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Missed opportunity for Draper, sadly. Hopefully he gets more adept at dealing with unorthodox lower ranked opposition, because if he wants that Slam he'll need that as a matter of necessity.

Wouldn't really be surprising. How exactly do you deal with that in Whitehall when you're almost certain the US President is a compromised Russian asset, I wonder?

Seven hells, my dog just went berserk. Goodness only knows why.

A fair bit more empathy would certainly be a good thing, necessary even, because the lack of it results in the exact outcome you say here. Sadly, I fear that fleeing such ideology would at best only buy someone a little time, as it will have consequences felt worldwide and by everyone and everything.

More detail on this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cev47ze8vp3o Multiple people have been injured after a man shouting "free Palestine" tossed Molotov cocktails at a gathering in support of Israeli hostages in Colorado, authorities say. Police said eight people - aged 52 to 88 - were injured in the attack at the Pearl Street Mall, a popular outdoor space in Boulder, about 30 miles (48km) from Denver. The FBI called it a suspected terror attack and said the suspect used a makeshift flamethrower, Molotov cocktails and other incendiary devices. Footage of the attack shows the suspect, who was shirtless, screaming at the group and had what appears to be Molotov cocktails in each hand when he was arrested. The attack unfolded during a weekly scheduled demonstration put on by Run for Their Lives, a pro-Israeli group that holds walks in the outdoor pedestrian mall in solidarity with Israeli hostages in Gaza. It always seems that the number of ideologues on both sides that are caught in the cycle of violence is far outmatched by the number of those who are innocent in the matter and in all likelihood have no big grievance with the other side, doesn't it?

It's entirely possible, but I don't think it's a good idea to write off hundreds of millions of lives (minimum) as essentially doomed just yet. NB. I've seen the "do-nothing because it might make my life a little less comfortable" crowd move their justification from "there is no climate change so why bother?" to "oh dear, too late, why bother?" in a heartbeat before.

Yep, that's about right. Unfortunately addressing these are long term projects which, without consensus, tend to struggle within shorter term democratic systems. Another thing I like to emphasise is that it's not "will", not yet, it's "may". The window is shrinking, but there is still time to stop that outcome from occurring. But yes, if we can't, won't or don't, any other measure will be kicking the can down the road, exactly as you say.

Any argument about immigration control that doesn't include a workable plan to address the root causes of why it occurs now (and why there may well be much, much more in the future) is either well-meaning but ultimately massively ineffective, or flat-out accepting the death and suffering of a very large amount of human beings so long as the arguers "tribe" can go on living life in the comfort they now inhabit.

Remarkable stuff! The Chinese must think the current scientific policy situation in the US is manna from heaven for them.

It is a ridiculous temperature scale for almost everything apart from elemental science, it's true.

It's entirely possible. We'll only really get to know in due course. Edit: however, sadly other examples of the above do exist. Dylann Roof and Brenton Tarrant, to name but two.

Tbh I think the UK should take a leaf out of a soon-to-be-announced Trump policy and authorise the use of tactical nuclear weapons to secure the border. A 100 Million Kelvin welcome should serve as a good deterrent.

Yep. Civil unrest at the very best within the next five to ten years given the narrative that is being drip fed to people with firearms and a grudge, I think.

"Say hello, Wernher von Braun and all of Operation Paperclip."

I don't envy those reputable organisations the dilemma. I certainly think that there's a cynical self interest manifesting itself in trying to control the narrative going on from the l that particular side, yes.

"Truth is the first casualty of war."

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.