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She was great on Blue Peter.

Jesus wept, a link to a random (albeit awful) incident in another country now getting airtime on a thread about a political party in this country. About as relevant as a steak review on a vegetarian thread.

This thread! 🤣 Blimey.

That's a tad bizarre for you. Who gives a monkeys what the source is, the facts are the same.

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It's a tough one, but there's the risk that one of the "neutral" competitors chooses to do the same for fallen people they know. The IOC is then faced with having to allow that and facing likely backlash, or allow a different approach to Ukrainian and Russian competitors. They took the safe course, which on balance, I think is the right one.

Indeed. Jutta Leerdam. Jake Paul has done well.

Yep. Agreed.

Cheers, just looked at a few. Seems spot on, and great value. Will get one for the home office. Like the idea of a standing desk above it.

I hadn't seen the apology. That should be the end of it.

Sounds like the one I used. I'm convinced it was fucked.

That's fondue for you.

Isn't there a fit and proper person test? As daft as his words were, I'd imagine he's below any threshold for that though.

Agreed. Anyone thinking that using the word "colonised" was acceptable needs to have a bloody good word with themselves. Excessive immigration, yes, poor integration, yes, but colonisation, no.

Nice. I haven't been getting out at lunchtime during this rainy period and it's doing me no good. I need to investigate these. You got a link to a good one please?

Not got, but I've used at David Lloyd. Brilliant thing. Last time I did it I assumed it was broken as it put my biometric age in the 20's.

That's a worrying perspective, and shows where we're at. As much as we ridicule Trump and his antics, our growth in comparison to theirs is incomparable. There needs to be a grown up discussion asap about closer ties to the EU. Geopolitically, and financially, it's pretty much essential.

Indeed. We can't sign who we can't sign. He's only 3rd pick, and hopefully we never see him beyond warm ups.

Disappointing growth figures. Overall a negligible increase, but no quarterly growth in services, and the worst performance in construction (-2.1%) in over 4 years. The weather has undoubtedly contributed to the latter, but not healthy signs for our economy. Probably Davey or Ratcliffe's fault.

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Yep. More poor judgement. Little petulant shot at Davey in PMQ's too. For a bright bloke, he's pretty daft.

I'm not sure it gets much worse than their Attorney General lying under oath. Disgrace of a country.

There's a difference between the university doing what it can off it's own steam, and doing it under coercion or threat of sanctions. There's no "panic" from me, rather, I find it surprising that anyone thinks it ok that politicians should coerce and / or threaten in this way. It's wrong as a matter of principle.

It was daft and disrespectful, but I don't doubt the message and intent. It wasn't flippant. It's too easy, and frankly dangerous, to dismiss comments like that as flippant or irrelevant etc. You mention the coercive nature of his words, and seem to suggest that's ok if it causes the uni to lean on the debaters. We should not be tolerant of politicians, especially those wanting power, using SM to coerce as per Trump.

My understanding is that they don't support this decision. Part of my issue with Tice's comment is that the call for punishment is against the Uni, but for a decision made by a small number of its students.