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UN experts warning airlines not to take part in sending refugees to Rwanda regardless of the outcome of tonight as they'll be complicit in breaching human rights law. I'd love for someone to leak the names of these charters the government are keeping such a close secret.

Does this count as a new logo?

Another laughable "news conference" where the Prime Minister of the country rambles like a lunatic embarrassing himself and the nation. A "government" preoccupied with doing scummy and illegal things to a bunch of brown people while the rest of the country cumbles from underneath us all.

Where is it? I'm sure there's an official register of this kind of stuff at the PGMOL but unless you're someone like Mike Dean who has been pictured at Tranmere games and was very open about it then it's all rumour about who supports who. It's important that we know where these people's allegiances are though for us to trust the system.

Respectfully, I think whether we think the incidents are penalties or not isn't the issue. Or shall we say, it's half the issue. Forest have not accused the refs of 'just' getting the decisions wrong. I think we all agree that the standard of refereeing has been totally unacceptable for a lot of years now. They have accused a ref of being biased and what amounts to match-fixing. The statement also by extension accuses the league and the PGMOL of being complicit in it. It's like our situation in the cup final against Man United in the cup final where we all looked at the ref that day and knew he had history of giving Man United some fairly contentious decisions previously. It's fine for fans to say these things, but for clubs to do it? They need to produce the evidence. If they think the VAR is a Luton fan then they need to produce the evidence of that. If he is, then I think you can definitely argue conflict of interest.

I’m not sure what they’re hoping to achieve by this.

How does a war between 2 countries that aren’t even neighbours work? There’s literally another two countries and hundreds of miles in between them and neither has the ability to launch amphibious invasions of the other so I don’t really get what a conventional war looks like here. Presumably they just lob bombs and missiles at each other but as history has taught us, that’s never enough to win a war outright.

If they’re referring to lack of brain activity they’d need to drop all their candidates.

I can't say I blame them tbh. The way they were treated was pretty disgraceful because they were all shit scared of a mistrial. It's one of those weird cases where you'd have been buzzing to get on that case but the reality of it must have been like a living nightmare.

I'm still amazed at how he got off but then you watch the documentaries that have been made and the fantastic People v OJ Simpson and you realise just how it happened. The racial climate of the time, the LAPD, the complete incompetance of the prosecutors and some very shady lawyering from the defence team that went very close to the line and in some cases danced across it. Hell just isn't hot enough for "the Juice".

Tbf it was on the site and in the local rags. Not to mention it's been done to death on here but hey, some people miss things. What they haven't done is be transparent about the reasons why it's not happening and what they propose to do now. We all know we're at the end of what can realistically be done with the ground without knocking one of two of the existing stands down or planning for life after Villa Park. At the moment it seems to be "we'll tart the existing up and plough on for another x number of years" all while other rival clubs are busy making ambitious plans and executing them - by that I mean Everton, Newcastle etc, not the unwashed up the road who're busy selling their fans a fantasy.

Where have you been? It was Purslows project. Heck came in and cancelled it for reasons that the club have never made clear.

Administration will open them up to all kinds of Xia-level chancers.

It’s pretty fantastical to imagine that a club that’s been in the championship for years, possibly being relegated to league 1, who don’t seem able to put a decent product on the pitch, who made a catastrophic managerial appointment a couple of months ago, who can’t fill their current stadium and recently paid an enormous amount to get it repaired to a state where it can fully open will all of a sudden build a new 60k stadium. Personally I’m all for it. Let them bankrupt themselves building it. I bet you it never happens though.

It also depended what side of the ship you were trying to get on a boat from. One side of the ship was being loaded by Lightoller who essentially interpreted the “women and children” first order as “no men” and stuck to it so rigidly he let boats go with loads of empty seats rather than letting on men who were stood right there. The other side was being supervised by someone who would let men get on when he couldn’t see any more women and children to load. I didn’t realise until listening to that rest is history podcast that lightoller was the basis for mark rylances character in Dunkirk. He captained his small boat over in 1940 to rescue soldiers from the beach. He was the highest ranking officer to get off the titanic. What a life.

Well people who are in prison are generally there because they aren't standup members of society so it shouldn't really be a surprise that when you put scummy people in jail they're going to do scummy things if the opportunity presents.

Well definitely a sexual offender will find a way to offend regardless and tbh I've never heard of anyone actually exploiting this as a way to get into a womens space in order to offend which is why it's a paper argument not anything grounded in reality. It's about fear and anxiety rather than anything else, but that fear and anxiety is real, even if it's baseless.

Agreed. I don't like the way she's gone about it at all and persnally think she's doing harm to her cause but I'm not sure how we move forward. The tendancy is to talk about women in general terms, like they all think like Rowling. I know my Mrs says she personally isn't bothered if someone Trans is using the womens toilet or changing room but I don't think she's ever known when someone Trans was, so is it a non-argument? It's a pretty wooly debate that ultimately boils down to how certain women (but evidently not all) "feel" about it rather than any kind of hard evidence of anyone being in actual danger. As a man though, I don't feel like this is my fight to be had. It doesn't affect me and I don't really care what bathroom or changing room someone uses. It feels to me like something prominent women politicians need to sort out as they're the ones 'at the coal face', if you like and the rest of us need to butt out and be guided by them.

She wrote a massive blog about it some time ago that went pretty in depth as to her reasons. Wjhat I took from reading it was that she's a woman who's been abused by a man in the past (like a lot of women tbh) and her issue isn't with Trans people, it's a fear of men. So when she's in a women-only 'safe space', she doesn't want someone who's a biological man there regardless of whether they 'just identify' as a woman or are actively transitioning. Personally I think you can do whatever you want to as long as you're not harming anyone else but there lies the rub of the issue...she feels she's being harmed by it.

I see the thing about pension funds all the time. It’s just an excuse not to do anything. We can’t nationalise it because the pension funds, we can’t let it go into administration because the pension funds, we can’t fine them for shit performance because the pension funds. It’s **** blackmail.

Am I missing something? The company is unviable and potentially insolvent and the shareholders are unwilling to provide it with the capital injection to continue. Surely the thing just goes into administration and the government create a new entity, buy the assets and the debt gets wiped out? The old shareholders get **** all and we get a shiny new co with none of the debts, as tax payers we’d still need to pump some capital in to get the infrastructure up to standard but that’s surely something that’s worth the investment, from a state perspective?

Translation: we’ve already bunged the FA some of our dirty oil money to **** off and leave us to our sportswashing and murdering.

He’s trying his best to get himself a presenter spot on Gbeebies.

Only certain clubs are facing consequences when we all know there are far bigger rule breakers who they’re either scared to go after or have decided not to for other reasons. It’s like the police sitting at the side of the road with a speed gun all day while burglaries and muggings go uninvestigated and thinking they’ve done a good job. Not to mention the rules themselves are set at a level far too low to allow those clubs to actually be mobile within the pyramid.

“staffed by believers” **** me. It’s becoming religious now. If the people running the system believe hard enough it’ll work. Conversely, it’s not that the current system is bat shit crazy, underfunded and generally unworkable. It’s just that the people there don’t believe enough. Simplistic answers for people with simple minds.