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Yep. Agreed.

Deflects from Starmer's problems and gives him a chance to look decisive.

Cheers, just looked at a few. Seems spot on, and great value. Will get one for the home office. Like the idea of a standing desk above it.

Why not just accept that there weren't many black people in Tudor England ?

i looked on here and then found them on amazon, went for number 2, it was 100 quid plus 20 quid for the mat so it doesn't damage the kitchen floor, well worth it. Just having it set up all day reminds you to get on it. Cant be doing with going out walking in this weather. https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/gear/tech/g62718393/best-walking-pads/

I hadn't seen the apology. That should be the end of it.

It’s all mental - news cycle obsessed with it, man with no political power says something mildly offensive, PM responds and demands an apology and so everyone jumps on it, everyone asked for quotes, man apologises, man must be investigated.

Sounds like the one I used. I'm convinced it was fucked.

That's fondue for you.

Isn't there a fit and proper person test? As daft as his words were, I'd imagine he's below any threshold for that though.

So the takeaways from this insight are: • There's a need to grow up • oxygen is needed

Agreed. Anyone thinking that using the word "colonised" was acceptable needs to have a bloody good word with themselves. Excessive immigration, yes, poor integration, yes, but colonisation, no.

Seriously? How insane.

I had something like that and it said I aged about eleven years over the course of a week ski holiday. Thinking about it, I did actually feel like that at the time.

Nice. I haven't been getting out at lunchtime during this rainy period and it's doing me no good. I need to investigate these. You got a link to a good one please?

Not got, but I've used at David Lloyd. Brilliant thing. Last time I did it I assumed it was broken as it put my biometric age in the 20's.

I have only gone on them once so far and said my body type was lean muscular and I have excellent muscle mass. I’m happy!

Agreed. It's just artistic representations. We can all be grown up enough to suspend out disbelief. Well pointed out soggy.

FA looking into Ratcliffe’s comments. FFS what have we become!

Yes. I enjoyed it. Did you? Would I spoil it for you if I told you that Jenneke Cromwell, his illegitimate daughter, was a fictional character?

Indeed. I don't understand why anyone would have a problem.

Here you go… https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/shakespeare-thriving-jamaica-and-beyond

He did the same at the end of the Watford game, hopefully he can keep going.

Damn man, what a waste of games with Still, too many draws and losses in there.

I’m not sure what your point is? Are you saying that they are saying that Anne Boleyn was black? Regarding historical accuracy in the Norman invasion, why didn’t they hack the actor playing Harold to death? I don’t see why Olivier couldn’t play Othello these days (apart from him being dead). He just couldn’t use black face. If you want to use that argument he lived in the times when racial segregation was rife in the US. It was perfectly ok for him to use black face because no one thought of using a black actor for a major production on stage or screen. Now, in the second quarter of the 21st century, we should be grown up enough to know that artistic representations are just that. There are plenty of Shakespearean plays set in modern times and you don’t see people kicking off because they are not dressed in Tudor garb. We have been over this before. In the 16thc women were not allowed to be “players” so men played female parts. Plays and films are all about the audience suspending disbelief. I think we all know Olivier wasn’t really Othello, just as we know he wasn’t really black. Would it be much more of a stretch for a white actor to play the character? PS. Spoiler alert. Despite all of the various artistic impressions of Jesus, he would have had brown skin, not white. (Do black actors in Jamaica put on productions of Shakespeare?)