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When the Trump regime does things beneficial to public wellbeing, I will praise and give them credit https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/crld4egrkrxo

In terms of your memory of Southern Seas deployment, I’m currently reading - and enjoying - this book at the moment about how Canberra was borrowed, and adapted, for the Falklands War. I remember being on Weston Shore in 1982 with my parents when she came back, a vivid early memory. The human aspects in terms of how civilian and naval personnel got along is really interesting, and 99% of the Cunard crew wanted to stay on. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Very-Strange-Way-War-Falklands/dp/1845137450

Fair point, and the Highway Code says to treat them as another car in terms of space which I do. Cyclists who also hold a driving licence I suspect tend to be safer cyclists.

There does need to be a deterrent. They want to see chaos but it not effect them. NBC poll still finding that only 2% regret their vote, although his approval ratings are very low by Presidential standards.

As was another vile racist shitbag coming on tour to spread hatred https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/10/04/polish-foreign-ministry-furious-after-uk-denies-entry-to-far-right-writer-who-spoke-of-holocaust-myth/ Look, there’s another one https://www.haaretz.com/2011-08-11/ty-article/britain-denies-entry-to-israeli-rabbi-who-advocated-killing-of-non-jews/0000017f-dbc2-d3a5-af7f-fbeef4ab0000 People who post frustrations with policies of Starmer, Sunak, Truss, Johnson, May, Cameron etc = not having any problems generally entering the UK. Ditto most of the EU, Canada, Aus, NZ etc. French scientist who criticised specific aspects DOGE relating to cutting indirect cost rates for labs, which is a MAGA POLICY = denied entry.

I had a cyclist shoot in front of our bonnet at the crossroads in St Denys opposite the car dealership, when the lights had turned green our side and had long since turned red the cyclist’s side coming down the hill towards Riverside. She had to have blatantly shot through a red light.🚦 As cyclists can’t have points applied as a car driver would, they should receive a higher fine to balance it if caught on camera or by traffic cops.

Here’s a ‘showing my age’ one and related to the overtaking posts, except this was horses rather than cars (and it was not the horses that were the issue whatsoever). Just slowly overtook in the car two horses out riding to go to one of the local pubs my wife likes, no issues there at all. We are passing and one of the young female riders late teens/early 20s is vaping whilst riding the horse! Poor horse having to breathe in candy floss flavour vape or whatever it was!

We should never bash the Bishop.

Do you think RVN would walk if he is wealthy enough?

Great post EKS, quite possible to take pride in our forces, coming from a forces family myself, but also recognise that Brexit had made it a damn sight harder to fund our forces and that the ‘black holes’ Hammond, Hunt and Reeves have had to contend are caused by losing 6% of the economy to a very hard Brexit. By contrast, Trump’s tariffs are damaging but at 0.8% of GDP. Glad Francis enjoyed his day, and our sailors are going to get a really good grounding over the next few months for long careers where powers like China and Russia are a real threat. I could do without the domestic politics dragged in on the first paragraph. If you voted for Brexit then be honest and own up to the damage it has caused.

My sense is that it’s a joint US-UK mission to send a message to Xi over Taiwan, to Trump over the longevity of Anglo-American naval and military collaboration long before MAGA madness which will crash and burn, and to Putin over Ukraine and the Baltic states he is eyeing up.

Bodes well, extend his contract if Shea is willing to https://www.owlstalk.co.uk/forums/topic/338560-player-of-the-year-vote/#comments

There is some truth to this, I recall sitting next to a London theatre director on a flight to JFK in 2005 who was also due there to direct a Broadway show in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Got in but said that everyone non-US was stripped searched right down to their underpants regardless.

Yes, let’s just ignore the different contexts, and pretend that people weren’t posting misinformation to stir up others in the midst of violent riots and compare it to an overseas scientist critiquing mildly policies of another government in an everyday situation.

Good lad, hate flytipping

Pure North Korea. Land of the Free my arse, they won’t ever be again in my lifetime https://news.sky.com/story/scientist-denied-entry-to-us-after-messages-critical-of-trump-found-on-his-phone-13332518

BBD looked very chunky to me, can’t see Sheff Utd buying him even if they do win the play offs. Needs intensive training pre-season to get much trimmer, Martinball really didn’t work out for him.

I remember Lancs didn’t pick Steve Elworthy of SA for a Lords final so does happen.

Could only really play RWB in a 5 too, suspect as a RB in a 4.

There’s loads of these sort of stories circulating, a British woman got chained up in detention for a visa mix-up. Literally chained up. MAGA has totally lost it. Any European going there at the moment for work let alone leisure over the next 3 years is taking a big risk. Personally, I think global institutions like UN should move temporarily to Paris and Sydney for the next few years until their electorate sort themselves out and the Republican Party is de-registered and replaced by a new centre-right free market democratic party along the lines of the Lincoln Project. If the economic chaos continues, many of their billionaires might throw their weight behind it. Democrats need to sort themselves out too - AWOL through all of this crazy shit.

Fair, and we will have a big advantage in resources and infrastructure. Hopefully we don’t nearly blow it like we did in 23/24 trying to be clever bollocks and trying to re-invent football and just focus on the title this time.

No, they are not better with the leveraged debt, they’ve just made better decisions in the Championship and not tried to be clever bollocks. When they needed a name to pick things up they got one (Kompany) and went for the obvious option this season for autos again (Parker) in the same way Saints should be doing with Steve Cooper. Kompany did a similar thing last season to Martin this by relegating them by a mile sticking by ‘principles’, which probably inspired Russell to shaft Saints, and whilst they’ll be better defensively next season than we’ve been (impossible not to be) I cannot see where the goals to keep them up would come from https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/how-exactly-did-burnley-fc-owner-alan-pace-make-his-cash/

Some elite company Liam is in there. Congratulations to him. PS - my first set of golf clubs were originally Peter Sainsbury’s. I bet that he used them more effectively than me!

One lesson for next season - close down Cameron Brannigan of Oxford when aiming to shoot from long range

Scored some good goals and made good through balls, but I agree that he isn’t going to go past anyone with a burst of pace or a trick to take defenders away.