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If they've been preparing for 7 years they should be making a better fist of it.

Would it not be easier to apply a bit of judicious FM editing to the squad's ability scores ?

We have already signed a 20 yo defender, if this happens, once Tino is back, we could play a defence whose average age is less than 22.

Democratic country in re-evaluating International relationships, and reviewing it's Constitutional status shocker. Strangely, Sweden have ditched their neutrality, Switzerland are reviewing theirs, and Japan have made changes to their Constitution to remove it's passive neutrality status. Is it about time for them as well ?

Do you honestly think the Germans would want, let alone anybody else permit them to hold, nuclear weapons ? Britain has them because we were desperate to maintain the illusion of being a Global Power post WW2, as do the French.

Lost by 12 runs !!!

You do understand why Germany has had it's particular position on how to maintain it's military capabilities for the last 75 years ?

They are ethically wrong, cost money that would be better spent elsewhere, and independent of the US our arsenal is too insignificant to actually deter anybody mad enough to make a first strike against the UK.

There is a line of argument for getting rid of the UK nuclear arsenal, but it depends in part on trusting the US to be willing to commit theirs to a European conflict. It would be nice if there were no such weapons anywhere in the World, but that particular genie cannot be put back in it's bottle.

More importantly, that some of them are weapons directly under European control.

Genesis

Russian policy in Ukraine, summed upin The Narcissist's Prayer by Dayna Craig; "That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not my fault. And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did, you deserved it"

Simon Harmer only managed 8 wickets in our first innings.

There is no chance of us getting 300 to win, so rain is our only hope of avoiding defeat.

More Commies undermining the country..... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61957154 "Doctors are calling for significant pay rises to make up for what they say amounts to a 30% pay cut since 2008. Medics at the British Medical Association (BMA) annual conference said salaries had not kept up with inflation for more than a decade. And they warned industrial action could be on the cards if the government does not act."

Russian "precision weapons carrying out a targeted strike" take out a packed shopping centre with up to 1000 people inside. Sending a message to the G7 ?

Bloody militant Corbynites https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61946038 "Barristers will walk out of courts across England and Wales on Monday in a dispute over legal aid funding". Will that get smarmy headlines on the front page of the Fail and Express ?

19 year old American singer Olivia Rodrigo sends a special message to 6 Supreme Court Justices during her set at Glastonbury ;

I thought that was Farage.

In which case I wake up and find I'm 22 years old.

The same woman has previously said that "Hitler was right on one thing....whoever has the youth has the future". Meanwhile https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61941591 Firms say they will cover travel costs for female staff seeking abortions under employment healthcare insurance.

I would keep AA and bring in a striker to replace ShLong.

Too many in Government think Ethics is a county north of the Thames estuary.

I understand that life on Tatooine was hard, but these 2 pictures are separated by just 9 years;

So 1 US General, despite the sensationalist headline, speaks against US policy; https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/us-says-nato-commitment-to-lithuania-ironclad-after-russia-threat/ The irony being that Kaliningrad has only been part of Russia since 1946 when Stalin ordered the deportation of the remaining German population of Konigsberg.