OutByEaster?

Nope, he covered it 18 years after it was written.

I think there will be an open border between the Republic and Northern Ireland. I'm a lot less sure that the Irish will agree to any sort of changes to their external border as a result - I think we'll be left with the problem of how to operate our security within that framework and I 'm guessing the answer will lie in the internal transport between Northern Ireland and the mainland. In an odd way we may end up with a Northern Ireland that has a more open border with the Republic than with the rest of the UK.

Absolutely.

I'm not so sure on that. I think Jedinak /Grealish as a central pairing is dreadful. Are you looking at Bacuna more central with Kodjia out left? Against Burton, Bacuna played left with Kodjia up top and McCormack floating off him, I think Grealish would be perfectly suited to that role and it would let us strengthen the midfield a little playing him there rather than McCormack.

I think that would be too bold. It's almost 4-1-3-2 and leaves us with very little in the middle of the park. Along the same lines I'd have Grealish in for McCormack and 4-2-3-1.

The key word there is enhancing. Ireland aren't leaving the EU, in lots of ways their situation isn't changing. What if Ireland are very happy with their own security thanks very much? I think it's essentially a neat solution for us, but an awkward one for Ireland - assuming that they're quite happy with their own security and don't want to 'enhance' it by making it better for the UK and allowing the UK to access it's data, I don't see why they wouldn't just say no. Surely it's up to us to find a solution to a problem which is essentially ours and not to attempt to impose our will on another nation?

So they get things to stay as they are now as long as they give something up?

What's in it for Ireland?

I'm not sure I understand the solution - the UK managing Ireland's borders with the rest of the world? Why on earth would Ireland agree with that? I guess you could manage the transfer of people between Northern Ireland and the mainland UK, but I'm guessing there are a number of people in Northern Ireland who would have very strong thoughts on that.

I think being hacked off is being used against them. Another banker painting himself as man-of-the-people. "I'm not like them. I'm not a politician" they shout, and people vote for them without wondering what it is they really are. The reason people don't trust their politicians tends to be because their politicians don't really represent them, they've been bought off by bankers and oligarchs - somehow those banks and oligarchs have persuaded people to remove the pesky politician line from the equation altogether.

In that case, he's as good as dead! :

I think you have to judge the US arms industry on both of its aims - control and profit. Once you include profit as a driver of military power, I think everything here fits into place. Trump will help US arms manufacturers make profits, his foreign policies will create a need to military might, which will generate commercial activity in one of the worlds biggest businesses, which will continue to fund congress, which will make Trump popular with an awful lot of the people that matter in US politics. As in many things, Trump will generate profits for some of Americas largest institutions, at the expense of a whole lot of wooly and nice concepts like fairness, equality, peace, health, education, whatever. He's the product of an election system and a government system that relies almost entirely on corporate input.

It's a difficult one Pete, and I know I'm on rocky ground, I don't want to appear to be having a go at Stan, I'm not, but I felt the story was always more important than the welfare of the player. It's much the same feeling as I get watching Roy Jones Jr fight novelty fights at his age or watching Bruce Forsyth's last series of Strictly. I felt like it was a shame to put him through it; a lion jumping through hoops not to prove he could still catch a buffalo, even if that's what he were told, but for our amusement.

Blimey John - Sherwood fourth!

Don't get me wrong, it was lovely to see him given the chance to do that, and it says good things about the people that run the club that they cared enough to allow him that luxury - but I think he believed and I think they let him, I think we let him too, we all colluded in an act that made a man feel that something that was clearly impossible was possible - it was the most positive form of pity in a way and I think to an extent it demeaned him, he seemed the only one who wasn't aware it was just a favour. The whole thing left me feeling a little bad - we sacrificed him so that we could feel inspired and humbled. I would love to see him back here in some sort of coaching capacity and I don't want to insult him, he's been both a great servant to the club and an individual who has proved throughout his career and his illness that he has all of the qualities you would want in any man, he inspires our respect, he deserves our admiration and he remains for me a great example despite the summers misadventures.

Im completely unconvinced that the CIA would have any intention whatsoever of assassinating Mr Trump. He's a dream come true for them.

I'm going to offer a slightly weak evidence here. There's a passage in a Chomsky book that discusses it, now he does provide documented sources for the stuff he writes, but it would mean me going through some books to find where I read it. A quick google shows loads of things saying Israel sells to some dreadful places, but I'm not sure I'm convinced by any of the sources: http://www.merip.org/mer/mer140/israel-central-america http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Global_Secrets_Lies/IsraelWeaponsManuIndus.html http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.669852 http://www.timesofisrael.com/will-israel-sell-weapons-to-a-man-who-compared-himself-to-hitler-and-wants-to-kill-3-million-people/ There's loads and loads out there, I'm not sure any of it is any good. If I find the time, I'll look to see what source Chomsky cited.

The American taxpayer gives the money to the Pentagon, the Senate instructs the Pentagon to give the money to Israel, Israel takes the money then gives it to US Arms firms for. Israel sells some of those arms to countries the US isn't allowed to, the US Arms industry gives a little of that money back to helpful Senators. It's an established and efficient path for the movement of public money into private hands that relies almost entirely on the American taxpayer being kept in the dark. I'd be interested to know how the US press is reporting this particular incident.

In midfield we struggle with our under-33's.

Lovely bloke, inspirational leader on and off the pitch. Embarrassing comeback attempt. 2016? Not for me.

Obama has done a couple of things in his last days that sort of suggest that he'd wanted to do quite a lot of different things in his eight year stint but couldn't get them through - I think he's just wanting to leave having exercised some sort of principle. Late and not much use, but hey, if it helps him sleep at night...

Not that it matters much, I have a feeling it'll be Jedinak plus one. Gardner is doubtful with a knock.

Frighteningly, there's nothing in our U21's.

Right now, Gardner can do the Jedinak job as well as Jedinak and Westwood is our most mobile central midfielder. I'd sooner have another two quite frankly, but for me, these are the best two we've got at the moment.

Up to 11 games with Leeds a big threat to that run tomorrow.