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Duck appeared to..."What has happened to Gaza is a consequence of Hamas’ actions that day" re 7/10. SoG may have got a season ticket for the conspiracy theory train, but I've got less time for the people, Duck included, who've not uttered one word of condemnation for the Israeli regime.

Absolute bollox. They had an opportunity and took it. Ditto Southern Lebanon. Iran was little more than an opportunity courtesy of Donny.

Damsel

I'm not sure what you'd have to be to be unwilling to see that Israel added all sorts of vat to the truth about 7/10, used it as a reason to decimate Gaza, and have acted disgracefully there and in Lebanon since.

Is it anti semitic to speculate about 7/10? The notion that Israel staged it is nonsense (there were Israeli hostages being held by Hamas, for example) but there's a case to answer re them having been able to stop it, and adding VAT to what Hamas did. I say give any Israeli state support a rest. They've been an utter disgrace, and still are on a daily basis in Gaza and Lebanon.

Is it anti semitic to speculate about 7/10? The notion that Israel staged it is nonsense (there were Israeli hostages being held by Hamas, for example) but there's a case to answer re them having been able to stop it, and adding VAT to what Hamas did. I say give any Israeli state support a rest. They've been an utter disgrace, and still are on a daily basis in Gaza and Lebanon.

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Banksy's statue - wow. Blinded by nationalism.

Please don't go all American and confuse liberals (centre left) with left wingers with odd views. But yep, Polanski has done himself no favours.

Simon Squibb is irritating. "Have you got a dream" or whatever to some (apparently) random person, followed by some patronising nonsense. Not for me.

Intentions

I'd not heard of that place, but just seen their website. Their products look amazing, especially the pastries. I'll give it a go - thanks.

When I ran lots, knee pain was nearly always the IT bands pulling - easy fix - or tight quads. The pain area - symptom - is often not the problem. When my neck went, symptoms were the tricep and forearm! The body is weird AF.

It could be anything, but too much too soon sounds plausible. I'd stretch it through (both sides of the calf), and smash it with a massage gun. If you've git access to a power plate machine, set it the absolute max, for several minutes, and lay flat leaving the machine to pummel from the ankle and up the calf. You'll never get a better lower leg massage. If you've never done muscle activation, take a look. It could that you're using your calves but unactivated, hence early strain. I've been doing it as part of my recovery from surgery and it's a game changer. As odd as it sounds, there's an area just below the rib cage on each side which fires the calves. I've never got on with brooks and found them quite a hard run. They're probably great if you're built like a distance runner and don't need the protection against impact, but I'm not built that way and they're not for me. I'd get to a proper running shoes shop and get assessed for what you need - if the shoes aren't the main problem, something suited to your frame and gait will help anyway.