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You'll find posts on Chelsea's message board saying that about Newcastle and the Saudis, and posts on Newcastle's message board about how Abramovich must be sanctioned and kicked out of football. You'll find posts on Man City's board expressing both those views. We like to think we'd all turn...

Yup, this is sports washing to a tee. Russian money comes in and makes the regime acceptable to so many. When the whole football world is supporting Ukraine and protesting the atrocities, the Chelsea fans are chanting a Russian's name during the minutes silence for the victims. Is one thing to...

Tuchel might be available now...

Sanctions are intended to be a temporary thing, surely? The point of them is to encourage a change in behaviour, at which point they are lifted; and the person can once again access their assets. It can't be reasonable to apply sanctions, seize and sell off someone's assets, before lifting the...

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Ah, disappointing if so, but I guess would make sense with the factual errors

No problem with boycotting Shell, but can't say I've heard a position taken by most other major suppliers of petrol - Esso, Gulf, Texaco, Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons and so on. For that matter where do the supermarkets get their petrol from, is it via Shell?

Still a fraction of fuel costs though

Current EV cars can do 200-250 miles on a single charge, all motorway service stations have fast chargers that will top up 80% in half an hour. My office has cheap chargers, many do now, and the infrastructure is spreading quickly.

The first page of Shane Warne’s memoirs shows what a great man we lost. Hilarious, going to be reading the rest as soon as I get my hands on a copy!

Surely going to see a large scale increase in sales/lease of electric cars. Good thing too. I'll be ordering mine soon.

Wonder what our reaction would have been in 1941 if Hitler had offered peace in return for ceding the South Coast as part of Germany and giving independence to Scotland and Wales. Wouldn't wash. A more realistic agreement would be the promise of a UN - overseen referendum on independence...

Because hesgoal has stopped showing Premier league

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Yep, you've convinced me, I now think its OK for American police to kill unarmed black people.

Maybe. I think those would be more tactical strikes. I reckon - if he did it - he will aim more for punishment

News shouldn't be opinion though. I kinda like watching Fox News, but I don't do it to get informed, I do it to laugh at the absurdity. I guess I'm getting informed of just how ridiculous those points of view are, but I also know that the news is filtered and massaged into a specific world view...

I think it's pointless trying to make this a party politics thread - let's attack or defend Truss because she's a Tory - that's an irrelevance when it comes to serious matters of foreign policy. There are issues we will take a stance based on the policies we prefer, like fiscal policy, public...

Of course they are, you're completely right. This is exactly what happens at the highest level of sport, when someone bursts on the scene with tremendous success, his opponents study his weaknesses and work out how to combat him. Its then up to the player and his coaches to work out how to...

I suppose if you just say 'it's all one man's fault, his alone and everyone else in that country can carry on as normal' then there isn't going to be any pressure to change that 'one man'. I agree with you that Abramovich is being especially targeted because he's the only Russian with...