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Words change their meaning all the time depending on the context of who is using them and why. Take the word “gay” for example…my 96 year old grandmother uses the word all the time to mean something entirely different than what a right wing skinhead would. I don’t see why that applies any less to Arabic words than it would to say English and French.

The question I want answered is why can’t Pando keep his trousers on? Is he some kind of sexual deviant?

In her defence, we did invent concentration camps. You can’t get more British than something we did to the boars. If it was good enough for the empire, it’ll do for now.

I really don’t understand what’s so hard about this at all. Calling for violence against any people is surely wrong whatever the context. I do have to wonder why as a society we’re not challenging what clearly is fascistic language and chanting.

Of course he is. The only way those guys stay at the club is if they continue this revolving door of managers and keep getting the slate wiped clean.

I still don't understand how the country can be so broke when the people are literally taxed on everything. Income, NI, Council, VAT, Fuel, Alcohol, Tobacco, Road, Sugar, Gambling, Inheritance, Insurance, Stamp Duty, Excise Duty, Capital Gains, Dividends, Corporations, Rates. The list seems endless. Where's all the money go?

Thanks mate. I'm trying to repress all memory of that man.

I don’t know what it is with Sheffield United but they always seem to employ the biggest rocket polishers as their manager. Heckingbottom, Wilder, Warnock…

I still don’t see why it’s needed. I agree the Man City tactical foul situation needs addressing and has done for years tbf but you can easily do that by making it a yellow card offence and instructing the refs to get hot on it. He can only do it twice and he’s done.

I agree with Paul Merson. You’ll kill the game with sin bins. Teams will go full Tony Pulis with everyone behind the ball and wasting even more time than they already do. Plus it adds even more incentive to the players who exaggerate contact to try and get players carded. I don’t get what problem this is trying to solve. We already have reviews with the VAR if it’s borderline yellow/red. Can someone tell me why we need a punishment stronger than yellow but less than red?

I don't want Ramsey sold but I definitely don't agree it sends the message you think it does. Aaron Ramsey, Archer and Philogene have been sold but they all went to good clubs and are all playing pretty well. It's really rare to get one club players and the other lads will look at that in the academy and see success stories. They're players that were trained here, loaned out, got time in the first team and ultimately left to play first team football at good clubs. What's the problem there? They're all young and their stories with us might not be over. Jacob Ramsey is a different case as I no longer see him as a youth player. He's a first team player now.

I think as with a lot of things we're not responsible for the actions of those who came before us so but in this case we're still directly benefiting from something that was wrong, although with hindsight definitely protected them from the instability in that region. They're one of kind and irreplaceable so I get why the inclination is to hold onto them. They remind a lot of people of a time where Britain massively punched above it's weight and they're rightly proud of some of what we did in the world, but when the people of Greece are this upset about it I think this generation has to look to the future. That future is in cooperation and people not seeing us as some kind of imperial master race our ancestors sought to be but rather a partner that can be trusted to act in good faith. Giving them up would be a massive act of good will that costs us basically nothing.

Return them and make a big deal about how it's the right thing to do to own up to the mistakes of Empire. That we've protected and maintained them while the Greeks were occupied by the Ottomans and then the Nazi's but it's time for them to go home. The greek people have been our friends for a lot of years, we've shed blood together. It'll mean a lot to them and we'll barely notice they've gone. The British museum has made enough money over the years and surely has enough other stuff to put on display. If they're so bothered by it then return them and do some kind of agreement to have some of them back from the Greeks on a lease.

We’ve been saying that for years though. That there core vote tends to be older, gods waiting room type folk who’ve got nothing better to do on a cold Thursday than cast a vote for the triple lock with no care for whose taxes are paying for it. Yet they keep getting in. Why is that? I do wonder if there’s some truth to the theory that people generally get more conservative leaning as they get older. If I ever feel tempted I’ll be sure to throw myself from t here nearest cliff and do my bit for the nation!

Well the goal with these parties has always been to influence the direction of the Tories more to the right, not to actually cost them seats as they're clearly of the opinion that a Labour would be worse for their goals. It's more the looming threat of annihilation that they've been using rather than the actual practice of them full on going for the Tories. If that's changed then sure it's possible that would happen, but a threat when the Tories don't really believe they'll follow through on it is surely ineffective. It's a giant game of chicken really, isnt it? I don't think the Tories necessarily see being out of power for 1 or 2 cycles as a reason to burn the system to the ground and start again. I'm sure they'll just see it as part of the ebb and flow of our system. One that's been massively advantegous to them for a century.

It's unlikely the Tories, Like Labour are going to voluntarily change the system that's kept one or the other in power for a century. We all know what's going to happen with Reform etc. There'll be a backroom deal done on deadline day to withdraw their throbby candidates again in exchange for vague promises about how throbby the Tories are willing to be if they get re-elected. The only difference this time is whether they're willing to talk to the Tories when they're led by someone they hate as much as Sunak...which I'm sure has nothing at all to do with his race...

I didn’t say anything about a stooge government. Only one that actually wants to bring the conflict to an end. Obviously one side or other can’t feel like they’ve been screwed or it’s a Versailles thing all over again and it’ll just start again. They do need to accept reality though.

It’s not carpet bombing. If they wanted to carpet bomb there’d be nothing left. It’s targeted but I’ll admit it some of the photos don’t look great but what can you do when you’ve got extremists hiding in a civilian population using their innocence to stay your hand to deal with them? The solution has to be dialogue but not with Hamas.

Then what though? Pointless unless it leads to any kind of talks between the sides on some kind of longer term solution but frankly I think we’re beyond that now. Once they’ve got as many of the hostages out as possible there’s no promise hamas can make that can be trusted. They don’t have a future because they aren’t interested in constructive talking. They’ve got to go and be replaced by someone more moderate that the Israelis can talk to, who don’t have extermination in their charter, and who want to discuss the borders of a viable Palestinian state that are routed in the situation that exist now, not as it was in 1948. Likewise the Israelis need to acknowledge their role in where we’ve found ourselves and work on genuine faith to ensure that the Palestinians have a viable state. There’s a solution to be found if everyone could just be reasonable but Hamas have to be destroyed. There’s no way around that.

"Lads, I said something and I need to backtrack out of it ASAP" "No worries, guv. What can we say that sounds kinda like "shithole" but still have the word "shit" in it so it's vaguely plausible?" "Shit MP?" "That'll do" Tories...always lying for some shit reason.

It's a real shame sometimes that MP's need to direct their questions and comments to the chair. I'd very much have enjoyed this fellow being able to call James Cleverly a word removed to his face in the chamber.

It's fine to have concerns but when it steps over the bounds into hatred and violence which you'd have to agree people saying the navy should machine gun boat loads of people certainly is. I have concerns as well but less so on the numbers as I don't think they're large enough when compared to those on the continent to be a problem as long as the government is doing what it should be doing which is building enough homes and putting public investment at the levels it needs to be to accommodate population increases. My issues are mainly around unbalancing of our society. When the people coming across are mainly men you have an unhealthy ratio of men to women in the country. Where they're coming primarily from areas of the world that are very culturally different to ours, not necessarily religion, although that definitely plays a part, but you've got people who have no experience living in a western democratic system and all of a sudden they have a culture shock, and at times the adjustments we're having to make to accommodate their "ways". A lot of people seem to want to live and work in London and the south east which is only making the imbalance between north and south worse. Onviously the complete shitshow that is the immigration services who have been deliberately gutted so you have this ridiculous amount of time it takes to get to conclusion causing a crazy backlog that'll take years to clear. Not being able to find temporary work so you've got tens of thousands that are essentially a burden to the state when they could be put to some use but for some reason the Tories don't want to. The list goes on.

It’s a consequence of the dehumanisation we’ve seen in the media for years now. Some of our population just don’t see the people in the boats as people anymore so they can say awful things like “blow them out of the water” or “machine gun them” etc. You’d like to hope that when it actually came to something like that they aren’t serious or we're much closer to nazi style camps and final solutions than we realise.

The premier league are the clubs. It’s a cartel.

This has only really become a “thing” because they (and tbf successive governments before them) have allowed house prices to skyrocket, particularly in London and the “Home Counties” where a house that’s maybe £150-200k north of Watford gap is north of a million quid south of it. They've allowed a class of people to be created who are very asset rich but cash poor (or maybe slightly better). They don’t see themselves as wealthy sitting in their million pound 2 bed London terrace house because they’re struggling to buy food like everyone else.