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Eh? He's going to resign from his job, then stand again for the same job? What?

I think it's because 'Labour will raise taxes' was (and has always been) a key Tory attack line, and much of the election was fought over cost-of-living concerns, so promising not to raise income taxes and prioritising growth were both ways that Labour sought to reassure centrist type voters. I think Starmer has been alright (yeah, I know, one for the unpopular opinions thread) but I agree this was a key error: By backing themselves into a corner over income tax, they've ended up increasing taxes on business, which makes the growth they wanted harder to realise. Perhaps Burnham can find a way round it?

I travel into Leicester almost every day on that line. The new Aurora trains EMR have been rolling out have loads of electrical issues and keep breaking down. It's one of them involved, so it could possibly be a fault. Awful.

Oddly enough its such an unedifying shambles that I think Starmer has come out of this looking better than any of the alternatives (Appreciate that may not be the majority view!)

https://youtu.be/f_bKjZeJBBI?si=YIVkX_mCaD_ZKsFO I am looking forward to The Odyssey but I'm not sure about the thick New York/Boston accents everyone seems to have in this new trailer. What's that about?

New York Times reporting that the deal on the table includes an agreement that Iran would charge $2 million per ship passing through the Hormuz strait, which would then fund reconstruction.

If it helps I had exactly the same last summer. They were very good at the hospital and I got the results (benign, thankfully) in a week or two. Its a human and AI process, and was actually very reassuring. Hopefully you will get the same.

Of course. Wherever we end up, the manager is not the issue.

I'm playing Marathon, but I have never played an extraction shooter or Destiny so its totally new to me. I'm enjoying it a lot but I have to say that I'm fairly useless at it. I pity the randoms who get matchmade with me and have to watch me blundering into gunfire over and over again.

If you haven't been to the states for a while, or NYC in particular, my main advice is: adjust your expectation for how much everything is going to cost.

Marty Supreme is an amazing experience, hands down the best film I've seen in years.

Sort of. As a supporter, the PL and FA Cup wins stand as amazing accomplishments, and no-one can take them away from us. They're not tainted. But those moments could have meant that we were on our way to establishing ourselves as a bigger presence in UK football. There was an opportunity to grow the fanbase, improve the stadium, work with bigger and better commercial partners, etc. None of these were guaranteed and in some ways they might be considered distractions, but they matter commercially, they matter for the city, they matter for the future of the club. Frankly, they matter for the pride of the fanbase too. Instead, due to unbelievable mismanagement in my opinion, we have returned to being a small club that had a brief period of good fortune, before retreating back to the lower leagues, BC Game, financial mismanagement, dreadful scouting etc. That doesn't detract from our successes, but its also a shame.

I could not have enjoyed Predator Badlands more. An absolute banger, and a particular treat for anyone who grew up loving Predator and Aliens. Its somehow more badass than the original but funny and heartwarming at the same time, which was totally unexpected. It also has the hardest 12A rating ever - kids, prepare yourself for a lot of beheadings.

Alongside all the other stuff, I just do not understand the vehement hatred of Starmer. He's a fairly uninspiring technocrat who has a habit of picking the wrong battles, and his government are obviously struggling to actually deliver the change they promised, which is disappointing, but I'm struggling to see what he's done that has made the right so angry.

Also, its v annoying that they have let the seating row lettering wear away in various places, hence its constantly 'You're in my seat, 'This is R, you want T,' etc, for the first ten minutes of every game. It would take two days to do over the summer, but nope, nothing. Not a big thing on anyone's radar, obviously, but a sign of disinterest in the basics IMO.