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Yep, got covid about 10 days ago and started getting gout 3 days ago. Probably worst attack I’ve ever had too! Get gout very rarely and usually triggered by over-indulgence in alcohol. Since I’ve drunk very little since I got covid it can’t be that either. Very frustrating coming on top of a...

George Best and a (very) select group of his girlfriends (Miss Worlds only?). What a fun night that could be……! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Think any government minister who didn’t resign shortly after the full Su Gray report should be ruled out as showing zero integrity. Pathetic that most of them left resigning until the Pincher issue opened the floodgates. They were in a perfect position to see at close quarters what an...

Think Boris is relying on the old saying that a verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s not written on. If his TV announcement is played back to him he’ll claim it’s fake news by a biased media. Straight from the Trump playbook! You heard it here first……. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I have a suspicion that this might have been part of the deal done with Graham Brady to get him to resign in the first place? Although I have zero sympathy with BoJo, I can’t really see that he can do much harm in the few weeks before a new leader is chosen. The 1922 committee will...

Fair point though I’m still inclined to the view that a hung Parliament is less likely than a slim Tory majority. It’s easy to get carried away with recent Lib Dem gains but I’m long enough in the tooth to remember similar stellar wins at by-elections not translated into significant gains at a...

Regrettably I think you’re wrong. Given current electoral boundaries it would take a 12% swing to Labour for them to even scrape a majority (per a recent BBC analysis). It’s far more likely that the Conservatives would still end up in power but with a much reduced majority. If BoJo did call a...

Bit mundane really. His usual Christmas party piece is to get absolutely slaughtered on several bottles of wine and talk utter gibberish for most of the day. Last Christmas he decided to crack a few more of his pathetic jokes at our expense and I decided enough was enough, so told him to...

Put up with her moronic brother at Christmas for the last ten years. Never again though. Threw him out last Christmas and told Mrs. R. it was him or me. Fortunately she chose me….. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Awful lot of vitriol on this thread which I doubt is representative of the country as a whole? Whilst I’m very much in favour of abolishing the monarchy I think it’s a bit churlish to lob verbal grenades at the Queen, who seems to have done a pretty good job over the decades, whatever you...

All excellent ideas. Always thought it was a massive own goal when a form of proportional representation was voted down by the electorate. It might not have been the perfect answer (but then what is?) but it would have made parties think a lot harder about their policies and designed them to...

Great that the cars can follow each other much more closely this season but I’m beginning to wonder if DRS should be scrapped now as it seems to becoming the norm for lengthy DRS trains to develop where nobody can overtake as the lead car is just quick enough to fend off the car immediately...

Ok. Well, I seem to have inadvertently stirred up a hornets nest here. My original post was meant to be a light hearted riposte to a previous one comparing Brexit fan boys to those Japanese soldiers of the 1970s still fighting the Second World War. I was put in mind of this comparison by the...

Blimey, didn’t think I’d end up having to defend what I thought was the bleeding obvious from posters who I basically agree with i.e. that Brexit was a daft idea sold by a bunch of nutters stuck in the days of the British Empire (ok, I’m over-simplifying). My basic point was that none of the...

Well, I’m about as far from being a Brexiteer as it’s possible to be but, if you think there’s any chance of our going back into any formal and closer liaison with the EU anytime soon, then I think you’re wholly deluded. The Tories won’t do it because it would mean admitting they got it wrong...

Arrived at Victoria station today to find a mini-demonstration in favour of the EU and promoting a “lively” debate with assorted passers-by! Not sure if they’d not realised we’d already left or were just Libdems advocating re-joining (at least the single market), which I understand is their...

Think he was virtually off before the singing got going. Whatever! Can’t get too excited about a player clapping or not clapping the crowd, anyway….. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Very true! I often fail to hear my wife’s applause for a job well done (rarely given, I admit!). Perfectly possible that NM thought the fans were applauding his substitution rather than his performance!? I’d rather give our midfield stick for never scoring which is at least as much of the...

Had the same problem but put on the subtitles and, hey presto, it started making some sense. Have this problem with a lot of American series, partly down to their variety of accents and partly down to the directors’ predilection for pointing the camera anywhere but the face of the person...

Well, they do claim to be a democracy so the obvious riposte would be to say that this is how you get rid of incompetent leaders. Any chance that you might follow suit, Russia? Personally, I don’t think anyone there gives two hoots about BJ being our leader or not, except that they’d surely...