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Decent chance for Mo there. Should have at least got it on target. Really need to press home our advantage here and get a goal soon. Brighton are poor and there for the taking.

WTF was that Moi?

We kept possession though!

This is what it is all about isn't it. You, along with just about every other person with a predisposition towards anti-Labour/anti-Corbyn have been trying as hard as you can to hammer home this point, but it simply doesn't reflect the facts, which are... Instances of antisemitism in the Labour party have gone down since he became leader. The amount of time taken to deal with complaints of antisemitism has reduced since he became leader. Antisemitic views are still more prevalent in the Conservatives and other right wing parties than they are in Labour. So despite all of the howling of the government and the mass media over recent months, I am still yet to see any convincing evidence which supports this claim. If you have some then please share it with us. The fact that there has been near silence in the media about the Tories's support for Orban shows, without a shadow of a doubt, that the whole thing has been an agenda-driven side show rather than a genuine effort to combat antisemitism. To further prove this point, you only have to look at the furore about Labour adopting all 11 of the IHRA definitions. Throughout the whole 'debate' (I use the word loosely in this context) in recent weeks/months, why has nobody at the BBC or any other media outlet highlighted the fact that the Tories haven't even adopted one of them? So I repeat - if anybody who has been tirelessly hammering Corbyn over AS recently (as you have) can happily remain completely silent over it on the other side of the house and even try and defend it (as you have), then you don't really care about antisemitism at all and you are, in fact, just a c*nt who would happily use an issue like this as a political weapon.

And he wasn't "questioning their Englishness". He was simply pointing out that a foreign diplomat showed a better sense of English irony than they did. Once again, it was a massive storm in a teacup that his critics jumped on but which proved nothing.

Yes, I'm satisfied that the Russians are talking a load of utter b*llocks - the acting skills of the two suspects in that interview would appear to be consistent with their abilities as hitmen, and there can be no doubt that they were acting under the direction of a higher power in Russia, otherwise they would have thrown them under the bus already rather than concoct such a ridiculous cover story. I said all along that I accepted it probably was the Russians, and all I ever wanted was some convincing evidence. When the story first broke there were a lot of holes in it, and when the most untrustworthy government in living memory comes out with the line "we know it was the Russians because, well.. they are bad and it must have been them, so there" it was less than persuasive, especially when Johnson was shown to have told an untruth about it in that TV interview. Like I said before, the trail leading to Russian involvement was so obvious that you couldn't rule out the possibility it was another party wanting it to look like it was them without more concrete evidence. I fully acknowledge that governments can't release all their evidence for fear of compromising intelligence sources, but they weren't even claiming that to start with. Their whole line of reasoning was based on the notion that only Russia could possibly have manufactured the Novichok, which was quite easily disproven. Stands to reason this would lead to speculation about who was responsible. But yeah, it's pretty obvious now that Putin just didn't care if we knew it was them or not. He clearly sent a couple of inept, expendable agents to do the job and was quite happy for them to leave such an obvious trail behind them.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2018/09/14/skripal-poisoning-suspects-passport-data-shows-link-security-services/ Not quite sequential. There were two other passports issued in between, which also look highly suspicious.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-reaction/white-house-manafort-plea-is-unrelated-to-trumps-2016-victory-idUSKCN1LU28N?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=twitter So Manafort has entered a plea bargain and is cooperating with Mueller in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. But as far as the White House are concerned, this has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Trump's victory. Uh-uhh, no sir. Not connected at all. Nothing to see here. Move along.

I've followed a little about this story. What amazes me is how a trained police officer can enter someone else's apartment without immediately recognising it was not her own, and then indiscriminately shoot the occupant. How stupid do they think the public are if they think they can get away with such a crap story as that?

And there we have it. Replace 'Soros' with 'Israel' in that sentence, and you have basically just used exactly the same defence that Corbyn supporters have been trying to get across ever since this media storm erupted. Edit: and BTW, that quote of Orban's wasn't aimed solely at Soros. So is anybody here going to try and concoct an argument that what he said isn't antisemitic?

I wonder why there has been no march on the Tory HQ, and this hasn't been splashed all over the front page of the Daily Mail for 3 days running. The double standards on display is nauseating. Anybody who has been relentlessly attacking Corbyn over AS but remains silent about this is nothing more than a vile hypocrite.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-speech-hungarys-orban-attacks-enemy-who-speculates-with-money/ Given their recent track record, I think we all know just how much press coverage this would be getting if Jezza had given his support to someone who had made these comments.

Yep. Their silence over the matter, and that of the mainstream RW press in general, speaks volumes about their motivations. In summary, Corbyn advised all his MEPs to vote with the EU in support of sanctions over Orban, which they did. The Tory MEPs who voted in support of him - the only governing party in the whole of the EU to do so - were whipped to vote that way, no doubt by the will of the PM herself. The Jewish BOD release a statement expressing their 'disappointment' that the Tories would openly support an actual, proven anti-semite, and what do we get from the media?...

Yeah I saw this on Twitter yesterday. The images look like something from a sci-fi film. I see that Florence has now been downgraded from category four to category two, which will be of some relief to many who were expecting the worst, but still it looks likely to cause some major damage and flooding.

I'm just pointing out how laughably inept the suspects are. They were practically smiling for the CCTV cameras FFS. May said in her speech to the commons that the GRU is a "highly disciplined organisation". In which case, the only real explanation for these guys making such a catastrophic balls-up of the operation is that it was deliberate, and they wanted to get caught.

The fact that one of their former chemical weapons experts defected and published a book that described it in detail in 2008 would appear to contradict that idea. https://www.amazon.co.uk/State-Secrets-Insiders-Chronicle-Chemical/dp/1432725661 If these two clowns it is being pinned on are indeed from the GRU, then they are so comically incompetent that they have probably already been executed. They flew direct from Moscow on Russian passports, got themselves caught on just about every CCTV camera they possibly could, managed to leave traces of their murder weapon everywhere they went, and failed to kill their target. Top work fellas!

Good on him. He looks sharp and hungry, and he couldn't be any less effective than Rashford/Welbeck IMO.

While this is true, it also brings with it a whole host of other environmental problems. Expansion into areas that were previously unsuitable for cultivation means, among other things, building of new infrastructure and removal of existing vegetation, all of which has an adverse effect on biodiversity. Therefore, it still leads to long term ecological damage.

I don't know why I continue to do this to myself, because I can already confidently predict how this is going to turn out, but I'll humour you for a moment... Yes, of course CO2 is good for plants. Basic GCSE biology stuff, that - CO2 is an essential component of photosynthesis. But, as I am sure someone with your knowledge and experience must be aware, plants - like all organisms - have a limited range of temperatures in which they can succeed/survive. So yes, a warming climate most certainly does lead to long term ecological damage, like desertification. Doesn't matter how much CO2 is in the air over the desert - nothing is gonna grow anyway. Quite how anybody with the scientific background you claim to have can be so blind to such basic ideas like this is truly astonishing.

No, of course you haven't. It isn't even a paper. It is just a load of rambling nonsense posted on their website which you once cited as 'evidence' to back up your arguments... https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?33291-Global-warming-really-is-happening-(well-duh!)&p=1885589#post1885589

But they haven't though. Booker is simply wrong. Over the last ten years, South Australia has abandoned coal completely in favour of renewables, wholesale prices have gone down, and reliability has been improved with outage time reduced to 0.00004%, from 0.00032% last decade. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/04/angus-taylor-condemns-us-to-another-round-of-energy-stupidity This is not borne out by the facts. Booker claims that Sweden's energy policy is threatened by the unreliability of wind power, but this claim is completely false... https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/sweden-to-reach-its-2030-renewable-energy-target-this-year You simply cannot believe a single word this man says when it comes to climate and energy.

Still foolishly backing the wrong horse I see GM. This was written by Christopher Booker, who has previously claimed that Passive smoking and asbestos present no danger whatsoever to human health. I can tell you just how wrong he is about the latter because my own stepfather recently died of an asbestos-related lung disease. He is also handsomely paid by the Heartland Institute to spread his pseudo-scientific nonsense about climate change, which means he has absolutely ZERO credibility on such matters. His books and articles can be so easily debunked (like this, for instance) that you would have to be completely scientifically illiterate to even consider being taken in by his arguments. But then, I guess I should not be surprised about that by someone who once posted a load of copy and pasted b*ll*cks from the Association of British Drivers website as 'evidence' supporting your climate change position.

Probably due to the obscene amount of money they spent between them in the summer. In other club news, Mourinho has been given a one-year prison sentence by the Spanish authorities for tax evasion... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-soccer-taxation-mourinho/mourinho-accepts-one-year-in-prison-in-spanish-tax-case-el-mundo-idUSKCN1LK11R?feedType=RSS&feedName=sportsNews&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/03/jacqueline-pearce-blakes-7-and-doctor-who-actor-dies-aged-74 Jacqueline Pearce - best known for her role as the brilliantly villainous Supreme Commander Servalan in Blake's 7 - has died aged 74. I was a little bit too young to fully appreciate the substance of Blake's 7 when it was aired, but she was a fantastic antagonist, and admittedly one of my first childhood crushes. Reading some tributes on Twitter today, it seems she was quite an outrageous character and very much loved by the people who worked with her.

This is the first one that popped into my mind when I saw the thread title. 1988/89 was my first season truly following the club and I had only been to about 3 or 4 home games before this one. We had been on such a poor run (I think it was something like 23 games without a win) so my only experience of live matches up to this point was to see us struggle and lose and for the crowd to be agitated, nervous and ultimately grumpy. This was in the days before the transfer windows and Ruddock had only just signed for us a few weeks before the end of the season. It was looking like it was going to be yet another frustrating result when the ref gave us the last minute penalty. Razor went and stuck it in the top corner and introduced us all to the trademark 'Ruddock Stomp' goal celebration, and the whole ground erupted like nothing I had ever witnessed before. I was 14 years old, standing in the Milton Road end, and I finally understood why fans of small-ish clubs like ours put themselves through so much regular disappointment and heartache, so we can experience magical moments like that. I think I ended up about 20-25 ft away from where I had been standing when the celebrations died down. I was hooked!