Sergei Gotsmanov

I am afraid to say - get your money on. It will cushion the blow!

The Internet has delivered change and I would conclude on the whole we were better off without it. Apart from making our high street's redundant it has limited face to face interaction between people. It has amplified our children's anxiety and facilitated inescapable 24 hour bullying. Sadly the genie is out of the bottle and you cannot put it back.

Well he would have fitted in on the mural that Corbyn liked so much. A bigot judges people on their looks, that's what makes them a bigot. There were not many country's over the next hundred years who would have had a leader of such obvious Jewish descent and we should be proud of that. The Tories have consistently been progressive in their choice of leaders. They have delivered two women prime ministers and I think that should Ruth Davidson return to politics it is very realistic that she will be the first LGBT party leader.

He looked every bit a Jew and was still able to reach the pinnacle of the Tory party. However he played his hand, anti Semitism was not a barrier to reaching the top of the Tory party in the Victorian age.

Then in fairness they don't deserve the vote.

I am pleased she is getting her points across to you

They must have been pretty useless anti-Semites to elect Benjamin Disraeli as their leader.

I think I am a 'real fan' as I have had a season ticket for years - a fan follows and a supporter pays and all that. I don't however have a Saints duvet and find all this 'we march on' crap rather tedious and Eastern European dictator like. I am prone to outbursts at bad refereeing and a good win will deliver a warm feeling over the weekend. To me it was just a game of football where we got thumped. Nobody died and the morning still came the next day. When we sang 'Manchester City we are coming for you' that made me laugh and I felt a sense of pride. It reflected very well on our club and our supporters. Outsiders will have found that amusing and thought 'good on them'. You tend to look like a bit of a tit if you huff and puff about what is essentially a game, whatever Bill Shankly said.

I did always like the Krypton factor's landing a jumbo jet!

https://www.itv.com/news/2019-10-03/the-super-trawler-just-14-miles-off-brighton-capable-of-landing-6-000-tonnes-of-fish/ Sadly this is not being debated on the BBC or Sky because it does not fit the EU rhetoric but whatever your views on Brexit we should be building smaller fishing boats.

I salute your clearly defined parameters but I wont judge you or tell you what I think is the right or wrong way to bring up your children. That after all is your decision.

I was probably the last generation to be caned at school in the early eighties. It was part of life but I would question how the teachers and the headmaster could beat somebody else's child. If a teacher hit my children today I would have to be restrained. I was caned for writing my name on the desk once and I could hardly deny it but I felt the fact that it rubbed off meant that I had been a victim to a miscarriage of justice. I pointed this out to my father and as you say, he just told me I deserved it.

If you are debating smacking then I would suggest that defining smacking is the starting point to any discussion would you not think? The important element to be aligned on is that you want the best for your children.

Fantastic observation!

You bring your children up how you want and I have brought mine up how I think is right but I think you should tread very carefully harnessing the state to legislate in a one size fits all way. It is an important right to raise your children how you think fit.

I think that there is an age when smacking has its role as long as it is controlled and with an open hand. What age that ends should be the debate.

Nobody seems to have suggested going back to Europe and renegotiating with them a new relationship that keeps us in. This can then be put to the vote. As Sarkozy admitted, the EU made a strategic error in not giving Cameron anything of substance to put to the electorate and that cost them the referendum. With the chance of reintegrating us into the block they may find a new willingness to be flexible and address the failings of the existing arrangement that prompted a leave vote.

As a rule of thumb, I find that the further from the centre the more unpleasant and tedious people become.

Perhaps you cannot see the irony in the fact that you know about it and are talking about it online without the fear of a knock on the door.

Class response in fairness

Do you think that if Thomas Cook had been still under family ownership they would have rewarded themselves with millions of pounds worth of bonuses? I don't think they would have done and that is why I think that it is another example of the unacceptable face of capitalism.

Yes we have all watched pretty woman but I think that before bonuses are awarded then the company should be demonstrably on the road to profitability. Board members should expect a high level of scrutiny if they award themselves huge awards based on short term gains and not long term sustainability.

I can appreciate the logic you are putting forward of course but in this insistence and in all to many cases the contribution to the level of debt is irrelevant. The company has failed.

Another example of the unacceptable face of capitalism which now seems rampant in big business and is accepted conventional behaviour. To accept a bonus in a failing business should result in court and in extreme cases prison.