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Australia ramping up the pressure. https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/23/australia-sanctions-israel-settlers-west-bank-gaza-knesset-icj-ntwnfb

Netanyahu not getting such a warm welcome in the US. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c978m115eg8o.amp

Shouldn’t you be on the transfer thread? You haven’t posted there for at least 5 minutes.

Pakistani? If trans people call themselves trans, why do you have a problem with it other than trying to stir up more pointless nonsense? Australian = Aussie. Is that offensive?

Fair comments, but he was quality for us previously in the EPL so they would be buying a proven player.

More good news. https://www.joe.co.uk/politics/end-of-the-line-for-mp-gravy-train-as-labour-announces-clamp-down-on-second-jobs-449863

You said they were boring. If you don’t read them how do you know that they are boring? Anyway, on to more interesting things (but another boring thread for Whelk). https://www.barrons.com/amp/news/uk-to-name-commissioner-to-tackle-covid-era-corruption-1865be57

Short hand for a person who is transitioning but feel free to ignore the issue again by trying to create another. You would make a perfect candidate for Reform too. From what I have read, they often describe themselves as “trans” so if they don’t have a problem with it, why should you?

I have more of a problem with Trump/Vance running the country for 4 years than an elderly Biden plodding along for a few more months. At least now there is hope that Trump won’t win.

What has that got to do with anything?

You are sounding more like Duckie every day. I’ll read what I like and post what I like thanks. If you don’t care for the links that I post just don’t open them.

I am no expert on US politics but I am pretty sure that he doesn’t run the country on his own. There is no reason why he can’t keep things ticking over with his team while Harris is on the campaign trail

Starmer has previously been accused of flip flopping and now he is being accused of not flip flopping. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t.

This seems to be a sensible approach to tackling child poverty which is clearly a complex issue and isn’t going to be solve by one action alone. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn081lyqw44o.amp

Biden is giving a speech today so hardly being hidden away. From what I could tell there was a great deal of pressure put on Biden from Democrats prior to Biden’s decision not to run for a second term, so I really don’t buy the conspiracy theory nonsense.

Given the stupid money that is spent on home grown players by EPL clubs KWP has got to be worth £15m of anyone’s money, even in the last year of his contract. Whether we get it or not is another matter but I don’t blame the club for holding out for decent money for him.

If only people didn’t troll or behave as WUMs at every opportunity, eh, so that it wasn’t necessarily to ignore the childish nonsense. Maybe then we could concentrate on having grown up conversations. But well done you for reading every single post ever written in the Lounge and posting adult, well informed, replies and never resorting to Anglo- Saxon rich name calling. 👍 Here’s a thought, if there are duplicate posts, why not concentrate on the first one and reply to that? It might help your blood pressure and also help not clog up threads with pointless responses.

I think a lot of people thought that the Left would play Starmer like a cheap fiddle. This has been a marker that he isn’t a soft touch. No matter what you think about the cap, and Labour clearly don’t agree with it, having done their sums and decided to deal with child poverty in other ways for now, it would have been weak and disingenuous to buckle on that position at the first hurdle. Finally, a PM with some integrity and backbone who is not going to make promises he can’t keep. Today’s PMQ’s was a grown up affair for a change. No doubt that had lots to do with it being the first one of a new parliament and it will go back to its usual pantomime in future, but a pleasant change to hear MPs behave as grown ups.

A good appraisal of her performance on the James O’Brien show, LBC, yesterday. https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/23/listeners-tuning-in-to-lbc-saw-softer-side-to-suella-braverman

I’d rather that he signed a new contract and stays as he is one of our best players. What will be will be though.

Starmer showing he’s the boss. https://news.sky.com/story/amp/labour-suspend-seven-mps-who-rebelled-over-two-child-benefit-cap-13183879

How do you explain the many members of the Democratic Party who have been calling for him not to stand? It seems that you are seeking a conspiracy where there isn’t one. He has made the decision not to stand. He probably should have made it much earlier, but it is done. What is the problem?

If Donald Trump wins in November he will be President until 2029.

Joe Biden is not running for President. Donald Trump is.

She was the host on LBC this today for 3 hours. She seemed completely oblivious to the fact that she has been part and parcel of the Tory car crash government and had championed some of its worst policies. Her last caller was a trans and called her out over her unhelpful comments about trans people. She almost fell over herself in her efforts to be empathetic to them and couldn’t have sounded more insincere if she tried. She is a perfect fit for Reform.