Ex Lion Tamer

Self made millionaires are sometimes the worst because they think anyone can do what they did if they just work hard enough

I'm sure Koeman will turn it round to some degree but the jury is still out for me

The G20 has actually (belatedly) launched some fairly major projects to work out how to clamp down on tax avoidance. Feel free to be cynical about whether they are doing enough, but international tax avoidance is a very complex problem and will take massive international cooperation to sort it out. Westminster can't doing it alone

Strange body shape from Toby

Chances starting to come now at least

Mane really needs to come off now

I defended him after United but he has struggled to create anything today against a team defending in numbers

Higher demand for tickets at those clubs to be fair. But yeah, I'm sure the maths wouldn't add up for us to do it, it would have to be a benevolent gesture

If it meant they could substantially reduce ticket prices then I would probably go more often. Doubt they would though

Although 90% of his passes were wayward, the 10% he managed to get right were dangerous. Erratic yes, but still looked most likely to break through Utd's defence. Realistically he shouldn't be starting games but he is the best we have at the moment, and will improve

I know he was extremely erratic but still looked the most likely to create a chance

Not the best day for Bertrand

Both could still come good but need time to adapt

We might well have kept a clean sheet in this one if we hadn't gone down to 10

Dont really know why Burnley would sell him when they have a chance of staying in the Premier League, esp as any fee would be minimal

Stirring rendition of OWTS ringing around the ground

Great video. I remember thinking in our promotion season that we didn't score many spectacular goals; last season was an improvement but this season had been sensational

I'd love a recording of some of their coverage to surface, sadly I imagine it is lost in the mists I of time

Interesting, I'll have to check it out - I admit my source was just an article in the New Statesman Edit: I've had a quick look at the paper and cant see anything about graduating for under 21s - can you provide an exact quote?

Different issue, but here's why I think the Greens aren't that thorough. They're in favour of a compulsory living wage, but the trouble is that NIESR research suggests it would cost 160,000 jobs. That's why labour isn't doing it even though could probably get loads more support on the left if they made the easy promise. The same goes for renationalising the railways, it's a populist choice but I'm not convinced that a return to BR is really what we want

I thought you'd all be excited to read the email I had from Ed today: People sometimes say that they don't know what we — what I — stand for, so I'll put this in the simplest terms I can. This country is too unequal, and we need to change it. So here are the promises I'm making to you about the kind of Britain I will lead: First, I will undo the damage the Tories have done to our country: I will scrap the Bedroom Tax, which unfairly punishes the disabled and the vulnerable I will scrap the Health and Social Care Act, which damages and undermines our NHS I will scrap the gagging law, which limits our freedom of speech and right to campaign I will reverse the Tories' £3bn tax cut for millionaires, so we get the deficit down but do it fairly Second, I will take on the powerful vested interests that hold millions back: I will force energy companies to freeze gas and electricity bills until 2017 I will give power back to those who rent their homes, by scrapping letting fees and stabilising tenancy agreements I will raise money from tobacco companies, tax avoiders, and a mansion tax to fund doctors, nurses, careworkers and midwives for our NHS I will reform our banks so that they properly support small businesses I will stop recruitment agencies hiring only from abroad Third, I will start to rebuild a fairer, better Britain: I will raise the minimum wage, to ensure that everyone that does a hard day's work is properly rewarded I will promote the living wage by giving tax breaks to companies that pay it I will ban the damaging zero-hours contracts that exploit British workers I will bring in a lower 10p income tax rate, cutting taxes for 24 million workers I will support working parents with 25 hours of free childcare for three- and four-year-olds I will help more young people get on the housing ladder by getting 200,000 homes built every year

Sadly I agree. Regardless of policies, he carries himself much better and that's what people vote for

"Tories 'to match Labour spending'" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6975536.stm The situation would have been better if we had been running a surplus. The main issue though was deregulating the banks. Unfortunately both the major parties were caught up in international neo-liberal groupthink.

Whether we should cut foreign aid and whether a portion of what we spend should go to India are separate questions. My answers would be no and no. Aid to India is being phased out by next year anyway

You realise the lib dems support an elected House of Lords right?