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The first episode of the season was one of the worst, most cringeworthy stories in its entire 61 year history. The second, although well written and performed, featured the Doctor immobilised and he barely featured at all in the third. It reminds me of the fifth Doctor, who initially seemed to spend most of his time incapacitated, unconscious, recovering and recuperating or in emotional meltdown whilst his companions saved the day.

"Mike Dean will tell us whether he's right or wrong". ...Great.

Frankly, I can't see us being able to afford @David Hankey right now.

Unfortunately, that doesn't appear to be a barrier these days.

Precisely my caveat yesterday, and it involved the same two members. Apologies. To return to the topic, I'll leave it to others then to broach this. There are times in which any response would be preferable to none...even if it's simply that slack jaw emoji.

The irony, was it intentional?

Whatever people have said about Stringer over the years, you'll never take this away from him... https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03hcq4t/player?height=450px (Once in, click on the image to play)

It is estimated that some two million landmines have been laid in Ukraine since the start of the illegal occupation.

A perfect summary of your own posts. Let me make it simple then. Andrew Bridgen on "Wide Awake Media" - "convincing"? We'll leave it there shall we?

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Actually, she was very similar looks wise. As I typed it, because I know Foxes Talk I was speculating how soon this would happen. Congratulations, you beat Oxlong.

I flew to Poland last week with them and the APU was unable to start the right hand engine due to a stuck fuel valve. This was diagnosed, sourced and replaced within an hour which was highly impressive, although this was Stanstead which is their largest hub. Flying back, the female captain looked like she was in her mid twenties. The landing was very smooth. I then got stuck in border control for an hour because my passport wouldn't scan and it had to be inspected manually.

Yes indeed, I'm aware. What's your point? You are free to refute anything in my reply. The response was to the notion that the conspiracy side of the internet was increasingly convincing. This assertion appears to be based upon a post on X by "Wide Awake Media" featuring Andrew Bridgen. What precisely lacked accuracy, validity or relevance? We can start with the ludicrous "Wide Awake Media" itself if you like. I'd rather not though, since I don't want to be banned from this thread. Could I suggest that you stop trolling it for everyone's sake. Wait, aren't you the pro-Putin guy that caused the original Ukraine thread to be deleted almost two years ago? Indeed, so does Putin.

Antony Blinken is currently urging the president to lift restrictions on how Ukraine can use American arms and whether they can be launched into Russian territory.

Right - because nothing says "convincing" like an emotionally charged, alt-right online platform promoting pseudoscientific bunkum , characterised by a lack of credible sourcing, and unproven/false claims hosting an individual that managed to get expelled by the Tories and ex-Reclaim Party anti-vaxxer. And naturally, the "conspiracy side of the internet" is entirely and unfailingly honest, unwaveringly accurate and consistent, not in the least bit intentionally deceptive, misleading, fallacious, exploitative, opportunistic monetised or manipulative and with your best interests at heart is completely free of vested interest and agenda? Righto then.

Same here.

Dotted all over the city. Some out of the centre such as Forest Hills, others nestled in between the chains. A good example of the sort of businesses that I am referring to is Hopkinson, near the station. I suspect that places like this simply aren't on your radar. I don't mean that in a derogatory way but it would explain why you think that the Leicester City Centre of today is "much better" than the 80s and 90s in which independent business and traders thrived.

Actually, that's not true. Coventry University is in survival mode due to a range of factors, predominately the curtailment of international student visas. Restrictions on some student visas, political rhetoric and the media have been attributed to a 40% year-on-year drop in international student recruitment at English universities in January’s intake. And the government is now examining the possibility of restricting or closing the Graduate Route visa, which allows highly educated Post-Graduate students to work in the UK for a limited time after they have completed their studies. Universities UK and VCs are pointing to new data that shows every student on the Graduate Route visa brings a net benefit of £1,240 each to the UK economy. Coventry University Group will weather this since it can realign and it has substantial investments, cash reserves and equity to allow time to do this - but it currently has a 100m deficit. International students are worth more than £150 million to the city but government policy changes are driving them away and this is hammering businesses and the local economy of the city. They are having to accelerate a shift to teaching students outside of England – and they are already achieving this with branch and badged campuses in Egypt, Morocco and China, with negotiations underway for more in Kazakhstan and India and several other countries. However, those campuses won’t benefit the Coventry economy. University of Warwick being a Russel Group member and a research lead institution as opposed to a teaching/modern has a very high research revenue and a higher budget but it doesn't have the same level of wealth in property/land investments nor the student population of CU. CU is the City Centre campus and it is through this that many local businesses depend.

You didn't...as explained, I'm neither a Tory or a Tory sympathiser Because he is a Leeds United supporter and they are playing Southampton in the play off final, so it was a better example than Everton fan Burnham. And yet they do - and my point is that it probably wouldn't bother you as much. Fair enough - and I do agree it can be quite cringeworthy - but it's a tad over the top branding Sunak as a "vile, vile man" solely because he pledged support for a team that he has followed since he was a boy. Particularly since there are plenty of legitimate reasons for arriving at that conclusion.

I suggest that you read my post again.

A bit bewildered by this post to be honest. Aside from the monoculture of the big branches, retail consists of vape shops, mobile phone outlets, pound shops and tawdry tacky highstreets. High rents and Ecommerce has crucified the independent traders which thrived in the 70s, 80s and 90s and made the City centre an interesting place to visit. There is still a semblance of this in Nottingham if you venture beyond the mainstream chains.

In a mere three days, nearly 180,014 Crimean Tatars were deported from the peninsula. That's incredible. At the same time, most of the Crimean Tatar men who were fighting in the ranks of the Red Army were demobilised and sent into labour camps in Siberia and in the Ural mountain region. These soldiers were at least released after Stalin’s death in 1953 and allowed to return to their families in their place of exile. I was in Poland last week for a conference and it was strange to think that I was less than 200 miles from the border of a country at the centre of an illegal invasion and a warzone. During my stay I visited the Łódź/Litzmannstadt ghetto. This was the largest Nazi controlled ghetto next to Warsaw, and the second largest in Europe. At Radagast station I saw box carts that they were herded into for transportation to Auschwitz and Chelmno during the 'final solution'. By the time that the death camps were liberated by the allies and the Red Army, only 800 of the Polish Jews and Roma of the 263,000 that passed through it remained. Of course the Soviet Union ushered in 37 years of communist rule and so the Polish population was never really free. The Western investment and European funding that has transformed the lives of so many Polish people is remarkable, however, stray away from the gentrification zones and the toll of the last century is hard to erase...