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Totally agreed, 100%, definitely. If he had scored more than 1 goal in 30 games for us, he definitely would have scored more goals for us.

Disappointed Conor didn't get a chance to play today. We were anonymous in midfield, and he could have kept things ticking over.

Decent result against a better team. Created chances. Didn't bottle it. Progress. You know this behind-closed-doors thing might help our lot.

With such an "experimental" line-up, the first 10-20 minutes are going to be so important for us.

Decent time to remind people that services (teachers, doctors, financial services, scientific researchers), not goods (boomerangs and Tim Tams), comprise 70% of British GDP. If you want actual 21st century free trade, you need to look at getting common recognition for services not goods. You might call it a "single market for services", maybe.

Sounds like Randy Lerner, circa 2012.

Anyway, Phil "Bruiser" Hogan, the current EU Trade Commissioner confirms he's considering the top job in the WTO.

Brexiteers: "No Deal, screw the European Union, let's go the WTO route." Phil Hogan:

Yes, perhaps. I am happy to have a proper, adult sit-down discussion about the causes of Churchill's racism. But that has to be the basis. I will not listen to someone who denies his racism.

The average punter doesn't know that Winston Churchill was a horrible racist. The sentence "Indians are a beastly people with a beastly religion." does not require any context. It stands by itself. What does require context is that the average British punter has been subjected to decades of light propaganda about the war. While Churchill was crucial in defeating Hitler, which nobody denies, he was also a horrible racist. Both parts are true, but only one has penetrated the British consciousness. If he were the knight in shining armour that films and insurance companies portray him as, there wouldn't be over a dozen disgusting quotes to choose from.

If confident in your ability to tell Churchill, Hitler and Stalin apart, I heartily suggest www.whosaidit.eu. Let me know how you get on.

Most countries like the EU. For all the flag-waving Little Englanders I’m waiting for them to realise that the problem wasn’t the EU, but that the UK just has a shit government.

An Act of Parliament can give the PL immunity from being sued. Of course they’ll have to give the Tories something in return, but I see that as the way this plays out.

Just a reminder that on March 20th Tim Martin went on national media to claim shutting pubs was “over the top”.

Edit: long-haired general told me my UBI joke wasn’t as funny as I thought

100%. Get to bed right away @foreveryoung. Your body is fighting a killer. Give it every opportunity to win. Seriously, go to bed. There's a 98% chance you will be fine but don't risk being the 2%.

Varies state by state, but DC will temporarily supplement state-level unemployment by $600 per week. Sounds like a lot but bear in mind unemployment implies no health insurance etc.

As VT’s in-house economist, I declare that University of Bristol paper to be blathering nonsense. It’s by a physicist, and it shows. There’s an entire literature on the effects of recessions on life expectancy. You can’t assume a temporary shut down of 6.7% of the economy has the same (negative) effect on life expectancy as natural 6.7% growth It complete ignorance to assume they’re the same. Imagine someone assuming 4-4-2 is the same as 3-5-2 because both field eleven players. That’s what the physicist is doing.

Not quite the worst ever. Irish people can tell ya a thing or two about British governments’ inept response to public health crises, ‘cept a million people starved.

“Grenfell was nothing, I spend £70 on a good night out.”

We don’t need so many policemen because crime is so low.

HMG might be in a political storm when the ONS publish final mortality figures. The decision to only report hospital-related deaths may have been politically convenient two weeks ago, but will blow up when the figures come out all at once. For a sense of scale, a majority of the deaths in Ireland have occurred in nursing homes. There's no reason to believe that will perfectly replicated in the UK, but it is consistent with the "conspiracy theories" that the UK headline figures are under-counted by several thousand.

Egyptian journalist on Twitter. No idea how legitimate he is, but he’s got 60k followers. You’ll need to translate it but it says Newcastle have submitted a bid for Trez.

Bloody unelected bureaucrats.