Sergei Gotsmanov

The two go hand in hand and it goes back to the point I made about institutional bias. Somebody once said that the BBC tries to be centrist with its coverage but its definition of centrist is out of kilter with rest of the country.

It depends which way you look at it. I think the fact that nation's lowest selling newspaper is the BBC's best selling newspaper suggests that the BBC is not representative of the people it broadcasts. Why does the jobs section have so many BBC jobs?

Private Eye being successfully sued for being wrong is a standing joke. People love it because it is anti establishment and says the things that nobody dares. The Guido Fawkes Blog has the same attributes and has claimed a number of high profile scoops and scalps. I would agree with you on William Hague's aide but I don't agree with much of what the Daily Mail and the Guardian say but still read them You still have not addressed the stories that I posted or are they wrong?

I have to say that is a pretty odd response. Do you think Private Eye should not have been taken seriously because Peter Cook liked a drink? What has university got to do with it either - Richard Branson only got one o level so what! Why don't you respond to the stories reported by the most read political blog?

I did refer to it as 'classic' but if you want something a little more up to date; https://order-order.com/2016/05/16/proof-remain-campaign-is-paying-bbc/ https://order-order.com/2015/04/21/bbc-website-balance-is-a-joke/#_@/VaLD4yVAgssXlA The Guardian has the lowest circulation nationally of all the big newspapers nationwide but manages to top the charts at the BBC. http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/foi-request-reveals-the-guardian-is-most-popular-newspaper-at-the-bbc/

I think that you will find that discreetly the Muslim community is being much more helpful than they are given credit for. That is why so many plots are prevented. I cannot see why our Security services can be so much more successful than on the continent.

Umm pointing out that just because somebody does not sign a letter you cannot assume that they do not believe it and that 72 MPs is a lot. Anyway here is a classic BBC bias story https://order-order.com/2010/04/19/labour-candidate-is-bbc-bias-complaints-judge/

I think that you underplay the significance of 72 MPs signing a letter - an unprecedented step. You fail to put it into the context of a house of parliament that overwhelmingly supported a remain vote. Why do you not compare it to other 'letters' signed by MPs. 105 MPs signed a letter to block the extradition the hacker Lauri Love. By your logic 545 MPs must have supported it. Wes cites a piece by News Watch which demonstrates examples of perceived bias of the BBC which is dismissed because it came from a right wing source. Who exactly is going to raise the issue of Brexit bias - the Lib Dems? The Fabian Society?

Kevin Davies scored a good goal back in 1997 I think and we won 2-0. I think we beat them 1-0 a year or so earlier our first win when MLT wasn't playing for two seasons or something absurd! Never been to Goodison Park but always looks to have a good atmosphere and good crowds despite living in the shadow of Liverpool.

I think you are arguing that the BBC's job is to determine which side should receive the more extensive and favourable coverage. That is quite dangerous. If you want to read what you want to hear you can always buy the newspaper with the appropriate leaning. The job of the BBC is to air the arguments of each side and allow the viewer to decide. If you don't think the British public is clever enough to decide then I am afraid I can only say that is just democracy and probably why have so few referendums.

It means that they probably did not have meetings about how to be biased it just came about because most of the people in the newsroom backed remain. I think that the Macpherson report first coined the phrase suggesting that the Met's processes were not racist but it was institutionally racist. I am surprised somebody of your intellectual stature cannot grasp that.

The BBC has an inbuilt institutional bias against Brexit which inevitably influences its coverage. The positive economic news has been greeted with the inevitable 'despite Brexit' while the constant negative rumblings from the EU are highlighted and the opportunities it presents subdued. It is unprecedented that so many MPs, not just from one party, draft a letter to raise this issue of BBC bias. Do you not think that it is rather telling that one of the authors of the letter was a former BBC Journalist who voted Remain. Verbal I think you might be being naïve.

I can only speak from an outside perspective and fortunately not as a victim of any IRA atrocity. I can understand the animosity. I do not think that there is anyway that peace would have come about if it were not driven by such a figurehead in the organisation. He had to have the respect of the IRA army council for them to follow him down the road to peace and he can only have won that on the frontline. I admired him for embracing reconciliation to such an extent that he shook hands with the Queen and developed a friendship with the Rev Paisley. Building such a close relationship with Paisley took courage and was powerfully symbolic to his supporters, to those on the other side of the wall and the outside world. As I say I might think differently if I had been personally affected and they are better placed to judge.

You obviously missed the European Championships last summer.

What do you think his experience and presence contributes in the dressing room?

Stephen Davis is a great player if he could shoot better he would be an all time great.

I can only agree with you but that situation is amplified with the EU. Of course the UK gets less than they put into the EU and there are not 27 member states to make decision making slow and ineffective. Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland receive more than they put into the pot so that is one difference. Culturally we are more aligned - you support an English football team, you spend the same money, the war memorials in your villages bear the names of the same conflicts, you speak the same language. Ultimately if more people had voted to remain in Northern, Ireland and Scotland we would have remained in. In 2005 we had a labour government, made up of a lot of Scots who were put there by the votes of the Scots and the Welsh. The English voted Tory.

It is all rather unsettling but a Scottish referendum is not going to help. Most Scots don't want it because it was a very divisive and unpleasant process. The vast majority of Brexiters did not vote out because they are little Englanders; 44% of your compatriots voted out, nearly 40% of Scots and a majority of the Welsh. They voted out because the EU is dysfunctional, inefficient, financially unaccountable, undemocratic, dictatorial and because they were concerned that you can sign up for unlimited immigration. As regards supporting Saints, I think it is great but if I lived so far away I would probably follow a more glamorous team. My taxi driver in Belfast a few years ago told me that there were two types of supporters there, Manchester United and ABU's.

Wow! The most chilling response ever! GM's comment warranted a response but that?

Really?

When Pochettino went to Spurs and we lost all our players; we were a crisis club. Jose Fonte played a large part in keeping the remaining team together. The reason I suspect why Osvaldo lamped him was because it was him that gave him stick for not having the right attitude. He was a talisman and came up through the divisions with us. I think he was verging on becoming a legend.

I find it very sad that such a Saints legend is being ridiculed by our supporters. I also think it every bit as sad that he opted to push for a move. Once again naively I thought he was different and loved Saints enough to stay. Should the club have been so hard nosed? They probably didn't like they way he manoeuvred the situation in the summer with his agent. Otherwise they might have said here is the generous deal and we would like you to stay on and get involved in the coaching at the end of his career.

I think it was Cassells and Hebberd went the other way

I would rather have the choice!

He is a good goalkeeper. Probably if he was as useful as you would hope he would end up leaving. I would think he is also a good influence in the dressing room. Back him don't undermine his confidence.