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Draper and Fearnley. Hopefully one or both of them can carry on Murray's legacy. (I would mention Norrie too, but I think that ship has already sailed.)

I think a lot of it comes down to some people having lives so empty that they'll seek fame as a means to fill it, or, if they can't get that, notoriety. People (often the more individualistic kind) often get obsessed with power and "legacy". That can be both good or bad - sadly the latter more than the former.

.... is the current LCFC ownership or the current US administration more dysfunctional? Opening it to the floor.

Yeah, comparing pretty much any present day situation to Nazism is going to cause trouble, that's a given. Even if the comparisons are valid. Such are the times we live in.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0gye0wq8lo The attorney general has said he regrets "clumsy" remarks in which he compared calls for the UK to depart from international law and arguments made in 1930s Germany. In a speech on Thursday, Lord Hermer criticised politicians who argue the UK should abandon "the constraints of international law in favour of raw power". He said similar claims had been made by legal theorists in Germany in the years before the Nazis came to power. [.....] In a speech at the Royal United Services Institute think tank, Lord Hermer said the Labour government wanted to combine a "pragmatic approach to the UK's national interests with a principled commitment to a rules-based international order". He said the approach was "a rejection of the siren song that can sadly now be heard in the Palace of Westminster, and in some spectrums of the media, that Britain abandons the constraints of international law in favour of raw power". Lord Hermer added: "This is not a new song. "The claim that international law is fine as far as it goes, but can be put aside when conditions change, is a claim that was made in the early 1930s by 'realist' jurists in Germany, most notably Carl Schmitt, whose central thesis was in essence the claim that state power is all that counts, not law. "Because of the experience of what followed in 1933, far-sighted individuals rebuilt and transformed the institutions of international law, as well as internal constitutional law." I can see why he felt he had to apologise, but I don't see anything that he referred to there that wasn't true. International law and regulations were put in place, and are there, to stop nationalist governments from carrying out exactly the kind of atrocities that happened eighty years ago and before. The nationalists perhaps don't like that because they are less uneasy about those atrocities happening again.

Same principle as other streaming services - as long as the companies are bidding highest for the right to solely host a particular item of entertainment, the consumer is being shafted. As long as the consumer is being shafted, a significant number of them will look to sail the high seas instead. Offer a reasonable fixed flat rate for each item - sporting match, movie or tv show - to each provider, let the lowest bid in terms of consumer price win, and watch such piracy become much less necessary. You don't ever stop the black market when you operate a legit market the way this one does now.

Yep. Also bear in mind that attitudes towards race and ideology in the US were such that they barely lifted a finger against fascism in Europe until Japan forced their hand and Germany made the terrible strategic error of declaring war upon them immediately afterwards.

The laws of thermodynamics are neither fair nor can be reasoned with. Far too many people take the way things are now for granted at their own - and everyone else's - extreme peril.

TBF I'm with you in that the Prem format means this matchup gets thrown up an awful lot and that can certainly get wearing. But of course the PDC have to have their money-spinners.

Fair to say. Could say it's Leicester-Forest happening every week, but then people couldn't get enough of Federer-Nadal when it seemed to happen every single Grand Slam tournament.

The two Lukes face off in the final once again. Fitting, they are the two best players in the world.

Remember reading about this when it happened. As you say, the sheer level of hypocrisy would be hilarious were it not so consequential for a lot of decent people now and a lot more later.

Bit daft, really. It's pre-Revolution of 1917 Russia that's in vogue there now, not post-Revolution.

I know I'd get turned around at the airport for being overly sarcastic to the immigration official right now anyway

https://archive.is/DjtiZ Marco Rubio has announced US visa restrictions for foreigners “who are complicit in censoring Americans”. In a post on X, the US secretary of state said that “for too long, Americans have been fined, harassed and even charged by foreign authorities for exercising their free speech rights”. Foreigners who “undermine” those rights, he said, “should not enjoy the privilege of travelling to our country”. Rubio added: “Even as we take action to reject censorship at home, we see troubling instances of foreign governments and foreign officials picking up the slack. In some instances, foreign officials have taken flagrant censorship actions against US tech companies and US citizens and residents when they have no authority to do so. “Today, I am announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply to foreign nationals who are responsible for censorship of protected expression in the United States. It is unacceptable for foreign officials to issue or threaten arrest warrants on US citizens or US residents for social media posts on American platforms while physically present on US soil.” Rubio’s announcement comes as Samuel Samson, a senior state department aide, accused Britain and other countries in Europe of becoming “a hotbed of digital censorship, mass migration, restrictions on religious freedom, and numerous other assaults on democratic self-governance”. The arrogant self importance, to say nothing of the hypocrisy (for one, by "religious freedom" they mean freedom of Evangelical and Baptist Christianity with the associated right to view women as breeding stock, not any other religion), is rather staggering.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg41g1140po Prosecutors in the UK have confirmed for the first time they have authorised 21 charges against Andrew and Tristan Tate, including rape, actual bodily harm and human trafficking. The Crown Prosecution Service said that it had authorised the charges against the brothers before an extradition warrant was issued in 2024 to bring them back from Romania. The two British-Americans are under investigation in Romania, facing a number of charges, which they deny - and the CPS said "the domestic criminal matters in Romania must be settled first." The CPS's charging decision came after it received a file of evidence from Bedfordshire Police about allegations made in the UK. The CPS said Andrew Tate, a 38-year-old influencer and former kickboxer, faces 10 charges connected to three alleged victims, including rape, actual bodily harm, human trafficking and controlling prostitution for gain. Tristan Tate, 36, faces 11 charges connected to one alleged victim, including rape, actual bodily harm and human trafficking. Hopefully, at some point, these two will see the inside of a jail cell. For a long time.

It stands to reason that a sentient species capable of cruelty (such as cats) are also capable of suffering from psychological trauma. That being said, fvck them on this one - the more other wildlife is offered protection from them, the better.

Fair points made. I think overall the bolded is the main thing that needs to be emphasised to Farage and those who pay too much heed to him.

It's a long time since they've taken this many attempts to get something totally right, though. That being said, they are now moving into rocket engineering that is higher in terms of power - and therefore complexity - than anything our species has done before.

Reasonably clear example of tech being patently unready to anticipate all the situations a human can and is needed to. Wonder if it's cost them more money in terms of implementing the tech and through losses from shoplifting etc than it's saved them in terms of staff reduction.

Not a great showing on Starship Flight 9. That's three bad goes in a row.

If we're talking solely about migration, then there's certainly a conversation to be had there. However, going back to the original point, I think Farage was speaking in general terms, unless I'm mistaken about the context. That's a rather different matter, IMO.

Canada, Oz, NZ, all of Scandinavia, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Chile... That's off the top of my head in terms of places that could claim to be more tolerant and accepting than the UK. This also does highlight that being a "larger nation" (often) goes hand in hand with abusing that power, whether at home, abroad, or both. We'll have to see what share of the vote Reform get next time round to be sure of comparisons there, I think. They're polling at over 20% themselves.

... or any comment section on any BBC article. Even the apparently non controversial ones.

I don't know, self-aggrandising appears to be in vogue right now, if the actions of Farages leashholder across the pond are any judge.