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Last night reminded me of Kevin Keegan in the 1998 World Cup likening the card happy referee's top pocket to a 'pop up toaster'.

Her initials weren't JP were they? - Because I observed precisely the same scenario.

At my school in West London, the staff would use violence and emotional cruelty, groom and have relationships with pupils, frequently get drunk, use inappropriate language, confiscate property that they would never return alongside flagrant selective favouritism and bias. And that was just the dinner ladies.

Each and every lab in one photo - American field and English pedigree: Fox red (lemon), black and chocolate. Bred and hard wired for the water.

Starship V3 poised for another launch attempt billed as make or break for SpaceX. They've lengthened both the upper stage and the Super Heavy booster of Starship Version 3 in order to expand fuel capacity, improve payload capacity, and upgraded its propulsion system with Raptor 3 engines. New launch pad too.

The reduced route is now unlikely to hit its target of 2033 and is set to cost in excess of £100billion. That figure is more than NASA's £79billion budget for the Artemis missions, exceeding costs for the planned Artemis IV expedition, expected to place astronauts back on the moon within a fraction of the timescale.

A superb acquisition for us at the time. The accident was horrific incurring near fatal head, internal, and leg injuries and as I recall he was in a critical condition for some length of time following the emergency surgery. It put an end to his playing career. Celtic loaned him to us and even based upon his brief performances I remember there was much anticipation that he would possibly stay. He was an absolute hero at Hearts.

I had a good look around when it was an Abercrombie and Fitch store and into the basement which was the main studio. Be good if you can get on the roof.

As of now, Taylor Swift holds the record for the highest-grossing concert tour of all time with her Eras Tour, which concluded in December 2024 with over $2 billion in revenue. For overall career touring revenue, The Rolling Stones are the highest-grossing live band in history, collecting over $2.9 billion. Madonna's career sales are often cited between 300 and 400 million, placing her behind only The Beatles, Elvis Presley, and Michael Jackson in total worldwide records sold. The Beatles are undisputed in total sales, with claims ranging from 600 to 1 billion units. Of course sales and superstardom isn't necessarily a sole measure of creative worth and merit but in the case of the Beatles, the latter is hard to dispute.

Following their May 2025 election victory, Reform UK, which took control of Lincolnshire County Council, has reversed local climate leadership by "declaring war" on green energy, with leader Cllr Sean Matthews dismissing the "climate emergency". The administration is in the process of scrapping net-zero targets and opposing renewable energy projects, such as wind and solar, labelling them "eyesore." This local policy aligns with the national Reform UK party’s stance, which has received significant funding from climate change deniers, including direct support from the Heartland Institute. The sheer irony of this happening first in Lincolnshire of all counties - you couldn't make it up.

Although China has significant leverage over North Korea, providing roughly 90% of its trade, food, and energy, it is highly unlikely to ever overthrow Kim Jong-un. Beijing prioritises regional stability, and fears the possibility of a refugee crisis, potential military conflict, or a pro-US, unified Korea on its border. North Korea offers significant strategic stability and acts as a buffer state against US-aligned South Korea and Japan. A sudden collapse or overthrowing of the Kim dynasty could trigger a chaotic war or regional instability, which China is anxious avoid. Also, contrary to popular belief, China does not station troops in North Korea and cannot easily install a new government and since North Korea is a nuclear power; a violent regime change could lead to dangerous instability. While China holds leverage through trade, completely cutting off resources is seen as too risky, potentially causing an uncontrolled collapse. If the regime showed signs of collapse or the dictator as you say "stepped too far out of line", Beijing might notionally aim to support a more cooperative faction in Pyongyang rather than a full, hostile overthrow, though this would still be challenging in practice.

This, a fanbase that struggles with the complexity of "Leicester, Leicester, Leicester Leicester, Leicester, Leicester, Leicester" to the tune of Amazing Grace.

Ha! yes, whether Dick James was a "con artist" is subjective, but he was widely considered an ruthlessly effective music publisher who exploited common 1960s industry practices to his advantage. While he played a pivotal role in launching the Beatles' career, he later secured control of their songwriting copyrights and sold them for a massive profit without their consent. Regarding the last sentence of this piece, absolutely. It was relegated to the Yellow Submarine soundtrack and like 'It's All Too Much' became more of a curiosity than a song cemented in Beatles lore. Whereas 'It's Only a Northern Song' was completed early in the Sgt Pepper sessions and quickly forgotten about, the latter was recorded after the completion of the album in the main at De Lane Lea Studios in Soho, not Abbey Road, and very little is known about the process. particularly what the spoken intro actually says and who was responsible for the sustained, feedback-heavy whammy bar G major chord - ( I reckon Lennon on his '61 sonic blue strat that had been purchased at his decree by Mal Evans during the Help sessions). What is said at the start is debatable, and isn't even discernable through isolation. It sounds like conversation to me cut off prematurely, although some suggest it's John saying “To Jorma,” in reference to Jorma Kaukonen of the Jefferson Airplane, who he was hanging with in London the time. There are other tracks that could have been left off Sgt. Pepper too in my opinion.. At the time it was a singles dominated market, so there was always pressure from EMI for another chart topping product which often meant their best material at any given time. Picture how much better the album would have been with the inclusion of Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields and the omission of the throwaway 'Good Morning Good Morning' and the somewhat banal 'Fixing a Hole'. Imagine Revolver with 'Paperback Writer' and 'Rain' as opposed to 'I Want to Tell You' and 'Good Day Sunshine' or Rubber Soul with 'Day Tripper' and 'We Can Work it Out' replacing 'What Goes on' and 'Run For Your Life'.

That stupid ****ing 'Vichai's Dream' song is now extinct at last.

Orbán built a decade-long system of confrontation with Brussels, backed by a disciplined party machine, deep networks across the European right and a sustained strategy of using veto power for leverage. Radev meanwhile enters in a very different setting. Bulgaria’s state capacity is much weaker and is far more dependent on EU funding. That matters because Bulgaria’s leaders have generally avoided theatrical clashes with Brussels for this reason. Moscow welcomes the victory because Radev has historically opposed military aid to Ukraine and long cultivated a more accommodating conciliatory line towards Moscow than most EU leaders. So yes, he could still push Sofia away from the more clearly pro-Western orientation pursued by the current caretaker authorities and create more room for obstruction and strategic ambiguity at a time when the EU needs the opposite. But Orbán showed how a single leader can turn an EU member state into a durable source of internal disruption. Radev is likely to test a different model based upon selective divergence dressed up as pragmatism.

Josh Murphy is at least out for this, but they are now back at full strength at the back so given what little threat we pose up front and the fact that we are largely incapable of conceding, the prospect of getting anything from this encounter is unlikely. Fratton Park has always been an intimidating prospect but oddly Pompey's poor home form has been one of the reasons that they have been hauled into a relegation battle.

Leicester City FC are pleased to confirm and proud to announce that DOI TUNG will be the Official Principal Partner and sponsor of Leicester City Football Club for the 2026/27 season. Quite apt when they continue to get roasted.

Staggering.

Eh? And who precisely are "they"? I'm not aware of any credible source suggesting that the Chinese or Russian government are "sub-human scum". Pure hyperbole. Amusingly, that's precisely the rhetoric used by Vladimir Putin to describe anyone who opposed his 'special military operation' in Ukraine or brands it a war or has fled the country due to intimidation. Scum, traitors and enemies of the state. As abhorrent as the current US administration is, (and I agree with Noam Chomsky that one of the greatest existential threats within the democratic world is the 'Repugnant' party), let's not forget both China and Russia are an absolutist one party state where political opposition is ruthlessly crushed or eliminated - think Lam Cheuk-ting, Jimmy Lai, Boris Nemtsov and Alexei Navalny. The Putin regime had long been oppressive, but not totalitarian. In terms of Moscow and Beijing, what qualifies as totalitarian can be debated. The political theorist Hannah Arendt defined it as systematic reliance on terror. The Stalin and Mao eras fitted this definition. It was a place of fear and of purges, or arbitrary large-scale murders and knocks on door at night, with suspects taken away by shadowy state agents, never to be seen again, of prison camps and gulags administered by colossal security bureaucracy. Prior to 2022, Putin had not taken Russia to this point but his wartime state is at least as controlling and restrictive as Leonid Brezhnev's Soviet Union and the regime is moving even further in the direction of the 1930s using methods of coercion. intimidation and state control and neo Soviet regression. The FSB inherited many of its domestic functions of the KGB, and increasingly the spy agency began to resemble the NKVD now exercising far greater control than in the late Soviet era. Meanwhile, as much as I despise everything that Donald Trump represents, if you think that there isn't "a more disgusting governing body on Earth than that of the United States" I suggest that you familiarise yourself with the Kim dynasty.

I understand that this is hypothetically speaking, but if it was half way to the moon it wouldn't be travelling a 25,000mph based upon current TLI and even escape velocity burns, more in the region of 2,500mph.

They ain't going to get very far then.