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I guess it would depend on why you’re giving them the equipment. Finland and Sweden are giving Ukraine weapons because it’s in their national security interest to do so. We’re doing it (primarily) because Johnson needs good headlines and political kudos to save his snakey skin and in that case you’d want everyone to know what you’ve given and when for it to have maximum political effect.

Maybe a bit of that also!

You could always just go in and wear a badge that says “I have covid but x told me to be here” and see how long until you’re asked to go home.

On the drive into work this morning I was listening to (the absolutely awful) Nick Ferrari on LBC who had a load of people call in who were very opposed to sending migrants to Rwanda on a variety of grounds from the financial to the moral. He would always ask the question "well do you have a better idea?" in order to try and show them up, no doubt. It reminded me alot of the scenes from Chernobyl (great series, give it a watch if you haven't already) where all the idiots running the power station were asking everyone from the lowly technicians to the highly educated professor - "How does an RBMK reactor explode?" and when they didn't have the answer proceeded to tell them to shut the **** up. Just because there isn't an easy answer or someone doesn't have one immediately, doesn't mean we have to resort to being a bunch of words removed.

I’m surprised that you’re surprised. If the last few years have taught us anything it’s that there’s a very significant proportion of the British public that are at best xenophobic and at worst racist. Don’t call them that though because they haven’t the intelligence or self awareness to realise that’s what they are.

Post on instagram this morning saying they won't play again until the head of the Jamaican FA resigns. Apparently they've been trying to cut cost with travel arrangement, impractical flight times/connections and substandard accommodation (including "couch beds") at hotels. In addition, appears they haven't been paid.

Or you could just lie and say you backed him. Surely they don’t expect honesty from their MPs. They’re only following the lead of big dog.

For those that didn’t quite catch it. Twitter has got your back.

I thought it was just me and I was hearing things…love it when a posh girl talks dirty

Shocking level of disrespect this afternoon when Johnson was too cowardly to even be seen outside No.10 to greet the Estonian Prime Minister. Is that really the image he wants to portray on the world stage? Hiding (probably in a fridge) while the leader of another country has to knock on his door to get in? Probably an overreaction but I'm embarrassed.

My MP breaks cover to shove his nose up the liars arse with all the usual pathetic guff. "got the big calls right" - 180,000 dead "need strong leadership as we deal with the cost of living" - took us out of the worlds largest FTA, raised tax at every opportunity, more foodbanks than ever, parties in his house while everyone isolated. "levelling up the country" - seriously!? "helping Ukraine" - like everyone else has done? Representative for Wellingborough.

This is the penny that's yet to drop with those endlessly parroting the "we need to get on with the job" crap. Yes, we do, that's why he should have gone immediately when he got the fine and when it become apparently he lied to parliament.

and imagine being that gullible you'd believe anything he was telling you.

I can see why the public would say something like that because we all know that the Tory party is filled with incompetent scum but when you've got MP's coming out and saying words that you could legitimately interpret as "we're all a bit shit, aren't we?" what on earth can they be thinking.

Imagine the damage Johnson could inflict on the country if he wins the vote and has a free pass for the next 12 months.

I'm not sure that it was the VONC that did for her. May had the disadvantage of running what was pretty much a minority government while trying to please all sides of the party, which was an impossibility. When she started losing vote after vote in the commons that was the end. If Johnson wins the vote I can definitely see the MP's falling back into line. He'll be safe for 12 months and when that is up we're fully into election territory so to do anything else would be akin to shooting yourself in the foot, then the face to make sure.

It is a really common and effective military tactic that’s been in use since (I believe) the First World War called “defence in depth”. Traditional military doctrine would have you position all of your men and equipment at the front line in order to cede no ground at all, but if you allow them to advance into a more heavily defended area you’ll find them off balance, as they advance beyond the range of their support. You can then envelope and they take far more casualties while you take less. It’s simplistic to call what they’re doing defeat. They’re ceding territory in exchange for more Russian bodies. It’s true that there will come a time you can’t cede anymore ground but the objective is to reach a point where putin can’t take any more Russians coming back in bags before that happens.

I read this as they're prepping the Russian population for more conscription. They'll find it hard to justify that they need more men to subdue just Ukraine, but if they frame it as "look, we're not just fighting Ukraine anymore, we're fighting all of NATO" then it's something the Russian people are far more likely to understand and accept. Putin really has **** this up massively. Edit - Using a phrase like WW3 in the UK isn't as serious as using it Russia. Although they see it as their finest hour, it's a country that was decimated by the Nazi's. There's barely a family in Russia that didn't lose someone in the second world war. They're trying to piggyback on all of the nationalism created by victory day, but I doubt many of the Russians are up for seeing their fathers and sons thrown into the meat grinder in the way they were 80 years ago. It's such a bad miscalculation.

Might have something to do with the fact that you still can't get a news agent to stock the S*n on merseyside.

There's more than enough blame to go around here. The actions of the French police are definitely questionable - You really can't go around macing kids and people in wheelchairs. When fans had been queuing for hours to get in and they look at their watch or phone and see the game is only minutes away from starting it's hardly surprising that a few of them start trying to push and surge to get to have a chance of getting in. That's unforgivable by the French and totally avoidable. That being said, those that were jumping the barriers were committing criminal acts and the French had every right to deal with those people severely as it's a threat to the safety of everyone in that stadium. I think back to the bombs that were set off outside a few years ago and that's going to be in those police officers minds. Liverpool do need to admit some liability here though, but they never will. There were definitely fans that travelled without tickets that made their way to the stadium to try and barter a way into the ground - it's not unusual for any club but it's got to stop. Their bell end manager should take some of the blame for that as well by encouraging it. There also does appear to have been some kind of ticket fraud going on and thats a matter for UEFA and the UK police.

I don’t think Davies stock has ever been higher. He’s not going to be good enough for where we want to be next season and he’s really of the age where he need to be playing, not sitting on a bench getting paid premier league wages when he’s not been proven to be a premier league player. I think I’d start at 10m and maybe go as low as 8m.

That would seem to be against the strategy that’s been used so far. The west has consistently refused to set any red lines for intervention - bar a nuclear attack, but even then they’re only saying “there would be a response”. I think we’re all expecting a “Poland moment” where we tell them “if you do x it’s war”…our politicians have shown no appetite at all for that. Whether that’s everyone being very risk averse, the fact that we in the west clearly have a lot to lose in terms of living standards and money in that scenario (anyone have a desire to go back to the days of conscription and rationing?), the political consequences or just pure cowardice. I don’t know. Personally I do feel we need to be clear where the line is if only to be true to our own principles of what is acceptable.

2nd amendment of the United States constitution in full. It’s very convenient that people remember the second bit but not the first bit. Are you in a militia? Then no, you can’t have a gun. If you’re in a militia, is it “well regulated”?