badgerx16

What a clueless bunch, on the pitch and on the sidelines. Any of our players in an international squad should be denied permission to go, and the next 2 weeks spent on defensive training. Seriously starting to view RH as the Alpine Flopp.

Whoever coaches our defence needs to be hung froma gibbet at the gates of Staplewood as an example.

Do you think it is a good idea for me to be watching this whilst using power tools ?

"Team GB and Northern Ireland" at sports championships - they should be "Team UK", as that is the correctly abbreviated name of the country, particularly as the teams will include competitors from the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, and even Anguila, all of which are not in Great Britain.

And all around the world people are still being murdered by the thousand in the name of God, we are constantly trying to find more detached and "smarter" ways to slaughter foreigners we disagree with, and we are destroying habitat at an alarming rate. Global rates of poverty constantly increase, and political leaders get more and stridently nationalistic whilst claiming that their country is more deserving of some or other resource than everybody else. The important and critical issues we face are global, and reverting to petty self interest is not a long, or even medium term, solution. So yes 'our society' may well be more liberal, safe, tolerant, rich, and fair than it was 100 or 50 years ago, from some blinkered perspectives, but, to get back to the point, we are still, on the broader stage, repeating the errors of history.

Not in Florida, as it is one of the states with a "stand your ground" law.

When we were just starting to recover from the Great War; brought about by greed, military posturing and d1ck waving,and defending our national interests. Even after WW2 Britain and France were busy trying to simply restore their imperial domains, and today we have politicians promising to take us back to those heady days. The stock answer to regimes we don't like is to threaten intervention, and religion is used to justify mob violence, exactly as has happened throughout recorded history. So, all the evidence suggests that we haven't learnt the lessons of history.

Your sarcasm is not necessary. How many civil wars, persecutions, examples of religious intolerance, oppressive governments, do we see today ? How much of what we see on the International political stage is driven by greed or "defending our national interests". Military posturing and d1ck measuring contests abound, although outright imperial expansion by intervention and invasion may have been replaced by covert interference in domestic governance or just plain and simple financial and trade domination.

Was discussing a possible GE with my wife today, and the problem we have is that whilst there is no way we could ever vote Tory at the moment, the chances of an LD win in our constituency are extremely slim, as it is a Tory/Labour marginal, and we don't want to give an endorsement to Corbyn.

There is very little evidence of it.

Given the submission to the Scottish court that states BoJo will produce the letter to the EU requesting an extension to the deadline, as required by the Benn Act, any ideas as to what the cunning plan to still deliver Brexit on 31st Oct might be ?

Shock horror: history is full of bad things that happened a long time ago. If the human race showed the capacity to learn from it's prior mistakes, then perhaps we could all live a happier co-existence.

It's a new game based on the skills and laws of cricket, but how many variations on the short form do we need ? There's T20, ( 120 balls per side), and now the Hundred, ( 100 balls per side ). How long before somebody tries to introduce a 60 ball format ?

Is that not more drink related, rather than age ?

May I take this opportunity to apologise to all New Zealanders for the fact that my sister-in-law emigrated there.

And end up filling in the back story with flash-backs.

Looks like Boris's proposals are going down in Europe as well as Teresa May's 'deal' did in the HoC.

Is there anything left that you are too young for it to be legal ?

Shane Warne has just had his 50th birthday.

Has GM hijacked your account ?

Shirley

It's those nasty Europeans, they want to punish us.

Boris to offer new powers to the Stormont assembly - which hasn't sat in session for three years.

Are any of them even as good as they were when they left, let alone better than what we have ?

The future of the Tories is safe with such visionaries as Esther McVey. She'll drag them into the technological wonderland of the 1990s; https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/housing-minister-esther-mcvey-mocked-for-saying-3d-architects-are-now-building-homes-on-computers-a4250356.html