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Reply | Anyone got that sort of feeling that we won't go up next season yet?
at 10:57 10 May 2025
A good start will be vital.
Which means a kind set of early fixtures would be helpful.
Wrexham (Away)
Norwich (Home)
Birmingham (Away)
Leicester (Home)
Would be about as unpleasant as it could get for us.
I can really see one of the relegated Prem teams being given Wrexham away, for the hype, given that the Championship kicks off a week before the Premier League:
"Is this the biggest game in World Football this weekend? It's certainly the one with the largest global interest!" Etc.
What we want are a Home game against a 24/25 lower mid-table side to start, followed by a reasonably short away trip, and a game against one of the Play Off losers under lights at Portman Road, to give us chance to find a rhythm and guage ourselves against what we should expect for the season ahead.
There you go: some fretting about things we have no control over! |
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Reply | Pakistan v India
at 12:06 7 May 2025
It's too late for the politicians to try spin!
(Especially as he died a year and a half ago.)
I do think a peace conference with Mushtaq Ahmed representing Pakistan and Rahul Dravid for India would get further than most politicians would. Two very decent people.
Although it would be a long one! |
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Reply | Conclave completed today?
at 12:01 7 May 2025
It's certainly an odd role, being a Cardinal.
At the moment they are the most important people in the Roman Catholic Church.
But when the new Pope begins his rain:bow and exit stage left. |
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Reply | Trade deal with India
at 11:56 7 May 2025
The most extraordinary thing for me is that Rishi Sunak didn't pull this deal off a few months before the Election.
The first Indian-heritage British Prime Minister, married into one of the richest Indian families who run one of the biggest Indian business global success stories.
He backed Brexit, but didn't make this sizable deal a priority, or call in favours to be able to announce it at the time of most Electoral advantage as a "Brexit bonus".
Utterly baffling! |
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Reply | Conclave completed today?
at 11:47 7 May 2025
There's a risk that the whole thing will generate more heat than light. As well as the requisite smoke, obviously.
So how will they diffuse that situation, if it arises?
I guess the Cardinals represent a spectrum of views, some obscure, and some will come under pressure to lens their vote for someone who isn't their primary candidate. |
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Reply | Monday night trivia….
at 16:46 6 May 2025
I won't hear a word against Jonathan Douglas.
He did wonders for the health of older men up and down the nation by inventing the sport "Walking Football". |
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Reply | Caption anyone?
at 16:43 6 May 2025
At the Aquarobics and Metaphysics class, participants were taught how to contemplate their sole. |
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Reply | Reform
at 17:06 5 May 2025
Local Education Authority SEND provision was destroyed by Michael Gove in the Cameron led Government era. And then Local Education Authorities followed.
All part of the expansion of the Academisation of schools, which ended LEA budget top-slicing, and therefore the funding which enabled SEN specialists to support schools, and pupils on a "need" basis. |
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Reply | Just reading about lucy powell's comments
at 17:30 4 May 2025
You aren't quite getting it right.
A YouTube video of a man titled "Muslamic Ray Guns" was found amusing on here.
That's not quite the same thing as saying that Rape by gangs of men who are Muslim was brushed aside as nonsense, once proper details emerged. But, yes, the original "Muslamic Ray Guns" thing has aged terribly.
There was a massive failure by many agencies, including Police, Social Services and in some cases, Schools and Hospitals/Health Professionals. There was also a huge failure of the London-centric media to be in the slightest bit curious for too long.
It's not too big a stretch to say that the Professional class failed many Working Class women (and their loved ones) horrendously.
I am all for as many inquiries as it takes, as long as their recommendations are acted upon.
All politicians should be seeking the right response here. This really isn't the area to be trying to point-score in.
Kemi Badenoch was Minister for Women from October 2022 to July 2024. How does she have the nerve to try and put this on anyone else when she did nothing? This disgusts me greatly.
Do the Reform top brass care at all about the young women who have been abused so badly, first by the perpetrators, then by the supposed care agencies, and then by the Criminal justice system? I have a view on that with regard to some of them, who (like some, but not all, politicians from other parties, too) come across as sociopathic to me. But the priority here isn't to slap back at Reform, it's to seek meaningful change to the agencies that failed, and the Criminal Justice system that consistently fails women who have been sexually abused or raped.
My own view is that Rape trials should move away from a jury system, and be presided over by specially trained panels of judges, with the survivors of abuse not open to interrogation by Barristers, but instead only the judges asking them questions about their account.
Your last comment about Starmer does you no credit. If you have a specific allegation to make against him, provide some evidence. |
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Reply | Reform
at 13:33 3 May 2025
Zulus, and bayonets, if my memories of Dad's Army is correct.
Might have been Boers...
But definitely bayonets. |
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Reply | So now the Tories are seemingly finished...
at 12:35 3 May 2025
It's absolutely incredible that she doesn't even get mentioned until this far into the discussion.
It's also incredible that Theresa May inherited a solid Parliamentary majority, started the time-limited Exit process before she had her team assembled (let alone desired outcomes agreed in all major policy areas, and a strategy for how to get there worked out) and, critically, before she had to, and alienated a substantial portion of the MPs in her party.
And yet doesn't even figure in the conversation for the "Top Three worst Prime Ministers of the past 10 years"! |
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Reply | Horticulturistas - recommed me a tree/bush that will last but won't get too big
at 11:15 2 May 2025
Think in terms of a couple of bags of sugar, with the ashes larger than sugar grains, but smaller than kitty litter.
There's a lot of it, and I don't think the pot plant tree idea is the best, personally.
There are "Green Burial" sites which bury or strew ashes in woodland, for a fee.
You could ask a landowner for permission to scatter or bury at a beauty spot which means something to you as a family.
Or many people just find an isolated spot and scatter without permission.
There's a lot of it, if scattering, and everybody needs to be upwind on a blowy day! |
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Reply | Sycamore Gap Tree felling
at 16:45 1 May 2025
I wouldn't go out on a limb if they are anywhere near with their chainsaws, if I were you! |
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Reply | A minutes silence for the pope?
at 16:00 30 Apr 2025
But on the other hand, the Football Lads Alliance were VERY into flower arranging, bizarrely, which churches get right behind, too.
These things are always more complex than they first appear, aren't they? |
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Reply | Wardley fight off
at 15:56 30 Apr 2025
Not something to Google with Safe Search off. |
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