sadoldgit

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Not from me you wont. He still looked poor in the recent U21 game against Boro. He just looks like a bloke who has turned up to watch and has been put in goal as the keeper didn't turn up.

United 1-0. Clyne gives away free kick and gets booked and United score.

Death of New Labour maybe? I am not a Labour supporter but I do believe that the position parties should be strong. Sadly (for me) the LibDems seem shot but maybe now we shall at last see some real alternative policies and a more robust opposition. I for one are sick of everyone fighting over the middle ground.

Morgan on the bench.

This will certainly liven things up a bit at Westminster!

Are we really paying him £65k a week? Find that very odd when apparently Morgan was offered £60k a week to stay. One of these figure must be wrong and I really hope it is the first one.

What a mess indeed. 2015 and yet many still behave like savages. You have to despair for human kind.

Two groups of extremist factions full of religious zealots. I'd say there was a comparison there.

I watched a recent under 21 game against Boro and he was very shakey. As someone else said he needs game time and should be loaned out to get more experience.

Harsh but fair.......and funny!

We had the tickets in our passports but the guy didn't look at the tickets, just the passports.

greengage

Didn't see that coming.

I see from the Mirror that al Qaeda have "declared war" on IS! These people who are so hell bent on seeing the West fall, how are they going to manage it if they cant even get on with each other? Perhaps we should do what Churchill did with Stalin and join forces with al Qaeda against IS?

I always look out for Manure's results as I like to see them lose, but other than that I don't see the point in "hating" another club. Liverpool are in vogue at the moment because they have taken a number of players from us, but I remember following them in Europe in their peak hoping they would win, as I did with Celtic in 1967. Never enjoyed any of Manure's success but that had more to do with not liking Fergie much - never hated the auld fella though. Still, it all boils down to basic tribalism.

Well said Ohio. As for the American "culture" aren't the cultures of all countries an amalgam of many difference influences built up over the years?

That is a horrific list. A few years ago I had a girlfriend who lived in Seattle. I took her kids to school one day and was amazed to see a sign over the main door saying no guns beyond this point. It is just wrong on so many levels.

Yep, went a few weeks ago. I am pretty sure the tickets were scanned and we just showed our passports to the people on border control.

The Fast Show was quality.

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anFreeman

Again, there have been many organisations through the centuries prepared to die for their cause. Islamic extremists are no different from them. They aren't a new race that have suddenly appeared from Mars.

I am not sore thanks, I just don't get why you always do this. Are you Jeremy Paxman? If you think I am talking nonsense so be it but the simple fact is that armed conflict always ends with some kind of negotiations otherwise the conflict just continues. You say it is impossible to deal with these people. Ok but we have dealt with people in the past who have no regard for their own lives and have found a way to co-exist. Your less nonsense plan of crushing the extremists is working well so far isn't it? We invaded Iraq and killed Saddam, look where that has got us. We killed Bin Laden and numerous other high ranking terrorists and other keep taking their place. We are currently helping the Saudis bomb the sh*t out of the Yemen (also destroying ancient buildings as IS are doing) and goodness only knows where that will lead us. At some point it has to stop and all your plan is doing is escalating the problem. Sadly it will get worse before it gets better, but to get it better both sides of the divide need to learn to co-exist. Your argument that they will never back down is not proven. History is full of conflicts between nations and ideologies where those entrenched eventually come to some arrangement. It may be difficult but it is not, as you say, impossible. What is impossible is eradicating thousands cells of terrorists hidden in caves, in terraced houses in Birmingham, in basement flats in Paris etc. Moving on a bit... Parliament agreed that we would not be involved in air operations over Syria yet DC sanctioned an air based strike on two British subjects. I live near a guy who used to work in military intelligence for both us and the Americans. He said last night that no matter what James Bond does, it is illegal to go into another country and kill people no matter who you work for and operations to do this are very rare and involve very specialist targets (like Bin Laden for example). He believes that the drone strikes are illegal. The two people killed recently were supposedly working on plots to cause explosions at some public events this year. Do you really think that it was them and only them involved? It would have taken a number of people to plan and carry out these attacks and removing one or two people would make no difference at all. I'll leave you with this thought, perhaps it was more about showing DC in the light of being a tough ass kicking leader than making our street safer. Look at the timing of the announcements too.

If their are aims are the destruction of the West, at this rate it will take them forever unless they develop a nuclear capability.