Dr Malcolm Harvey

Well, this aged well.

Lovely stuff from ITV comms though. Fair play to Ben Kay and David Flatman. They are effusive in their praise for Italy, and cogniscent of how monumental this is for Italian rugby.

What a difference after week 1: England three defeats in a row after winning easily, Scotland three wins in a row after losing ugly.

Three Six Nations home wins this weekend?

You'd have got reasonably long odds on that before the first whistle.

Sione wants to give 'all the props' to the guys for the performance today, but if he does that we won't be able to field a front row next week.

Don't worry. We'll lose in Dublin too.

But Rome feels a long time ago now.

Just as well we had already mostly had the game won before we switched off today...

Pretty incredible performance all around though.

The tidiest, most-disciplined 40 mins I've seen from Scotland for a long time.

Wary though, that any errors have been punished and if the performance levels drop, France will put us to the sword.

Big 40 coming up for this side.

Me too.

Because he's even less smart than he appears on TV.

It's two names.

They couldn't decide which grandfather to name him after, so they went with both.

If Markwayne Mullin is the answer, you know you're asking the wrong question.

Image of me and my wife on our wedding day

How is it possible that this was SIXTEEN years ago?

They did pass the responsibility to LBJ via the Gulf of Tonkin resolution though - which effectively gave the President a blank cheque.

But yes, its all semantics. If what the US did to Iran happened to the US, you can be damn sure they'd consider it an act of war.

a man in a white shirt is standing on a set of stairs with his arms in the air ALT: a man in a white shirt is standing on a set of stairs with his arms in the air

Okay Sir Keir.

Now might be time to deploy your inner Hugh Grant...

The bigger question isn't whether Iran should play in the World Cup, but why a war-mongering aggressor should continue to host.

Would we still host a major sporting event in Russia after they invaded Ukra... oh, never mind. We did that in 2018.

People Make Glasgow.

(The broader point being that, while things were and are far from stable domestically in Iran, there was no threat beyond Iran - and in particular, to UK interests - until the US and Israel began bombing Iran. UK interests are threatened because of US actions).

Yes, that's something of a facetious question, and the answer is the obvious one (at least, I think it is... for now).

But the fact that you can actually ask this question tells you the old international order is dead.

Keir Starmer says 'British planes are in the skies in the Middle East in a DEFENSIVE capacity'.

Which begs the question... defending from Iranian or US offensive efforts?

Starting wars just so you can say you ended them.

Helluva strategy to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

Yet again, I must politely repeat:

And yes, undoubtedly, Joe Marler is not a perfect guy. He's done some bad shit.

But he's also not tried to hide his mistakes. He's owned them, and tried to learn from them.

That's all you can ask of someone.

THIS.

We need to normalise men talking about emotion, and talking about mental health.

I share Josh Widdecombe's experience with tapering going badly, and I don't recommend it.

But keep taking them, cause they are doing a job.

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Yesterday: "Matt Goodwin could win."

Today: "Matt's a bad loser that lost badly."

Life comes at you fast.

People will tell you that Reform are still a substantial threat, that Goodwin did what he could in a tough seat, and that it’s immature to gloat about an arrogant twerp losing his composure so thoroughly in defeat.

People with no sense of occasion.

I was less interested in the broader outcome of the by-election. In this case, I just wanted to see the nasty hate-preaching walloper get his arse handed to him.

My analysis of the outcome is that the nasty hate-preaching walloper got his arse handed him.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Why a man with a fragile ego and inability to take a loss would choose ACADEMIA then POLITICS as a career is beyond me.

You got to feel for Matt Goodwin.

Sorry missed a word. You got to feel contempt for Matt Goodwin.

Hahahaha