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Reply | Anyone you know?
at 14:44 15 Sep 2025
Why would you need to be brave to ask someone about their motives for attending a rally organised by a far right POS like Tommy Robinson? Surely if they felt motivated enough to travel to London for it they would be happy to explain why?
Maybe they are all proper decent blokes as you said, real pillars of the community, volunteering every week, running food banks, litter picking, all that stuff, but I think you must see how being pictured at a rally organised by Tommy Robinson might make people question that? I know quite a few people who have been drawn to reform, and while I don't agree with any of their reasoning, I wouldn't label them all as racist, I think they have been deceived and have a misplaced sense of frustration about how things are going with the country. Tommy Robinson is not the same as reform though, there is no respectable sheen to what he does, no attempt to hold back the properly racist stuff, and I think it is genuinely shocking how many people have happily attended a rally organised by him. |
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Reply | Far right politico Charlie Kirk just shot in the neck in Utah
at 19:17 14 Sep 2025
I get that this thread has moved quite far away from the original topic, but to post about the radical left or woke left in this thread seems quite strange. Charlie Kirk was by any definition far right, so I don't think you have to be very far left to disagree strongly with most of the things he stood for. [Post edited 14 Sep 19:18]
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Reply | 10+ pages for a neo-facist but can’t find a mention for Melissa Hortman.
at 11:36 12 Sep 2025
You've brought this up in another thread I think and said the same thing, imagine if it was the other way around. Do you mean if a black woman was stabbed by a white man who was experiencing a serious mental health breakdown? Because I'm almost certain that would get far less attention than the very sad case that you've brought up. |
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Reply | Far right politico Charlie Kirk just shot in the neck in Utah
at 14:46 11 Sep 2025
If someone like Charlie Kirk is seen as a standard bearer for free speech and democracy in our society then we are in trouble. The term fascist does get thrown around too freely, but his style of debate was confrontational to the extreme, he avoided anyone with any actual knowledge on the things they were speaking about and instead made his reputation baiting naïve college students, and even then all of his social media content was edited and framed in a way to show him as the 'winner' of every debate, and embarrass the other side. He wasn't looking to discuss issues, he was making content and spreading what at times was a hateful message.
All that said you are right that the idea of celebrating his death is sickening, it goes without saying no one on either side of politics should be killed for expressing their views. |
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Reply | Where's the pressure on Farage to resign for avoiding stamp duty?
at 07:38 8 Sep 2025
He's the leader of what at the moment according to polls is the most popular political party in the country, he claims to want to lead the country and cares about Britain, yet he is using his extremely privileged position to work the system so he has to pay as little tax as possible, and using loopholes which are obviously disingenuous.
If the whole country were able to work the system in the way people like Farage do then we would be f**ked; those scraping to get by have to pay their share, those with plenty manage to pay less than they should. I accept that it's not illegal, but someone claiming to be a 'man of the people' who wants to run the country should be held accountable for things like this whether or not they are technically working within the rules. |
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Reply | Wtf are we doing?
at 19:34 1 Sep 2025
I feel the sales mostly make sense, you explained the reasoning for a lot yourself. The two that do seem a real shame are Woolfy and Chaplin, Woolfy clearly wanted to go though so it is only Chaplin that I can't see the logic for.
Some of the transfers in make less sense to me, but then that is mostly the fees more than anything, and maybe that is just the state of the transfer market at the moment. The McAteer one really feels strange at the moment though, I can't see him being a huge upgrade on Ogbene, and he was 11 million! Not only does that fee seem crazy, but it is a fee we paid to a promotion rival who are known to be struggling with FFP, we basically gave them 11m for a squad player which may well have enabled them to avoid selling a player that would have been a really big loss like Fatawu or Mavididi. |
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Reply | I was pleased for Sunderland on Saturday…
at 19:02 19 Aug 2025
I'd like them all to survive purely because if we make it back up this year it's got to increase our chances of staying up next year. I think the problem last year (aside from us just not being good enough) was that all the teams were established prem teams, so even though a few clubs had bad seasons, their drop off wasn't really enough to give us someone to chase down. If we go up and somehow Sunderland, Leeds and Burnley all stay up, they will be a year ahead of us but there's a better chance at least one might not kick on and give us a realistic chance of finishing above them. |
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Reply | The Hundred
at 08:59 18 Aug 2025
The T20 blast would also sell out grounds, during the English summer there are enough people who are happy to go and watch a fun few hours of cricket that tickets will always sell for whatever the centrepiece shortform tournament happens to be. The TV viewing figures of The Hundred though are not good, the free to air games have seen a steady decline in viewers since its first year. They seem to have drawn in the required interest of investment funds, billionaire families, and proto chemical companies (surely the dream of every young cricketer) to make the whole thing churn along and make money for the ECB.
It was obviously 20 years ago now, but when you consider peak viewing figures for the 2005 ashes on channel 4 were around 6-8 million, and the final of the mens hundred last year was 1.3 million (on BBC), I think it is fair to say the format has not fully tapped the potential viewership for the sport. |
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Reply | Most painful transfers ever
at 14:45 15 Aug 2025
For me it was that collective loss of Davis, Miller, Kuqi and Bent. I had tried to convince myself we would replace them and kick on the following season, and it quickly became apparent that was not going to happen. |
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Reply | Go and sign Hayden Hackney, Ben Doak and Mihailo Ivanović
at 09:21 15 Aug 2025
Did he say that? He turned down the move when there was nearly a month left of the transfer window with his agent probably telling him that there is still premier league interest. I think if we make the same bid on deadline day and there are no premier league offers he will make the move. |
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Reply | Goodbye to Broady the Gamechanger
at 21:08 14 Aug 2025
Probably one of my favourite players I've seen for us, always found space and made something happen. The sort of player that would have gone right to the top if born 10-15 years earlier I think, before elite physicality was required to compete at the highest level. |
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Reply | Kuwaiti PL doesn't start until 12 Sept
at 09:44 25 Jul 2025
I hope something is arranged, it doesn't feel right that such an important figure in the club's recent history just goes without a proper goodbye from the fans. |
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Reply | Some absolutely shocking penalties hahaha (n/t)
at 11:34 18 Jul 2025
I don't see it happen in other sports, Tennis is a good example where there is probably a similar gap in quality between the men and women, but each are enjoyed independently. In cricket which I follow closely I would say there is even more of a gap in the levels, and again as far as I'm aware men are either supporting of the women's game, or take no interest, there isn't this need to compare it. Seems to be an issue with a large group of male football fans, it's a bit of a sad indictment of things when a lot of posters on here only show up on threads about women's football if there is something to laugh at. |
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Reply | Texas floods are horrific and MAGA are excelling themselves again
at 14:06 9 Jul 2025
The thing I just don't get is why don't normal republicans care about any of this? Given how many people voted for Trump they can't all be complete far right conspiracy theory loving lunatics, there must be decent people in there who were mislead, why is there no reaction to anything from these people?
The behaviour of Ted Cruz that you highlighted, you couldn't have a worse series of events for a politician, slashes funding for weather services, weather services say they can't forecast potentially deadly weather as they could before as they are underfunded, and then in his state hundreds of people die including dozens of poor children at a Christian holiday camp, then he F**ks off on holiday. And yet it feels like none of it matters, none of it sticks to these people, is it all just shielded from people who only consume the right wing media?
And on a slightly different topic of the new big beautiful bill, I just don't understand how there isn't uproar. Trump won the votes of a lot of ordinary people struggling to make ends meet, struggling to afford groceries etc, and then forces through this legislation which will not only give billions in tax cuts to the most wealthy, but actually add to the tax burden of the poorest in the country. I mean I think any of us could have said he obviously wasn't going to make things better for those struggling, but it is that lack of reaction that I find the most alarming.
Sorry that turned into a bit of a ramble, but I am really starting to despair at what is happening in that country, it is becoming increasingly obvious he is just going to be able to do whatever he wants and there is going to be no meaningful push back at all, and it will effect everyone, not just Americans. I saw James Acaster say on a US talk show something along the lines of 'the US election is too important to the rest of the world to trust to the American people', that really does feel true. |
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Reply | U21s
at 21:14 21 Jun 2025
That little backheel was sublime, the more I see of him in this tournament the more it seems he might be too good for the championship. If that £35 million release clause is true I could see someone thinking he's worth it, because he will absolutely shine in the championship next year and for a young English talent you could easily add another 20 million to that price tag at the end of the year, especially if we go up. |
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Reply | Casey report on grooming gangs
at 21:43 17 Jun 2025
You know the guy in the video was at an EDL rally, that is a handy shortcut for judging the type of person he is.
This is clearly an emotive subject, the basic facts of what has happened are horrifying, the failure of the system as a whole to safeguard vulnerable children and leave what seems like thousands to suffer organised abuse (the details of which are truly shocking), any right minded person is going to be upset and angry that this has been allowed to happen.
The issue of race is complicated, it obviously is a relevant factor in investigating these cases, and wasn't investigated and considered as it should have been by the appropriate authorities. It is however clear that the issue of race is being weaponised by people with an ulterior motive, the EDL and other far right groups over the past decade in the UK have not marched for other social justice or child abuse issues, I don't think Stephen Yaxley had much to say about the widespread child abuse in the Catholic church, and as was pointed out in a post above, the 50% of organised child exploitation cases perpetrated by white men doesn't get much of a mention. To counter that, the suggestion by some that anyone who raised the issue of race in relation to organised sexual crimes should be considered a racist or far right was not helpful, and it is likely this attitude amongst people responsible for safeguarding these children contributed to the continued failure to stop it.
Ultimately the authorities responsible for safeguarding need to consider all factors equally in relation to those that might pose a threat to children or vulnerable people in their community, and if race is one of those factors then it needs to be investigated properly. The horrible irony is that by overlooking race in many cases due to a misplaced fear of political incorrectness, or so as not to add to racial tension, authorities have created an environment now where the vast majority of innocent Asian heritage people in these communities who are appalled by these cases will likely suffer suspicion and stigma. [Post edited 19 Jun 20:06]
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Reply | Air India 171
at 20:04 14 Jun 2025
That video is awful really, he is obviously a pilot himself and yet without any evidence he has basically said the most likely cause of the crash is the pilot accidentally withdrew the flaps instead of the landing gear? [Post edited 14 Jun 20:05]
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Reply | extraordinary footage this morning from the trump reich
at 10:11 11 Jun 2025
I saw another clip of a woman trying to get down a street to her apartment, and when she wouldn't turn back one of the police/guard just shot her in the chest with a rubber bullet. The scary thing is this is obviously the instruction, the government want these spark points to occur, moments that will provoke further protest, excusing further crack downs and violence because they want division and sides to form.
It will get really nasty I fear, because you have a situation where protestors against the government will not only be fuelled by a feeling of it being the right, just thing to do, but they will literally be on the right side of the law as well; court rulings saying that people cannot be deported with out due process are being ignored or tied up in further legal wrangling while the ICE raids (government sanctioned kidnapping) and deportations flights continue. [Post edited 11 Jun 10:11]
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Reply | Huni's count
at 07:39 8 Jun 2025
He also just beat the count in actual seconds, timed from when he hit the canvas to was on his feet it was just under 10 seconds. It was a ridiculous decision, definitely one favouring the home fighter. Others have said you could see in Huni's eyes he wasn't fit to carry on, well the ref didn't look in his eyes as far as I could tell, also if a fighter beats the count they then usually get checked over by the ref quickly before he resumes the fight, he should have at least had that opportunity. [Post edited 8 Jun 7:41]
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Reply | I assume we pocket the full £30m
at 18:24 29 May 2025
I know this conversation has already been had, but the statement from Ashton that the club are 'very well protected' just seems really odd as at the time he made the statement it already looked very likely we were getting relegated, and therefore that statement was going to be shown up as simply not true within a matter of weeks. I'm not criticising the clause itself, it may be that was the only way to get Delap to sign with competition from other clubs, just such a weird thing to say in an interview. [Post edited 29 May 18:24]
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