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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).

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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.

Hold the front page - are Soggy and Hypo agreeing on something?

But then I wouldn’t want to interfere in another nation’s democracy in the first place. Whether I had the wealth to do so or not. Especially one that has built a successful state post-fascism over 80 years and doesn’t want to get dragged back into it. Absorbing the East and the migrant intakes 2010s plus reliance on Russian has not helped them but the AFD are like decapitating yourself when you’ve got a headache. What he did to the Law academic over his pay package was psychopathic as well https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/column-tesla-threatened-fire-law-firm-bid-block-musk-pay-critic-court-document-2024-05-13/ https://dealbreaker.com/2024/05/tesla-admits-to-bullying-law-firm-but-prefers-we-not-call-it-bullying

I think Victor was off form/banned at the time, so it worked with one DM instead of the usual two short-term, halted a bad run. But long-term you concede your midfield with five unless it’s a very good midfield.

It’ll only work for so long though, and he’s as popular as a turd in most of Europe, even more so than most unpopular Prime Ministers. And Tesla is tanking big time with it.

Credibility for one, hard to argue that government should be run more like a business (a frequent theme with GOP voters) when you’ve needlessly run your own into the ground. Hasn’t stopped Trump I suppose…. Just a bit nuts, to say the least, making your fortune from EV and then climbing into bed with climate sceptics of the most extreme kind. But then he thinks Lowe would be a better Reform leader than Farage so his judgement might not be great. I’m no Farage fan but I think we saw enough 1996-09 to put Elon right on that one…

Oh he’s worth a shitload more than anyone else, but his outbursts are wiping plenty off the market share and book value of his firms. X is a quarter of the size from when he bought it. If he just wants it as a playground and megaphone, dumping it afterwards, he’s succeeding. But from a business perspective it’s like SR turning a mid-table PL football club into the Champ relegation zone just to try a few philosophies. SR have been shite, we both agree on that, but I can’t think that was their original aim!

With their fanbase…. Football fans are fickle as fuck though.