For outsiders, bookmakers' early prices can be better than the exchange. The firms sacked their odds-compilers when copying Betfair prices was more accurate but betting markets are dead now right up … (View Post)

Ironically, one reason advanced for wanting more information from the police is to counter online rumours that every attacker is an asylum seeker. Yvette Cooper spoke about this. I believe she is mar… (View Post)

Like him or not, Gary Lineker is good at the telly game. Like Brucey, Ant & Dec, Noel Edmonds, Graham Norton, Jeremy Clarkson and no doubt a few others, even if you don't care for their programme… (View Post)

Hard to say. Presumably Britain would have been better placed to defend Malaya (as was), Singapore and what have you, but then nothing Japan did made much sense anyway. We forget Japan had conquered … (View Post)

Franz Ferdinand is another band whose name does not bear much thinking about, although from the ‘war to end all wars’. (View Post)