Jon the Hat

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.

You spelt entitlelists wrong.

Also one cannot ignore how much he annoyed the opposition players and fans.

There are already multi country Nato troops in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.

Maybe Tesla will have a valuation more in line with its actual business after this.

Its morel like the first minister of Scotland having the devolved power to do so.

It's not clear to be honest, but I think to assume they are making it up as they go along would be foolish. A lot of people think they want to bring Russia back to the table on trade and are happy to give up Ukraine to do so. The Trump mind I think sees Russia of old and finds the argument they have the right to a sphere of influence compelling. Its an awful about face. He also (rightly) thinks Europe have been sponging for years and are quite capable of handling Russia on their own. He seems determined not to allow China to become the world's great superpower. He is pushing hard to fight for critical minerals, to bring production of tech, semiconductors etc. to the US or safe allies. Once Taiwan is no longer essential to the US supply chain he they will probably let China take it, as long as they stay in their own backyard. He is going to fight Chinese influence in Africa again for critical minerals. He would like to be able to massively reduce Dolars flowing to China, about 30 years too late. Whether he is capable of pulling any of it off remains to be seen, but I think for example the commentary suggesting he has screwed up the Russia Ukraine negotiations because he gave up leverage before talks even started assumes he gives a single damn about Ukraine territory or demands. He doesn't. He has a completely different lens to everyone else. Its sort of fascinating in an awful oh-my-god-the-world-is-changing-utterly-in-front-of-our-very-eyes kind of way. On another note, it seems to be dawning on Australia that they are never going to get any Submarines from the AUKUS deal, so expect the next government to rip up that deal and go crawling back to the French to buy their subs. Hopefully the rest of the savings go on building the capability to manufacture missiles and drones. That is how you protect Australia. Lots of near-shore submarines and a huge arsenal or missiles and anti-ship drones.

We should be careful not to underestimate either Trump or those around him. Whether you like their plan or not, they certainly have one, and the only balance / control is the reaction of the stock market.

Perhaps they weren't going to hit the buildings until they were shot down.

Its going to be a fine balance, with how integrated the Canadian and US economies are. As you say if anyone can do it he can.

I suspect his starting point is that, in fact, over half the world is quite happy with Russia, and they are perfectly happy to keep buying their oil and gas, and selling them all the tech and military equipment they need. So there is that. Edit: As Lionater clearly explained above.

Their finances will catch up with them eventually I think, just like they did us. You can get away with it for a few years, but then the player wages demands and transfers catch up with you, and your stadium income is simply not enough to compete.