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I think the media environment has become far too American and partisan - O’Brien is part of that issue as well - where genuine investigative journalism gets mixed up and misdiagnosed as the type of brown-nosing client journalism we see from the likes of the Mail and Guardian for political customers/donors. With this case, Jack Grove’s excellent work was written off in some quarters as a political hit job because THES and the Times Group is Murdoch owned. Whereas actually they are showing their independence as Farage has found out as his network of criminals funding him are being exposed by the Times.

Mike Ashley likes a bit of vertical drinking in London. And a good fireplace to barf in https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40484091

On this agree, and yes, I don’t have any sympathy with him personally. Claiming others work and profiting from it is low grade behaviour and conduct.

I don’t like Fernandez but I fucking hate Henry Winter. Send him there instead with no internet connection to write his drivel. The only decent decision the DT have made in the last decade is getting rid of him.

He’s been caught out very publicly and as Saints found out last season, cheating has serious consequences. Empathy with his colleagues who have been caught up in this mess and some of whom seemingly suspected he was not what was claimed. Cambridge University leadership have further questions to answer. The positive is that Jack Grove, the journalist who investigated, brought the fraud to light, has been exonerated and it was very wrong that he was ever reported to the police https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/i-was-reported-police-over-arday-case-i-was-just-doing-my-job Nathan Confas is still vile though, blogging in 2024 that if Harvard was a true meritocracy, there would be no black Professors. Ghent are welcome to him. Now he IS racist.

If it was Rob Elliott who said it, then ironically he’s now managing in the National League! Could've been Scott Lindsey who managed him first before being sacked, later re-hired and now at York.

It wasn’t a question, in politics they call it a filibuster. Not that Parsons or Blackmore will mind.

Oh yes, Allister, Truss and Kwarteng’s budget radically transformed Britain and the Conservative Party alright. ‘The greatest budget by far of his lifetime’ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/23/kwasi-kwartengs-budget-moment-history-will-radically-transform/ Heath shitting the bed without paywall https://www.facebook.com/EconomicsForTheMany/posts/this-was-the-best-budget-i-have-ever-heard-a-british-chancellor-deliver-by-a-mas/1623151172502012/

Long, long way away from its 1980s to expenses scandal heyday. Any paper who has that weird, Truss-worshipping creature Allister Heath as Editor for 9 years is bound to be wonky and inaccurate. Here’s his latest masterpiece about his new crush, Farage https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026/08/05/joining-rupert-lowes-religious-war-would-be-electoral-suici/ The irony of what he thinks Reform is about is as misplaced as his hurrahing about the Truss and Kwarteng disaster budget.

You need to avoid Jack Ruby (Murray)

Those Cornish nats don’t take any prisoners.

Ah sorry. Basically ex-staffer from first term predicting that the chaos will intensify in his last two years even if he loses both houses and that he’ll have Vance and others on a string by trying to amend the constitution. He’s quite prepared to use serious violence to subvert democracy, hence the attempted but blocked 6 Jan ‘compensation fund’.

Company I worked for many, many years ago were doing a batch of deliveries in Frome (not too far away). They got slightly lost and wound down the cab window on their lorry to ask a local for directions (pre Sat Nav’s being common garden). In a broad Hampshire accent, one of the crew made the error of referring to as Frome (as in Rome). ’It’s Frome!’ (as in zoom) was the angry response and the enraged local promptly threw a punch through the cab window!

Something to look forward to then, and this would be even assuming the Dems reclaim one or both Houses https://inews.co.uk/news/world/donald-trump-preparing-maga-finale-former-allies-terrified-4684819?srsltid=AfmBOooBJcnfU9TdZGFaqEcoWQVFOKFBCVpL4ifggtomQ9BkidgB34l5

Whose fault do you reckon it was? I say Decker but I remember it at the time and the home crowd gave Budd serious stick. Decker milked it for all it was worth.

Here’s my teabag - fancy a ☕️?

Nah, we nick, sorry qualify, Budding talent (see what I did there?) our boxers, tennis players, runners and cricketers from Canada, the Saffers and Barbados.

Malmo-Copenhagen is a good double header weekender with the Oresund Bridge between the two.

That old chant from the Milton end days would take the entire first half to complete.

Yep, and they can stay until the end of the visitor visas they came in on in a detention centre, then straight out on the day they expire. They had ample time to confess any cruelty towards them when they arrived. If they want to appeal they can do it from their country of origin at their own cost. The phrase ‘fuck off’ comes to mind.

If Hants reached the final, we’d only lose like we have in the last two when a mere run a ball was required with around 5 wickets remaining from 25-30 balls anyway.

You’re not alone it seems https://www.fodors.com/world/north-america/canada/experiences/news/canadians-really-did-boycott-the-u-s-and-it-cost-america-billions $3.3bn reasons not to vote for white supremacist populists. A couple of Donald’s super fans grunting and scratching their balls on the comments section.

The price reflected his success in the first season of the 💯 and Big Bash down under for the Sydney Sixers where he’s been one of the best players in the tournament for years. But yes, I agree, he’s been inconsistent for MI and got a 🦆 at the Utilita.

I try not to demonise Reform politicians and voters with having single digit IQs but when they say things like Pochin just did, and launch pathetic unworkable ‘policies’ like yesterday, I don’t need to. They do a great job of it all by themselves. https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/reform-mp-sarah-pochin-france-world-war-two-jibe-408436/ That said, in answer to the Lib Dem councillor asking how she ever got elected, that’s because Mike Amesbury started punching people in the street. Not a good idea, not least if you’re the town’s MP.

Good overseas players would make a difference - Miller did well at Lords but looks over the hill generally, Stubbs was poor for both Hants and the Timid.