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This launched last night and was more damp squib than space rocket. However, early days yet. My initial impressions - and in fairness I don't think I was ever likely to be in their target market - are - Andrew Neil has got to do a lot of the heavy lifting as he's the only heavyweight they've...

I'm not sure whether these are universally believed but over the years I've heard these two repeated a few times. 1.' No professional player would ever go onto a pitch and not give his best.' Clearly nonsense. If this were the case why would we talk endlessly about 'motivation'? Surely we...

With the Palace game upcoming it appears that the biggest variable affecting the quality of the opposition is down to one player. A couple of stats - Palace have lost 17 of their last 19 games without him, and in15 of those they have failed to score - since signing him in 2014/5 they have lost...

In terms of the most simple (simplistic) metric of the win ratio (difficult to compare points per game averages if we go back to 2 points for a win), it's Peter Taylor: 38 games, 55.26%. Bob Booker once got 100% but that was only for a few games. So, who would you nominate and why?

The UK went decimal. (Apologies to younger readers.) Any memories? Does anyone still use pre-decimal terms - e.g. 'a few bob'? I worked at an old style Sainsbury's (on the cheese counter as it happens). We had loads of training. My abiding memory is of the older customers (this was in Goring)...

It appears that she who grills politicians on their behaviour has focussed attention on her own? https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/dec/07/kay-burley-apologises-over-birthday-party-that-broke-coronavirus-rules

The selectors of a post war England Xl have tasked you with filling the one all-rounder slot available. Who would you choose and why? PS let's assume Derek Pringle is injured. PPS My mistake to put this into the Bear Pit. Apologies!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/robert-jenrick-richard-desmond-tory-donor-housing-minister-commons-a9560091.html Golden boy Jenrick could be in trouble.

Clearly we live in testing times; even (especially?) the Prem League is not in a protective bubble. - falling gate receipts is the most obvious but not the most important part of the mix - as the likes of us cancel our Sky and BT subs, it's the over-reliance on this dosh as a revenue stream...

Just listening to the R5Live phone in. A guy of 74 phoned in with a question. Turns out that the poor bugger has a broken leg and only a can of soup to eat. CM established that he only lives a short distance way and said he be round in the morning with some food. I've always liked him and now I...

Life expectancy has stalled for the first time in more than 100 years and even reversed for the most deprived women in society, according to a landmark review which shows the gap in health inequalities is yawning even wider than it did a decade ago, in large part due to the impact of cuts linked...

Given that this will - using the terminology of our current PM - spaff about £100 billion against the wall, has anyone got strong views one way or the other on this?

They took all the trees And put them in a tree museum And they charged all the people A dollar and a half to see 'em Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got 'Till it's gone They paved paradise And they put up a parking lot Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi 1970 (we can't say...

I thought it got off to a cracking start. Fresh, funny, fast and clever. Any other views?

Any lifestyle changes planned? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/08/how-climates-impact-on-land-threatens-civilisation-and-how-to-fix-it

Alabama: pregnant woman shot in stomach is charged in fetus's death Anyone remember The DayToday? It's now reality. The full story: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/27/alabama-pregnant-woman-shot-manslaughter-charge-marshae-jones What next? Boris Johnson Becomes PM?

The latest cost being the upgrade of Harry and Meghan's modest little home upgrade. Money well spent from the taxpayer coffers? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48746609

It'll be hard not to notice this in the next week as the quiet, dignified and self effacing well known war hero (or rather draft dodger) Donald pops over the pond to help us commemorate the occasion. Of course the generation that went through the war is now almost gone. The baby boomers they...

New Bognor based series began last night starring the great Toby Jones. Got quite a lot of hype. Not really a comedy as such (more melancholy than funny) but goes into the box labelled 'different'. Not sure that Bognor emerged from it a the go-to destination of choice...……………

The Albion v Palace game raises the matter of what constitutes a 'local' derby i.e. how geographically close do the two clubs need to be need to be? Give or take a few miles (i.e. over the years grounds might move but cities don't) these are qualifiers for grudge games which cover a fair old...