Lionator

A few years ago you’d put Georgia in that bracket, now they have one of the best forward players in Europe and it wouldn’t be a massive shock if they made the World Cup. Same with Iceland a few years back and once upon a time Wales were alsorans, I don’t think they should ever pull up the drawbridge. The positive of the nations league too means that qualifying tournaments can have smaller groups so you play less poor teams more often. The nations league format may in time become the main way of qualifying anyway.

Appalling piece of gamesmanship to get the free kick but good strike!

Why aren’t players booked for diving anymore? Embarrassing from Rashford.

The whole purpose of that article was saying that he got carried away and said stuff without doing it. It’s classic Labour under Starmer, say something to give you a (+2) in the opinion polls and worry about the impact later on.

What if the current form of liberal democracy isn’t working for people anymore?

The whole political system just feels completely broken. I feel completely helpless and hopeless.

Last week it was “let’s get disabled people back into work”. This week it’s “AI is the most efficient use of resources for jobs” So which is it Keir?

He’s been saying so for the past few weeks albeit wanting an American air cover. I’ve called it out as madness on here and get called a Russian apologist 🤷🏻‍♀️ over 50% of the population want us to put boots on the ground in Ukraine too based upon the latest Savanta, clearly they’re either idiots or haven’t been made aware of the full gravity of such thing.

The best way to get over the depressing nature of what Forest is doing is remembering that people from Nottingham are just normal people like ourselves, and that life is generally very miserable and that football team success is genuinely nice for community cohesion. Just forget the identity and be content that some people are actually experiencing football joy for the first time in their miserable Nottinghamshire lives.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/03/23/starmer-ukraine-peacekeeping-plan-political-theatre/ Shock horror the army briefing against Starmer’s idea to send troops to Ukraine because it was always insane.

This is the thing, most jobs will be at dreadful entry level wages, working in factories, care or hospitality (physically most taxing). But then forgetting that most people on PIP already work and have PIP as a top up. So people won’t have enough to live on regardless. And then their health will decline further because they can’t feed themselves, they’ll need the nhs more and hey presto you end up costing the state more money in the first place. All this is, is about balancing some short term nonsense books to get (+2 points) in the polls. They should be more honest. This was supported by a brief campaign by the Westminster power brokers in gaslighting the worst off in society to justify it. The narrative then strengthens based on very little real world evidence. Meanwhile the Westminster media machine moves on as if nothing happened, dipping their toe in the next complex topic that they know absolutely nothing about (one week it’s Ukraine then silence, then it’s benefits, this week house building and the economy). It’s vile.

Greece are some team when they’re on it.

Looking at Palace’s fixtures, a win here pretty much sews up survival.

North Korean hackers brought down a whole NHS trust a while back and barely anything was said.

I was a bit hasty but ultimately when you have the sky news defence editor within an hour calling it sabotage followed by the Estonian foreign minister then you know things are getting dicey.

It wouldn’t be a drone. More likely internal sabotage by someone paid off by the SVR. Although police are saying no indication of foul play so far. But given that this would be a war starting move, I’m guessing they’ll cover it up anyway.

Either way it’s completely dire. Either a) we’re at war or b) our critical infrastructure has one power supply source, which is insane.

We have to respond, the question is how

https://news.sky.com/story/heathrow-airport-closed-flights-cancelled-london-fire-travel-latest-13332924 Pretty clear this is going to be Russian sabotage. here is the Estonian foreign affairs minister

Indeed, you can argue those that can navigate the system are disproportionately those that are less likely to need PIP in a sense. The most vulnerable find it incredibly difficult and are shamed by the whole welfare system. I hope yourselves and your daughter can get what you need.

finally, a mainstream journalist that actually understands it.

Also supporting disabled people into work by making adjustments would be seen as a symptom of the woke virus. See how people react to EDI leads in the NHS, people think it’s so that people can be employed to talk about how bad colonialism is whereas the actual stuff is about increasing accessibility to people who can’t work because of physical and mental health needs.

The whole system is broken and it needs some serious thinking to try and overcome it. Anyone who has tried different approaches mainly thinking Corbyn and Truss, have been well and truly spat out and rejected by the system.

The only thing I would say is that the job market is atrocious at the moment. Lots of very poor paying jobs that just wouldn’t help people make ends meet.