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What suggests they were likely to win it?

Ridiculous, when Quitalia was staring them right in the face.

Rumours that Corbyn might have the Labour whip removed as a result of some of the recommendations in the EHRC report. Can't imagine his supporters would take that too well.

Championship 14/15, Bournemouth, Watford and Norwich were promoted in that order. Seems pretty fair that five years later they go back again in that order

Precisely.

Probably, but that someone will still likely be the taxpayer rather than the individual or their family.

Also the brain box behind this subsequently-deleted claim:

The precis of the Russia Report sent to the press: For people who don't fancy reading the whole thing.

Edit: my New Year's Eve 2018 was clearly a raucous affair.

It's fairly traditional. Monday and Tuesday were typically quieter, so if you wanted to take a day off then you'll do it when it'll have the lowest impact on your livelihood. Then when chain restaurants arrived and opened every day, prioritising availability of their product over making every day profitable, that pushed more of the smaller ones into offering the same service. So everyone is right. You don't seen it very often, but that doesn't mean that it isn't a thing.

Bit weird that he thinks he might be really. I mean, I've not needed to request advance warning on whether I'm mentioned in connection with treacherous activity and colluding with foreign powers trying to damage the country. Wonder why he does.

Ireland has so few places to go on holiday that the Tánaiste has to literally go and stay in Father Ted's house.

Fair enough. I'm not going to lie and claim to have read Reeves' book, but given it's a history of women in Parliament, it would be odd if she didn't find something to praise. As I've said, I've not read it so I don't know if she left out all the bad stuff. But I'd expect a biography to cover the good and the bad. Plus, I guess it comes down to how many degrees of separation counts as zero tolerance. Jeremy Corbyn said that he was "really pleased" when the Astor statue was erected. I wouldn't say that's enough smoke to warrant expulsion, but zero tolerance is zero tolerance. McNicol I expect can have few complaints if he leaves the party at the end of the investigation if what seems pretty clear to be true, is true.

I'm curious, what would you like to have seen?

Sort of. Although in the current (and indeed foreseeable) climate, the SNP presence basically = Scottish Westminster presence. Obviously if the next election sees massive Conservative gains in Scotland then the Scottish presence isn't an impediment (in fact, May couldn't have formed a Government without the Scottish Tory gains) To clarify my point that you've quoted, if the price that Labour have to pay to govern is the potential loss of Scotland and its MPs, they need to find an alternative way while they are governming to prevent endless future Tory majorities.

Probably nothing as formal as that, but likely agreement from the SNP to back or abstain on any Labour policy affecting the other parts of the UK in exchange for a new independence referendum. You'd also think that if ever Labour + Lib Dems outnumber Conservatives again, they'll hammer through some sort proportional representation to insure themselves against the future lack of SNP Westminster presence, without which a Conservative majority is much easier.

(a) yes (b) enough Sorry if that's upsetting for you.

I do. They're pricks.

It's quite possible for someone to be both entitled to vote as they please and be a prick.

It's a bit weird that politicians on both sides of the aisle aren't shouting a bit more about this sort of thing at the moment.

Perhaps. Also, perhaps not. The obligation and costs to make any office Covid-safe (regularly cleaned, sanitiser provided, distancing precautions) will fall on the employer. As will the costs of lost days due to future sickness. And maybe legal liability if an outbreak happens, people die and they moved the staff back when they didn't need to. Smaller offices, smaller running costs. I can easily see a lot of employers (obviously not all) thinking that this has pushed them into a pretty sensible way of running things long-term.