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Atkinson is real quality. Will be needed in Oz. Look to match their total by end of play with only 3 or 4 down maximum?

They and their well paid PR team would like you to think so.

Hey man, if a bloke is into peroxide blonde with a large side of succubus then personally I'm not going to judge him for it.

I also notice that Mdme Leavitt no longer wears her crucifix at press conferences with regularity. Perhaps that's because might hiss and burn when it touches her skin during such events and she doesn't want anyone noticing?

Hopefully, there may still be time to talk with places like Canada, Australia and various European nations to avoid that fate.

You're right, it won't. And what will also happen and be right will be the negative judgement of practically every near future generation for all the international consequences that result as a result of that mindset. They'll put the blood on the hands of everyone in a democratic nation who didn't do enough, and they'll be right to.

Believe me, I want to see them become a pariah state in the eyes of as much of the world as possible so long as they pursue this ridiculous "might makes right" nationalist bollocks, because that would in itself show just how deeply flawed that entire idea is. The UK needs to treat them like any other neutral-to-hostile belligerent on the list, rather than as anywhere near a friendly.

Absolute roulette bowling from Josh Tongue here. Entertaining, at least.

That's up to him and the fuzz, and how anxious they are to talk to him, I would think.

I'm sure Big Was can neither confirm nor deny his involvement Speculation appears rife on that one.

Quite so. And when he comes out from whatever rock he's hiding under, the process of deciding if he needs to be proven guilty of anything associated with this can begin.

(Darkly) interesting infographic find. Just goes to show that, right now at least, things are no worse (in terms of warfare) than they have been at other points in the last few decades.

On the topic of pointless and daft violence: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq682ggrd63o A man injured in an alleged assault at St Pancras railway station, over which police want to question far-right activist Tommy Robinson, has been discharged from hospital. Earlier this week, video footage on social media showed Robinson walking back and forth near a motionless man lying on the floor at the station. The clip did not show how the man ended up on the floor.

It's an absolute minefield, isn't it? Goodbyes knows what half to two thirds of both the terms and emoji that Gen A use really mean to them.

Wouldn't it be better to at least try to make sure this officer isn't going to act the same way in a high pressure situation with a more innocent person involved in the future? Independent oversight is important.

Appreciate the clarification and agree entirely with that.

... is the inference here that there is no problem on this matter, then?

The blokes involved deserve to see jail. The copper that engaged in a bit of kicking and stomping needs to explain to the IPC exactly why he lost his self control and how he can be sure that he might not give a more innocent party a good kicking the next time the red mist comes down.

Ah, yes. The good old days.

It seems that at this point the Canadians should just have a generic "go play with the traffic, tossers" response ready to go for practically every diplomatic interaction they have with the uncouth neighbours to the south.

1 in 32768 the odds, apparently. I mean, not quite lottery win, but still pretty far fetched from a probability POV.

At least it might delay some of the worst stuff by tying it up in court until Felon#47 is no longer a factor. Of course, that's one reason why he's trying to influence the judiciary as much as he is.

Believe me, you never get over the trauma of Mark Ealham being consistently picked as the best "all-rounder" option. (Or Nasser choosing to bowl on an absolute road with the sun beating down in a first Ashes Test at the Gabbatoir.)

And that's what the peer review process is for - that exact argument and disagreement. Of course, what it means that fact is only as good as "what empiricism and deductive logic can tell us at any one time", but if you're going down that road then all knowledge is equally subjective and flawed and we'll go along with the massive epistemological circle-jerk talking shop while the world gets worse rather than actually applying any of that knowledge to make it better. Don't get me wrong, I see the point, but at some point people - all people, as a species - are going to have to accept some simple single points of truth in order for anything to get done, and science is IMO the best place to start there, as at least the Method of empiricism and repetitive testing allows for as close to the standard of fact as we're going to get right now.

It would be nice if there was someone who could give an argument from authority here tbh. At least with scientific matters you have peer-reviewed material that can be stated pretty unequivocally as fact.