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Lennox beat both McCall and Hasim Rahman..... I tend to judge fighters on their best performances, not their worst performances. Fury has had some shocking performances over the years against fighters that were far worse than those two and also, at one point in his career, felt he had to...

It's not his fault but I don't think Tyson will ever be able to make the argument that he surpasses Lennox Lewis in the British Heavyweight all time list, purely because of the standard of opposition he fought. Lewis fought and beat Razor Ruddock, Andrew Golota, Evander Holyfield, David Tua...

Im genuinely intrigued why you are intrigued and as the answer is so obvious I'm fairly certain that its a leading question! Because this conflict is on our doorstep, it's potentially a return to the cold war, threat of nuclear war. Of course it therefore makes people feel bad as we are closer...

This is quite a good article: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-downfall-of-russia-s-oligarchs What we think as Oligarchs were the small group of men that seized anything of value that they could after the break up of the Soviet Union. The situation today is very different, when Putin...

Watch out..thread about to be derailed by Brexiteers!

I wonder if theres any chance that this could be used as a ruse to get some NATO special forces on the ground in Ukraine? Similar to what the Russians did with the 'separatists' in Eastern Ukraine.

Interesting take, there wasn't a commentator or ex-professional for either 5 live, sky sports or anyone i have seen subsequently interviewed that saw the fight live who thought that Josh Taylor won that fight, most were in absolute disbelief at the decision. Ben Davidson, Josh Taylors trainer...

Exactly this, in the worst case scenario there will be a line drawn at the point at which Russian and Nato forces directly face each other. At that point the Nuclear deterrent should hopefully kick in.

In hindsight I actually quite like Blair (although I didn't at the time), he's a much more credible politician than the current crop that we have! No doubt he stayed in power because people balanced off his success overall as a prime minister against the decisions that he made in Iraq but his...

Nobody thinks that the US is going to be rolling tanks across the Russian boarder but if I was Putin I would be seriously worried about the expansion of liberal democracy and subsequent threat of regime change. I think that Putin also sees a power vacuum start to emerge as US power and...

People have short memories but you cant seriously be suggesting the Blair's reputation wasn't tarnished by Iraq or that there wasn't widespread opposition to the war?! When anyone talks about him they talk about Iraq! A lot of the lies came out years later but the majority of 100 was down from...

The problem around these types of discussions is people talk about the individual actions of nations without seeing the bigger picture, this power struggle is a natural consequence of the anarchic structure of the international system, its a structural problem. Over history the balance of power...

This is not true though is it, take for example the Iraq war, there was widespread opposition to the invasion of Iraq in the UK and across the western world. A large percentage of the population did not believe the government spun line about the threat of weapons of mass destruction. People in...

My suspicion is there wont be a full invasion of Ukraine at this point, Putin seems to be taking a piecemeal approach to destabilising the region and ultimately getting back under his sphere of influence some of the former soviet republics, he's pushing gradually, testing the resolve of the US...

How about we rewind to the point where these absolute cretins had one too many and thought they would have a pop at a celebrity footballer, his girlfriend and his Mum. The Foden's are clearly trying to get away from these morons and theres another video online where you can hear them standing...

It never ceases to amaze me how boxing fans can be so divisive in opinions about boxers, It doesn't matter who you mention there's always someone who thinks they are over-rated! You really can't knock Canelo's record, he's won world titles from light middleweight to light heavyweight, he hasn't...

It depends over what period you look at the data, if you drew a trend line from 1989 to 2017 there would be a very high correlation. The overall trend is house prices up and interest rates down, that data certainly doesn't disprove the theory at all. To draw a proper conclusion you would have...

Yes agree to disagree but just coming back on your point, the period you selected is very easy to explain 03 - 07 was a house price bubble, the reality was that people couldn't afford the mortgage repayments on the properties they were buying yet still could get the credit because of loose (and...

Because in your reply you were talking about prices being affected by a range of factors on a moment by moment basis which of course is true, but I am talking about the long term upwards trend of house prices in the UK defying gravity, which is only made possible by the availability of cheap credit.

Of course there are other factors at work! However in an earlier post you stated 'If you take the view, as I do, that house prices are purely a result of supply and demand, then the problem can be narrowed down to 'too many households' and/or 'too few houses'. Scapegoating banks, investors or...