Jon the Hat

What does the US currently buy from Russia?

Shame no one pointed it at the BBC. oh PEDOscope. I thought you said… never mind.

He will walk in the summer

Presumably he doesn’t trust his defence

@Mark might delete if it is causing distress for frankly zero benefit to the world.

Random thing for the mortgage company to get upset about.

Gin and milk could be a thing.

Good comment in the Times today by Hugo Rifkind, pointing out the irony that the US has in fact wanted subservient NATO partners since the start, see Suez etc. They might not like where they end up if they keep this direction going. After all what are they offering exactly if not free trade and military support?

I’ve been travelling for about 27 hours, and I’m about an hour and half from my Dads house in France. Quite tired. Also thank god for Imodium.

It was never a serious suggestion, just a negotiation tactic.

You seriously think Starmer was going to put British troops on the ground? When Putin says no NATO troops?

It would if you also reduce the in work benefits. At the moment lots paying tax and then getting it back in other expensive to administer routes.

I was thinking of Remploy, and looking back my recollection was slightly wrong - they were subsidized for many years until the Blair government pulled the plug. They tried to keep their direct factory employment open but failed. Now owned by some American mob as a servide that places disabled people in mainstream employment.

There used to be organizations which provided employment for all kinds of people with disabilities, but then someone decided paying them less than minimum wage was degrading, so they all closed as they were not efficient enough to support themselves.

So utterly classless to keep going after people who challenged him in between his two terms. Move on man.

Agreed; When the chips are down you need fighters, and we loaned them out and relied on very talented but a bit lightweight players.

I don't begrudge the family a statue of their dad near where he died on the other side of the world from their home tbh.

We're done either way now, it would take a miracle to get us within touching distance, and miracles are in short supply. We should be looking for a young up and coming manager for the Championship.

Its two separate decisions though; they could have replaced Cooper with an actual football manager, but they didn't. The sacking of Cooper required the hiring of a new manager, but it did not have to be Ruud.

If Henderson isn't going to play come the World Cup - and let's be honest only 16 or 17 players will get anywhere near the pitch - you have to decide whether to take young players who are going as a learning experience, or players who will add something behind the scenes. When your contact is 18 months long, you do the latter.

The appointment of RVN doesn't actually mean Cooper was the right manager. He was also awful, and the players didn't like him at all. There was zero point continuing with him. The fact they got the next appointment so wrong doesn't change that fact.

Yes and no - nothing wrong with the government supporting a hug redevelopment which generates jobs, taxes and growth. They do it all the time. Not building the Stadium itself, but that is the centerpiece of a much larger project.

You can be valuable and also losing money. They added something like 150 staff over a few years while losing more and more cash. Makes no sense. As someone said above, this is two separate things - a football team with its own budget and targets to achieve (and also where performance delivers more income), and an underlying organization which should be run efficiently.

It’s very typical of organisations of that size to be honest.

Less than 10% of UK steel exports go to the US, and sounds like it is pretty specialist stuff they might not be able to source elsewhere anyway. At the moment, Chinese steel is killing almost everywhere else to be honest.