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Big time - the Leeds away element still had some of the ‘you’re going to get your fucking heads kicked in’ element from their late 1960s and 1970s heyday. It was a mess. My recollection is that the band were encouraged to finish up. I did go to their Maple Leaf gig which was better but not by a huge amount.

I can’t stand Polanski but where he does have a micro point is that Farage, Tice and now Jenryck are only scrutinised by Private Eye, Times, Mirror, Guardian and occasionally the Mail when Badenoch complains (or so the rumour goes). The level of sycophancy from the DT, Express and BBC leadership is vile when those three have very chequered recent histories.

Baz will be on his way regardless, he’s certainly not ‘fine’ for the Championship as Stoke has underlined in italics. It’ll cost the club to loan him to a level he can perform at but that’s the final price hopefully paid from the horrific summer 2022 transfer window but needs must. I don’t think he will want to be at SFC after three droppings and two loans out either.

Not sure what emoji to put in reaction to that, but clearly the Salmond saga hasn’t led to lessons learned. In other news, Polanski’s nose grows https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5pgv35y7eo

If Ramsdale was told that Peretz would be first choice, he’d be straight onto his agent. All it takes is a first choice keeper in a major league to do their ACL in the opening game - or in the WC even - and a move possibility opens up.

And a tantrum/hangover from the Tynecastle result. Win the Hearts game and that article doesn’t exist.

And again, the Evertonian variety. Semenyo was abused by the red half in August when still a Bournemouth player https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cedpnxqwg29o

I sense a spittle flecked response is being composed elsewhere (Dubai/Thailand) as I type myself….

Got his moustache caught in the electronic turnstile? Or they might have declined to provide a bespoke space in the bike racks for his Penny Farthing. I once saw one of those being ridden around Freemantle after a beer festival at the Waterloo Arms. Surely Hopback beers aren’t THAT strong I thought to myself….

Ditto. No such restrictions on my vote next year unless there’s an edict from SWF.

You’ve pre-emptied what they really want to do but scared of the backlash post-ICE debacle. They are a plastic Trump tribute act so it’s a logical step.

They’re two ends of the same populist wedge. Both also been caught using anti-Semitic messaging during this local elections campaign. Reform-led councils have been a disaster so far plagued by infighting/bans for racism and I can’t envisage Green-led councils being much better, if at all, quite frankly.

It’s Corbyn’s lot who have dropped away from the Labour hard left Polanski is trying to appeal to and which Reform are trying to attack as they’re both trying to gain ground next week as insurgent parties. Labour, Tory and coalition record shows a clear scepticism of asylum seekers (as opposed to economic migration). Straw’s Home Office arguably set the tone for Teresa May’s.

Egg is probably nearer to the reality, if such centres existed they’d go to areas with the infrastructure to handle it rather than say rural Herefordshire where the Greens have been gaining ground.

Personally, I don’t think it would be but it’s a political weapon the two populist parties are using against each other. Fundamentally, Reform’s policies are unworkable and it would be like the hotels on steroids with Farage and Lowe’s loony football casual element attracted to them like wasps around a jam jar in August. British people won’t stand for an ICE type border force either, the current one needs to be resourced properly instead.