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Reply | Woolfenden
at 16:25 30 Jul 2025
Except for the obvious fact that we don't play it out from the back anywhere near as well with O'Shea in the team. |
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Reply | Great British Strike
at 23:48 24 May 2025
Didn't see anything in Cambridge. Convenient that they chose the day this weekend with very few football matches to attend, strikingly similar to the riots last summer which mysteriously ceased once the football season restarted. |
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Reply | Goodbye Mass
at 14:17 23 May 2025
Hero. Everything a central midfielder should be. |
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Reply | Cup final thread
at 16:46 17 May 2025
Crystal Palace should try having the ball. |
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Reply | Incels
at 21:19 2 Apr 2025
Maybe a little late to the thread, but as a Gen Z man, I wanted to chip in.
I completely agree with your point that sportsmen have a crucial role to play as role models for boys, and can speak from experience. For me, as someone growing up in the 2000s and the 2010s, my first role model beyond family members (who were also excellent role models), was Lewis Hamilton, around the years he was driving for McLaren, years during which I was attending primary school. I was also Ipswich-mad during these years but players like Michael Chopra and Lee Bowyer, who were Town players around this time, are hardly figures to emulate for children. For me, Lewis Hamilton was, and continues to be, an excellent example of healthy masculinity, and in obsessively watching the Grand Prix every weekend, I discovered someone I wanted to emulate. Yes, he could be petulant (albeit more in a manner of wearing one's heart on their sleeve as opposed to arrogance), but he was also exceptionally gifted at his craft, I found him very cool, he was clearly a hard worker, and has always been unafraid to speak out on social issues. In Lewis Hamilton, I had an example of a number of positive values that I could take on board as a young man. Sportsmen today should be looking to project the same values.
I admit that I grew up in what I consider to be excellent circumstances, with very supportive parents, and in rural Suffolk, but I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth, and went to a state school, so was ultimately growing up as normally as anyone. I will soon go on to hold a masters degree from the University of Cambridge, in addition to my first-class undergraduate degree, and have secured a graduate role at a very prestigious firm in London, and have clearly defined ambitions going forward that I know I can achieve. I am also very happily in a three year relationship with my girlfriend. Essentially, I have been able to achieve everything that online grifters claim has been made impossible for young white men. Part of my drive to succeed was from positive male role models as a child. Sportsmen can be key to this. |
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Reply | The Pivot to Asia
at 13:07 8 Mar 2025
China produce and process the majority of Rare Earth Elements so I'm sceptical of the notion that the US have no interest in China or Asia, especially as these elements are absolutely central to tech, the business leaders of which have aligned and positioned themselves close to the US President. |
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Reply | Sustainable aviation, Mrs Reeves?
at 11:00 29 Jan 2025
I hope it goes through, I want to see Britain actually build something. There's always something stopping us doing it. HS2 should have gone to it's original destinations, we could have afforded it if we'd just told the home counties constituencies to get stuffed and not had to faf around with digging tunnels. Crossrail is fab. Every other country does ambitious infrastructure projects but us and I'm bored of it always being 'oh but the wildlife/my view/the taxpayer'. Some of these criticisms are legitimate but when its every single time it does get old. |
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Thread | Boxing Day London Transport
at 21:20 18 Nov 2024
Long shot but is anyone driving down to London from Suffolk on Boxing Day and has a space in their car? Ideally in the morning. Picking someone up from Heathrow but obvs the trains aren't running. Just need to get to somewhere with a tube stop. Willing to cover a share of petrol. Thanks in advance. |
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Reply | Gary Lineker leaving MOTD at the end of the season.
at 20:39 11 Nov 2024
Mark Chapman or Gabby Logan surely. Both have been excellent presenters for several years now across a number of sports and both are more than qualified for the top sports gig at the Beeb. |
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Reply | Commonwealth calls for reparations.
at 12:46 29 Oct 2024
Interesting question, you're pretty much correct in that sugar colonies were far more profitable than the North American colonies, and this had impact upon the outcome of the revolution.
Consider the demographic composition of Caribbean. With plantations growing in size, land was falling into the hands of fewer and fewer white planters, and enslaved Africans began to take up a much larger proportion of the population of Caribbean islands, leaving white planters incredibly vulnerable to revolt, with Tacky's Revolt in Jamaica in 1760 sending shockwaves across the Caribbean and to Britain. White planters, many of whom occupied parliamentary positions as part of the powerful West India lobby, demanded protection from the Royal Navy, and as a result much government expenditure and military capacity was sent to these islands. American colonies had much larger white populations proportionally, with Virginia having the largest percentage of enslaved Africans at around ~55% of total population, with colonies in New England much lower than this. As such, they were much less reliant on British military protection, so independence was a realistic proposition. Caribbean planters actually spent much greater amounts under the Stamp Act than North Americans, which was one of the key drivers of discontent, and whilst some Caribbean colonies did somewhat support the American cause, this was not enough to develop into any sort of meaningful resistance. Therefore its not so much that the British government wouldn't release its grip on the Caribbean, its that these colonies absolutely needed the British for protection, which wasn't the case in North America. During 1776, Britain was compelled to still provide significant military force in ensuring Caribbean colonies remained safe, and ensure enslaved Africans didn't capitalise upon a reduction in military presence, and as such was forced to limit the amount of strength it could send to North America, ultimately a key decider in the conflict. [Post edited 29 Oct 2024 12:52]
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Reply | Commonwealth calls for reparations.
at 23:50 28 Oct 2024
Currently studying for a Masters in Economic History at Cambridge. Much of my undergraduate research, as well as my dissertation, was on the British Transatlantic Slave Trade. Have been taught by leaders in the field.
The effects of the British Industrial Revolution are intrinsically linked to the slave trade. We cannot imagine what an industrial Britain without the trade would look like. Liverpool went from a city of around ~5000 to 90000 during the 1700s, this growth almost entirely centred around ship building and outfitting industries, with insurance and financing also growing within the city. Beyond this, it's important to understand that Caribbean sugar colonies were almost entirely agricultural, that they had no industry of their own, with sugar refining, which had to be done quickly after harvesting, the only industrial process completed in the islands. This meant all industrial processes necessary for the success of the sugar colonies were done in Britain. For example, the city of Sheffield was the origin for almost all iron tools headed for the Caribbean, usually receiving direct commission from planters themselves, leading to a massive stimulus to the city's steel industry, enriching it and shaping how it grew going forward. In the Southwest, Bristol saw similar growth to Liverpool, as another of Britain's major slave trade ports. Through Bristol, copper machinery that would be used to refine sugar in the Caribbean was transported, which stimulated copper mining in Cornwall, as well as coal mining in South Wales, which would fuel copper smelting. Tea drinking grew as a response to cheap, available sugar, and as such the potteries of Stoke grew and shaped the city. I could give more examples to drive home the point that there are absolutely no urban areas in the UK that were not in some way shaped by the industrial needs of the British Transatlantic slave trade. That's not to mention institutions such as Lloyds of London that came into existence as a direct response to demand for the insurance of slave voyages.
Sure it's easy to see the benefits bestowed upon absentee planters when one looks at somewhere such as Glevering Hall, but Britains industrial economy was stimulated by the trade far beyond that. [Post edited 29 Oct 2024 12:50]
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Reply | The best year of your life….
at 00:50 26 Sep 2024
Could be any of the last three years really but I'll go for 2022.
Last of the Covid restrictions disappeared around the turn of the year just as I was turning 20 so really started to enjoy uni and begin to love the city of Sheffield.
Got the chance to study abroad for a year in the US, half of which was that year, loads of excellent travel including a cracking week in Vegas as well as time in California.
Met my current girlfriend.
Town started winning and playing nice football more than I'd ever seen in my time as a fan.
2022-24 have really all been brilliant years, met loads of fantastic people, done an awful lot of travelling, great uni results, played loads of football and cricket, and most importantly, Ipswich are finally good at football. |
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Reply | Btw Davis
at 21:29 31 Aug 2024
I remember Myles Kenlock of all people having an excellent game against Traore when he was at Boro back in the day. |
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