Sir Steve Howard

This is putting it mildly, disgusting prices

Hummel have delivered a number of bangers for Cov in recent seasons (also quite a few dubious ones but still)

You can't say with a straight face that policies negatively affecting the environment were/are driven by advice from STEM sources? You haven't given specific examples, just naming very wide topics.

Great to see Millwall doing well, four 1-0s on the trot, Old Bob football

Their draw was insane (couldn't happen to a nicer club). One of the nuances of the new format is that being a first seed bears no advantage now draw-wise. Everyone draws 2 teams from each pot, regardless of which pot you're in (because UEFA want more 'big' ties in the league phase for $$$$$$$$$).

Deviating from the initial point but chuck a few examples in

Yes. The suggestion that grads in English, Psychology, Sociology(!!!) would have a more analytical approach to politics than those who did STEM subjects is dubious at best.

Split between degree/no degree is noticeable but not huge. Also I take these with a pinch of salt given the rubbish that you can study for a degree in these days. Would prefer to see a STEM degree split.

Get fuched Susie Dent

Think most would be put off by the disgusting charade that politics is, you need serious narcissistic qualities to go high up in politics. Doubt many physicists at NASA would have any inclination to get involved for example

So the campaign based purely on "I'm not Trump" failed spectacularly? I for one am shocked

Also helps in Scotland that grounds are rarely full, go wherever the fvck you want

Flying Yerevan--Malpensa on Friday night so will miss that unfortunately Went to see the squatters last year v Empoli, Reggio Emilia is a right dump.

This has now evolved into Wed: Alashkert v Ararat Armenia Thur: Noah v Vikingur Sat: Bologna v Venezia Sun: Parma v Lazio

Hungary's fertility rate in 2023 was 1.58, which puts it upper-mid table within Europe but still lower than the 'replacement' number of 2.1 Hard to say how much said incentives have contributed to this though? The anti immigration tactic seems to be working as planned.

Also speaking personally, I prefer Orban's 'nationalistic' approach of refusing to permit mass migration and instead using Government incentives to allow the native population to afford having children. BBC article this week detailing how native fertility rates in the UK are well and truly in the toilet.

Looks like we've come to the end of the reasoned conversation.

Haha, personally I thought it was an apt analogy given the bear being synonymous with Russia

A large number of politicians from the UK have flown over to do door-knocking and campaigning for Harris in Pennsylvania. Is this false equivalence or election interfering by our very own country? Does it only work if you're 'interfering' on behalf of the candidate you don't like?

For what it's worth, Russian officials were initially buoyant when Trump was elected in 2016 but he went on to impose some of the harshest sanctions on them, so the idea of him being a Putin apologist doesn't wash with me.

I try to get information from a wide range of sources and draw my own opinions. Evidently they differ from yours. I don't have a Putin poster on my wall and a Trump bumper sticker on my pick up truck, I just think that the overall rhetoric on here of the upcoming election being a battle of good vs evil is a bit basic.

Ukraine as a whole did not want to join NATO though. Look through any Ukrainian election in recent times, there is a dramatic East-West split between Russian and European friendly candidate support. The Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts Russia has invaded are/were comprised of a huge number of Russians. The anti intellectual comment is sneering and I would argue unfounded. Who are you lobbing in this bucket, Orban, Le Pen?

I'm not sure I follow. I'm not denying interference, it's everywhere. The left-leaning moderators at the Trump-Harris debate were interfering in elections as they fact checked Trump repeatedly yet failed to fact check Kamala once.

It's highly ironic that people were shouting about Russian interference in 2016 when the US have been at it just as much. Constant meddling in and around Russia's 'near abroad', such as Ukraine, Georgia in recent times.

The US have interfered in pretty much any election (and the rest) they could get their hands on in the last hundred years.