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There are protests near the Iranian embassy with British based Iranians who are clearly anti regime. But there doesn’t seem to be much sympathy for the protesters in Iran - shutting down the internet has been important in that because there will be some pretty awful videos that haven’t got out yet.

on bbc website re sink hole that appeared in Harpenden I mean they didn’t really get sucked into publishing that - surely ! Hertfordshire Council added: "We are aware of a sink hole in Park Avenue North, Harpenden, this morning and our Hertfordshire Highways team are on site along with Affinity Water. "Park Avenue North, is currently closed for residents' safety and while we investigate the cause." A spokesperson for Affinity Water said: "We're aware of the situation and are looking into it."

Dykes is a poor man’s Carlton morris tel wants first team football We’re offering football combination level ….

This isn’t new ? I mean even he wouldn’t put that out the day before he’s due to decide what he’s doing!

We should start a Facebook group !

I feel your pain

Seems like the momentum in the Iranian protests has eased in the face of govt crackdowns trump only likes to back a winner so he may not now intervene. of course once the internet comes back up there will be hundreds of v unpleasant videos - he’ll just bat away criticism of his comments that he wouldn’t allow that to happen on the basis that he got the regime to step back from doing even worse.

I think he committed 3 red card offiences !

Inter get a var penalty v napoli so dodgy

I think the Americans (well the right anyway) are expecting fusion to work and be commercial en masse within 25 years. Too late ? Probably for a lot of people but then if fusion can work we’ll have affordable A/C everywhere that wants it. Across large parts of the globe we’d become effectively an indoor species for much of the year.

Didn’t make it to 1 xg

Would like to see aluko have a good last half hour

If they keep the secret traitor next series then I wonder if they’ll not tell them who the actual traitors are. Can’t work out how good/bad the players are this series didn’t understand the obsession that the traitors had to know who the secret traitor was. Just accelerated stuff when it didn’t need to and several more faithful could have been murdered in the meantime. And as a group, they keep making deductions that have no basis in logic. If they recruited Harriet then I reckon they have a good chance of getting to a place where last six are 50/50 faithful and traitors

I’m not seeing this Greenland thing as black and white as some. the states and Denmark have an ongoing arrangement whereby they can station as many troops and whatever hardware they want to on the territory. other things are at play here. could be that the administration aren’t convinced that Europe and they are going to have a strong relationship going forward so cannot rely on that agreement being renewed/continued could be that this is a tactic to force the Europeans into bringing forward their military spending increases. That also plays well for the Americans as they are the largest producers of defence equipment. im struggling to accept that a president who is so transactional would risk losing the ‘support’ of a massive alliance and see the end of NATO when it’s simply not strategically necessity to do that.

it’s a strange one Go back to the seventies and it wasn’t a problem of the left it was a problem of the right but now the right have adopted the ‘my enemies enemy is my friend’ approach, they’ve moved away from hating the Jews. (The extreme right haven’t ) my view is that once the right realise that they don’t have any real argument to ‘other’ the Muslim population to a large enough section of the voting public then they’ll swiftly move onto another group which could easily be the Jews (despite there only being 250k in the uk). It’s an old playbook - the uk voter always seemed able to see when they were being played but I suspect enough of them can be now.

Plumbing puns

This thread suddenly worth looking at …..

Reckon you can - especially at close range but the ricochet aspect is relevant

Couldnt they have just shot her tyres out ??

Heard an interview with someone saying that the captains office will have a cupboard full of flags to fly ! russia are presumably trying to draw a line in the sand on the Americans clamping down on these ‘ghost ships’ that are used to transport a lot of Russian oil aro7nd the globe. This ship was used more recently for Venezuelan oil so Moscow probs not that bothered but I think they want to make a bigger point to Washington not to get involved with ships carrying their oil.

It’s a ghost ship russia has decided to raise the stakes by shadowing it. If the Americans have boarded it then I expect the Russians to quietly disappear from the area.

I think he was a late loan signing hence we were probably pushed into agreeing to things we didn’t want to if there is a return clause then he’ll be on his way back or already gone.

Which means that it shouldn’t be an intervention. For the var to get involved you shouldn’t be thinking about it at all

Didn’t he head his fists ?

So var shouldn’t be getting involved if MGW is actually attempting to head the ball then I could see it but the ball isn’t there if MGW is stationary and the keeper takes him out then a pen but both players are moving forwards