Search results

One FACT is that, uniquely, this franchise has been designed to ensure that the train operator's finances are not affected, even if they don't carry any passengers at all. Fares income goes direct to the government, who are prepared to see the service lose as much money as anyone cares to see...

No. It's about the government instructing Southern to break the Trade Unions. Once Southern have done that, the expectation is that the other train operators will follow suit.

I don't agree that we should put the brake on them scoring. We need to encourage them into the delusion that the target is achievable, and then they start taking risks that cause them to lose wickets and ... hey presto ... we win the series.

It strikes me that the government is being extremely bone-headed in suggesting that people who live close to fracking sites are being so badly affected as to DESERVE compensation. This can only fuel a wider argument that fracking is dangerous and should be banned.

At the Lazio game, there was a bit of an effort to create a decent atmosphere at the north end of the Lower East Stand.

What's the fuss all about? How many times have the Albion beaten Newcastle since we moved to the Amex?

You've missed a couple of threads that made an effort to raise the issue, but both dropped out of sight since no-one rose to the challenge. Things are looking up.

Every year, Rafa Benitez looks more and more like Arthur Lowe.

I'll set the video and watch it later.

Renaming the Football League is the thin end of a wedge. One of the strengths of England's football heritage was always to keep any mention of the name of a nation well away from the identity of the game's governing bodies. What next? The English Football Association? The British Open Golf...

That's a start, but I can't see it getting very far.

Doesn't Triggaaar's search for a Hove-based cleaner count?

I used to work closely with David Bellotti and Norman Baker. And Ann de Vecchi.

It may well be the case that racism is a BIGGER problem in communities that have less experience of ethnic diversity than the big cities. At least as far as members of minorities are concerned.

We've had almost 100 replies to this thread now. Does this mean there must be four people who have given the right answer? Of course not.

None of them. Turning over any card will prove nothing about a "rule".

Kanchelskis?

Are you a member of the Residents Association? Do you have any obligation, under its rules or under the terms of your tenancy, to comply with majority decisions of the Association?

Indeed. The Council have facilitated the loan. They haven't lent £36 million of their own money to the project.

Who is this "we" of whom you speak?