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Sounds like Vince suggested this one. Good stats in a stronger domestic competition than ours. Given Green and Marsh’s injury records a good spell might get him on their Test radar https://www.cricketworld.com/australian-all-rounder-jack-edwards-signs-for-hampshire/101349.htm

In your bubble on X maybe but the Lib Dem’s did far better in terms of seat capture and that’s who I vote for. If Labour loses its majority which is a big if then we’re just as likely to have a say in the outcome than Reform, factually more so with FPTP. Tories are fucked after choosing Badenoch, their support has slipped ever further, and she bangs on about culture war shit like this all of the time. I just want an economy that enables me and wife to put bread on the table, same as 95% of the electorate. Trump only got re-relected outside the 40% who are obsessed with him because enough people thought he was more likely to do that than Harris. They didn’t consider tariffs pushing prices up but that’s by the by. Heard all of the same earthquake stuff from Corbyn and Momentum and they were winning social media etc. 2017 GE was a false dawn when they couldn’t beat May who boxed herself in a corner and inevitably got the hammering they were always going to in 2019. Same will happen with the far right, once Trump’s economic policies and DOGE hammers their lower middle class and the mid-terms change the Senate and House. The ties to Trump will be a millstone around the neck.

Of course you can’t, what validity would it have anyway? Trump is a reactionary and thin-skinned dickhead, the worst sort who along with his idiot little redneck VP give it out but can’t take anything back. If Zelensky holds one in peacetime and loses, I bet unlike those two fascists in 2020 he accepts the democratic result.

Good player 10 years ago but averaging 34 is less than his age of 37 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cy05l5x2r2zo

Personally I’d have legal routes to apply from nations that are acknowledged as being in conflict, the rest like Albania and Turkey it’s about having the right skills for an economic visa. Take student visas out of the net figures and dependents though, that was just Braverman being a cunt and stirring the pot. That’s not to say it’s an automatic the applicants get accepted but at least it would be listened to fully and we don’t have the demos we’ve seen over the last 4 years or so outside hotels. Combine that with returning a higher % of boat arrivals and the higher levels of smuggler arrests and destruction of boats and facilities we’ve seen this winter, it’ll reduce it. It’s an ongoing task whoever is in power with climate change though which will exacerbate the impact of bad regimes in the global south.

I agree (in jest) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-birthright-citizenship-executive-order-b2701297.html

It also ignores the fact that America is a nation 99% built on immigration and the treatment of the communities who have always been there is dreadful.

If you’re from India, or Moscow, that might be a correct but in Europe it certainly isn’t https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/poll-minority-of-europeans-are-optimistic-about-trump/

On the graph you posted, Albania is an interesting outlier - mostly female seeking asylum and over 50% acceptance rates in 2022 because of being suspected victims of the people trafficking trade https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/commentaries/albanian-asylum-seekers-in-the-uk-and-eu-a-look-at-recent-data/ Deemed a safe country overall though, and a candidate nation to join the EU, so I can see that being a low hanging political branch to cut boat numbers by sending them straight back on the plane as a deterrent. The UK has a return agreement negotiated IIRC by the last government. Albanians can legally apply for visas to visit, live and work here so it shouldn’t be somewhere asylum seekers are coming from illegally. That said, the visa scheme should be better used and communicated for legal routes https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/83/home-affairs-committee/news/195596/no-case-for-routinely-offering-asylum-to-claimants-from-safe-albania-home-affairs-committee/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-63473022

But you have a base where you can add those players in at £20-30m each and compete. Not having that base and adding bits and bobs from the Lidl bargains aisle for £6-15m gets you 9 points by mid-Feb.

Put the dog on the car roof and do both. Just don’t turn the car radio onto Solent.

Only because his nearest supermarket ran out of Kleenex (other brands of tissue are available, except at Flynn’s local stores). Whether it was tears or missing Russell Martin in other ways I couldn’t say.

All of his mistresses and alleged nine children hadn’t. Nor has the Child Maintenance Service. Even he doesn’t seem to know how many so unlike Saints record defeat, it may even go into double figures https://uk.news.yahoo.com/boris-johnson-appears-confused-former-122633729.html

Ok Mr Computer Game, it was VFL Bochum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armel_Bella-Kotchap On 2, only the club knows that, but if he’s fit, he’s better than anything else there.

£10m was the headline fee IIRC but say £3m is probably the final installment based on X appearances and it must be quite low for ABK say 25-30 appearances. They obviously want to offload him and see him as disruptive so won’t pay the final £3m. Not saying I agree with it.

Great analysis, Musk is in charge. Trump getting to be lead singer (Head of State) but not writing the songs (Head of Government).

NYC standing up to interference in state law and decisions. This will be his domestic undoing, GOP Senators will start rebelling once he undercuts them in Red states allied to non-core MAGA voters realising they’re poorer not richer because of crazy tariffs. Trouble is, it could be a country well beyond repair by the time their public finally applies the mid-term brakes in 2 years with the global ripples that causes https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/19/trump-backlash-social-media-king

ABK not featuring is about appearance fee to Hoffenheim. Seen Saints do this right back to Alan McLoughlin, definition of a tinpot club.

It was already a dangerous country with the amount of guns but it will get far worse still as already very high levels of economic inequality widen dramatically and all of the great work done by the Superfund programme is undone to their natural environment which will kill millions. A reversal of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. The EPA was born under the GOP as well. We can’t affect that, the American public have made their bed. If skilled people and families from Blue states want to relocate to the UK I’m happy to have them though. What we can do is defeat Farage, Tice and Lowe who want Project 2025-type policies here. The Tory party needs ridding of Badenoch, Braverman, Philip, Patel and Truss so they can be detoxified and go back to being a centre-right party. Hopefully they’ll get attracted by Project 2025 and relocate over there where it’s best for them once Badenoch gets voted out by their MPs.

Could’ve been a far worse decline since 2017 given how fast and far we fell rapidly under Lowe and co.

Luton v Plymouth on Sky Sports EFL+. Sky still in the habit of calling their ground ‘The Kenny’.

Some JCLs forgetting where they’ve come from as a club. Bet that isn’t one of their fans from the 90s or early 00s.

English test cricket team had the most passionate and noisy fans 1993-2003 in the Ashes but a chunky blond genius of a leg spinner and a very tall consistent metronomic bloke from NSW kept on bowling us out. When we did finally get a team who could compete by 2005 with 3 genuine quicks, a skilful swing bowler, and a good top order with less fear of winning against the Aussies, the atmosphere at Edgbaston, Trent Bridge and The Oval helped us home. Same with football, the crowd can be a genuine gain but it’s not a big margin if there is a big gap in ability and belief. Like the Ashes, the Australians had the Academy system in the 1990s rolling off talent, we had the County system without central contracts, and Saints have been more badly run 2016-date than any other top flight club.

I wondered what Guided Missile sounded like in real life…

If the years since 2016 were a movie and it aired in 2012, I’d have dismissed it as sci fi nonsense. Much like a 1990s film about planes flying into the WTC and Pentagon I suppose. Perhaps the Saudi hijackers really did achieve their goals of destroying America, not just buildings and people on 9/11 itself. The US far anti-government right starting with Waco and Oklahoma went nuts without the communist enemy and turned on its own country.