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In '93 the club got a CPO and they had to also pay to have the road re-routed. As people have pointed out, CPOs are not easily given, and they're obviously unpopular with the residents and owners of the properties, or most of them, anyway.

I don't see that. "all this" started with the October 7th terror attack by Hamas (at Iran's behest). That was aimed to do 2 things, obviously just engage in a bloodlust, but also to provoke a reaction which would scupper Israel's accord, or whatever the word is - much improved relationship/prospective deal - with Saudi Arabia. It did both those things. The utterly brutal retort from Israel (war crimes, genocide, collective punishment, murdering and destruction..) was probably not what Iran expected, they probably didn't expect such horror, but ultimately they don't care. Sure, Israel attacked the Damascus consulate, where Iranian liaisons with Hamas were holed up, and then we are where we are, with tit for tat attacks. In as much as you can draw a "starting point" or an "at the moment" window around hundreds of years of animosity, the October 7th date is IMO the starting point of the current appalling, bloodthirsty mess. Iran's has kind of let Israel off the hook to an extent, as well, because just as the world, or the democracies who sympathise and support Israel were utterly losing patience, they've re-invigorated that support/sympathy by launching hundreds of rockets and UAVs at Israel. The leaders of Israel, Iran and Hamas are monsters.

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I was just You are a liberal airhead. Now get back to your lentils, pinko.

https://archive.is/829Fa#selection-1393.0-3452.0 Full article on link or Daily Mail interweb

In this case, that Tory person - she was actually (with some creative license) correct on food prices. While general (overall) inflation is, as you say, above zero, and therefore prices are rising, overall, for a significant number of food items prices are and have come down. Now that's where the creative license applies - because the basket of food items used to measure inflation has slightly crept up, overall, as some have risen and some have fallen in price, leaving food inflation overall at (I think) 0.2%. I imagine the weather and stuff will see prices leap again, and none of it (the fall in the cost of certain items) is anything to do with the government's actions, anyway. Ed Balls didn't actually pick up on the thing she "mis-spoke" about. But that's pedantry on my part - she said "food prices" he just picked up on "prices". A proper pedant would have said something like (in his response) "some food prices might have fallen, but others have risen and the cost of non food items has also continued to rise, not fall", but then both the viewers would have fallen asleep or switched off, so perhaps he dod well to pick up on any of it.

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My MP. Previously caught up, a few years ago, in some kind of Brazilian rent boy and drugs story, who said he was gonna clear his name in court, but somehow never quite got round to it. I mean, what they do in their lives is their business and if they like cocaine and prostitution, hypothetically, that’s y’know, not really any concern of mine. But it is a bit of a sign of some vulnerability and insecurity. It sounds like he’s not got his life in order. He nearly found a spine about fracking, but…didn’t. He nearly found a spine about…a few things, but didn’t. Soon enough, or perhaps not soon enough, someone else will be the MP for here. See ya, Mark, another who put party before the people who he represents or his own prospects. Now **** off.

Phil Oakey hasn’t aged well

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Scary looking cat.

No, I'm saying it was an abuse of users privacy along the/similar lines of what you said about Apple Google was collecting users "incognito" data without permission and using it to sell ads. They've a long record of abusing data/privacy for their own ends (profit) and having bugs that let others access user data. They're not unique in that, but they're probably the biggest source/stockpile of people's data, with billions of users. The website Firewalltimes covers breaches of privacy and data pretty well (for the layman to read) https://firewalltimes.com/category/breaches/. Google features prominently. Apple, not so much.

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I completely disagree. Covid led to huge losses for the clubs. In part that was refunding TV rights, but it was also through loss of gate and commercial/corporate income. Next, part of the appeal to TV is that the games have big crowds attending, it illustrates that the games mean a lot to people. The atmosphere, too is a selling point. If you look at the most valuable TV rights for sport, they're the IPL cricket and NFL which have huge stadia and crowds. In terms of what that means for Villa and VP, the history around the stadium is a selling point and shouldn't be thrown away, but it's not big enough and 2 of the stands are sub par. The ground needs expanding and improving, for supporters, for corporate, for commercial, for TV viewers and ultimately for the owners and the future of the club.