“(See the MoD and Afghan data breach for your obviously much needed comfort in this area)” Spot on. Ditto the Post Office scandal and the years of continued trust in an IT system, that was absolutely fucked. The idea is just a placater that will have zero effect on the problem it’s supposedly going ...

East Hammer, I've seen that caveat about it being at an airport, so therefore the officers were naturally armed. That doesn't make it better though, it makes it worse. They're armed because they are in a high security type area, and yet they are wasting their time and numbers, in arresting someone f...

 

They’ve defended the use of 5 armed officers, with the clarification that “it’s routine”.

Fair play to them for admitting that institutionalised stupidity is now routine.

“And it took five armed policemen to do it” and meanwhile this morning the police are bemoaning having to take officers off of serious crime incidents, to deal with the increase of protests. Protests which they and the BBC would appear to put solely down to posts on social media, as opposed to peopl...

Exiled, you don’t know what reasons individuals have for displaying the flag, it’s presumptuous to say it’s for this and that, it could be for any number of reasons. Some  might have put them up recently in a celebration of their concerns over the last 30 years FINALLY being taken as a serious consi...

Westside - “Thousands cross in small boats from France to England. Perhaps ask them, why they think England is better than France”? I thought exactly the same for years, and then someone on the radio said that in the majority of cases, it’s because English is their second language. I don’t know how ...

Eight and only 10 points off the leaders.

You couldn’t make it up

1~1 !,!!

E-I-E-I-E-I-O

UP THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE WE GO

0~1

 

0~0 with Tranent early doors.

hold onto a point and it could see the COO leap to eight. EIGHT.

what a way the club has journeyed.

That's decent

Why isn't that KES flag at Barnsley anymore?

Billy REDDEN

Deliverance

“In both instances is was driven by potential property developments and, if I remember correctly, and I'm sure some on here will relish in correcting me, the possibility of building operating a casino attached to both new football grounds” Totally agree Mike, although I think the casino thing was on...

Geoff Pike and the PREDICTOR
 

Marco Boogers and Ask Jeeves

a new LOW

Wils, saw a Besiktas youth game in Levent, as have friends whose son was playing for them. Approx 50 people watching, flares, fire crackers (thought the linesman would have a nervous breakdown) and the arrival of 2 police vans. For a youth game....

Used to go and watch Exeter Falcons speedway team in the 1970s. They won the national league in those years, when there were more well known and established teams around, a lot of them including the Falcons have folded though. They got stitched up by the local council when the ground was taken over ...

Sid Lives

(Liz Fraser (Cocteau Twins) supposedly had that as a tattoo, but not sure if that was an urban myth)

Used to love birds coming into the garden, but stopped trying to feed them years back as the cats were knocking off too many of them Really miss robins especially, as it got to the point of them tapping on the window early winter mornings for food. The pond has attracted a toad in the last couple we...

Same.

Still at the dizzy height of 7th though.

Combining their time at Brum as well as here, are there any other owners in the entire history of the game, who can match their record for getting relegated from the top flight? I’d be very surprised if there were. 3 relegations in 5 years is certainly something that’s never been ‘achieved’ by anyon...