Winnersaint

Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall. Basically a journeyman’s to geopolitics, looking at how the choices countries make are limited by their physical geography.

I know he's a bit Marmite but James O'Brien doing a nice tribute to the man this morning on LBC, getting callers to recall when their MPs did something for them. Nice call from a lifelong Labour voter who was helped by his local Tory MP in Hemel Hempstead.

I did my final school placement in a small secondary school north of Worcester in Jan 1979. It snowed the night before I started. Not southern snow but real snow. Most kids were bussed in from the sticks and couldn't get there as there was a farking great hill called Ankerdine in the way. Any it was much colder then, didn't take a PE class outside until March

I don’t identify with his political views but this is just plain wrong. Product of the vile political discourse in this country.

Cheers. To anyone in a similar position now or in the future, please feel free to PM me. I can't offer anything but a listening ear, but in my experience that's a help. I know also that you can't always rely on mainstream cancer support. Macmillan for example. probably due to the pandemic, aren't as easily accessible as their adverts suggest. https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/ https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/ https://www.macmillan.org.uk/

Thanks and don’t worry. The fact that that people respond is enough. I’m pretty sure that had we not been through what we’ve been through I would be exactly the same. If nothing else our experience has enabled us to openly talk about cancer so it appears entirely normal. I appreciate that for those who’ve never been in the ‘cancer bubble’ it’s a bit of an elephant in the room. I have always maintained that I will be my wife’s strongest advocate in how she deals with her condition but also that I would prod and prompt via social media to raise awareness of bowel cancer which is my sole motive in posting.

Following the recent sad death of Greg Gilbert from bowel cancer I mentioned that my wife had stage 4 bowel cancer also and that she’d been given a fairly bleak outlook with treatment withdrawn, looking at nature taking its course. Firstly, big thanks for the kind messages that resulted. It helps, big time. Secondly, we may now have a glimmer of hope in the form of Professor Jamie Murphy at Imperial Collage Hospital in London. She had a meeting with her newly assigned oncologist yesterday at the Berkshire Cancer Centre which wasn’t particularly positive who asked us to chase up the second opinion we’d sought from Prof Murphy before she could decide on future steps. This my wife did, and today she had a phone clinic appointment with the man himself. Things looking up, maybe not straightforward, but in his eyes do nothing is not an option. She’s still in the game.

Not moralising as I am guilty as charged on here and other social media in the past. Do references to Brexiteer gullibility and 'Brexit crap help to improve things? Do we need to move on from what is effectively a slanging match across the divide. Out there are people who for many years had the square root of 'sod all'. Local economies hollowed out, opportunity restricted, aspiration quashed. Faced with that for many years the opportunity to reject the status-quo at the ballot box seems perversely logical given that populism tends to rely on the emotive rather than what is factual, logical and rational. Should those of us who voted remain better understand what we experience and what information is tailored towards us is very different that which the 'other side' experience?

As someone who has become something of a Brexit agnostic over the last few years I am still a little puzzled a to when the 'sunlit upland' of a high skill economy and the unicorn of a 'high wage economy' was first proposed as a key Brexit win for the UK. Or are the Tories just making it all up as they go along to cover up their incompetence and poor governance. Also leaving the EU is one thing which I'm sure in time we will either get used to or put up with, but I do struggle with the barely concealed hostility to anything European as portrayed by the government and most of its supporting media. I suppose the rhetoric has been maintained to keep certain elements of the Tory party in check, but were hardly on a war footing with the EU, are we?

So here goes. Shilton, Golac, Watson, Svensson, Peach Paine, Ball, Holmes, Armstrong Le Tissier, Channon

For my sins I was aware the Delays but never really recall hearing any of their work until this evening, great sound, great voice. Feel for his loved ones, I too am helping my wife navigate the stormy waters and uncertainty of stage 4 bowel cancer. Her treatment stopped yesterday, now in hands of palliative care team and second and third opinions. We’re making late substitutions atm, not quite reached sending the keeper up for an injury time corner yet. It’s shit. RIP Greg.

Here we go again defeat at home to a relative bogey team and the sky caves in. Ralph, get rid. Redmond the perennial scapegoat. Tactics wrong, subs nonsensical. Rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat. Shit happens. Dust yourself down it’s only Stamford Bridge next week. Yes I did watch on Sky.

OK how about The Forsyte Saga then!

Songs of Praise followed by interminable episodes of the Onedin Line. Cap’n Baines

Free LFTs to be phased out next year. Employers/individuals to bear cost. Wonder where the care sector and schools for example will be able to rustle up the extra cash for that?

From what I gather the next steps will be to legalise sending small boys up chimneys and reintroducing polio!

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/02/brexit-uk-food-drink-exports-eu-disastrous-decline Fake news peddled by a left leaning newspaper or reality discuss.

Same with me! I manged to bag this one a few months before I was 60.

Living with your mum, spending all day wearing your underpants

Absolutely, it’s on him and his coaching team now.

Love Mowbray's take on it. Maybe some on here need to take note!

According to this thread we’ve already been relegated. No point to this season!

Does potential Kane to City for £160m open up Ings to Spurs? If so, at what price?

Part of the divide and rule strategy employed by these self-serving fuckwits?

Indeed. Not as sorry as I did for Tony Martin in the 2012 Vuelta though!