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Wasn't meant as a dig!

North of Watford the same way California is north of Canada.

That's the thing, the current polling is even more damning of the Tories now than it was back then. Starmer's on course to do better than Blair despite nobody being particularly invested in him as a person or his "project".

Another one eating crow on this. After Ipswich I was convinced we'd be using the November international break to find his replacement, but here we are, on track for our best season post-Nuno and with longstanding critical issues with the team - scoring goals, above all - finally put to bed. I...

"Would you vote for Rishi Sunak, or for an imaginary leader who meets your specific idealised criteria?" As much as I do delight in the Tory party and pet press flailing because their usual "don't believe your eyes, the country's getting better/look out, they're socialists!" tricks aren't...

Said it before but: grew up in the home counties, every time I got back to catch up with school friends down the pub and it turns to politics their attitudes towards the Tories range from baffled to outright hostility. And they live in what are traditionally the safest blue seats in the country...

Just something about proximity, isn't it? I know I prioritise further away places. I've lived down the road from the Tower of London for nearly 15 years. Have I ever popped in to take a gander at the crown jewels? Have I fuck.

Apparently the match was meant to be broadcast on ESPN+, but there was "an issue with the feed" according to people on reddit who complained to ESPN's customer service about it being listed but not available. Presumably the same reason there are no highlights, as the teams that put together...

Also it's so easy to end up with seller's remorse. You sell a young player for a fee that doesn't just reflect current ability but potential ability to. You visualise a line on a graph and think, "OK, so a mid-career player who can do X and Y now would be worth £30m, but he's young and on the...

O'Neil says Neto's expected back for Brentford.

Oh my god they're still hung up on the pints of champagne. Nobody gives a shit. Nobody has ever given a shit. But the weirdo Churchill botherers know he used to drink them, so they must come back.

Genuinely surprised that Amazon didn't put in stronger bids, they've been making a lot of noises recently about investing more heavily in sports. That said Sky will know that sports is the only reason they're still surviving in the age of streaming, so it's worth the investment for them.

Just got in from work, glad I'm not out this evening, one of those days of British weather that makes me reconsider emigrating - cold enough to be miserable, not cold enough to at least have the decency to snow.

In the Beckham documentary series that just came out on Netflix he talks about how that was the hardest part of adjusting to the MLS - he was used to playing with people who understood they had to be in the correct areas to receive his crosses, but the players there were so much worse that they...

Yes this very much chimes with my experience in the Home Counties, and it gels with larger polling. The anti-Tory “vote” is now huge, but a lot of it is that people who were previously consistent Tory voters are going “a pox on all their houses” and not even bothering. Lots of anecdotal evidence...

My parents are the same. Expect a lot more mid-Beds and Chesham & Amersham-type results this time next year because lifelong Tories like them, the bread and butter of their support base for decades, aren’t going to be bothering to vote. Some might go Lib Dem or Reform as a protest but in...

Sure, but… it wasn’t always, and for it to be there the Palestinians had to be kicked out first. Hence its usage as a liberatory slogan - and who gets the trump card there? Which of these two oppressed groups has more “right” to define how it articulates its goals? And also it doesn’t...

It both does and doesn’t, simultaneously, which is why it’s so contentious. I wish it would be dropped because it has been poisoned over time but it has such a long history of not being used that way - and is still widely not used that way for the most part, as much as some reporters and...

GCHQ can't crack WhatsApp encryption. They wish they could, and the government has just passed a law to try and make that a possibility (but probably not, because encryption backdoors are insanely stupid), but yeah this isn't anything. WhatsApp is stored on-phone for the most part, with only...

You're thinking of Canada, not NZ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Canadian_federal_election Fwiw as unbelievable as it might seem that it could happen here, the Tories would probably be reduced to low-double-digits seats if Labour's lead over them in a GE is more than around 22-23%. That's...