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I said English deliberately. It was the English who ruled the roost in the UK till the 70s and the rise of regionalism. And it is the English who have the greatest sense of entitlement in the UK (the proddies in ulster are a special additional case) and it was England where most of the recent...

Post of the year :bowdown:

"Birley has highly relevant previous convictions, including criminal damage, attacking emergency workers, and racially aggravated harassment, the court hears. The 27-year-old, of Swinton, had previously been sentenced for some of those offences, the court is told. A pre-sentence report had...

I agree completely. That is in fact the main problem in the UK. (And indeed in Russia we are talking a whole other level of absolute power corruption) In the UK the people setting up untested process without any mechanism for quality assurance are (largely) doing so honestly and to the best of...

The best way to let the status quo prevail is to create rules that are ambiguous and a management rubric that doesn't work. I have just spent 20 minutes explaining a fundamental problem at work over academic appeals committee management. The people in charge are not interested in change, and...

Historians will look back at the postwar history of England and ask what the f*** happened to the English? Once we had leadership, and an important voice in the world. Churchill. A seat at Yalta. The UN. The massive opportunity offered by the postwar concensus. Somehow we became incredibly...

Come on. The referendum was to shut up the 'bastards' (tory back bench wankas like Bill Cash) once and for all. The plan was for 'remain' to win. That was 'call me Dave's' plan. There was no plan by the leavers. They just wanted to leave. The absurd promises (£350 million a day for the NHS...

Mainstream Tory thinking (I mean all their leadership candidates) is that Brexit has been a success. Even plenty of Labour supporters think it would be 'wrong' to have another referendum. The current labour government cannot 'go' there all the while so many people think Brexit is the Will of the...

Mrs T the same.

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I'd have to check. It sounds about right. :thumbsup:

Seen Henning Wehn at the Betsey Trotwood 4 or 5 times* trying out new material. He's tried out a few jokes that would 'get me put in jail if I told them in the Fatherland'. I remember one of his tours had the provisional title of 'my struggle'. (* I should add him to my list of famous people...

I thought the offside rule came in to stop goal hanging and a clutter of bodies in the box with the spectacle reduced to a dull mess. "In general, offside rules intend to prevent players from "goal-hanging"–staying near the opponent's goal and waiting for the ball to be passed to them...

You mean you want the thread kept open?

Yep. Perfect example of how capitalist systems quickly become immutable, meaning that any safeguards considered necessary have to be built in at inception, or it will be impossible later. Privatization was done at breakneck speed with the imperative being 'let the market decide'....with the...

I can't remember....I thought he became crocked on international duty. Of course, in hindsight it was probably the case that RDZ flogged our player into injury (presumably contributing to his sacking)

Same for Mitoma? If so I guess that was just bad luck

Not 'we'. The Irish national selectors.

Are you telling me De Zerbi was sacked?