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That's an unpleasant read. Pretty much anything goes in comedy words wise, but having someone carried on stage, and doing that to them crosses a line and then some. Fair play to the Guardian for calling him out.

I think your last sentence is a little ott. Increasing debt is very much our achilles heel.

I think he's an angry idiot, but each to their own.

Your question is daft. My answer, if it wasn't clear, is that 2 entirely different cases, on different facts, cannot be compared. If you think Brand's sentence was too tough or lenient, that's your prerogative. What you think though isn't clear. If you think another, wholly unrelated offence, was too tough or lenient, that's your prerogative. If it's light, it has nothing whatsoever to do with the Brand sentence (which was too light - it was anal rape ffs). The judiciary isn't politically influenced. That's nonsense. I'm not sure how you arrive at that conclusion, or think it works. Do you believe that politicians send emails to judges, or appear at the judicial college, to tell judges (who's oath is to work without fear or favour) what to do to keep the government of the day sweet? I'm intrigued - how does this political influence work?

Perhaps everyone's a civil servant to someone who works at Screwfix.

Elon was only following Donnie's orders.

What a retort. Fucking hilarious. The most impressive part is that you came back within a month. Have another beer poppet, you seem like you need it.

It was an improvement over Rattle and Hum, but didn't do it for me.

No need to worry, it looks proper enough to me.

The only thing wrong about Bono is every album he's made since Joshua tree.

Didn't she do nude/topless work? Decent presenter and show though.

Ha. No defence - I just don't see what you've imagined, and posted at beer o'clock, weeks and weeks down the line.

Your take on posters is interesting. I don't know FS, but I'd hazard a guess that he's not been born with a silver spoon, but has worked hard, taken risks, done well for himself, and kept his feet on the ground. And raking this up after a few weeks is a bit weird.

Or electric vehicles. My milk was delivered by an electric vehicle in the 70's. What he's done is commercialised the electric vehicle, only for the Chinese to take it to the next level. Starlink is pretty cool to be fair.

I've seen the Order. It even prevented her from speaking to a medic about it. Outrageous. A few barristers have offered to assist her pro bono if she wants help.

I suspect it is.

Not sure it's right to speculate.

A very surprising (to me) name kept popping up when I saw reports re Walliams.

Yep, I suspect plenty. Anything else is likely to be concurrent too. That said, I'm staggered that anyone's first reaction to Brand's sentence is to attempt to compare it to an entirely different case, presumably to feed some kind of narrative.

Different cases with different facts will always have different sentences. Brand's sentence can be too strong or weak, and someone else's sentence can be too strong / weak. That's it. Fwiw, I think Brand's sentence was light.

If your point isn't that you don't consider Brand's sentence to be excessive, in a sentence or two, what is your point?

Yep. I thought that would be 12-15 years. What he got wasn't unduly lenient, but it was light.

Fortunately I moved things around a month or so ago. I've still got a bit in some tech stock, and I'll leave that long term. Had I not bitten the bullet my retirement would have been a lot shorter.

I'm not saying he's the next Haaland, but when what you've got isn't working, and you can't sign anyone else for a couple of months, there's no harm in rolling the dice imo.

Chantenay? Re Dobbin, I think the fee was £10.5 m, but I'm not sure how an inflated fee helped us given that we got fair money for THB. That said, Villa have paid and received a lot of questionable fees over recent windows. £37.5m for that Maatsen lad from Chelsea, and Kellyman to Chelsea for £19m were eyebrow raising. Rogers going to Chelsea for £120m, and paying £50m for Jackson, equally so.