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I'm becoming more convinced by the day that you're on a wind up.

Seems odd that she'd need to repeat the disclosure. Personally I'd have binned her after the naive P&O comments.

The vote shows there's divided thinking on this, but we live in a democracy, and I hope that the HOL see the holes in this bill and make sensible amendments to address the issues that have been raised on here. And yep, it's great to see parliament being respectful to something so sensitive, and MP's being allowed to vote with genuine freedom.

I don't normally bite at you, but that is ridiculous even by your standards.

The problem is that in front line politics your past will always be a stick to beat you with, and the dopey people calling for a fresh election etc will judge her as if she's robbed a bank. In any other area of public service it wouldn't get a second mention, but in front line politics with her party under pressure, she's probably made the right call.

I'd genuinely forgotten about the bloke, and I suspect he'll stay forgotten.

The judge will not speak to the individual. The judge will assume genuine consent.

FFS. All it needs is a greedy sod to talk the old girl round. I get the "she'll have died anyway and they'll have got the cash" counter argument, but that somewhat misses the point.

Most people agree. I don't understand why you can't grasp the issue that some of us raising. You don't have to agree, this is a deeply personal subject and i respect people supporting it, but please understand that there can be a difference between stated choice and actual preference, with all potential for pressure to assist someone to arrive at stated choice.

I'd assumed it was a rise tinted view rather than trolling, but wasn't sure.

I've watched people die, over time and literally in front of my eyes. My late father in law was pulling out his tubes in hospital , in front of me, because he wanted to die. It's horrific. As I've said, I agree the principle, but cannot agree with your last point. In a perfect world dying people would not be made to feel a burden and people's greed would not rule their ethics. We don't live in a perfect world though, and the reality is that people will be encouraged to elect death contrary to their actual wish. That cannot be policed.

I'm not against the principle of a choice to end life early where a person is near the end of life. You mention choice, but it must true/free/independent choice, and i remain concerned that people will elect death when the choice isn't truly theirs. Policing that will be impossible so I'm still, just about, against this.

But, but, it's only about the chromosomes. As if any other woman in the showers can see them.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2024/11/26/barbra-banda-bbc-award-is-proof-women-are-being-trolled/ Oliver Brown's take on it. His view is that as she has high testosterone she probably has XY chromosomes, and that any woman born and raised as a woman must be a bloke if she has XY chromosomes. That ignores that she may well have female reproductive organs, and that imo is more pertinent than chromosomes. She's a she until there's evidence to the contrary for me.

Yep. This is a bloody serious issue and needs proper debate, and then an opportunity for MP's to reflect. I wouldn't want to be in the shoes of those MP's though.

Most go because they want to have a chance of playing, ie Meghoma wanted opportunities so went to Brentford, and others just take the cash in the knowledge that they're pretty well set up even if they don't make it. If it's true that SR weren't willing to pay anything like a market rate to keep the good lads, then I agree a lot of blame rests with them. Back to Dibling. He's the best player we've developed for years and will be star. He makes the game look easy and could slot into most top PL teams right now and do well.

I can't believe that many of us who watched Delap struggle in the championship thought him to be the answer. Based on this season's performances, sure, we missed out, but I'm not having it that people who watched him last season were getting excited.

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Dibling at wing back would be even sillier than Fraser as a full back. Anything is possible though.

433 is my guess.

I doubt Russ was expecting it either until the tombola numbers fell that way. Takes the stress out of team selection I guess.

He's been completely frozen out and I can't think of any reason other than disciplinary.

Yep, looks that way. Picking Fraser to mark Salah is as mental a selection as I can remember for a long time. Crazy.

You are moving away from your point. I have said nothing whatsoever about Russia"s wider economy, and this is a war thread, not a thread about Russia's domestic economy. You posted about the recent performance of the Rouble, on a war thread, thus implying that the Rouble's recent performance impacts their war effort. That is despite the fact that the Rouble is pretty much where it was in October 23 against Russia's main trading partners, up against other trading partners, and with you seemingly not appreciating that a weaker Rouble helps Russian exports. The Rouble will not make a difference in this war.

If that was really your point you wouldn't have mentioned Ralph. I want RM out asap, and as much as I don't want to see us humiliated, if that's what it takes to make the board do the right thing, then so be it.