The draw was nuts. Should be Ireland or France in this final, or both, not the stupid kiwis
Tough - both lost their matches, which is how rugby works. Would you prefer an invitation only final to the ‘prettiest’ teams?
NZ are only here coz they played ONE good match - against Ireland
Rugby really needs more depth
So I think there are probably six sides who could realistically have been winners of the World Cup. How many for football? About the same.
It’s a feature of elite sport. Ireland blew it. France blew it. England blew it too. And so here we are with the two best teams in the Workd Cup, playing in the final.
Ireland and France are both better than NZ
Also more fun. And with much bigger more extrovert support, which would have made for a more compelling, entertaining final
Ireland v France would have been incredible. Stade de France a cauldron of noise. This is just quiet and shit. And it’s not even good rugby
It’s a poor turn out for the sport, I am afraid to say, and I love top level rugby union
Ireland were better than NZ until they actually had to play them in a knock out match. So on my crazy metric of who is better then I would say NZ were better.
Hold the front page, Trump has actually said something correct for once!
Of course he's reading it verbatim from the teleprompters because it was written for him. Shame his actual thoughts are more like calling Hezbollah "very smart" for attacking Israel.
Word on the street is there’s a new political party looking to be registered. Maybe a false flag, but I reckon there will be one winning seats in the next decade or so
Trials start this week in Colorado and Minnesota as to whether the US Constitutional bar on insurrectionists being US Officers applies to Mr Chump standing for the Presidency.
Timing driven by a desire to have hearings and Appeals done before the formal process starts.
Unlikely to succeed, but interesting if we get dozens of them.
The red card threshold seems madly low in Union now. Like a sport terrified of injury lawyers
It’s a project aiming to lower players tackling, but players seem resistant to change, brought up as they are on the culture of the dominant tackle.
To be honest slo mo replays don’t help. Makes many split second things look worse than the full speed version.
I thought the Saffet duked into him tbh, on his original line the NZ player would have been bent and hinged. I saw a wrap of sorts too. Definitely a yellow but not a red.
The draw was nuts. Should be Ireland or France in this final, or both, not the stupid kiwis
Tough - both lost their matches, which is how rugby works. Would you prefer an invitation only final to the ‘prettiest’ teams?
NZ are only here coz they played ONE good match - against Ireland
Rugby really needs more depth
So I think there are probably six sides who could realistically have been winners of the World Cup. How many for football? About the same.
It’s a feature of elite sport. Ireland blew it. France blew it. England blew it too. And so here we are with the two best teams in the Workd Cup, playing in the final.
Ireland and France are both better than NZ
Also more fun. And with much bigger more extrovert support, which would have made for a more compelling, entertaining final
Ireland v France would have been incredible. Stade de France a cauldron of noise. This is just quiet and shit. And it’s not even good rugby
It’s a poor turn out for the sport, I am afraid to say, and I love top level rugby union
It's not unusual in any major sporting tournaments for the final not to involve the two best teams/players nor the third place play off to not involve numbers three and four. Draws open up, some people are a bit lucky, games happen in the quarter finals that would grace a final. But isn't that part of the joy of it?
TwiX is telling me 300,000-500,000 marched in London today for Palestine
That’s huge if so. Is it true? Hard to gauge the accuracy
In my expertise, every march in London ever claims at least half a million. I’ve given up trying to guess is it’s true.
However, a friend told me it was quite intimidating. I think it was the swastikas they found most intimidating mind.
Interestingly, these days, with drones (or an helicopter) and the right software, you could count the crowd quite accurately. Sort of thing the BBC could and should do.
I was on one of the earlier anti-Iraq War marches, before the big one, but I was late and we joined the march part way through, and ended up leaving it before the end. Bit of a fiasco really, so the sense in which there is one true number of people on a march is quite fluid, quite apart from all the bystanders.
I don't think software would really get you that much better a count then simply measuring the length of the march and estimating its density.
TwiX is telling me 300,000-500,000 marched in London today for Palestine
That’s huge if so. Is it true? Hard to gauge the accuracy
In my expertise, every march in London ever claims at least half a million. I’ve given up trying to guess is it’s true.
However, a friend told me it was quite intimidating. I think it was the swastikas they found most intimidating mind.
Interestingly, these days, with drones (or an helicopter) and the right software, you could count the crowd quite accurately. Sort of thing the BBC could and should do.
I was on one of the earlier anti-Iraq War marches, before the big one, but I was late and we joined the march part way through, and ended up leaving it before the end. Bit of a fiasco really, so the sense in which there is one true number of people on a march is quite fluid, quite apart from all the bystanders.
I don't think software would really get you that much better a count then simply measuring the length of the march and estimating its density.
The draw was nuts. Should be Ireland or France in this final, or both, not the stupid kiwis
Tough - both lost their matches, which is how rugby works. Would you prefer an invitation only final to the ‘prettiest’ teams?
NZ are only here coz they played ONE good match - against Ireland
Rugby really needs more depth
So I think there are probably six sides who could realistically have been winners of the World Cup. How many for football? About the same.
It’s a feature of elite sport. Ireland blew it. France blew it. England blew it too. And so here we are with the two best teams in the Workd Cup, playing in the final.
Ireland and France are both better than NZ
Also more fun. And with much bigger more extrovert support, which would have made for a more compelling, entertaining final
Ireland v France would have been incredible. Stade de France a cauldron of noise. This is just quiet and shit. And it’s not even good rugby
It’s a poor turn out for the sport, I am afraid to say, and I love top level rugby union
It's not unusual in any major sporting tournaments for the final not to involve the two best teams/players nor the third place play off to not involve numbers three and four. Draws open up, some people are a bit lucky, games happen in the quarter finals that would grace a final. But isn't that part of the joy of it?
I’m moaning as a neutral. This is not a great spectacle in terms of atmos nor a great advert for the sport as sport. And it is in Paris at the Stade de France, what a waste
It’s a damn shame, it’s almost as bad as rugby league
He barely if at all made head contact, the NZ head moved more by the collision than contact to head. Kolisi was also bent down into the tackle as opposed to Cane’s tackle.
He barely if at all made head contact, the NZ head moved more by the collision than contact to head. Kolisi was also bent down into the tackle as opposed to Cane’s tackle.
The draw was nuts. Should be Ireland or France in this final, or both, not the stupid kiwis
Tough - both lost their matches, which is how rugby works. Would you prefer an invitation only final to the ‘prettiest’ teams?
NZ are only here coz they played ONE good match - against Ireland
Rugby really needs more depth
So I think there are probably six sides who could realistically have been winners of the World Cup. How many for football? About the same.
It’s a feature of elite sport. Ireland blew it. France blew it. England blew it too. And so here we are with the two best teams in the Workd Cup, playing in the final.
Ireland and France are both better than NZ
Also more fun. And with much bigger more extrovert support, which would have made for a more compelling, entertaining final
Ireland v France would have been incredible. Stade de France a cauldron of noise. This is just quiet and shit. And it’s not even good rugby
It’s a poor turn out for the sport, I am afraid to say, and I love top level rugby union
It's not unusual in any major sporting tournaments for the final not to involve the two best teams/players nor the third place play off to not involve numbers three and four. Draws open up, some people are a bit lucky, games happen in the quarter finals that would grace a final. But isn't that part of the joy of it?
I’m moaning as a neutral. This is not a great spectacle in terms of atmos nor a great advert for the sport as sport. And it is in Paris at the Stade de France, what a waste
It’s a damn shame, it’s almost as bad as rugby league
There have been maybe seven better games in this World Cup.
The draw was nuts. Should be Ireland or France in this final, or both, not the stupid kiwis
Tough - both lost their matches, which is how rugby works. Would you prefer an invitation only final to the ‘prettiest’ teams?
NZ are only here coz they played ONE good match - against Ireland
Rugby really needs more depth
So I think there are probably six sides who could realistically have been winners of the World Cup. How many for football? About the same.
It’s a feature of elite sport. Ireland blew it. France blew it. England blew it too. And so here we are with the two best teams in the Workd Cup, playing in the final.
Ireland and France are both better than NZ
Also more fun. And with much bigger more extrovert support, which would have made for a more compelling, entertaining final
Ireland v France would have been incredible. Stade de France a cauldron of noise. This is just quiet and shit. And it’s not even good rugby
It’s a poor turn out for the sport, I am afraid to say, and I love top level rugby union
It's not unusual in any major sporting tournaments for the final not to involve the two best teams/players nor the third place play off to not involve numbers three and four. Draws open up, some people are a bit lucky, games happen in the quarter finals that would grace a final. But isn't that part of the joy of it?
I’m moaning as a neutral. This is not a great spectacle in terms of atmos nor a great advert for the sport as sport. And it is in Paris at the Stade de France, what a waste
It’s a damn shame, it’s almost as bad as rugby league
There have been maybe seven better games in this World Cup.
Yep. Minute 50 and no tries. Indeed not one single impressive backline sequence
The draw was nuts. Should be Ireland or France in this final, or both, not the stupid kiwis
Tough - both lost their matches, which is how rugby works. Would you prefer an invitation only final to the ‘prettiest’ teams?
NZ are only here coz they played ONE good match - against Ireland
Rugby really needs more depth
So I think there are probably six sides who could realistically have been winners of the World Cup. How many for football? About the same.
It’s a feature of elite sport. Ireland blew it. France blew it. England blew it too. And so here we are with the two best teams in the Workd Cup, playing in the final.
Ireland and France are both better than NZ
Also more fun. And with much bigger more extrovert support, which would have made for a more compelling, entertaining final
Ireland v France would have been incredible. Stade de France a cauldron of noise. This is just quiet and shit. And it’s not even good rugby
It’s a poor turn out for the sport, I am afraid to say, and I love top level rugby union
It's not unusual in any major sporting tournaments for the final not to involve the two best teams/players nor the third place play off to not involve numbers three and four. Draws open up, some people are a bit lucky, games happen in the quarter finals that would grace a final. But isn't that part of the joy of it?
I’m moaning as a neutral. This is not a great spectacle in terms of atmos nor a great advert for the sport as sport. And it is in Paris at the Stade de France, what a waste
It’s a damn shame, it’s almost as bad as rugby league
So you really want sport as a spectacle rather than sport played with all the methods available to teams in the game they play. I want to see two good teams having gone through the mill using every style, technique, effort to win that match. Otherwise may as well just watch the Harlem Globetrotters or friendlies in rugby with the Baa-baas.
The draw was nuts. Should be Ireland or France in this final, or both, not the stupid kiwis
Tough - both lost their matches, which is how rugby works. Would you prefer an invitation only final to the ‘prettiest’ teams?
NZ are only here coz they played ONE good match - against Ireland
Rugby really needs more depth
So I think there are probably six sides who could realistically have been winners of the World Cup. How many for football? About the same.
It’s a feature of elite sport. Ireland blew it. France blew it. England blew it too. And so here we are with the two best teams in the Workd Cup, playing in the final.
Ireland and France are both better than NZ
Also more fun. And with much bigger more extrovert support, which would have made for a more compelling, entertaining final
Ireland v France would have been incredible. Stade de France a cauldron of noise. This is just quiet and shit. And it’s not even good rugby
It’s a poor turn out for the sport, I am afraid to say, and I love top level rugby union
It's not unusual in any major sporting tournaments for the final not to involve the two best teams/players nor the third place play off to not involve numbers three and four. Draws open up, some people are a bit lucky, games happen in the quarter finals that would grace a final. But isn't that part of the joy of it?
I’m moaning as a neutral. This is not a great spectacle in terms of atmos nor a great advert for the sport as sport. And it is in Paris at the Stade de France, what a waste
It’s a damn shame, it’s almost as bad as rugby league
Equally, football finals are often poor. It's partly a function of too much being at stake, and it becoming risk averse and attritional. Also expectations are very high that the final is the peak of the tournament, when actually the "real" final may well have happened a couple of rounds ago.
There can be superb finals in all sports, of course, but on average they disappoint.
The draw was nuts. Should be Ireland or France in this final, or both, not the stupid kiwis
Tough - both lost their matches, which is how rugby works. Would you prefer an invitation only final to the ‘prettiest’ teams?
NZ are only here coz they played ONE good match - against Ireland
Rugby really needs more depth
So I think there are probably six sides who could realistically have been winners of the World Cup. How many for football? About the same.
It’s a feature of elite sport. Ireland blew it. France blew it. England blew it too. And so here we are with the two best teams in the Workd Cup, playing in the final.
Ireland and France are both better than NZ
Also more fun. And with much bigger more extrovert support, which would have made for a more compelling, entertaining final
Ireland v France would have been incredible. Stade de France a cauldron of noise. This is just quiet and shit. And it’s not even good rugby
It’s a poor turn out for the sport, I am afraid to say, and I love top level rugby union
It's not unusual in any major sporting tournaments for the final not to involve the two best teams/players nor the third place play off to not involve numbers three and four. Draws open up, some people are a bit lucky, games happen in the quarter finals that would grace a final. But isn't that part of the joy of it?
I’m moaning as a neutral. This is not a great spectacle in terms of atmos nor a great advert for the sport as sport. And it is in Paris at the Stade de France, what a waste
It’s a damn shame, it’s almost as bad as rugby league
So you really want sport as a spectacle rather than sport played with all the methods available to teams in the game they play. I want to see two good teams having gone through the mill using every style, technique, effort to win that match. Otherwise may as well just watch the Harlem Globetrotters or friendliest in rugby with the Baa-baas.
What are you blithering on about?
This is just not a good game. That happens. Some World Cup finals are epic. This is mediocre
And the fact it is NZ v SA is not helping, detracting from the atmos and they are two SH teams who play each other a lot and have similar styles
The draw was nuts. Should be Ireland or France in this final, or both, not the stupid kiwis
Tough - both lost their matches, which is how rugby works. Would you prefer an invitation only final to the ‘prettiest’ teams?
NZ are only here coz they played ONE good match - against Ireland
Rugby really needs more depth
So I think there are probably six sides who could realistically have been winners of the World Cup. How many for football? About the same.
It’s a feature of elite sport. Ireland blew it. France blew it. England blew it too. And so here we are with the two best teams in the Workd Cup, playing in the final.
Ireland and France are both better than NZ
Also more fun. And with much bigger more extrovert support, which would have made for a more compelling, entertaining final
Ireland v France would have been incredible. Stade de France a cauldron of noise. This is just quiet and shit. And it’s not even good rugby
It’s a poor turn out for the sport, I am afraid to say, and I love top level rugby union
It's not unusual in any major sporting tournaments for the final not to involve the two best teams/players nor the third place play off to not involve numbers three and four. Draws open up, some people are a bit lucky, games happen in the quarter finals that would grace a final. But isn't that part of the joy of it?
I’m moaning as a neutral. This is not a great spectacle in terms of atmos nor a great advert for the sport as sport. And it is in Paris at the Stade de France, what a waste
It’s a damn shame, it’s almost as bad as rugby league
Equally, football finals are often poor. It's partly a function of too much being at stake, and it becoming risk averse and attritional. Also expectations are very high that the final is the peak of the tournament, when actually the "real" final may well have happened a couple of rounds ago.
There can be superb finals in all sports, of course, but on average they disappoint.
Also it’s very attritional so everyone is knackered by the final. If theoretically there was a break of a month before the final you would get a much better display but that’s not what tournament sport is about.
The draw was nuts. Should be Ireland or France in this final, or both, not the stupid kiwis
Tough - both lost their matches, which is how rugby works. Would you prefer an invitation only final to the ‘prettiest’ teams?
NZ are only here coz they played ONE good match - against Ireland
Rugby really needs more depth
So I think there are probably six sides who could realistically have been winners of the World Cup. How many for football? About the same.
It’s a feature of elite sport. Ireland blew it. France blew it. England blew it too. And so here we are with the two best teams in the Workd Cup, playing in the final.
Ireland and France are both better than NZ
Also more fun. And with much bigger more extrovert support, which would have made for a more compelling, entertaining final
Ireland v France would have been incredible. Stade de France a cauldron of noise. This is just quiet and shit. And it’s not even good rugby
It’s a poor turn out for the sport, I am afraid to say, and I love top level rugby union
It's not unusual in any major sporting tournaments for the final not to involve the two best teams/players nor the third place play off to not involve numbers three and four. Draws open up, some people are a bit lucky, games happen in the quarter finals that would grace a final. But isn't that part of the joy of it?
I’m moaning as a neutral. This is not a great spectacle in terms of atmos nor a great advert for the sport as sport. And it is in Paris at the Stade de France, what a waste
It’s a damn shame, it’s almost as bad as rugby league
Equally, football finals are often poor. It's partly a function of too much being at stake, and it becoming risk averse and attritional. Also expectations are very high that the final is the peak of the tournament, when actually the "real" final may well have happened a couple of rounds ago.
There can be superb finals in all sports, of course, but on average they disappoint.
The draw was nuts. Should be Ireland or France in this final, or both, not the stupid kiwis
Tough - both lost their matches, which is how rugby works. Would you prefer an invitation only final to the ‘prettiest’ teams?
NZ are only here coz they played ONE good match - against Ireland
Rugby really needs more depth
So I think there are probably six sides who could realistically have been winners of the World Cup. How many for football? About the same.
It’s a feature of elite sport. Ireland blew it. France blew it. England blew it too. And so here we are with the two best teams in the Workd Cup, playing in the final.
Ireland and France are both better than NZ
Also more fun. And with much bigger more extrovert support, which would have made for a more compelling, entertaining final
Ireland v France would have been incredible. Stade de France a cauldron of noise. This is just quiet and shit. And it’s not even good rugby
It’s a poor turn out for the sport, I am afraid to say, and I love top level rugby union
It's not unusual in any major sporting tournaments for the final not to involve the two best teams/players nor the third place play off to not involve numbers three and four. Draws open up, some people are a bit lucky, games happen in the quarter finals that would grace a final. But isn't that part of the joy of it?
I’m moaning as a neutral. This is not a great spectacle in terms of atmos nor a great advert for the sport as sport. And it is in Paris at the Stade de France, what a waste
It’s a damn shame, it’s almost as bad as rugby league
So you really want sport as a spectacle rather than sport played with all the methods available to teams in the game they play. I want to see two good teams having gone through the mill using every style, technique, effort to win that match. Otherwise may as well just watch the Harlem Globetrotters or friendliest in rugby with the Baa-baas.
What are you blithering on about?
This is just not a good game. That happens. Some World Cup finals are epic. This is mediocre
And the fact it is NZ v SA is not helping, detracting from the atmos and they are two SH teams who play each other a lot and have similar styles
Yup, but it’s one of the three wins on the sleeve of the All Blacks players and nobody gives a crap how bad the match was, they won the World Cup final.
AP (via Seattle Times) - Former Vice President Mike Pence ends campaign for the White House after struggling to gain traction.
D'y'know, I'm oddly sad at that. He wasn't brilliant but when the shit hit the fan he did the right thing. He did it in an anguished way and had to have his spine stiffened by Omigod Dan Quayle, but did it he did and did it when it counts whilst under great pressure not to. Good on him and I hope he has a good time in retirement.
the BBC are saying anything up to 10 sky "news" are saying over 100 GB "news" are saying 5 black/brown people [all "benefit scrounging illegals"] SKS on orders from Trevor Chinn is saying nothing behind his sofa, screaming at a picture of Corbyn and rocking back and forth
the BBC are saying anything up to 10 sky "news" are saying over 100 GB "news" are saying 5 black/brown people [all "benefit scrounging illegals"] SKS on orders from Trevor Chinn is saying nothing behind his sofa, screaming at a picture of Corbyn and rocking back and forth
Everyone else watching the rugby and having a break from that shit.
the BBC are saying anything up to 10 sky "news" are saying over 100 GB "news" are saying 5 black/brown people [all "benefit scrounging illegals"] SKS on orders from Trevor Chinn is saying nothing behind his sofa, screaming at a picture of Corbyn and rocking back and forth
Everyone else watching the rugby and having a break from that shit.
the BBC are saying anything up to 10 sky "news" are saying over 100 GB "news" are saying 5 black/brown people [all "benefit scrounging illegals"] SKS on orders from Trevor Chinn is saying nothing behind his sofa, screaming at a picture of Corbyn and rocking back and forth
Everyone else watching the rugby and having a break from that shit.
Boris Johnson? Really? Really?? OK he’s a lazy narcissist, maybe even a charlatan, maybe a mountebank, a cad, a liar, but “a terrible human being”? No. No no no. This reflects badly on Stewart, it cheapens and coarsens debate and makes Stewart look as guilty as those he accuses
Boris Johnson? Really? Really?? OK he’s a lazy narcissist, maybe even a charlatan, maybe a mountebank, a cad, a liar, but “a terrible human being”? No. No no no. This reflects badly on Stewart, it cheapens and coarsens debate and makes Stewart look as guilty as those he accuses
I suspect they are more similar than either would like to admit.
Perhaps if we could stop worshipping posh boys who have read the classics, we would be better all around.
Boris Johnson? Really? Really?? OK he’s a lazy narcissist, maybe even a charlatan, maybe a mountebank, a cad, a liar, but “a terrible human being”? No. No no no. This reflects badly on Stewart, it cheapens and coarsens debate and makes Stewart look as guilty as those he accuses
I suspect they are more similar than either would like to admit.
Perhaps if we could stop worshipping posh boys who have read the classics, we would be better all around.
Rory Stewart has just descended seventeen levels of estimation. I quite liked him, despite his stupid posh affectations. But this is ugly, nasty, and vile. “Terrible human being”. FFS
Boris Johnson? Really? Really?? OK he’s a lazy narcissist, maybe even a charlatan, maybe a mountebank, a cad, a liar, but “a terrible human being”? No. No no no. This reflects badly on Stewart, it cheapens and coarsens debate and makes Stewart look as guilty as those he accuses
I suspect they are more similar than either would like to admit.
Perhaps if we could stop worshipping posh boys who have read the classics, we would be better all around.
Boris Johnson? Really? Really?? OK he’s a lazy narcissist, maybe even a charlatan, maybe a mountebank, a cad, a liar, but “a terrible human being”? No. No no no. This reflects badly on Stewart, it cheapens and coarsens debate and makes Stewart look as guilty as those he accuses
I suspect they are more similar than either would like to admit.
Perhaps if we could stop worshipping posh boys who have read the classics, we would be better all around.
Boris Johnson? Really? Really?? OK he’s a lazy narcissist, maybe even a charlatan, maybe a mountebank, a cad, a liar, but “a terrible human being”? No. No no no. This reflects badly on Stewart, it cheapens and coarsens debate and makes Stewart look as guilty as those he accuses
I suspect they are more similar than either would like to admit.
Perhaps if we could stop worshipping posh boys who have read the classics, we would be better all around.
Rory Stewart has just descended seventeen levels of estimation. I quite liked him, despite his stupid posh affectations. But this is ugly, nasty, and vile. “Terrible human being”. FFS
Bit much maybe. 'Nasty piece of work' would have sufficed.
Boris Johnson? Really? Really?? OK he’s a lazy narcissist, maybe even a charlatan, maybe a mountebank, a cad, a liar, but “a terrible human being”? No. No no no. This reflects badly on Stewart, it cheapens and coarsens debate and makes Stewart look as guilty as those he accuses
I suspect they are more similar than either would like to admit.
Perhaps if we could stop worshipping posh boys who have read the classics, we would be better all around.
Boris Johnson? Really? Really?? OK he’s a lazy narcissist, maybe even a charlatan, maybe a mountebank, a cad, a liar, but “a terrible human being”? No. No no no. This reflects badly on Stewart, it cheapens and coarsens debate and makes Stewart look as guilty as those he accuses
I have no doubt that a very large number of Conservative MPs would echo that "terrible human being" line. But he was also a vote-winning machine - and many are about to discover that he added 10k to their majorities.
Boris Johnson? Really? Really?? OK he’s a lazy narcissist, maybe even a charlatan, maybe a mountebank, a cad, a liar, but “a terrible human being”? No. No no no. This reflects badly on Stewart, it cheapens and coarsens debate and makes Stewart look as guilty as those he accuses
I suspect they are more similar than either would like to admit.
Perhaps if we could stop worshipping posh boys who have read the classics, we would be better all around.
Rory Stewart has just descended seventeen levels of estimation. I quite liked him, despite his stupid posh affectations. But this is ugly, nasty, and vile. “Terrible human being”. FFS
Bit much maybe. 'Nasty piece of work' would have sufficed.
Yes
“Terrible human being” is what you say about people beyond moral redemption, guilty of the most atrocious sins. Actual genocidal dictators, actual mass murderers
What would this anorexic Etonian gargoyle say if he met an actual “terrible human being”? Oh he was “not a nice chap”?
Boris Johnson? Really? Really?? OK he’s a lazy narcissist, maybe even a charlatan, maybe a mountebank, a cad, a liar, but “a terrible human being”? No. No no no. This reflects badly on Stewart, it cheapens and coarsens debate and makes Stewart look as guilty as those he accuses
I suspect they are more similar than either would like to admit.
Perhaps if we could stop worshipping posh boys who have read the classics, we would be better all around.
Rory Stewart has just descended seventeen levels of estimation. I quite liked him, despite his stupid posh affectations. But this is ugly, nasty, and vile. “Terrible human being”. FFS
Bit much maybe. 'Nasty piece of work' would have sufficed.
Boris Johnson? Really? Really?? OK he’s a lazy narcissist, maybe even a charlatan, maybe a mountebank, a cad, a liar, but “a terrible human being”? No. No no no. This reflects badly on Stewart, it cheapens and coarsens debate and makes Stewart look as guilty as those he accuses
You don’t prolong a career in media by being a bit “Boris was a bit of a knob with his heart in the right place outside of marriage and was a lazy egotistical sod”.
If you put Boris up there with Idi Amin however you get dinner with Mishal Husain, ten years of BBC docs where you walk around countries and museums wearing desert boots and a Keffiyeh emoting on how ancient civilisations can teach us so much about how British people should be ashamed that they weren’t as loving as ancient cultures.
It’s the only way anyone called Rory can be taken seriously outside of a Scottish public school rugby team.
Cosplaying President is likely as close as he’ll ever get to the WH.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1718027396199129276 Israel’s Consul General says Ron Desantis is lying when he claimed that he sent weapons and equipment to Israel, saying it is “bizarre to think that someone is procuring weapons and sending them to Israel. This is not how we work.”
Boris Johnson? Really? Really?? OK he’s a lazy narcissist, maybe even a charlatan, maybe a mountebank, a cad, a liar, but “a terrible human being”? No. No no no. This reflects badly on Stewart, it cheapens and coarsens debate and makes Stewart look as guilty as those he accuses
You don’t prolong a career in media by being a bit “Boris was a bit of a knob with his heart in the right place outside of marriage and was a lazy egotistical sod”.
If you put Boris up there with Idi Amin however you get dinner with Mishal Husain, ten years of BBC docs where you walk around countries and museums wearing desert boots and a Keffiyeh emoting on how ancient civilisations can teach us so much about how British people should be ashamed that they weren’t as loving as ancient cultures.
It’s the only way anyone called Rory can be taken seriously outside of a Scottish public school rugby team.
I'm obviously a hopeless cynic, but I tend to think anyone as highly-rated as Rory must by definition be overrated.
Boris Johnson? Really? Really?? OK he’s a lazy narcissist, maybe even a charlatan, maybe a mountebank, a cad, a liar, but “a terrible human being”? No. No no no. This reflects badly on Stewart, it cheapens and coarsens debate and makes Stewart look as guilty as those he accuses
I suspect they are more similar than either would like to admit.
Perhaps if we could stop worshipping posh boys who have read the classics, we would be better all around.
Rory Stewart has just descended seventeen levels of estimation. I quite liked him, despite his stupid posh affectations. But this is ugly, nasty, and vile. “Terrible human being”. FFS
Bit much maybe. 'Nasty piece of work' would have sufficed.
Indeed, a nasty piece of work who could be quite charismatic too. A politician in other words.
Blair was the same, and Starmer is too.
To thrive in politics you need a mix of charisma and nastiness.
Cosplaying President is likely as close as he’ll ever get to the WH.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1718027396199129276 Israel’s Consul General says Ron Desantis is lying when he claimed that he sent weapons and equipment to Israel, saying it is “bizarre to think that someone is procuring weapons and sending them to Israel. This is not how we work.”
I can't believe it's allowed for a *State* Governor to get involved in sending weapons to a foreign government?
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Negative side: my wife wants to go to a Palestine solidarity protest.
Of course he's reading it verbatim from the teleprompters because it was written for him. Shame his actual thoughts are more like calling Hezbollah "very smart" for attacking Israel.
Presumably that is determined somewhere in the process.
It’s a damn shame, it’s almost as bad as rugby league
There can be superb finals in all sports, of course, but on average they disappoint.
This is just not a good game. That happens. Some World Cup finals are epic. This is mediocre
And the fact it is NZ v SA is not helping, detracting from the atmos and they are two SH teams who play each other a lot and have similar styles
Much needed
FrankenSAM program combines Buk launchers with US Sea Sparrow missiles in one version, and Soviet-era radars with AIM-9M Sidewinder missiles in another, NYT reported.
https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1718356953397678156
the BBC are saying anything up to 10
sky "news" are saying over 100
GB "news" are saying 5 black/brown people [all "benefit scrounging illegals"]
SKS on orders from Trevor Chinn is saying nothing behind his sofa, screaming at a picture of Corbyn and rocking back and forth
Must be a tax fiddle
That's some effort.
Simply remarkable.
They've won the WC without being the best team.
And with the burden of being defending champions.
How many tries?
His Mother is Afrikaans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Federer
Is it crazy that I posted the first line there, then looked it up to see if it was true? Why didn’t I just look it up first?
YUUUUUUUGE tax cuts offered by Rishi - for 2025, 2026, 2027......
It won’t have won any converts to the sport. And the atmosphere was mournful due to the absence of France, Ireland (or England or Wales)
2/10. Pretty dismal
Rory Stewart: ‘I fought an existential fight against Boris Johnson, who is a terrible human being’
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2023/10/28/rory-stewart-i-fought-an-existential-fight-against-boris-johnson-who-is-a-terrible-human-being/
Adolf Hitler was a “terrible human being”
Fred West was a “terrible human being”
Saddam Hussein was a “terrible human being”
Jimmy Savile etc etc
Boris Johnson? Really? Really?? OK he’s a lazy narcissist, maybe even a charlatan, maybe a mountebank, a cad, a liar, but “a terrible human being”? No. No no no. This reflects badly on Stewart, it cheapens and coarsens debate and makes Stewart look as guilty as those he accuses
Perhaps if we could stop worshipping posh boys who have read the classics, we would be better all around.
Apart from Crom.
“Terrible human being” is what you say about people beyond moral redemption, guilty of the most atrocious sins. Actual genocidal dictators, actual mass murderers
What would this anorexic Etonian gargoyle say if he met an actual “terrible human being”? Oh he was “not a nice chap”?
Posho Fuckwit
If you put Boris up there with Idi Amin however you get dinner with Mishal Husain, ten years of BBC docs where you walk around countries and museums wearing desert boots and a Keffiyeh emoting on how ancient civilisations can teach us so much about how British people should be ashamed that they weren’t as loving as ancient cultures.
It’s the only way anyone called Rory can be taken seriously outside of a Scottish public school rugby team.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1718027396199129276
Israel’s Consul General says Ron Desantis is lying when he claimed that he sent weapons and equipment to Israel, saying it is “bizarre to think that someone is procuring weapons and sending them to Israel. This is not how we work.”
Blair was the same, and Starmer is too.
To thrive in politics you need a mix of charisma and nastiness.
This too is well worth reading - https://archive.ph/2023.10.28-061758/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/decolonization-narrative-dangerous-and-false/675799/.