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They're taking enough wickets to slow things up a bit now.

Gets the ton and then moves into even more destructive mode.

Shows what he can do. There's clearly an incredible talent in there, now he just needs to match it with consistent mentality.

Brook finally bringing the noise once again.

Where's that Onion article about the worst person you know making a great point?

On a more lighthearted note, tremendous effort that this has got to 400+ pages without being canned.

Oh, no doubt the help comes with strings attached and so the benefit is mutual. The difference may well be however that they are playing the long game - and seeing the long game - well enough that it guarantees a future in which all parties concerned can still mutually benefit, rather than just one or none. Fair to say. And still we're left with the same problem as a result.

I think Draper can do what Henman did (some Slam semifinals, perhaps even a final) but not much more.

Looks like sans Murray GB tennis is back to the bad old days of praying someone, anyone, makes it to the second week of a Slam, then. No one out there even close to being as consistent as he was.

Appreciate the further elaboration. To extend this then, if the point being made is that the level of outrage over George Floyd's death was too large and/or the outrage over these ICE killings is too small, I'm not sure I can agree with either point. Such things are always situational, even if in this case they share a common factor in there being prejudiced violence being handed out by enforcers wearing a badge. The issue of institutional mistreatment of people of colour by the US fuzz is both incredibly long standing and deep seated. The current ICE horribleness, as outrageous as it is (and should be called out at all levels of UK society) will hopefully die when Trump no longer has power. And may that day come soon.

They may at least be a thorn in the side of the current MAGA administration. I think the general level of outrage is similar, it's just more specifically directed this time round. That being said, you appear to be driving at a point here without quite arriving yet so do please go ahead and make it.

That depends on both the actions of the autocracy and the current problems being faced. It's hardly cut and dried. Viewing what the UK and other European powers did a century or more ago as just "economic colonisation" is an interestingly rose tinted way of looking at that particular part of history.

As an aside, the continuation of Marjorie Taylor Greene standing on her principles rather than kowtowing to Trump is fascinating to watch.

And current evidence seems to show that on certain matters, that has benefits as well as flaws.

Interesting trending, though not altogether unexpected. I don't think China can ever really be said to be a "friend" in that the cultural and historical values between them and the UK are so different it's difficult to share that sentiment on a large scale. But what you might be able to say about them is that they're friendly to the concept of ensuring a world where both they and the UK continue to exist in one form or another, along with human civilisation in general. I'm not sure the same can be said of the US at the present time.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w94v205y2o Some good investigative from the Beeb here regarding just how dark security service work can be and how innocent people may well simply be considered collateral damage in the name of "defending the realm" in some cases. Critical question from the article: "can the authorities who played a role in the events, including MI5, be trusted to decide whether to tell the public about what happened, when doing so could leave them exposed?" Edit: speaking personally, that the British government got into bed with Loyalist elements who were every bit as bloodthirsty and psychopathic as their Nationalist counterparts during the Troubles is absolutely shameful and something more people should be making a noise about and more people should be answering for.

If you're referring to the Web in general, there's quite a few swallowing the party line about him somehow being a capital threat and therefore worthy of being shot at the time he'd been jumped and pepper-sprayed multiple times. In this small corner of it? Looks like the Trump apologists that do exist here either rightly believe what happened to be indefensible (even for him) or at least think it might be indefensible enough to say nothing at all.

I'm sorry people, but it's the Countryfile theme that's the real terror-inflicting death knell for the weekend.

And you would think Burnham is a smart enough political operator to know that too. Wonder what's going on. Hopefully that he doesn't mean it is obvious to everyone. I wonder who in his inner circle actually has both the power and the motive to get him to row back though? Miller has the power but not the motive, the only one I can think of is perhaps Vance.

It does all seem a bit Andor season 2 in that way. “Propaganda will only get you so far. You need a radical insurgency you can count on." “You need Ghorman rebels you can count on to do the wrong thing.” That being said, I think (and hope) that he lacks the power and support at all the levels necessary to make such a scheme actually work.

Just another day in life over there right now, it would seem.

That might be a violation of the Eighth Amendment, but I like your thinking.

When a person has Deb, of all people, resorting to harsh language, then you can be pretty sure that person deserves everything negative that might come their way.

Check the latest response on the cvnts thread. That being said, don't let that be a distraction from the fact that Trump is a bigger shitbag of simply a different odour to those neocons, rather than a lesser one.

As terrible as today's comment was, it's come to a pretty pass that it has taken that to appear to wake a lot of people up to just how reprehensible a human being the man is. Casual short sighted self interested disregard for other people is very much on par for him.