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I wouldn't be unhappy if Monga does fly high but I'm yet to see what the fuss is about. I know he's young but he rarely beats a player, decision making is awful - that should improve with time - and most the time he hasn't really offered anything. Again, he's very young, I'm not jumping to conclusions here, just suggesting there maybe isn't evidence of a player going right to the top at this point.

I don't think this is correct Jon. I happen to think the state of Israel is a horrendous, law breaking nation for its actions over decades, but that doesn't affect my thinking about Iran. I think Iran is seen by everybody as bad as that's how it's been portrayed on every side since the whole 'axis of evil' thing and beyond. I think it's seen like some sort of dark empire and weird ultra religious state and people struggle to imagine what life looks like there to empathise. In reality, of course, there's plenty of pictures of Tehran looking pretty progressive in the 70s, if they're real. I think it's a lack of knowledge and understanding of what it's like there that make it feel almost like an alien planet to most people. You are, of course, correct about the Iranian people deserving freedom and respect.

You what mate? What taf? Leicester to Chelsea to real Madrid?! If it was kante it would make sense but Enzo?!

The economic system we can't possibly change as everything else is terrible, is only about 40 years old. 40 years coinciding with falling standard of living for the majority, increased wealth disparity, everything the country once owned now being owned by private companies while their cost to consumers constantly increases.....

City fan from about 1990.... Daka is far worse than akinbiyi. AA wasn't as bad as legend suggests, it's just he was part of a team that was made much worse by his manager and he wasn't the standard we'd been used to. Think he actually got into double figures in his first season. Elvis Hammond is the closest I can come up with but the fee and wages for the lack of ability we see leans it Daka's way.

He's the worst footballer I've ever seen in a Leicester shirt. Seems like a decent bloke. I'll be happy when he scores. But he's awful, I'm not pretending otherwise.

Starmar will be across all of those things. Do you expect the prime minister to do only one thing at once? They oversee all government business of all types. They get questioned about every facet of national life. I think you need to give your head a wobble.

I seem to be restricted on how many times I can post so not much point in posting unless it's worthwhile. Not sure why, surely if I've said something bad you wouldn't want me saying it at all, not only a few times a day 🤷

I don't think the Americans want nuclear, they're happy making money from oil. I think carbon capture is how they imagine they can do both once we have half the global population

There's no obvious reason for them to need to. If an Ice agent does something wrong, they don't need to back them, send them to jail and just carry on, no need to politicise a murder.

It would take them ten minutes to tell grok to stop creating naked pictures. Honestly the government needs to follow through. Sod american threats of sanctions, it's ridiculous they are so entwined with x with the trump/musk relationship. We can't keep bending the knee to trump. It's not a freedom of speech question at all.

I think you're misunderstanding what's being written. Nobody is suggesting this in the trades shouldn't work for themselves or earn good money. What's being discussed is the impact of that on voting, that they align more with capital than worker, that this impacts on Labour the party, and it's a general discussion about the effects and whether there's a way to bring tradesmen back into not seeing public sector workers as akin to vermin. You seem to have taken it as a criticism of tradespeople which I don't think it is. Then you've followed that with a dig at graduates for no reason which kinda makes the point we're making - why do you receive graduates to be lazy given they've worked hard and in a focused way to earn their degrees? That's an anti-graduate view in this country at the moment that I don't really understand but it often feels somewhere between jealousy and hatred - just another group to despise because they're different to those doing the despising.

Just read this while shifting through Facebook and have to sayi think it's bang on the money when it comes to the petit bourgeois part: For most of the 20th century, class was lived collectively. If you worked in a factory, a mine, a dock, you shared conditions, risks, and power structures with the people around you. Unions made sense because work was shared and labour (and 'Labour') made sense because class was tangible. The vote followed the job because the job followed the structure of power. Now the job has dissolved into fog and that world is gone. Today, class doesn’t organise people’s lives in the same way: precarious work, gig contracts, multiple jobs, benefits topping up wages that no longer work. No shared workplace, no shared leverage, no obvious “we”. It's the quiet collapse of class as lived experience. You don’t join a union when you don’t even know who you’ll be working for next week and you don’t see yourself as a class when your life feels like a juggling act rather than a collective endeavour. Precarity atomises people and exhaustion, isolation, and a constant low-level panic, replaces solidarity. What’s filled the gap isn’t class, but culture. Education has become the proxy and “graduate” now stands in for “elite”, not because graduates own anything (except student debt and a bike helmet) but because they’ve been exposed to structural thinking and a language that can describe systems. University becomes less about elite status and more about acquiring a language for power. And that alone is now treated as a threat. At the same time, a group routinely described as “working class” has come to dominate working-class culture without actually being working class at all. The self-employed small business owners, contractors, landlords with one or two properties. Marx had a name for them: the petit bourgeois, and that's the part polite liberals often tiptoe around. They’re doing alright. The van-and-invoice guy that owns their own tools. Sometimes they own other people’s labour. He is materially incentivised to side with capital, even if culturally he shares a postcode and a pub with people who are being crushed by it. Their interests lean towards money and hierarchy, not solidarity. Historically, that group has always been the shock troops of reaction, not because they’re evil, but because they’re anxious about falling downwards and furious at being told they’re not on the way up. Enter the grifting spiv, Farage, who sells them dignity by letting them punch sideways instead of looking up. Murdoch supplies the vocabulary... the pub supplies the reinforcement loop. Meanwhile, the “educated working class” ends up in a weird half-space. Teachers, nurses, social workers, public sector staff. Still selling their labour and still dependent on wages but culturally separated from the people they supposedly share a class with. Reform thrives in the cracks left behind by the collapse of the old labour movement. It doesn’t build solidarity, but instead redirects resentment sideways. “Elite” stops meaning people who own and control everything, and starts meaning the person next door who reads books, works in the public sector, or turned up to a meeting wearing the wrong clothes. If we’re serious about rebuilding anything resembling a genuine working-class movement in the 21st century, we’re going to have to get much better at telling the difference between power and proximity, between ownership and education and between people who exploit the system and people who are simply trying to understand it. We stopped using the word spiv, even though the behaviour it describes never stopped. A spiv is someone who profits from scarcity while pretending to speak for those harmed by it. I think it accurately describes Farage and his entourage. Perhaps this sturdy old word's time has come around again?

Yeah I thought follow his day one request for the murder then murder him day two so he thinks it's a recruitment. As if they're going to recruit him and share the money

It's generally known now as "Twitter, or X, or whatever it's called now". Musk has done a terrible job with it. Will be quite amusing watching Trump threaten Britain and Musk and Vance bang on about freedom of speech of Ofcom did dare take strong action like a suspension of licence or ban.

That's exactly what's going on. Capitalism is in its death throws but nobody knows what will come next and everybody is desperately trying to keep it on the rails. I realise I've mixed metaphors horribly there.

I've been predicting for a while that by the end of the 2030s there will no longer be any climate change denial but it will also be too late to save swathes of humanity. I think the US knows this - it's not like they don't have huge science divisions and resources, but I think they believe they can mitigate the effects once population reduces worldwide and they can grab more of the planet.

It's such a random game really. Absolutely zero reason behind any of the theories they ever have. No idea why a copper or barrister would think they can read the game when it's literally random. They'd do better rolling dice to decide who to get rid of.

Reading that, isn't this autocratic regimes are opposed to it, and where democracy flourishes it wins elections? I.e. it's a threat to autocrats? That's not quite what you were trying to say using this.

Oh absolutely that can be the case I'm sure yes Though criticism of Islam is criticism of Islam, whereas criticism of a state isn't necessarily criticism of its people.

Understatement of the year award

The fact that any legitimate criticism of Israel also ends up being critisised as anti-semitism also doesn't help things. Criticising a state is legitimate. What isn't legitimate is making those criticisms about the ethnicity or beliefs of its people, or their right to exist etc. I see a lot of the former shouted down as anti-semitism, when it really isn't, simply to stop debate The actions of the nation state of Israel over decades is utterly abhorrent, illegal and shameful.

The club don't just have results to think about unfortunately. Regulatory compliance with PSR and keeping the club a going concern also feature quite highly on the list of management priorities.

Somebody in this thread talks an awful lot of nonsense don't they? 😅

What's the sizing like?