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Kraken is right though even if don’t agree with the tone of his post, Armed Forces have plenty of ED&I posts which given some of the racist abuse cases they’ve tried to cover up isn’t a surprise.

Having never worked for the NHS I may have this wrong but if you’re needing to have multiple posts at that levels managing whole teams at the scale of the NHS, doesn’t that indicate that the right/best leaders especially for Trusts in the most diverse and deprived areas aren’t being recruited and selected. Not just the money either, if you’re having to create workarounds some potentially bad leaders to embed ED&I into health prevention and care delivery that must create a fair bit of extra work? I wouldn’t want to see politicians interfering in appointments, we’ve seen what happens then and it’s a disaster, but what about patient groups and community groups having some say in leadership recruitment?

Yep, and that’s where mainly data-driven scouting and transfer activity leads you. You miss out the balancing out across a team/squad of strengths and weaknesses, because you only look at each deal in isolation.

League One here we come.

Fair, and Baz is League one or two at best.

It’s not necessarily disagreeing with what’s there because there is some truth there - albeit the tone is very partisan given the audience - but what’s missing. Brexit and the type of Brexit, what that newspaper demanded - has murdered commercial investment in the UK as an overall trend, and productivity is every bit as much a problem in the private sector as public. Skills development is another banana skin that successive governments have not made progress on consistently and become yet another ideological football. 2011-23 there were 11 growth strategies and Labour are producing yet more now. Our businesses, colleges and universities need more consistency, stability and consensus to stick their necks out and make the major investments in R&D needed than we’ve had since 2016, when at least we had some continuation from Brown-Darling-Osborne-Cable. https://www.economicsobservatory.com/how-can-the-uk-revive-its-ailing-productivity

Rejoin the Single Market if you want to sort out the economy. The hard Brexit pursued by Johnson and Frost, his Sherpa that couldn’t climb Butser Hill, wiped 7% off GDP and a £40bn annual gap in the economy. Neil won’t admit that and until he does, he has no credibility with me. Labour need to stop being timid about this and tell people truth. Neil’s article is null and void then.

Some nice areas around it, Saltaire, Bingley and the Locks, but Bradford itself is a shocker. It has been for a long time as well, the state of the housing stock is unacceptable in the 21st century, and parts of it don’t look that different to the Yorkshire Ripper era. Potentially some fantastic Industrial Revolution architecture to work with but as H&W identified, post-Brexit the City of Culture title isn’t worth spit in terms of regeneration funds. Another area that screwed up by voting for Brexit.

There’s been quite a bit more trouble at Cardiff and the rugby even since these articles and restricting beer sales during the second half https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-63595687#:~:text=Principality Stadium alcohol issues down to individuals%2C says WRU,-Published&text=Anti-social behaviour at Wales,the venue's manager has said. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-59402277 The only sport where it works is cricket. Primarily because in an era of inflated prices which have curbed genuine football and rugby fans from watching top level competition, the cricket fans are there for the game all day (and it ain’t cheap either, not for England).

Spaniels’ ears

That won’t be a shock to any Saints supporter. At least with him having a seat in Norfolk I’m less likely to come across the plank.

Fucking hilarious and actually very helpful to Labour. Without even a Parliament seat and spending her time on the alt right speaking circuit, she really is cracking up. She ought to sue Kwarteng as well, he’s gone on various documentaries explaining she went haywire. At the end of a bottle of wine, it probably felt like a good idea, but the lawyer’s had a laugh and fleeced her there.

Not that much though. His dad is a legend in Gloucestershire cricket.

Got another one in the 3-3 v Newcastle IIRC.

He’s getting geopolitics confused with the board game Risk. That caused some arguments in the 1990s!

Even Frank Spencer could get that right.

02/03 was last game of the season before the Cup Final - as you say Michael Svensson winner - and last game at Maine Rd - and 03/04 at Etihad which was the 3-1. I was there for that one.

All Kemi is doing is putting an illuminated beacon on the mess the governments she was part of made, especially idiotic given one of her cabinet roles was women and equalities! Labour needs some PR input certainly but she needs a whole agency, and she’d still be utterly pathetic. Ian Hislop absolutely nails it here. Also agree that Musk should have been challenged much earlier for lying and throwing wild accusations.

Apple didn’t fall far from the tree there, richest man in the world or not. I bet his dad sounds like one of those SA government spokesmen who used to appear on TV in the apartheid era.

Great day out, City fans were resigned to the drop in the pubs and down on Keegan. Little did they know what was ahead…

Also won that, 3-1, Pahars crossed for Beattie to bullet in a header after Anelka missed an early one on one, IIRC Phillips scored twice second half. Our chant of ‘we scored the last goal at Maine Road’ did NOT go down well….

Two players from Hants in this squad https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cx2w2nz74z0o

People voted for this - humanity rapidly going down the shitter. I know the Democrats are crap as well, but honestly https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzn48jwz2o

You knew he meant Musk 😉 Not often Soggy and Hypo agree on something - it’s an annual event. Or perhaps less frequently like a solar eclipse.