Chindie

They're being thumped in the pools because their image has become one of incompetence and looting, not because policies are particularly unpopular or their opposition is providing better policy options. Their opposition largely agrees with their policies, in the little we know of them, but they're being enacted by idiots. A cat with a red collar could beat the Tories in the current polls. Unfortunately we know they'll do rather better when the ballot boxes are counted up. On current showing they'll still lose even when the country gives them an embarrassment of votes, of course. Then we get to find out that all we've changed is put in a less blasé higher functioning management team for a couple of years.

Jonathan Pie is as funny as watching your wife have a romantic dinner with another man, from your deathbed.

In other news they're going to be testing a new execution method this week, nitrogen hypoxia. Aka a type of suffocation. They're going to execute a death row inmate by giving them pure nitrogen to 'breathe'.

I'm yet to be convinced that Almiron is actually any good. He had a season where he went on a mental hot streak but I've never watched him and thought he's this lethal goalscorer who just needs to glimpse a chance.

I did forget the whole League v Union thing as well. Suffice to say I expect theres more common lads playing League in some parts of the country.

Put in the **** Louvre.

It's so unlucky that UN facilities in Gaza just keep getting in the way of high explosives. Almost like they're aiming for them. Almost. Such a shame.

I think it's certainly true in England - I doubt there's many England nationals that went to your average comprehensive school. Whether it's true elsewhere I'm unsure. Wales always struck me as the interesting case in the 'home nations' as my impression was rugby was much more widespread amongst everyone than across the border. But I've no idea if that's the case in France, Italy, Georgia etc.

I've just remembered where I got that from - Dara O'Briain had a bit donkeys years ago where he's talking about the Irish rugby team losing a match and being very upset and he goes on to say something along the lines of 'oh they're a bunch of posh clearings in the woods so **** them' iirc.

Isn't the thing with rugby in Ireland that it's only posh boys that play it and therefore considered that they're closer to the Brits anyway, and normal people don't give a flying ****? I remember reading or hearing something about it before where the average man literally couldn't care less about rugby as it's only toffs that play it.

Birmingham got the Commonwealth Games as a backup option when Durban pulled out, and the bid was based on utilising existing facilities spread across the region (and country given the velodrome used was the London one) and keeping costs down through limited renovation rather than new build (with the exception being the athlete accommodation, which was always going to be used afterwards as flats anyway). There wouldn't have been a chance that there was a new stadium coming out of Birmingham 2022.

Selling Rice for £100m gives them some room to spend. They also have had European money consistently for the last few years and obviously won the Conference League last year. They also could be factoring in interest in Pacqueta knowing he's an asset they can sell for a big chunk of cash in the summer.

And anyone looking around Villa Park can see that, as things stand, you can't magic 3000 seats into it by rejigging layouts. If you could, we'd have done it already.

Particularly sad with him is I believe his wife died a few years ago suddenly and at least one of his daughters, from what has been said on the podcast, is still fairly young. That's a horrific situation.

Neil Kulkarni. Coventry based music journalist best known for working on Melody Maker in the 90s and then becoming one of the best voices on the brilliant Chart Music podcast. Very sudden, he was on stage at the Chart Music Live show in town only a week or so ago.

A niche one. Brian Barcyzk, reptile enthusiast who ran a very popular YouTube channel, as well as a zoo and did some TV work. Apparently owned the 3rd largest collection of snakes in the world, particularly focused on the breeding and development of python morphs, and was involved in venom milking. Died aged 54 after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year. He went downhill very fast - diagnosis to dead inside a year.

The first series of True Detective is a masterpiece.

Pure nightmare fuel and the guy appears to be a moron.

My neighbour seems to be using the weather as a means of slowly getting rid of their fence. Each time there's a storm they lose a fence panel and don't seem to be bothered about replacing them. Thankfully the fence is on the side that doesn't connect to my garden.

You may as well speculate we're putting a stadium in the moon - we aren't getting a new stadium any time soon, it's almost certainly not even been considered. We binned off building a new stand, we aren't committing to a magnitudes larger and much much more expensive much much more complex and much much longer building project. Stadium investments are going to be focused on cheaper small scale things that drive revenue for the foreseeable.

Lockdown never ended for me.

It's not within our power to go back. It's not our club, it's the EU's, they have to accept us going back and agree the terms of it.

Biden wouldn't criticise Israel if they started firing American citizens at Gaza.

Lost a Hackney council election handily. Safe seat, completely bungled it, Tories swept in. Perhaps Starmer can be stopped.

The concern with the BBC being brought pointedly to heel by the Tories would always be that the taboo is broken, the unspoken love is crossed and nobody is going to put the fence back up. Labour aren't going to let the BBC go back to what it was, it will just fill it's ranks with Labour lickspittles as the chance arises. The same as you never get rights back and laws always, always get exploited far beyond their explicit purposes, once the line is given it's never taken back.