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Well, Leicester was his big test and he passed that with flying colours!

I don’t know what Still was doing, but it was clearly not enough. This is what we were hoping to see from this bunch of players from the beginning of the season.

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It just gets better!!!

Unbelievable!!!!

There has been talk about doing away with juries for some time now, in complicated fraud cases for example. Cases, especially serious sexual cases are taking an age to get to court leading to some victims walking away. Something needs to be done.

Thanks to the austerity years the Criminal Justice System is on its knees and measures need to be taken to sort out the back log. Cutting staff in the courts, probation, the CPS and the police every year for years has created this situation. If Badenoch/The Tories kick off about it they need to remember why we are in this state in the first place.

Why? Correct me if I am wrong, but Sir Ralph is only interested in the number of racist hate cases that end in convictions. So if 100 cases go to court and 80 end up with a conviction, that is the level of racism as far as he is concerned. There may be another 1000 cases where people have said that they have been racially abused but, for one reason or another, they haven’t made it to court. Is it unreasonable to take into account the “anecdotal” feedback on racism when looking at what is happening at ground level? Why just dismiss people’s experiences as “guff?” It is generally accepted that the amount of sexual assaults on women is much higher than the recorded figure because many don’t report it to the police. It is the same with race hate cases. In both events the cases that end in convictions are just the tip of the iceberg. I don’t expect Sir Ralph, or nic for that matter, to understand this point. You on the other hand, shouldn’t find it too hard to comprehend.

The custody Sargent who dissed the woman who said had been punched in the stomach. He probably was thinking that was “anecdotal guff” too.

I don’t think it is about playing leader. I think it is about strong characters who stand up when things get tough and set an example to the rest. All too often we fold at the slightest setback. Some players lead by being the loudest but many do so by example.

It wasn’t that long ago that you were getting agitated about the amount of time our media gave to the actions of the President of the United States of America. Can you see why now? The Russians are killing Ukrainian civilians on pretty much a daily basis. Do you think that it would speed up peace negotiations if Ukraine started to target Russian civilians?

If someone said they had been robbed by a Somalian immigrant with a knife why would I dispute that? It doesn’t mean that all Somalian immigrants carry knives and rob people though does it? Whereas we know that more people carry out hate crimes because we have the official figures to back it up. We don’t need to rely on anecdotal evidence. Anecdotal guff? You sound like that custody Sargent in the undercover Panorama programme about dodgy coppers. “That’s what she said.” Just as well that you didn’t pursue a career in the police.

Oh dear. It wasn’t just Starmer. The report was pulled apart and criticised by many people. You would know that if you were a true fact seeker and unbiased in this matter.

Yet you are constantly trying to ignore both hard factual evidence along with compelling anecdotal evidence. Ok. What about the thousands of emails displaying racial hatred that are shared in the media but do not get taken to the police for action. Do you discount those?

You say you deal in facts, you might recall then that it is a fact to say that the Sewell Commission’s report was widely discredited. One group said that it was a “deliberate attempt to whitewash institutional racism.” Keir Starmer himself was “deeply disappointed” with it.