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Only 74. Still got "Bat Out Of Hell" that I bought back in 1977.

With all the noise about "Partygate", this has been a bit under the radar: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/rishi-sunak-uk-government-treasury-writes-off-43bn-covid-payments-stolen-fraudsters-000107381.html Would have been a bit different if it was benefit claims.

The i newspaper gave a score from 1 to 10 to each of the team. Hameed got -1, the first time that they've awarded a negative score.

Sierra Leone had 4 players named Kamara in the team and another 2 on the bench.

60 people have a piss-up in the Downing Street garden and the police don't notice (or chose to ignore it) while 2 women who drove 10 minutes to have a stroll by a Derbyshire reservoir and drink coffee were accused of having a picnic and fined £200 each. This sums up the Met nicely: https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/a-hundred-people-bringing-their-own-booze-and-other-things-the-met-police-havent-noticed-20220111216145

That's the chess player. Ours was born in 1964.

That's a novel punishment for being unvaccinated.

I'm sure that Pritti Patel would give them a good thrashing.

Have you felt a strange compulsion to go out and buy Microsoft Office?

Have we got General Melchett in charge?

This a an appalling story of police negligence, lies and reluctance to take action. They have finally admitted their mistakes but no officer has been disciplined and some have been promoted. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-59593887

Looks like we could be getting some new neighbours: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-59606900

Possibly related to the Farkarwe tribe who had no sense of direction. When anyone met them, they said "We're the Farkarwe"

Shilton lived in Chilworth next door to my old boss. Luke Shaw stayed with a family in Dibden. Rhadi Jaidi lived just off The Avenue.

Also, the minister involved had "accidentally" deleted his WhatsApp messages relating to the contracts. As Annelise Dodds said: "The 21st century equivalent of 'The dog ate my homework'"

Also groping a New Statesman lady in 2019.

This is being blown up out of all proportion.

He was a Christian, converted a few years ago.

I didn't realise that some of these MPs are really struggling. https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=6363414150395640

When you see that Chris (Failing) Grayling earns £110k a year for 7 hours a week as adviser to Hutchinson Ports, it makes you wonder why. This was the guy who didn't seem to realise that ferry companies actually had to have ships.

He 's resigned. Has he become an embarrassment and been thrown under the bus?

They wheeled out a senior minister, Kwasi Kwarteng, on Sky News this morning who said he "felt no shame" in voting for the amendment and even suggested that the standards commissioner should resign. Those who voted for the amendment included 22 Tories who were either already under investigation or had been ruled against by the commissioner. A couple of hours later and the big u-turn. Total shambles.

The Lords amendment was to legally compel them to improve their sewage systems and to demonstrate progressive reductions. So it follows that it would have required them to make improvements in infrastructure rather than just let them carry on as they are.

No, but anyone with half a brain would realise that to reduce the amount of undiluted crap that they dump in the rivers, they would need to spend more on infrastructure rather than giving it away as dividends.

If it needs addressing then the Government should address it, not wash their hands of it by throwing out the Lords amendment.