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Things can only get err stay the same – politicalbetting.com

? Latest Opinium @ObserverUK poll ?Will a new PM change anything? Most don't think so.? 17% think things will get better?? 44% think things will stay about the same? 21% think things will get worseEven Labour voters are more likely to say things will stay the same. pic.twitter.com/WiFufSFnpu

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  • Northern_AlNorthern_Al Posts: 9,682
    First ever first?
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 51,126
    edited June 27
    Things ... can only get the same!

    Anyway, the big match tonight. I'm hoping for a nice controlled one niller.

    Save the pyrotechnics for the business end of the tournament.

    Edit: Well done Al.
  • boulayboulay Posts: 9,119
    Sad news for Cody Gakpo and his partner, their has son died before being born.
  • algarkirkalgarkirk Posts: 17,612

    FPT
    Malmesbury said:

    OllyT said:

    rottenborough said:

    Within Westminster there is growing speculation Nigel Farage will not lead Reform into the next election. If that proves correct, it could create a political earthquake that would surpass any of the reverberations Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham have generated over the past week.

    Dan Hodges - Mail

    Quite likely - the £5million "gift" has damaged him irreparably. There is no satisfactory explanation for it and he is going to get questions on it every time he sticks his head in the firing line.

    Wonder if the crypto guy will want his money back if Farage quits? He won't be a happy bunny that's for sure.

    The gift has a perfectly satisfactory explanation. It was given to make him personally rich enough not to need other support and to make him beholden to the giver.

    Not sure the giver would be that upset. £5m is a smallish investment. Even if Farage quits as the head of Reform he will be a big player, with a personal vote to throw around.
    If it has a satisfactory explanation Farage would have taken steps to make sure it was declared since, even if for some technical reason of timing it didn't have to be declared, the ordinary voter and the media would have thought it odd once it was leaked.

    He took a chance on not being found out and lost. I wonder what else we don't know about Farage that the public may feel has political not just personal and private significance?


  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 29,093
    Sunil_Prasannan said:

    On topic, I wouldn't bother with Supergirl:

    On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, 57% of 261 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.60/10.

    Excerpt from "Zima Blue" at the beginning

    "..."Let's go back to the wine for a moment," Zima said. "Normally, you'd have relied on the advice of the AM [an AI], wouldn't you? [...] And you follow that advice unquestioningly?" I sipped at the red. "Of course. Wouldn't it be a little childish to go against it just to make a point about free will? After all, I'm more likely to be satisfied with the choice it suggests." "But unless you ignore that suggestion now and then, won't your whole life become a set of predictable responses?" "Maybe," I said. "But is that so very bad? If I'm happy, what do I care?"..."

    Excerpt from "Zima Blue" at the end

    "...It turned out that I remembered more of our meeting on the island than I had any right to. Make of that what you will, but it seemed I didn't need the mental crutch of my AM quite as much as I'd always imagined. Zima was right: I'd allowed my life to become scripted, laid out like a blueprint. It was always red wine with sunsets, never the white..."

    Don't rely on other people's taste, @Sunil_Prasannan : go make your own. We have enough robots.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 129,189
    edited June 27
    viewcode said:

    Sunil_Prasannan said:

    On topic, I wouldn't bother with Supergirl:

    On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, 57% of 261 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.60/10.

    Excerpt from "Zima Blue" at the beginning

    "..."Let's go back to the wine for a moment," Zima said. "Normally, you'd have relied on the advice of the AM [an AI], wouldn't you? [...] And you follow that advice unquestioningly?" I sipped at the red. "Of course. Wouldn't it be a little childish to go against it just to make a point about free will? After all, I'm more likely to be satisfied with the choice it suggests." "But unless you ignore that suggestion now and then, won't your whole life become a set of predictable responses?" "Maybe," I said. "But is that so very bad? If I'm happy, what do I care?"..."

    Excerpt from "Zima Blue" at the end

    "...It turned out that I remembered more of our meeting on the island than I had any right to. Make of that what you will, but it seemed I didn't need the mental crutch of my AM quite as much as I'd always imagined. Zima was right: I'd allowed my life to become scripted, laid out like a blueprint. It was always red wine with sunsets, never the white..."

    Don't rely on other people's taste, @Sunil_Prasannan : go make your own. We have enough robots.
    I enjoyed it.

    I am cursing Christopher Nolan.

    Speaking to the staff at my cinema as tickets for Spider-Man: Brand New Day are now available but not IMAX showings and it turns out that Nolan has got an agreement with IMAX that only The Odyssey will be shown in IMAX for a near three week window which covers Spidey's first week or so.

    I love Chris Nolan and The Odyssey but I hate him right now.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 129,189
    NEW: Admiral Sir Tony Radakin has written an explosive op-ed for The Sunday Times.

    It is the first time the former chief of the defence staff has spoken since retiring last year.

    He said:

    💥 Andy Burnham must appoint a "wartime cabinet" that will properly fund the military.
    💥 The "peace dividend" is over - and the role of the PM is now a "quasi-wartime" one.
    💥 The UK is "looking like a laggard" in Nato and we are bottom of the Nato league table to meet our military commitments.
    💥 Warned Burnham to avoid antagonising Donald Trump - or else the USA could withdraw its "unconditional support" for the UK.
    💥 Says the next PM must "protect the nuclear deterrent."

    Full words in
    @thetimes
    below 👇

    https://x.com/domhauschild/status/2070935498399629513
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 51,126
    boulay said:

    Sad news for Cody Gakpo and his partner, their has son died before being born.

    Hector Bello also a sad (footballer) story today.
  • boulayboulay Posts: 9,119
    kinabalu said:

    boulay said:

    Sad news for Cody Gakpo and his partner, their has son died before being born.

    Hector Bello also a sad (footballer) story today.
    Awful.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 51,126
    edited June 27
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    NEW: Admiral Sir Tony Radakin has written an explosive op-ed for The Sunday Times.

    It is the first time the former chief of the defence staff has spoken since retiring last year.

    He said:

    💥 Andy Burnham must appoint a "wartime cabinet" that will properly fund the military.
    💥 The "peace dividend" is over - and the role of the PM is now a "quasi-wartime" one.
    💥 The UK is "looking like a laggard" in Nato and we are bottom of the Nato league table to meet our military commitments.
    💥 Warned Burnham to avoid antagonising Donald Trump - or else the USA could withdraw its "unconditional support" for the UK.
    💥 Says the next PM must "protect the nuclear deterrent."

    Full words in
    @thetimes
    below 👇

    https://x.com/domhauschild/status/2070935498399629513

    Point 4 - I thought the relationship was with the USA not any particular president.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 37,264
    Northern_Al said:

    First ever first?

    The North in the ascendency.
  • LostPasswordLostPassword Posts: 24,619
    Serbia's president has announced his intention to resign in a couple of weeks. I wonder what that's about?
  • boulayboulay Posts: 9,119
    Brixian59 said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    NEW: Admiral Sir Tony Radakin has written an explosive op-ed for The Sunday Times.

    It is the first time the former chief of the defence staff has spoken since retiring last year.

    He said:

    💥 Andy Burnham must appoint a "wartime cabinet" that will properly fund the military.
    💥 The "peace dividend" is over - and the role of the PM is now a "quasi-wartime" one.
    💥 The UK is "looking like a laggard" in Nato and we are bottom of the Nato league table to meet our military commitments.
    💥 Warned Burnham to avoid antagonising Donald Trump - or else the USA could withdraw its "unconditional support" for the UK.
    💥 Says the next PM must "protect the nuclear deterrent."

    Full words in
    @thetimes
    below 👇

    https://x.com/domhauschild/status/2070935498399629513

    Utter tripe from Radakin

    Wartime Cabinet - Why? Which War? Where? what's changed!?
    The role of any PM has never been any different!
    The UK was a laggard, a laggard on his watch - the hollowing out from 2010 to 2024 is being reversed, it can't be done in 2 or 3 years
    If we have to base any policy in keeping Trump happy then the problem is Trump not the POlicy. Tell him to fuck off!
    What nuclear deterrent , an aging system we pay an extortionate sum for that we cannot control. Its obsolete and can we trust anything Trump has control over.



    Yeah, what would he know about the military situation.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 51,126
    Gosh the ITV pundits are not at all happy about Quansah playing. I hope he isn't listening.
  • boulayboulay Posts: 9,119
    edited June 27
    kinabalu said:

    Gosh the ITV pundits are not at all happy about Quansah playing. I hope he isn't listening.

    Better than sticking Konsa in there which was floated by many journalists.

    He seemed to play that position well when needed for Liverpool.
  • AnneJGPAnneJGP Posts: 5,565
    I Liked the header before I'd even read it. One of your best titles, IMHO.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 60,185
    SandyRentool said:

    BBC:

    "Yorkshire has recorded its highest ever June temperature - reaching 34.4C (93.5F) in Sheffield.

    The new record, set at the Met Office's weather station in Weston Park, surpasses the previous long-standing record of 33.1C (91.5) observed in Huddersfield on 22 June 1941."

    Nearly three degrees colder than "down south" yesterday!
  • AnneJGPAnneJGP Posts: 5,565
    kinabalu said:

    Things ... can only get the same!

    Anyway, the big match tonight. I'm hoping for a nice controlled one niller.

    Save the pyrotechnics for the business end of the tournament.

    Edit: Well done Al.

    Any preference for which team scores the 1 and which the 0?
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 60,185
    kinabalu said:

    Gosh the ITV pundits are not at all happy about Quansah playing. I hope he isn't listening.

    Oh god, Ant and Dec are on!
  • Jim_MillerJim_Miller Posts: 3,927
    If you are bored witing for some sporting event, you might want to take a video tour of US national parks.
    https://www.airnow.gov/resources/web-cams/

    All of the air quality webcam sites have links to other nearby webcams. For example: https://www.nps.gov/mora/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm

    Cheaper and quicker than flying there.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 79,770
    LostPassword said:

    Serbia's president has announced his intention to resign in a couple of weeks. I wonder what that's about?

    Republika Srpska going for annexation, perhaps?
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 60,185
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    viewcode said:

    Sunil_Prasannan said:

    On topic, I wouldn't bother with Supergirl:

    On the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, 57% of 261 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.60/10.

    Excerpt from "Zima Blue" at the beginning

    "..."Let's go back to the wine for a moment," Zima said. "Normally, you'd have relied on the advice of the AM [an AI], wouldn't you? [...] And you follow that advice unquestioningly?" I sipped at the red. "Of course. Wouldn't it be a little childish to go against it just to make a point about free will? After all, I'm more likely to be satisfied with the choice it suggests." "But unless you ignore that suggestion now and then, won't your whole life become a set of predictable responses?" "Maybe," I said. "But is that so very bad? If I'm happy, what do I care?"..."

    Excerpt from "Zima Blue" at the end

    "...It turned out that I remembered more of our meeting on the island than I had any right to. Make of that what you will, but it seemed I didn't need the mental crutch of my AM quite as much as I'd always imagined. Zima was right: I'd allowed my life to become scripted, laid out like a blueprint. It was always red wine with sunsets, never the white..."

    Don't rely on other people's taste, @Sunil_Prasannan : go make your own. We have enough robots.
    I enjoyed it.
    Your tastes are always suspect!
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 25,663
    Looks like ITV has started their coverage way too early, so they are filling time with shite.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 37,264
    SandyRentool said:

    Looks like ITV has started their coverage way too early, so they are filling time with shite.

    Well last game they did that between kick-off and the final whistle.
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 48,131
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    NEW: Admiral Sir Tony Radakin has written an explosive op-ed for The Sunday Times.

    It is the first time the former chief of the defence staff has spoken since retiring last year.

    He said:

    💥 Andy Burnham must appoint a "wartime cabinet" that will properly fund the military.
    💥 The "peace dividend" is over - and the role of the PM is now a "quasi-wartime" one.
    💥 The UK is "looking like a laggard" in Nato and we are bottom of the Nato league table to meet our military commitments.
    💥 Warned Burnham to avoid antagonising Donald Trump - or else the USA could withdraw its "unconditional support" for the UK.
    💥 Says the next PM must "protect the nuclear deterrent."

    Full words in
    @thetimes
    below 👇

    https://x.com/domhauschild/status/2070935498399629513

    Is it an absolute rule that anything promising to be explosive will be damply squibish?
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 60,185
    LostPassword said:

    Serbia's president has announced his intention to resign in a couple of weeks. I wonder what that's about?

    "University students behind more than a year of protests against Vucic's increasingly autocratic rule in Serbia have been demanding early parliamentary elections for over a year but Vucic so far has refrained from setting the date.

    "Vucic has gradually tightened his grip on power since his populist party took over the Serbian government 14 years ago. A train accident in the country's north in November 2024 triggered months-long mass protests demanding accountability for the tragedy that killed 16 people."

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/politics/government/serbia-s-populist-president-vucic-says-he-will-resign-within-weeks-as-election-nears/ar-AA26GYEn?ocid=BingNewsVerp
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 55,704
    SandyRentool said:

    Looks like ITV has started their coverage way too early, so they are filling time with shite.

    Why don’t ITV and BBV share out the concurrent games, rather than each taking them both. Having footy on both BBC1 and BBC2 at the same time is just dumb.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 63,988
    IanB2 said:

    SandyRentool said:

    Looks like ITV has started their coverage way too early, so they are filling time with shite.

    Why don’t ITV and BBV share out the concurrent games, rather than each taking them both. Having footy on both BBC1 and BBC2 at the same time is just dumb.
    huh?

    image
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 37,264
    O/T A Guardian report to warm the cockles of @Pagan2's and @Leon_VotedForStarmer's hearts:

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/27/children-embrace-cornish-language-remarkable-resurgence

    (Oh, I see they are both banned!)
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 48,131
    boulay said:

    Brixian59 said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    NEW: Admiral Sir Tony Radakin has written an explosive op-ed for The Sunday Times.

    It is the first time the former chief of the defence staff has spoken since retiring last year.

    He said:

    💥 Andy Burnham must appoint a "wartime cabinet" that will properly fund the military.
    💥 The "peace dividend" is over - and the role of the PM is now a "quasi-wartime" one.
    💥 The UK is "looking like a laggard" in Nato and we are bottom of the Nato league table to meet our military commitments.
    💥 Warned Burnham to avoid antagonising Donald Trump - or else the USA could withdraw its "unconditional support" for the UK.
    💥 Says the next PM must "protect the nuclear deterrent."

    Full words in
    @thetimes
    below 👇

    https://x.com/domhauschild/status/2070935498399629513

    Utter tripe from Radakin

    Wartime Cabinet - Why? Which War? Where? what's changed!?
    The role of any PM has never been any different!
    The UK was a laggard, a laggard on his watch - the hollowing out from 2010 to 2024 is being reversed, it can't be done in 2 or 3 years
    If we have to base any policy in keeping Trump happy then the problem is Trump not the POlicy. Tell him to fuck off!
    What nuclear deterrent , an aging system we pay an extortionate sum for that we cannot control. Its obsolete and can we trust anything Trump has control over.



    Yeah, what would he know about the military situation.
    How to squeeze the treasury until it’s pips squeak would be a prime qualification I imagine.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 51,126
    SandyRentool said:

    Looks like ITV has started their coverage way too early, so they are filling time with shite.

    Their opening credits are class though imo. Better than the Beebs. Then you've got Keane, Neville and Wright. That's old school gold.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 51,126
    AnneJGP said:

    kinabalu said:

    Things ... can only get the same!

    Anyway, the big match tonight. I'm hoping for a nice controlled one niller.

    Save the pyrotechnics for the business end of the tournament.

    Edit: Well done Al.

    Any preference for which team scores the 1 and which the 0?
    Anne. Cmon.
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 28,209
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    NEW: Admiral Sir Tony Radakin has written an explosive op-ed for The Sunday Times.

    It is the first time the former chief of the defence staff has spoken since retiring last year.

    He said:

    💥 Andy Burnham must appoint a "wartime cabinet" that will properly fund the military.
    💥 The "peace dividend" is over - and the role of the PM is now a "quasi-wartime" one.
    💥 The UK is "looking like a laggard" in Nato and we are bottom of the Nato league table to meet our military commitments.
    💥 Warned Burnham to avoid antagonising Donald Trump - or else the USA could withdraw its "unconditional support" for the UK.
    💥 Says the next PM must "protect the nuclear deterrent."

    Full words in
    @thetimes
    below 👇

    https://x.com/domhauschild/status/2070935498399629513

    That's very impressive, even your Trappist monks do a little bit of speaking.
  • boulayboulay Posts: 9,119
    kinabalu said:

    SandyRentool said:

    Looks like ITV has started their coverage way too early, so they are filling time with shite.

    Their opening credits are class though imo. Better than the Beebs. Then you've got Keane, Neville and Wright. That's old school gold.
    It’s awful, like some rubbish 80s wrigleys ad or some rubbish surfer series. A camper van driving through the US with a non descriptive soft rock song.

    They could have had a great tune made encompassing Mexican, US and Canadian music with a good montage blending all three hosts.

    The pundits are definitely better than the BBC apart from Joe Hart who has provided really good insight which I was surprised about as I thought he was just a cheesy shampoo salesman.
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 72,500
    boulay said:

    Brixian59 said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    NEW: Admiral Sir Tony Radakin has written an explosive op-ed for The Sunday Times.

    It is the first time the former chief of the defence staff has spoken since retiring last year.

    He said:

    💥 Andy Burnham must appoint a "wartime cabinet" that will properly fund the military.
    💥 The "peace dividend" is over - and the role of the PM is now a "quasi-wartime" one.
    💥 The UK is "looking like a laggard" in Nato and we are bottom of the Nato league table to meet our military commitments.
    💥 Warned Burnham to avoid antagonising Donald Trump - or else the USA could withdraw its "unconditional support" for the UK.
    💥 Says the next PM must "protect the nuclear deterrent."

    Full words in
    @thetimes
    below 👇

    https://x.com/domhauschild/status/2070935498399629513

    Utter tripe from Radakin

    Wartime Cabinet - Why? Which War? Where? what's changed!?
    The role of any PM has never been any different!
    The UK was a laggard, a laggard on his watch - the hollowing out from 2010 to 2024 is being reversed, it can't be done in 2 or 3 years
    If we have to base any policy in keeping Trump happy then the problem is Trump not the POlicy. Tell him to fuck off!
    What nuclear deterrent , an aging system we pay an extortionate sum for that we cannot control. Its obsolete and can we trust anything Trump has control over.



    Yeah, what would he know about the military situation.
    I know who is talking tripe and it is not Radakin

  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 57,248
    The polling in the header doesn't quite match the party preference polling that shows a substantial swing to Labour now that Burnham is replacing Starmer.
  • CookieCookie Posts: 17,671
    kinabalu said:

    AnneJGP said:

    kinabalu said:

    Things ... can only get the same!

    Anyway, the big match tonight. I'm hoping for a nice controlled one niller.

    Save the pyrotechnics for the business end of the tournament.

    Edit: Well done Al.

    Any preference for which team scores the 1 and which the 0?
    Anne. Cmon.
    Skybet have given me a free £1 bet for the event, which I have put on England to win 4-0 and to take more corners than Paraguay in both halves. If all this happens I win £728.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 129,189
    BREAKING: Someone just put $67,500 on England to NOT win vs Panama today

    $450,000 potential payout

    https://x.com/KalshiFC/status/2070962998441607645
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 9,432
    Benpointer said:

    O/T A Guardian report to warm the cockles of @Pagan2's and @Leon_VotedForStarmer's hearts:

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/27/children-embrace-cornish-language-remarkable-resurgence

    (Oh, I see they are both banned!)

    Suspect Leon might have opinions on which of the children in that photo count as Cornish.
  • FairlieredFairliered Posts: 8,188
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Brixian59 said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    NEW: Admiral Sir Tony Radakin has written an explosive op-ed for The Sunday Times.

    It is the first time the former chief of the defence staff has spoken since retiring last year.

    He said:

    💥 Andy Burnham must appoint a "wartime cabinet" that will properly fund the military.
    💥 The "peace dividend" is over - and the role of the PM is now a "quasi-wartime" one.
    💥 The UK is "looking like a laggard" in Nato and we are bottom of the Nato league table to meet our military commitments.
    💥 Warned Burnham to avoid antagonising Donald Trump - or else the USA could withdraw its "unconditional support" for the UK.
    💥 Says the next PM must "protect the nuclear deterrent."

    Full words in
    @thetimes
    below 👇

    https://x.com/domhauschild/status/2070935498399629513

    Utter tripe from Radakin

    Wartime Cabinet - Why? Which War? Where? what's changed!?
    The role of any PM has never been any different!
    The UK was a laggard, a laggard on his watch - the hollowing out from 2010 to 2024 is being reversed, it can't be done in 2 or 3 years
    If we have to base any policy in keeping Trump happy then the problem is Trump not the POlicy. Tell him to fuck off!
    What nuclear deterrent , an aging system we pay an extortionate sum for that we cannot control. Its obsolete and can we trust anything Trump has control over.



    Russia.

    Russia has used biological weapons on the streets of the UK.

    Russia was behind the arson attacks on the properties of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

    Russia keeps on trying to disrupt our infrastructure.
    Which is why we should be combating Russian aggression, both overt and covert. Hint to MoD. More aircraft carriers and infantry won’t work. More drones, better intelligence and guerilla tactics might.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 129,189
    edited June 27
    Fairliered said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Brixian59 said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    NEW: Admiral Sir Tony Radakin has written an explosive op-ed for The Sunday Times.

    It is the first time the former chief of the defence staff has spoken since retiring last year.

    He said:

    💥 Andy Burnham must appoint a "wartime cabinet" that will properly fund the military.
    💥 The "peace dividend" is over - and the role of the PM is now a "quasi-wartime" one.
    💥 The UK is "looking like a laggard" in Nato and we are bottom of the Nato league table to meet our military commitments.
    💥 Warned Burnham to avoid antagonising Donald Trump - or else the USA could withdraw its "unconditional support" for the UK.
    💥 Says the next PM must "protect the nuclear deterrent."

    Full words in
    @thetimes
    below 👇

    https://x.com/domhauschild/status/2070935498399629513

    Utter tripe from Radakin

    Wartime Cabinet - Why? Which War? Where? what's changed!?
    The role of any PM has never been any different!
    The UK was a laggard, a laggard on his watch - the hollowing out from 2010 to 2024 is being reversed, it can't be done in 2 or 3 years
    If we have to base any policy in keeping Trump happy then the problem is Trump not the POlicy. Tell him to fuck off!
    What nuclear deterrent , an aging system we pay an extortionate sum for that we cannot control. Its obsolete and can we trust anything Trump has control over.



    Russia.

    Russia has used biological weapons on the streets of the UK.

    Russia was behind the arson attacks on the properties of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

    Russia keeps on trying to disrupt our infrastructure.
    Which is why we should be combating Russian aggression, both overt and covert. Hint to MoD. More aircraft carriers and infantry won’t work. More drones, better intelligence and guerilla tactics might.
    I know we are hinting the Russians where it hurts Putin personally and the ability to fund his wars.

    A large part of my working weeks involves discussions with OFSI.
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 28,209
    Fairliered said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Brixian59 said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    NEW: Admiral Sir Tony Radakin has written an explosive op-ed for The Sunday Times.

    It is the first time the former chief of the defence staff has spoken since retiring last year.

    He said:

    💥 Andy Burnham must appoint a "wartime cabinet" that will properly fund the military.
    💥 The "peace dividend" is over - and the role of the PM is now a "quasi-wartime" one.
    💥 The UK is "looking like a laggard" in Nato and we are bottom of the Nato league table to meet our military commitments.
    💥 Warned Burnham to avoid antagonising Donald Trump - or else the USA could withdraw its "unconditional support" for the UK.
    💥 Says the next PM must "protect the nuclear deterrent."

    Full words in
    @thetimes
    below 👇

    https://x.com/domhauschild/status/2070935498399629513

    Utter tripe from Radakin

    Wartime Cabinet - Why? Which War? Where? what's changed!?
    The role of any PM has never been any different!
    The UK was a laggard, a laggard on his watch - the hollowing out from 2010 to 2024 is being reversed, it can't be done in 2 or 3 years
    If we have to base any policy in keeping Trump happy then the problem is Trump not the POlicy. Tell him to fuck off!
    What nuclear deterrent , an aging system we pay an extortionate sum for that we cannot control. Its obsolete and can we trust anything Trump has control over.



    Russia.

    Russia has used biological weapons on the streets of the UK.

    Russia was behind the arson attacks on the properties of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

    Russia keeps on trying to disrupt our infrastructure.
    Which is why we should be combating Russian aggression, both overt and covert. Hint to MoD. More aircraft carriers and infantry won’t work. More drones, better intelligence and guerilla tactics might.
    It doesn't help when voters are happy to vote for PMs who deliberately leave their security detail to party with KGB agents though!
  • boulayboulay Posts: 9,119
    Why is ITV player so utterly shit? And it has the cheek to stop and say it’s something to do with my connection when it’s ridiculously good.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 129,189
    boulay said:

    Why is ITV player so utterly shit? And it has the cheek to stop and say it’s something to do with my connection when it’s ridiculously good.

    It'll be retired when Sky complete their takeover of ITV.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 51,126
    edited June 27
    boulay said:

    kinabalu said:

    Gosh the ITV pundits are not at all happy about Quansah playing. I hope he isn't listening.

    Better than sticking Konsa in there which was floated by many journalists.

    He seemed to play that position well when needed for Liverpool.
    In Tuchel we trust - until he forfeits it which he hasn't yet.

    Not impressed by that savage punditry about Quansah before he's even kicked a ball.

    Neville said when he saw him play he "wasn't a beautiful thing".

    Then Keane said ok but surely "he could cope".

    And all the usually bouyant Wright could say was "obviously Thomas thinks he can do a job".

    I mean, wtf. Cmon itv pundits. Where's the hope and optimism. Save the gloom for if we go out. Until then we're winning it. Winning the whole thing.
  • boulayboulay Posts: 9,119
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Fairliered said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Brixian59 said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    NEW: Admiral Sir Tony Radakin has written an explosive op-ed for The Sunday Times.

    It is the first time the former chief of the defence staff has spoken since retiring last year.

    He said:

    💥 Andy Burnham must appoint a "wartime cabinet" that will properly fund the military.
    💥 The "peace dividend" is over - and the role of the PM is now a "quasi-wartime" one.
    💥 The UK is "looking like a laggard" in Nato and we are bottom of the Nato league table to meet our military commitments.
    💥 Warned Burnham to avoid antagonising Donald Trump - or else the USA could withdraw its "unconditional support" for the UK.
    💥 Says the next PM must "protect the nuclear deterrent."

    Full words in
    @thetimes
    below 👇

    https://x.com/domhauschild/status/2070935498399629513

    Utter tripe from Radakin

    Wartime Cabinet - Why? Which War? Where? what's changed!?
    The role of any PM has never been any different!
    The UK was a laggard, a laggard on his watch - the hollowing out from 2010 to 2024 is being reversed, it can't be done in 2 or 3 years
    If we have to base any policy in keeping Trump happy then the problem is Trump not the POlicy. Tell him to fuck off!
    What nuclear deterrent , an aging system we pay an extortionate sum for that we cannot control. Its obsolete and can we trust anything Trump has control over.



    Russia.

    Russia has used biological weapons on the streets of the UK.

    Russia was behind the arson attacks on the properties of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

    Russia keeps on trying to disrupt our infrastructure.
    Which is why we should be combating Russian aggression, both overt and covert. Hint to MoD. More aircraft carriers and infantry won’t work. More drones, better intelligence and guerilla tactics might.
    I know we are hinting the Russians where it hurts Putin personally and the ability to fund his wars.

    A large part of my working weeks involves discussions with OFSI.
    If we ever meet at a PB gathering I have some wonderful tales to tell you about this sort of thing from personal experience.
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 28,209
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    BREAKING: Someone just put $67,500 on England to NOT win vs Panama today

    $450,000 potential payout

    https://x.com/KalshiFC/status/2070962998441607645

    Non neglible chance Tuchel prefers the other side of the draw, swaps Mexico at altitude for Spain but otherwise an easier quarter imo.
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 28,209
    kinabalu said:

    boulay said:

    kinabalu said:

    Gosh the ITV pundits are not at all happy about Quansah playing. I hope he isn't listening.

    Better than sticking Konsa in there which was floated by many journalists.

    He seemed to play that position well when needed for Liverpool.
    In Tuchel we trust - until he forfeits it which he hasn't yet.

    Not impressed by that savage punditry about Quansah before he's even kicked a ball.

    Neville said when he saw him play he "wasn't a beautiful thing".

    Then Keane said ok but surely "he could cope".

    And all the usually bouyant Wright could say was "obviously Thomas thinks he can do a job".

    I mean, wtf. Cmon itv pundits. Where's the hope and optimism. Save the gloom for if we go out. Until then we're winning it. Winning the whole thing.
    Wouldn't like to see him up against Mbappe to be fair.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 60,185
    boulay said:

    kinabalu said:

    SandyRentool said:

    Looks like ITV has started their coverage way too early, so they are filling time with shite.

    Their opening credits are class though imo. Better than the Beebs. Then you've got Keane, Neville and Wright. That's old school gold.
    It’s awful, like some rubbish 80s wrigleys ad or some rubbish surfer series. A camper van driving through the US with a non descriptive soft rock song.

    They could have had a great tune made encompassing Mexican, US and Canadian music with a good montage blending all three hosts.

    The pundits are definitely better than the BBC apart from Joe Hart who has provided really good insight which I was surprised about as I thought he was just a cheesy shampoo salesman.
    "Gloryland" was ITV's theme song for USA 94.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lyNR0UMVic
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 51,126
    Cookie said:

    kinabalu said:

    AnneJGP said:

    kinabalu said:

    Things ... can only get the same!

    Anyway, the big match tonight. I'm hoping for a nice controlled one niller.

    Save the pyrotechnics for the business end of the tournament.

    Edit: Well done Al.

    Any preference for which team scores the 1 and which the 0?
    Anne. Cmon.
    Skybet have given me a free £1 bet for the event, which I have put on England to win 4-0 and to take more corners than Paraguay in both halves. If all this happens I win £728.
    Fab bet. But personally (with an eye on our tournament prospects) I'm hoping for the 1/0.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 129,189
    Cookie said:

    kinabalu said:

    AnneJGP said:

    kinabalu said:

    Things ... can only get the same!

    Anyway, the big match tonight. I'm hoping for a nice controlled one niller.

    Save the pyrotechnics for the business end of the tournament.

    Edit: Well done Al.

    Any preference for which team scores the 1 and which the 0?
    Anne. Cmon.
    Skybet have given me a free £1 bet for the event, which I have put on England to win 4-0 and to take more corners than Paraguay in both halves. If all this happens I win £728.
    England will not beat Paraguay tonight.
  • Northern_AlNorthern_Al Posts: 9,682
    Cookie said:

    kinabalu said:

    AnneJGP said:

    kinabalu said:

    Things ... can only get the same!

    Anyway, the big match tonight. I'm hoping for a nice controlled one niller.

    Save the pyrotechnics for the business end of the tournament.

    Edit: Well done Al.

    Any preference for which team scores the 1 and which the 0?
    Anne. Cmon.
    Skybet have given me a free £1 bet for the event, which I have put on England to win 4-0 and to take more corners than Paraguay in both halves. If all this happens I win £728.
    Good luck, but it's a pity we're playing Panama rather than Paraguay.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 60,185
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Cookie said:

    kinabalu said:

    AnneJGP said:

    kinabalu said:

    Things ... can only get the same!

    Anyway, the big match tonight. I'm hoping for a nice controlled one niller.

    Save the pyrotechnics for the business end of the tournament.

    Edit: Well done Al.

    Any preference for which team scores the 1 and which the 0?
    Anne. Cmon.
    Skybet have given me a free £1 bet for the event, which I have put on England to win 4-0 and to take more corners than Paraguay in both halves. If all this happens I win £728.
    England will not beat Paraguay tonight.
    You never heard of the Paraguay Canal??

    It passes very close to Asuncion Island.
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 23,592
    SandyRentool said:

    Looks like ITV has started their coverage way too early, so they are filling time with shite.

    Showing highlights from the Ghana game?
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 48,131
    Cookie said:

    kinabalu said:

    AnneJGP said:

    kinabalu said:

    Things ... can only get the same!

    Anyway, the big match tonight. I'm hoping for a nice controlled one niller.

    Save the pyrotechnics for the business end of the tournament.

    Edit: Well done Al.

    Any preference for which team scores the 1 and which the 0?
    Anne. Cmon.
    Skybet have given me a free £1 bet for the event, which I have put on England to win 4-0 and to take more corners than Paraguay in both halves. If all this happens I win £728.
    Not that I’m saying bookmakers are ****s but I hope the bet is on Eng v Pan rather than Eng v Par
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 23,592
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    BREAKING: Someone just put $67,500 on England to NOT win vs Panama today

    $450,000 potential payout

    https://x.com/KalshiFC/status/2070962998441607645

    I only had a fiver on a double chance guv.
  • boulayboulay Posts: 9,119
    Just seen an ad for The Odyssey. Looks worryingly like the pile of poo that Troy was but will watch it having loved the story since a child.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 51,126
    Oh shit, Cookie, sorry that is not a 'fab bet'. It's got almost no chance of coming in.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 60,185
    boulay said:

    Just seen an ad for The Odyssey. Looks worryingly like the pile of poo that Troy was but will watch it having loved the story since a child.

    Ulysses 31 being the best adaptation to date, of course :)
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 129,189
    edited June 27
    boulay said:

    Just seen an ad for The Odyssey. Looks worryingly like the pile of poo that Troy was but will watch it having loved the story since a child.

    Same but it is a Christopher Nolan film and he is the finest director in the world, extant.
  • AnneJGPAnneJGP Posts: 5,565
    kinabalu said:

    AnneJGP said:

    kinabalu said:

    Things ... can only get the same!

    Anyway, the big match tonight. I'm hoping for a nice controlled one niller.

    Save the pyrotechnics for the business end of the tournament.

    Edit: Well done Al.

    Any preference for which team scores the 1 and which the 0?
    Anne. Cmon.
    I couldn't resist.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 60,185
    Come on,, England!
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 37,264
    Oh gawd Sam Matterface
  • boulayboulay Posts: 9,119
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    boulay said:

    Just seen an ad for The Odyssey. Looks worryingly like the pile of poo that Troy was but will watch it having loved the story since a child.

    Same but it is a Christopher Nolan film and he is the finest director in the world, extant.
    Might have been better served as a big budget series.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 60,185
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    boulay said:

    Just seen an ad for The Odyssey. Looks worryingly like the pile of poo that Troy was but will watch it having loved the story since a child.

    Same but it is a Christopher Nolan film and he is the finest director in the world, extant.
    "We live in a twilight world..."
  • boulayboulay Posts: 9,119
    Benpointer said:

    Oh gawd Sam Matterface

    Sam Shaduppayaface.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 37,264
    So are England going to be able to cut through Panama with more success than Ferdinand de Lesseps?
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 129,189
    Sunil_Prasannan said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    boulay said:

    Just seen an ad for The Odyssey. Looks worryingly like the pile of poo that Troy was but will watch it having loved the story since a child.

    Same but it is a Christopher Nolan film and he is the finest director in the world, extant.
    "We live in a twilight world..."
    Bella's a skank, she's not worthy of Edward.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 137,286
    So Burnham is mainly seen as offering a more charismatic frontman as PM than offering any major policy differences with Starmer
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 37,264
    boulay said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    boulay said:

    Just seen an ad for The Odyssey. Looks worryingly like the pile of poo that Troy was but will watch it having loved the story since a child.

    Same but it is a Christopher Nolan film and he is the finest director in the world, extant.
    Might have been better served as a big budget series.
    The World Cup?
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 137,286
    Meanwhile, Healey, then Cooper and Streeting seen as best options for Burnham's Chancellor

    https://x.com/OpiniumResearch/status/2070949031732482252?s=20
  • Pro_RataPro_Rata Posts: 6,366
    Cookie said:

    kinabalu said:

    AnneJGP said:

    kinabalu said:

    Things ... can only get the same!

    Anyway, the big match tonight. I'm hoping for a nice controlled one niller.

    Save the pyrotechnics for the business end of the tournament.

    Edit: Well done Al.

    Any preference for which team scores the 1 and which the 0?
    Anne. Cmon.
    Skybet have given me a free £1 bet for the event, which I have put on England to win 4-0 and to take more corners than Paraguay in both halves. If all this happens I win £728.
    I'm quietly rooting for the equally improbable double of Ghana 3 - Croatia 0, England 0 - Panama 1 tonight.

    Scotland are going out anyway so, for the bantz, the killer result might as well be an England defeat!
  • solarflaresolarflare Posts: 4,952
    Benpointer said:

    Oh gawd Sam Matterface

    It's more Lee Dixon. Some people are world-weary; Dixon appears to be galaxy-weary.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 59,253
    noneoftheabove said:

    kinabalu said:

    boulay said:

    kinabalu said:

    Gosh the ITV pundits are not at all happy about Quansah playing. I hope he isn't listening.

    Better than sticking Konsa in there which was floated by many journalists.

    He seemed to play that position well when needed for Liverpool.
    In Tuchel we trust - until he forfeits it which he hasn't yet.

    Not impressed by that savage punditry about Quansah before he's even kicked a ball.

    Neville said when he saw him play he "wasn't a beautiful thing".

    Then Keane said ok but surely "he could cope".

    And all the usually bouyant Wright could say was "obviously Thomas thinks he can do a job".

    I mean, wtf. Cmon itv pundits. Where's the hope and optimism. Save the gloom for if we go out. Until then we're winning it. Winning the whole thing.
    Wouldn't like to see him up against Mbappe to be fair.
    He is not alone in that though. Pretty much every right back in the world has the same problem.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 37,264
    Why are both teams playing in their away colours?
  • boulayboulay Posts: 9,119
    solarflare said:

    Benpointer said:

    Oh gawd Sam Matterface

    It's more Lee Dixon. Some people are world-weary; Dixon appears to be galaxy-weary.
    Except when he’s creaming himself about Ronaldo weirdly. I’ve never heard such fanboy commentary as he gave the other night for the Portugal match.
  • FlatlanderFlatlander Posts: 6,049
    edited June 27
    Sunil_Prasannan said:

    SandyRentool said:

    BBC:

    "Yorkshire has recorded its highest ever June temperature - reaching 34.4C (93.5F) in Sheffield.

    The new record, set at the Met Office's weather station in Weston Park, surpasses the previous long-standing record of 33.1C (91.5) observed in Huddersfield on 22 June 1941."

    Nearly three degrees colder than "down south" yesterday!
    It was at least a degree hotter in the Yorkshire Flatlands than up the hill in Sheffield but there are no gauges. Bawtry (holder of the September record) has long gone and Gringley is in Notts.

    We likely beat the 40.3C in 2022 too, but again, no official gauges.

    Cuts, innit.
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 28,209
    DavidL said:

    noneoftheabove said:

    kinabalu said:

    boulay said:

    kinabalu said:

    Gosh the ITV pundits are not at all happy about Quansah playing. I hope he isn't listening.

    Better than sticking Konsa in there which was floated by many journalists.

    He seemed to play that position well when needed for Liverpool.
    In Tuchel we trust - until he forfeits it which he hasn't yet.

    Not impressed by that savage punditry about Quansah before he's even kicked a ball.

    Neville said when he saw him play he "wasn't a beautiful thing".

    Then Keane said ok but surely "he could cope".

    And all the usually bouyant Wright could say was "obviously Thomas thinks he can do a job".

    I mean, wtf. Cmon itv pundits. Where's the hope and optimism. Save the gloom for if we go out. Until then we're winning it. Winning the whole thing.
    Wouldn't like to see him up against Mbappe to be fair.
    He is not alone in that though. Pretty much every right back in the world has the same problem.
    I recall Kyle Walker did a great job on Mbappe. Spence has the attributes to do similar.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 60,185
    Sunil_Prasannan said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Cookie said:

    kinabalu said:

    AnneJGP said:

    kinabalu said:

    Things ... can only get the same!

    Anyway, the big match tonight. I'm hoping for a nice controlled one niller.

    Save the pyrotechnics for the business end of the tournament.

    Edit: Well done Al.

    Any preference for which team scores the 1 and which the 0?
    Anne. Cmon.
    Skybet have given me a free £1 bet for the event, which I have put on England to win 4-0 and to take more corners than Paraguay in both halves. If all this happens I win £728.
    England will not beat Paraguay tonight.
    You never heard of the Paraguay Canal??

    It passes very close to Asuncion Island.
    No one got my subtle pun/joke/silliness!
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 23,592
    Benpointer said:

    Why are both teams playing in their away colours?

    Money. Get to sell those shirts. Swindon this pre season have a special shirt just for preseason FFS.
  • DoctorGDoctorG Posts: 824
    Currently watching Eng v Pan on mute, cannot abide Dixon and Matterface spewing nonsense

    Away from the media glare of tonights matches, I wonder if Steve Clarke is sitting in an airport lounge somewhere waiting on the final whistle in the Ghana v Croatia game, to put Scotland out of their misery?

    How he would love to disappear into the wilderness with an early morning arrival back home before the 4th estate are out of their beds
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 129,189
    turbotubbs said:

    Benpointer said:

    Why are both teams playing in their away colours?

    Money. Get to sell those shirts. Swindon this pre season have a special shirt just for preseason FFS.
    Manchester United are releasing a fourth kit.
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 23,592
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    turbotubbs said:

    Benpointer said:

    Why are both teams playing in their away colours?

    Money. Get to sell those shirts. Swindon this pre season have a special shirt just for preseason FFS.
    Manchester United are releasing a fourth kit.
    Bet it’s not grey.
  • DoctorGDoctorG Posts: 824
    Pro_Rata said:

    Cookie said:

    kinabalu said:

    AnneJGP said:

    kinabalu said:

    Things ... can only get the same!

    Anyway, the big match tonight. I'm hoping for a nice controlled one niller.

    Save the pyrotechnics for the business end of the tournament.

    Edit: Well done Al.

    Any preference for which team scores the 1 and which the 0?
    Anne. Cmon.
    Skybet have given me a free £1 bet for the event, which I have put on England to win 4-0 and to take more corners than Paraguay in both halves. If all this happens I win £728.
    I'm quietly rooting for the equally improbable double of Ghana 3 - Croatia 0, England 0 - Panama 1 tonight.

    Scotland are going out anyway so, for the bantz, the killer result might as well be an England defeat!
    Those final scores would still keep the Tartan corpse alive, if only for another 3 hours. Methinks Messrs Modric and co will have the other game under control
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 60,185
    edited June 27
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Sunil_Prasannan said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    boulay said:

    Just seen an ad for The Odyssey. Looks worryingly like the pile of poo that Troy was but will watch it having loved the story since a child.

    Same but it is a Christopher Nolan film and he is the finest director in the world, extant.
    "We live in a twilight world..."
    Bella's a skank, she's not worthy of Edward.
    "What’s happened, happened. Which is an expression of faith in the mechanics of the world. It's not an excuse to do nothing."
  • boulayboulay Posts: 9,119
    Rashford looking good, much more power than Gordon.
  • DoctorGDoctorG Posts: 824
    Benpointer said:

    Why are both teams playing in their away colours?

    Because Trump said USA are the home team
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 21,310
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    NEW: Admiral Sir Tony Radakin has written an explosive op-ed for The Sunday Times.

    It is the first time the former chief of the defence staff has spoken since retiring last year.

    He said:

    💥 Andy Burnham must appoint a "wartime cabinet" that will properly fund the military.
    💥 The "peace dividend" is over - and the role of the PM is now a "quasi-wartime" one.
    💥 The UK is "looking like a laggard" in Nato and we are bottom of the Nato league table to meet our military commitments.
    💥 Warned Burnham to avoid antagonising Donald Trump - or else the USA could withdraw its "unconditional support" for the UK.
    💥 Says the next PM must "protect the nuclear deterrent."

    Full words in
    @thetimes
    below 👇

    https://x.com/domhauschild/status/2070935498399629513

    Bellicose nonsense. We’re not at war and are unlikely to be, our best defence is a good offence by funnelling support to Ukraine, rather than 20th century military spending,
  • boulayboulay Posts: 9,119
    We are looking somewhat ordinary. We don’t have the excuse, unlike against Ghana, that they are playing a low block.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 59,253
    boulay said:

    We are looking somewhat ordinary. We don’t have the excuse, unlike against Ghana, that they are playing a low block.

    Serious lack of a cutting edge again. England really need to work out how to get Kane in the game. He's been invisible so far.
  • Pro_RataPro_Rata Posts: 6,366
    DoctorG said:

    Pro_Rata said:

    Cookie said:

    kinabalu said:

    AnneJGP said:

    kinabalu said:

    Things ... can only get the same!

    Anyway, the big match tonight. I'm hoping for a nice controlled one niller.

    Save the pyrotechnics for the business end of the tournament.

    Edit: Well done Al.

    Any preference for which team scores the 1 and which the 0?
    Anne. Cmon.
    Skybet have given me a free £1 bet for the event, which I have put on England to win 4-0 and to take more corners than Paraguay in both halves. If all this happens I win £728.
    I'm quietly rooting for the equally improbable double of Ghana 3 - Croatia 0, England 0 - Panama 1 tonight.

    Scotland are going out anyway so, for the bantz, the killer result might as well be an England defeat!
    Those final scores would still keep the Tartan corpse alive, if only for another 3 hours. Methinks Messrs Modric and co will have the other game under control
    Ah, I keep forgetting goal difference is a secondary tiebreak in the groups.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 57,248
    bondegezou said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    NEW: Admiral Sir Tony Radakin has written an explosive op-ed for The Sunday Times.

    It is the first time the former chief of the defence staff has spoken since retiring last year.

    He said:

    💥 Andy Burnham must appoint a "wartime cabinet" that will properly fund the military.
    💥 The "peace dividend" is over - and the role of the PM is now a "quasi-wartime" one.
    💥 The UK is "looking like a laggard" in Nato and we are bottom of the Nato league table to meet our military commitments.
    💥 Warned Burnham to avoid antagonising Donald Trump - or else the USA could withdraw its "unconditional support" for the UK.
    💥 Says the next PM must "protect the nuclear deterrent."

    Full words in
    @thetimes
    below 👇

    https://x.com/domhauschild/status/2070935498399629513

    Bellicose nonsense. We’re not at war and are unlikely to be, our best defence is a good offence by funnelling support to Ukraine, rather than 20th century military spending,
    Also dealling with the political subversion and cyberwarfare.

    That is where the threat lies at the moment.

  • AnneJGPAnneJGP Posts: 5,565
    HYUFD said:

    Meanwhile, Healey, then Cooper and Streeting seen as best options for Burnham's Chancellor

    https://x.com/OpiniumResearch/status/2070949031732482252?s=20

    I'm starting to get confused between politicians and footballers.
  • TazTaz Posts: 28,924
    What a dull game.
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 25,663
    Benpointer said:

    Why are both teams playing in their away colours?

    Cofused me. For the first minute I was supporting the wrong team.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 29,093
    edited June 27
    boulay said:

    Just seen an ad for The Odyssey. Looks worryingly like the pile of poo that Troy was but will watch it having loved the story since a child.

    From the trailer(s)
    • I dislike the dialogue
    • I adore the cinematography
    • I don't really know if I'm going to like it.
    • But I'm going to see it anyway (I've seen Tenet in the cinema twice now, so gluttony for punishment confirmed)
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 21,310
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Brixian59 said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    NEW: Admiral Sir Tony Radakin has written an explosive op-ed for The Sunday Times.

    It is the first time the former chief of the defence staff has spoken since retiring last year.

    He said:

    💥 Andy Burnham must appoint a "wartime cabinet" that will properly fund the military.
    💥 The "peace dividend" is over - and the role of the PM is now a "quasi-wartime" one.
    💥 The UK is "looking like a laggard" in Nato and we are bottom of the Nato league table to meet our military commitments.
    💥 Warned Burnham to avoid antagonising Donald Trump - or else the USA could withdraw its "unconditional support" for the UK.
    💥 Says the next PM must "protect the nuclear deterrent."

    Full words in
    @thetimes
    below 👇

    https://x.com/domhauschild/status/2070935498399629513

    Utter tripe from Radakin

    Wartime Cabinet - Why? Which War? Where? what's changed!?
    The role of any PM has never been any different!
    The UK was a laggard, a laggard on his watch - the hollowing out from 2010 to 2024 is being reversed, it can't be done in 2 or 3 years
    If we have to base any policy in keeping Trump happy then the problem is Trump not the POlicy. Tell him to fuck off!
    What nuclear deterrent , an aging system we pay an extortionate sum for that we cannot control. Its obsolete and can we trust anything Trump has control over.



    Russia.

    Russia has used biological weapons on the streets of the UK.

    Russia was behind the arson attacks on the properties of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

    Russia keeps on trying to disrupt our infrastructure.
    And are Radakin’s spending priorities going to stop that? We need better intelligence and policing to stop the disruption of our infrastructure. Making the army bigger or some new fighter jets won’t help.
  • boulayboulay Posts: 9,119
    DavidL said:

    boulay said:

    We are looking somewhat ordinary. We don’t have the excuse, unlike against Ghana, that they are playing a low block.

    Serious lack of a cutting edge again. England really need to work out how to get Kane in the game. He's been invisible so far.
    We don’t seem to have that player who can get the ball in the middle of the pitch, hold it then spot runs. And Kane probably needs to stay up more so there is someone for the long ball to go to.
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