Chindie

Recently promoted by alleged wrong'un Russell Brand on the increasingly mental Tucker Carlson's twitter show.

His build and the fact he looks pretty comfortable with the ball and wants to turn and run might make him pretty versatile, could see him paying various roles through the midfield and attack as and when we need it.

Johnny Bravo.

State of Play was decent but there wasn't anything that really shouted 'must play' to me. Helldivers 2 - never ever going to play Stellar Blade - absolutely not interested Sonic Generations remake - couldn't care less ZZZ - appropriately named Foamstars - don't care Dave the Driver - might play eventually but not blowing my socks off. V Rising - never going to play Silent Hill: Short Message - looks terrible Silent Hill 2 remake - terrible showing but might play Judas - I don't want to play Bioshock again Don't have PSVR2 so those titles are a dud. Dragons Dogma 2 - don't love the first game so the second is a maybe on sale kinda thing. Rise of the Ronin - maybe. I like Nioh. Until Dawn remake - it looks identical to the one you can play right now. Death Stranding 2 - I love Kojima and I actually quite like the first game, but that trailer was like Kojima taking the piss, like he was trying to see how far he could push things before people bailed. I hated so much of every they showed it's soured my interest in playing any of it. Also made me realise more than ever that Kojima trades so much on how cool Shinkawa's work is. Kojima doing notMetalGearSolid - potentially good depending on how much he decides to take the piss. So yeah... Decent showing, but for me personally it was a bit... Empty.

A lot of people seem to be lulling themselves to sleep that Starmer is actually a pathological liar to their benefit. The evidence is he lied and lied and lied to the party to get in the chair, and then quickly started purging, and then started rubbing out all his promises and pledges, and everything he says is basically supportive of the general direction the country is going.

The party has purged all dissenting voices as raving racists and is entirely in hock of lobbyists. Good luck convincing a party of hammers to consider screws are better sometimes. You have 2 very similar shades of Tory. You're getting a Tory pathway to the future. Enjoy!

The issue I kinda have with this, is there's always just the choice between Labour and Tory for a government. And last time the country decided it really **** loved Tories (as opposed to just really liking them like normal - I'm not moved by arguments about fptp, keep them to yourself) and lots of Labour wasn't that upset about it to say the least. So now we get the next round and the same Labour that was stabbing the party in the front is taking the moral high ground and saying you simply have to vote for them. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. And there's the issue of... Well. If all your offered is cars and you want to fly...?

It's absurd. The choice at the polls this year is basically a bloated tired cuckoo that feasted on everything that wasn't tied down, and a starving cuckoo that agrees with everything the fat one did in the nest but wants to nibble at things for a while first.

It'll take a couple of years for the dodgy stuff to come out. They need the foot on the door first to start really feathering nests, and then it takes time for the stories to develop and come out. But don't doubt it, it'll happen. I'm less mad about that though, that's what you get with politicians. I'm mad that they're pretending they're going to be much different. They'll smear a veneer of competence on themselves over what the Tories are as they stand now, but the policies are going to be basically the same, with a bit of deck chairs on the Titanic difference and presented with a middle managers tone. We couldn't possibly make things better, a decade of mismanagement by the Tories means we must keep going on the path they set us on.

Combination of things. Israel is a westernised nation in the Middle East. It represents a westernised power in the region that weighs against the the other interests. The US was always going to support having a pointedly similar ally in a strategically important region. There's also the 'higher' things like shared values that play into things, but which are probably less important. There's also things like generalised US support for self determination derived from their own origin story (but that opens up very troubling questions when that comes up against the fact that the land you want isn't yours...), biblical shit (a decent chunk of US Christians believe Israel is key to Christian prophecy), US having a very significant percentage of the globe's Jewish people, a large number of which are Zionist and who are generally wealthier and more able to influence politics. But generally it's basically support for a 'western democracy' in a region that is important strategically and exists in a state of chaos caused by the fallout of WW1. The US likes having a powerful state with similar values to its own as an ally to pull the region towards US interests, balancing against other powers and other influences.

It's much more difficult to back that attitude up if they weren't being pumped with arms and cash by the US. Even with Israel's own arms industry, they would find their military capacity greatly reduced if the US abandoned them.

In October Labour via Rachel Reeve derided the decision by the Tories to scrap the bankers bonus cap. This morning, she confirmed they won't roll this back. They're the same, they're the same...

You'd never tire of beating it into a bloody pink pulp in the ground.

The collapse will piss me off more for the smug told you you'd fall away from every other cock gobbling word removed team than the falling away itself.

Oh Villa.

I think for a lot of people it wouldn't matter if he was a patient or not. It can be an assassination whoever they are. And yes war is dirty, Israel is just proving that there's not mud it won't splash around in.

I just don't take photos.

At least one of them was a patient since October. Bad guys get medical treatment too. Not sure a 'covert' assassination mission in a hospital is a good look.

That's better than the eyesore we're about to be served up. Admittedly from the perspective of someone who knows nothing about Yeovil Town or their badge and any important things it features.

Equally that's not a justification for anything. You can use that to understand some actions but it doesn't excuse or forgive them.

Perfectly normal and acceptable.

His Geordie accent comes through a bit in the Gentlemen, but it's thin enough to not particularly notice.

The US is in a difficult position with how to respond. They're being attacked by semi autonomous proxies of Iran in third party nations. They can't really fight them the way they would want to without committing themselves to an almighty conflict that they aren't going to 'win'. So far they have basically committed themselves to a limited and arms length 'conflict' of air strikes and missiles against the Yemen based Houthi group, which isn't going to do anything of note but look like they've responded. The fact of the matter is Iran isn't going to stop funding these groups, a war against Iran would be horrific and lead to an even bigger disaster than Iraq and chuck the tense stability of the region in the bin. It would also probably piss off the other regional power, Saudi, because a regime changed Iran would be brought in from the cold and long term would become a bigger threat to them than they are as a persona non grata state. No quick answers. The thing ultimately with Iran will have to be opening up to them again, which will take many, many more years and probably need them to have a governmental change of direction, which will take a while. Trump throwing the nuclear deal in the bin was one of the stupidest things he did as it essentially made the Iranians think '**** it' and not even try to show good will or operate in line with how the US wanted them to. Appropriately enough Israel had their fingers all over Trump making that decision and a bunch of those words removed in Tel Aviv were delighted when he did it.

Insert sardonic joke about Norway and Spain being inherently anti-Semetic.

Personally I spoil my ballot, but I've always done that.