hypochondriac

You're right. It's not like there's ever been lesser qualified individuals or people with a history of political activism hired by an administration before.

That's only true if he bought it for financial reasons which he didn't. You could also look at his other businesses and say the opposite.

Have you seen some of the things the US government spends money on? Whatever side you are on hopefully everyone can agree that getting rid of some of that isn't a bad thing.

Not sure he ever claimed to buy X because it worked financially. Pretty sure he's said consistently that it was a terrible deal.

Personally I'll be interested to see if they can have some success from making government departments more efficient. There's undeniably an obscene amount of waste. I'm an interested observer as I'm not directly affected by thing like their education policy

Agree with this 100%. We absolutely do not need to be spending more money in January to make the problem worse.

Isn't the defense secretary pick a decorated war veteran? And pretty sure there's a bit more context to Vivek that you are missing out.

Or it will buy another Downes or THB in other area of the pitch - players more than good enough to perform at the top of the championship.

Yet another reason not to do this. Will be a huge load of additional pressure on a system already unfit for purpose:

We will probably sell Dibling, Ramsdale and THB which should net us close to 100 million - more than enough to be competitive in the league below assuming we don't go mad with silly buys this January which is no guarantee.

Which ones are you thinking of?

Agreed. Sulemana, Onuachu and Orsic take 2? No thanks.

Could have said the same the last time we went down which was arguably more of a shit show.

The difference being we would have more time on the ball and better players for that level. If this year has taught us anything, it's that the gap between the two divisions is rather large. We'd still have to replace Stewart Armstrong and probably Adams. Bazunu/new GK Sugawara Edwards/new CB Bednarek/Woods Manning/Taylor Downes/Charles Smallbone Armstrong/Armstrong replacement Lallana/Aribo SAA/Fraser Archer/BBD That team really should perform better than last years.

I'd really rather we didn't bother. By January we aren't going to be close enough to make it worthwhile and we will just end up spunking a load of cash leaving us with a load of players we can't shift in the championship. Much better imo to spend nothing so we have a bigger budget to play with next time out.

But of a weirdo with the trans stuff though so I'm probably not too upset that he's jumped.

I can't imagine Dragan is thrilled about how things are going. Love him or hate him, Cortese would have taken decisisive action by now. Maybe he will bin them all off and get someone else to run things.

Just give up on the season and start thinking about gaining promotion again next year. It's far better for your health.

I haven't looked at this case in detail, but has Welby resigned because he is the head of the organisation involved in scandal? Or did he do something personally?

Oh my god this interview is an absolute car crash. I say this as someone who doesn't want this to pass but you think they would have chosen someone to talk about this bill who wasn't a complete moron. https://x.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1856475110300901604?t=lY0oCIIJpENHjhBfmlIrIQ&s=19

I'd support that to be honest.

If that's the case then it's simply not going to receive the vital care and attention required for each case. If it works as you describe the it isn't a safeguard at all-it's a box ticking exercise.

How would that be remotely practical if the level of cases are anywhere close to comparable schemes in other countries?

Almost certainly a family court judge that already have no spare capacity will have to hear 400 applications each per year. And that's an acceptable safeguard?

It's not. It will be available to those people AND to others as well as has already been discussed. Palliative care and the lack of it in many cases is not a distraction by any means, it's a fundamental issue.