. It wasn't extravagant because I had to have the best at the time and it was a tool of my trade. Tony Bloom's business plan for the Premier League similarly demands the purchase of some very expensive assets. That's not...

Gove worked for him for years. That was before he became an oleaginous back-stabbing creep though.

Why do you guess that this will be the case in the very near future? I'm happy to be persuaded but haven't seen any expert suggesting tipping-point immunity is round the corner for any group.

Someone exploding a banger next to our dog a fortnight ago certainly added some zest to the proceedings. Numbers and noise seemed to be down tonight in this corner of Mid-Sussex.

You can imply that one or two people on this thread aren't decent human beings if you like but I'm not sure it strengthens your argument.

I agree with you. Paul Dacre it was, when editor of the Daily Mail, who said that the perfect front page headline should make people angry or frightened but preferably both. Threads like this seem intended to do something similar. "Let's press a few buttons and make people absolutely FURIOUS."...

I'm old enough to remember the last time people were saying that football was dead. We were told that all stadiums would have to be multi-purpose, most players would have to be part time and divisions 2, 3 and 4 would have to be regional.