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A lot of these discussions on what reform will or won't do including leaving the ECHR really remind me of the run up to the 2016 referendum

One of the greats from maybe the greatest era of filmmaking.

I went through a very difficult period in autumn 2023 and wondered if I'd really be able to turn it around. It came after a period when I'd been drinking heavily. Quitting alcohol helped obviously. As mentioned above, jogging was a massive help too. Set myself targets to run a little further every day. Quit social media. Read a couple of books I'd wanted to for a while. Spent time with friends and family. And ultimately just tried to be stoical and reminded myself such periods are part of being human. Then 2024 was maybe the best year of my life. The first few months after I turned it round were amazing. You'll get through it and you'll be the better for it.

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/06/10/does-america-now-have-a-woke-right

I was following the match day thread on a train from Edinburgh - Peterborough and at 0-2 people were complaining that Ranieri was destroying all the good work Pearson had done.

I prefer Liz Trussel Martin

Cliffhanger

Yes. Although like my question above it was rhetorical, I am well aware that Brits have been psychically colonised by America.

Still not sure why Brits care so much about Charlie Kirk.

Great display of wokeness from the right in the last week. Something something hurty words.

Cognitive dissonance. They voted for brexit and Boris Johnson so they want somebody else to blame for high immigration numbers.

I think it's worth remembering that the scale of immigration since 2020 has been unprecedented and there was always going to be some reaction to it, especially in a country with declining material conditions like Britain.

Legend has it when St Felix of Burgundy landed in Babingley, Norfolk on his way to convert the East Angles to Christianity, he was saved from drowning by a colony of beavers. In gratitude he made the chief beaver a bishop. The village sign commemorates this event to this day; Mr Beaver the Bishop sits atop the sign wearing his little mitre.

Inevitable result of the UK's slow then fast decline

Genuinely one of the funniest things I've ever seen in football

Small percentage of total immigration. Right wingers like to focus on it though to distract you from the fact that the people they voted for trebled legal immigration.

I remember when we were told Brexit would "neutralise the far right".

Wasn't he fanatically pro Israel as well as guns? American right wingers two favourite things.

Can't remember this outpouring of concern and disgust from very sensible people over a shooting in America for a long time. Usually we react with a collective shrug no?

One of the worst aspects of modern football

Don't really see the problem with saying stuff like "if you live by the sword...". He was a fanatically pro gun rabble-rouser in a country known for shootings and increasing political polarisation and violence. Surprised at the confidence of some of these people to be so openly controversial and confrontational in such a violent country.

When you get past the traffic lights on the corner by humberstone park. Quite a few of us plying that a47 route I think

He showed contempt towards the families of victims of shootings. But you're right, his family don't deserve it. Stupid country.

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