Andrew Howard

Sir John Curtice should sue.

Sometimes think it’s one of the giveaways that the RW press is just in it for the money and actually hate each other. She submitted that, a sub read it and thought “shall I correct this?”, then thought “na, fuck her, I’ll let her look like a chump”

He did not advise as to whether it was really stupid idea that would cost billions, leave hundreds of thousands dead and destabilise the region for the foreseeable future.

I can’t really work out where you are based SPammy, so apologies if you know this: the AG in the UK is effectively the Chief Legal Adviser to the Government - at the time of the Iraq war, great weight was conferred upon his assessment of the legality of UK’s involvement.

I saw that earlier on Instagram and assumed it was satire.

I actually think they’ve been unusually forward here. The Telegraph’s position is humiliating and IPSO have ensured they admit that. But they can’t make the Telegraph feel any shame.

The coach needs to demonstrate that he can get more consistency out of the squad. This T20 campaign reinforces the conclusions from the Winter. We’re a cup team and Test cricket is a league. We’re not Spurs, the occasional cup run is not enough.

I think he’s probably reached the end of the road. He did a great job in turning around England’s mentality (in the same was as Eoin Morgan down with the 50 over squad) but this team (both red and white ball) is allowing vibes to overshadow results. We can beat anyone, we can lose to anyone.

Carole Kaplan > Lord Goldsmith

Indeed. A legal war isn’t necessarily a just war. The UK has in the past confused the AG with a spiritual advisor.

For the avoidance of doubt, I did not for a moment think you supported the US’ moral right to do this.

I don’t honestly recall any legal question about the sinking of the Belgrano. The bigger question was the lie about how imminent a threat it was. Hegseth and the US aren’t even within a hemisphere of giving a fuck about that and aren’t pretending this was anything other than a preemptive sinking.

Legally happy or morally happy?

I missed this geopolitical expert / sociopath. Who was it please?

Surprise me.

Excel master *and* you can spell plenipotentiary. Out of order, frankly.

And we all beat Aus and the Lions came within a very penalisable clear-out to losing to them.

The only thing I know for sure is that France are winning the tournament

My number one reason is that England’s confidence is shot. I heard Ollie Chessum on the BBC pod saying they lacked intensity and that’s wholly a physical (not mental) thing. Borthwick’s bullshit has fried their brains.

It is possible that her core issue is that she just hates people.

By which I mean, you don’t get a regular slot on Newsnight, daily politics etc etc

Both the Telegraph and the Mail are, 8 believe, pushing hard into the US online market. It feels like the UK print operation is becoming almost incidental. Which is ok, as long as the rest of the media recognises this and starts to engage them about as often as they do, say, Newsmax

Wars were woke in the past. He really is the cunt’s cunt.

You’re one of those “evidence-led” guys. We don’t really go in for that sort of thing.

Well now you’re just helping him refine the policy. He will still need something else to keep the brightest minority kids out though.

He didn’t thrive. He didn’t go to University and current reports suggest most people hated him. He didn’t become fabulously wealthy as a trader in the 80s.

Arguably his entire political life is a response to his early mediocrity.

This is the price of success in the trail running space - over the last ten years it's just exploded.

I came to it late in life and so I've taken the principled decision to retire from anything longer than a half marathon. It's a principled decision, got that? (and not just perma-knee knack)

Exactly. It's an ipad in an alternate form factor.

That new laptop shares hardware with the cheapest iphone.

57% in the bottom 3 categories. Catastrophic.

stains, not permeates.

I think so. Badenoch's issue appears to be that she doesn't understand the difference between defending our allies and being front and centre of Trump's war. Or she doesn't think the public can understand it.