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I really think there’s a danger this is going to rebound in quite a significant way. All the other major economies inflation rates have come down and as you say, ours is coming down now too but if they continue to they’re going to overcorrect and end up totally crashing the economy. I already know of friends that aren’t paying some of their bills and some that have simply stopped paying mortgages. When this thing goes bad it’s going to happen really quickly.

House backs onto a field so I get them all the time. Hated the **** always ripping up the garden, digging holes abd wrecking stuff. It used to be way worse before I got the dog. Now I just let the Labrador out. He chases them round the garden trying to play but I don't think the badgers feel the same!

Saw Oppenheimer last night. Really struggled with the opening half hour or so as all the conversations seemed to be happening at a million miles per hour and it was jumping all over the place from scene to scene, time periods etc. It did settle into itself and particularly when they all get to Los Alamos it was very compelling. Cillian Murphy I would say is pretty nailed on for the Oscar, particularly with the strike I think he might have a pretty open field. Possibly the same with Christopher Nolan. Downey Jr and Damon were both fantastic as well. When I came out of the cinema the film it most reminded me of was The Social Network with the whole narrative being told from a closed hearing that was and wasn’t a courtroom drama with the largely fast snappy dialogue. The script didn’t feel as well constructed as The Social Network. Definitely elements of The Imitation Game as well. Overall a solid 8/10 for me. Probably added an extra point for the fact that Florence Pugh doesn’t seem to have a scene where she’s wearing any clothes.

Sky reporting Spurs interested in Mbappe £5m plus Josh Onomah bid incoming?

I think the nextr step for them is to try and buy their way into UEFA so they can compete in the champions league.

If your backup keeper needs a few games to get up to speed then he's a shit backup. You make that case for outfield players but not goalkeepers. In that position he should be ready immediately. The idea that a goalkeeper needs minutes is just complete bollocks.

Disagree. Steer was a decent backup option in this league. Olsen will always make too many basic errors to be relied on at this level. Ask yourself what team in the league would take him and there's your answer.

We're an injury away from this idiot in goal for a significant wedge of the season. Need a replacement for this guy ASAP. We should have just kept Steer as backup, he's a hundred times better.

This. We’re an injury away from having oslen as our first team goalkeeper. Not expecting someone on the level of Martinez but I’m confident he’d cost us 8-10 points if he needed to play for a more than half a season.

That’s exactly what it is. The Tory candidate was right (I need a shower now) that Khan lost labour that by-election with his idiotic ulez expansion.

There’s zero chance they stay up and I’m sure that’s not the goal for them this year otherwise they’d have spent more than they have. They’ll aim to build steadily with a view to becoming a bit of a yo-yo club and financially securing their future.

Oh it’s a manifesto pledge? I thought it was something they were going to do before the election as a cynical bribe. That’s even worse. Anyone who believes they will actually do that is **** stupid.

“It’s one of my kids names. The phone will erase after 5 incorrect guesses and you’ve got 45 possible answers. Farewell”

I suppose from a technical point of view they could be at the recipient end as well. It matters because it shows the utter contempt the man and the party he used to belong to have to the inquiry into the deaths of more than 100,000 Britons. He should have been more than happy to cooperate fully but instead they all have to drag this thing out for reasons I think we can all gather. Oh and I don’t believe he doesn’t remember his **** password either. Utter scum.

Ah the Rebekah vardy defence

Has Johnson handed over his phone yet? Any reporting on that or are we just supposed to pretend the only thing to talk about is Huw Edwards?

I was reading the other day there’s a real danger that it’ll rebound like a rubber band and we’ll end up with deflation. The method they’ve been using to bring it down (interest rates) aren’t an immediate thing. They take months to actually see an effect and they’ve raised them too far too quickly. Im no student of the economy though! Not sure even they know what’s going to happen anymore.

Did you even read their original article? Normally for something like this you’d have 5 or 6 pages of “exclusive” commentary. This was less than a page. Why is that? They referenced evidence they didn’t have and this couldn’t publish, they chose not to print the name but instead decided to have a days long “who shot JR” style mystery dragging it out purely to disguise their own lack of corroborating evidence and lack of confidence (and balls) to name him. It wasn't journalism. It was an assassination of one of the most recognisable names at the BBC mainly because they wanted to damage the corporation for ideological reasons. If Huw Edwards takes his own life now it’s on them.

Well that gives the BBC a huge problem. The simplest outcome for them would have been for it to be a criminal matter where they could have suspended without pay and then sacked him. Now they’re faced with potentially trying to bring him back into the tent or face a huge pay off.

I think they’re being very careful about “outing” either the presenter or the other parties.

2 different logos on the announcement. What a shambles. Amateur hour. Delete club.

In the nicest possible way, I don't think the vast majority of people feel remotely guilty when they see floods, crop failure and suffering in those parts of the world because there's a big stretch between them driving their gas guzzling range rover and something happening to people they don't know (or dare say couldn't give 2 **** about) on the other side of the world. It's not going to motivate people to change their lives in any signifcant way. When things happen here, floods, storms etc, I think most of us just accept our weather is just getting a little wild but at certain times of year it always has anyway. I don't disagree it's a problem. I don't disagree that something needs to be done about it. I just think the message of a lot of the climate groups isn't going to resonate with alot of people because they're inherently short sighted, selfish, sometimes lacking in empathy for people from certain parts of the world, and the best way to motivate them is not to tell them what they can't do and just make their lives worse. The way to get people to change is to sell the benefits to them, not the people of bangladesh.

Not against selling Bailey at all. His injury record has been pretty shocking and with the exception of a few moments he’s not produced at all what we expected he would. My main issue with him is my (possibly incorrect) assessment that he just isn’t bothered. When he’s injured you see him constantly posting on the socials being on holiday, the comments from his father and just his general attitude. Gut feeling is I just don’t think I like him as a bloke and he’s not shown enough as a player to change that feeling.

Yeah nothing to see with this one except someone who’s been paid for some pretty benign information so the s*n can keep the story going a few more days.

Personally I don’t think the way to make the climate argument is the way some people talk about catastrophe’s and how we’re all going to suffer some serious consequences. It needs to be a more carrot rather than stick approach. The prospect of keeping global warming and climate change just isn’t compelling. People aren’t built to see a picture as big as that, they just can’t wrap their heads around it, but if you said to people that whole new clean energy industries with high paying jobs, cheaper electricity in the long term (because wind and sun are **** free so it should be, no?) and energy security so we aren’t vulnerable to the whims of Russian and arab dictators that’s something people can understand.