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Perhaps they're working too hard on using technology. I'm sure, once upon a time, they had a system where the lineman could communicate with the referee by means of a flag. Wave it one way for offside, another wat for throw in, another for penalty, another for free kick, or corner, or goal...

I apologise.

As this is the Labour party thread, I didn't think the reason the Tories lost votes was particularly relevant. The local elections brought up two big questions for Labour - one, why did they lose so many of the votes they had in 2021; two, why didn't they pick up many of the huge number of...

I wouldn't read too much into the idea of Reform gaining from the Tories. The reason the Tories lost more seats in the recent local elections was because they had more to lose. The local elections of 2021 were a high point for the Tories, Boris Johnson being popular at the time. From that...

Quickly? One of Burnley's goals last year took five and a half minutes. For it to intervene quickly enough to be useful, it would need to be about two seconds. The answer is simple. Go back to the old offside. In front is offside, behind is onside, level is onside, and stop pretending that...

We know they were presented with statistics that were plain wrong. It seems now they were also presented with medical evidence that was plain wrong. This idea of killing people by injecting air into their veins isn't new. Dorothy L. Sayers used it in one of her plots because it was (in...

Possibly the BBC ascribes significance to the Euro elections too, in which Farage twice led the party that won the most votes and seats in the UK. Perhaps you ought to argue about Liberal bias as well. No fewer than three Liberal leaders are on the list of the top 9 panellists, compared with...

Thanks for letting me know about the prison officers being civil servants. so to go back to your original point, the extra civil servants are not working as police officers, prison officers, or nurses because police officers and nurses are not civil servants in that sense of the word, and the...

The rest of us are talking about the increase in the number of civil servants from 390k to 510k. Those numbers do not include everyone who works for the NHS, for the police and prisons, for the army navy & air force, in schools, etc etc etc. They don't include police support staff, or police...

Well, if the extra civil servants are nurses and police officers and prison officers, then we can simply put them back into the hospitals or police stations and prisons and cut the civil service while simultaneously adding staff to those forces and services. Do you honestly believe that the...

The EU in 2015 had a total of 46,000 civil servants. We don't need 3 new ones to replace the work done by each one of them, especially bearing in mind that they were doing the work for 28 countries, not just one. As for covid, if there are tens of thousands of civil servants employed to deal...

What are the extra 120,000 civil servants appointed since 2016, actually doing?

Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. I'm happy to evangelise if you are. But instead of evangelising or blaspheming, whichever you prefer, why not answer the question? This thread is full of people explaining that (a) Reform voters are thick, and (b) Reform voters won't...

Why?

Possibly it was my local area only for the paper shortage. (Actually when I went to school in the seventies, they still inspected used exercise books and tore out the blank pages at the end of the school year. And no new pencil until the old one was beyond sharpening.) But the fifty in the...

You were lucky. My mother started teaching in 1953 and about half her graduation class (from Saffron Walden Teacher Training College) started out with classes of 50 or so. Imagine being a new teacher on on her first day facing a class of 50, all on their first day at school as well. Times...

Perhaps your school did have enough paper or perhaps you were later in the fifties. The one my mother taught in, starting in 1953, did not. Did you have classes of 50?

And they cover a travelling companion too. My mother travels to Blackpool most weeks, on her own but with a wheelchair. (I put her on at one end, my brother meets her at the other.) By the time we have got her wheelchair settled, the guard never even asks for the ticket , let alone the...

I believe there are women in some parts of the world who aren't mothers. Be that as it may, clapham-gull has already mentioned that incoming cares haven't been allowed to bring their families for a year or so, in which case (if you're implication is right) there will have been few incoming...

I'm assuming they could live in.