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Predictable and next week France are playing at home to israel Are we approaching the point where uefa have to accept that that Israel should be excluded from their competitions for safety reasons? It shouldn’t have - Ajax has a strong pro Jewish history. Pre game, some Israeli fans were being insulting with anti Arab/palestinian songs (not a surprise) and some fans apparently tore down a Palestinian flag (note that they are football fans). this appeared on social media and after the game, there were many groups wandering the streets looking for Israeli fans to attack - but this became ‘are you Jewish’ rather than. ‘Are you Israeli’. I’ve seen videos where people were beaten up on the basis of whether they were willing to say ‘free Palestine’. there were expectations that Israeli fans would be targeted - it was stupid for them to wander around after the game in small groups rather than making sure that they got back to their hotel rooms quickly. It was either naive or foolhardy. Of course this shouldn’t be the case but you have to live in the real world.

This is not news !

The opposite here which is why the ftse hasn’t recovered

Not happening under cooper

Do we ever sacrifice our principles for desired outcomes? I doubt he’ll offer anything other than what most expect from him but say we get to the end of year 4 and we have a realistic peace scenario in the mid east and the ukraine/russia war having found an acceptable settlement. Is there a level of injustice, day to day, in the states (and possibly elsewhere) that would be worth it? I'm wondering if many of those who have voted for him are simply closing their eyes to what he actually is because they believe he’ll do stuff they think will improve their lives and others too ??? It’s not as stark as those on the left who voted for chirac in France a few years ago when the choice was him or le Penn but in many people’s minds perhaps it was a bit like that.

Who is he starting instead of ?

The aforementioned James O’Brien on LBC had a take on it earlier As with most elections the middle ground waverers decide the outcome (he didn’t say that but we know this ) Trump promised that he would make changes to make you better off Harris didn’t promise anything other than she wasn’t trump that wasn’t enough to ‘trump’ (sorry) the promises from the republicans. A lot will think that it should be but when you’re struggling financially you will generally put money first.

Yes - he misses five games and then is back for ………… us

He doesn’t he just wants the rest of the members to pay more so the states can (not unreasonably) pay less

Having a scan according to Tanner

Dow up 3.6% which market was up 10%?

Apparently she’ll be speaking 6pm ET

It’s 10am in Washington give her a chance !

EDIT wasnt true

You’ll be wearing a red baseball cap come Xmas ‘25 Mac !

Jones can’t compute how a Muslim immigrant cannot vote democrat. so his race and religion is relevant to his point. The issue here is jones’ preconceptions and stereotyping.

And as has been pointed out earlier in the thread, she wasn’t chosen as the candidate - she was basically forced upon the party when the crazy idea that Biden could serve a second term came tumbling down around them. the dems screwed this up big time

Yeah but he said he’d MAGA so what does that bitty stuff matter ……. Let he who has never parked on a double yellow cast the first stone ………. they don’t see it as real - it’s just stuff that ‘the machine’ has made up to beat their guy Fwiw, I’m hoping that the rhetoric is mainly just that and that he sees opportunities to actually leave a global legacy over the next few years and grasps them rather than the low hanging fruit. my biggest concern is that he doesn’t make it past year 2 and that Vance takes over.

Surely that is the most random tweet ever ? how do you ever think of stuff like that ???

so wrong ? PA was 51/48 WI was 50/49 GA wa 51/49 NC was 51/48 MI is 50/48 its v close and all within expected tolerance all pundits said that it could just as easily be 271/269 and 310/230 The country is v divided

It’s the result they would prefer but ‘pleased’ is probably a bit of a stretch. They will now be forced to come to a settlement and it won’t be for what they would want. Zelensky knows that a deal has to be done - he is just trying to force the middle ground as far in Ukraine’s direction as he can. trump says a lot to get elected he did it in 2016 he didn’t deliver on all the stuff he said he would no one ever does buckle up because it’s likely to be quite a ride. The general news thread is probably going to be rather active …….. harris simply didn’t manage to get enough of her vote out in the swing states. Looks like she couldn’t convince some of the waverers that she was a safe pair of hands.

the Everton comment is true - that game was proper basketball and 3-1 would have been a good lead but newcastle ? They shagged us for 90mins and we managed a shot in added time when they decided they would try and protect the point they needed. The fact that we kept a clean sheet that night was pretty much the most astonishing thing about the season!

It means that the bets placed are more on trump than Harris Within that context (of trump favoured by the bookies), over the course of the day it’s drifted ever so slightly towards Harris and then back to trump so that we end the day with trump slightly more favoured than Harris compared to how the day started. if you believe the money then trump is more likely to win.

Plenty of 6/4 available on Harris Very little 4/6 available on trump

All relevant points I'm wondering about this 10 week period ahead of an inauguration - who is in charge in the whitehouse ? It’s known as the ‘lame duck period’. There have been reports that trump has told BN to have ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon in place by the time he is president. And to have dealt with Iran. If trump wins will Netenyahu just do as he pleases over the next 11 weeks with no US govt influence to be a little more circumspect ? if Harris wins then Netenyahu will feel cornered because the heat is coming onto him if he has to deal with a Harris administration.