Gloucester Saint

His positioning was not too bad on this day on 1987, early in his career. Freezing it was with sleet/snow flurries coming down frequently and the wind whistling through

Not been myself but know people who have and it’s bigger than I’d credited it for. Probably a bit more to do than the smaller islands for a week’s holiday but without the hustle and bustle of Crete or Corfu (both of which I have been to). Neat guide here which made me keen to visit it! https://santorinidave.com/naxos

Carlson and Norton in particular have been outstanding for them so far.

And doesn’t know the difference between liberals and socialists https://www.libdemvoice.org/liberals-and-socialists-a-response-77304.html

THB will probably be going as well, 2 years left, as long as the fee is north of £25m. Him, Charles, Ramsdale, Fernandes sell on and Sugawara after a better season in the Bundesliga you’d hope would see us OK on PSR with a bit to replace and anything else on top is pure re-investment funds. Need to remember quite a few bigger earners gone - Aribo, McCarthy, as well as Ramsdale probably about to, AA went in January.

He won’t be popping into the community centre anytime soon. Both accounts are on ignore for me.

I think elections are going to become very unpredictable and regionalised/localised now. Labour are dead - then Makersfield happens. Tories are dead, both main parties dead - Aberdeen South. Reform have been declining for a while from what was probably an artificial bubble but they’ll still have some big wins and feel they’re on the way back again. Ditto the Greens. The one party which are really in the plops despite 70 seats are the Lib Dem’s. Our leader only appears when there’s a resignation and no presence other than falling off canoes.

There is some of the same irregular spacing of paragraphs come to think of it…

Mike Shepherd’s excellent book I’m in the middle of reading ‘Oil Strike North Sea: A first-hand history of North Sea oil’. Might be too basic for an industry long-time insider like @vectraman but so few books on the topic and I’ve really enjoyed reading it.

Agree with much of that. I think energy policy has to be a mixed approach and utilising North Sea fields will lower taxes on other sources and help fund the transition to new green energy industries. It’ll be interesting to see how much role Ed Miliband (who I’ve never liked or rated) has in the Burnham administration.

Will give you the AG one. On the second one, incorrect I’m afraid. I’ve met Johnny Mercer a few times and like him greatly, but he was plain wrong on Starmer’s role. He was utilised as a technical expert unaligned to either party. Common stuff for legal professionals in tribunals. Probably cleared more soldiers if anything https://aoav.org.uk/2026/the-medias-assault-on-keir-starmer-over-british-soldier-prosecutions-in-the-iraq-war-shows-how-the-rule-of-law-is-being-recast-as-betrayal/

I’ll take your post seriously if you admit that Thatcher should never privatised public utilities in the first place so overseas states could milk UK homeowners to pay their public pensions. Do you agree, yes or no? If you agree, we can then get onto a sensible and non-partisan policy discussion about what the UK should be doing to ensure its energy future which may include North Sea oil. Green policies are neither new or confined to one ideology https://ppp-online.org/view-all-volumes/the-greenest-government-ever-the-coalition-government-and-low-carbon-policy/ But anti-climate rhetoric has come across the Atlantic with Trump and populism.

I’d generally expect Burnham to get slightly less tabloid bile than Starmer did because they were still whining about Coulson and the Daily Mail prosecutions for phone hacking and corruption. Bar one outlet - the Daily Mail. They hired a new Deputy Political editor Christian Calgie straight off the back off a cooling off period at the Express after advocating for a British born MP to be deported. However much I dislike her, that was disgusting. But clearly Ted Verity thought it was great. Calgie was the source of a very poor incident at a Wigan educational needs centre. Not sure Farage or Kenyon did a lot wrong whilst they were there but Calgie again was unable to behave himself and it blew up between Burnham and Calgie. Could turn into a feud. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74d7z0e818o

At the last US Open at Oakmont. He rightly apologised, paid for repairs and took anger management counselling. Sergio Garcia has a similar reputation in Europe, Tyrell Hatton was on that track and Bob McIntyre needs to watch it. But Garcia doesn’t get that kind of crap from European galleries.

#4 won the ball but #5 got the man first.

Triggered the extra year so we got a bigger fee.

Only one is sober though.

Their wage bill is not reducing much with Jimenez and potentially Che, who is allegedly on £55k p/w at Torino.

Certainly a case to be made that Cameron put party before country. Went too hard/fast with austerity against Osborne and Cable’s advice. But he was socially liberal and there were many progressive policies plus he was genuine about the NHS after his son’s treatment. I think the referendum might have happened by the time of the next GE though even if he hadn’t based the 2015 GE on it. The Tories were a lot more stable as past of the coalition.

From best to worst Blair Cameron Sunak May Brown Starmer Johnson Truss

Wish they had an American postcode/zipcode instead. Let them try real hard right, very free market, shit and expensive healthcare, racist society and economy. No public services, no employment rights or social security. They’d run back to Redcar in 5 minutes flat,

I was told recently that at a game between West Ham and Millwall in the late 80s, the visiting Millwall fans sang through the minute’s silence for Hillsborough. They’ve done it subsequently https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/arid-30173051.html Was also told that around that time after a West Ham v Millwall fixture that a Millwall fan died after being thrown from a moving train (don’t know if true but this person isn’t prone to hyperbole). If true, that bodes well for next season….

The NI increase being in the employers column was daft, and the CV stuff but anyone saying she’s been disastrous is indulging in hyperbole. The markets like her, look how a few sobs in the HoC made the stock market fall sharply. She’s having to make very tough decisions, as Jeremy Hunt, another quality CoE after the steaming pile of shit Kwarteng and Truss left him to clear up, did and got constant flak from the ERG and Daily Mail wankers who cheered Kwarteng and Truss in the first place.

What did he do for a living pre-referendum? Only 56 now.

Starmer was crap no doubt but the pandemic meant Boris was in office for 18 months more because the country, very divided as it is now, still rallies around in major crises.