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The sign of the times is the inevitable post by someone who can’t just enjoy an amusing and lighthearted thread and is determined to be offended by it

What if there are no woods available for the bears? Next week’s pub debate: Do bears then: 1. Use the nearest public toilets? 2. Look for a shrubbery? 3. Just don’t give a shit?

But he will soon be able to vote….

I dont think so, but government has plenty of power to impose a much better framework within which the rail companies have to work that would provide better value for both traveller and taxpayer

It’s not but a far greater priority is surely to re engage those who can already vote, to vote. This means PR, something Starmer conveniently ignores because it will threaten the two party closed shop that has let the Tories and Labour be in power for a century and would mean that Labour would...

Actually we are in agreement! Subsidies are not the answer and I think this applies to any industry. However, creating an environment whereby a Uk business can compete fairly is important. Take the likelihood of a trade deal with Trump. This will probably permit the import of US hormone...

100% and this goes for agriculture too. There is no coordinated food policy and we are producing less and less annually as we lose land to everything from housing and solar farms to rewilding and flood management projects. Above all, we need policy that enables farmers to make a fair living...

I think Starmer gets the big picture and that is reassuring. However, the economic incompetence of Reeves, the control the unions have over the Labour Party and the general lack of understanding of the realities of running a business, household budget or coping with a disability by ALL...

This makes my blood boil and if it happens then it will be the last time I defend any aspect of Starmer or his government (and I have tried regularly). Every business and charity here is about to be hit with massive increases in costs due to the NI changes, pensioners did not get a heating fuel...

Closed on Saturdays!

The UK gov have responded by saying that they have confidence in US security systems and repeated that they are "our greatest ally". Are they even an ally now, let alone our greatest?

Today’s news: Milliband will overturn measures that would ban slave labour from being involved (eg manufacture of solar panels in China) in our drive to net zero. Angela Raynor has postponed the £3.4b ‘cladding tax’ (Building Safety Levy introduced by Gove post Grenfell). Reeves to scrap the...

I certainly wasn’t saying that because of rivalry. I couldn’t care less about it, it’s pointless and boring. I have the impression from a couple of palace fans I know and from what I have read, that all is not well behind the scenes at Palace and that includes their recruitment. If I am wrong...

I think West Ham and Palace could struggle because of their lack of a coherant recruitment strategy. Then the smaller clubs (Bmouth, Fulham,Brentford, us etc) that make it into Europe could find the league challenging if injuries pile up. The same for Forest if they make champions league. The...

Possibly because there are people far, far more knowledgeable, informed and experienced in matters of defence than you, me or anyone else making such sweeping statements

Yes and that has been the ‘peace dividend’ since the end of the cold war. We have also taken our freedoms for granted and become obsessed with too many things (from influencers and celebs to cancel culture and veganism) that those in less fortunate countries would not give a t*ss about. We, as...

The same thing but handicap is an out of date term ( like spastic) considered to be derogatory or offensive now. But if you are of a certain age and didn’t know that then no problem, just try not to use it again

You do right some total rubbish sometime! 😂😉

None of the options. The concept of left/right/centre is no longer relevant - if it ever was (history shows the extremes, fascism and communism, end up with the same results in practice). What matters are policies in practice and the ability to govern. Labour is, thus far, pursuing policies...

In fairness they are more labour than Tory!