@Lin12Am@jim_keoghan Tbf this should be the inculcated mentality for all players, everywhere. It would negate any attempt by any player to “lean into” a penalty - which is dishonest, and there ought to be (by definition) an inherent sense of dishonour about being dishonest.
@SuzieWo20886208 The National Union of Mineworkers were the last line of defence that protected the half-decent, somewhere-approaching-normal life that most British people had been able to enjoy since 1945.
@JoshuaBarzon Wot no English Republic 1649-60? Incredible how often this gets forgotten, despite the fact that it was Cromwell who created the unified British State.
@UKinjustice2025@andyburnham If Burnham were to free Lucy Letby or even just to give the green light to an urgent retrial, and to implement the recommendations of the 2011 Law Commission report so as to bring some regulation to the way expert witnesses are selected, he would really go up in my estimation.
@JohnCleese But not the policies, unfortunately. You saw what happened between 2015 and 2019, when Jeremy Corbyn stood a decent chance of becoming PM - the media went into overdrive to make sure it never happened. They are doing the same now with Farage and Lowe.
@DefundBBC For anyone who’s never seen it, this is brilliant. The late, great, Dennis Potter’s 1993 James McTaggart memorial lecture entitled “Occupying Powers”, which took aim at the stifling culture of BBC corporate managerialism that was just then coming in…
https://t.co/7SlFApQVw3
@JohnCleese Do you not think that even to approach the issue in terms of “to appease or not to appease Putin”, might be to make the mistake of automatically assuming that Britain’s foreign policy situation as it was in the late 1930s, must also necessarily be the same situation today?
@JohnCleese History’s interesting isn’t it? And a lot of it is about opinions. Tbh, from what I have read, the USSR’s motivations in grabbing the Finnish approaches to Leningrad, Eastern Poland, and the Baltics in 1939-40 appear to have been defensive prep for an expected German invasion.
@JohnCleese Bit of an over-simplification, John. Stalin had tried in vain to engage the British and French governments in an anti-Nazi pact. The Soviets knew Hitler would invade sooner or later. It’s understandable they felt their only option then was a non-aggression pact with Germany.
@JamesMelville There's a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield,
And the ricks stand grey to the sun,
Singing: "Over then, come over, for the bee has quit the clover,
And your English summer's done."
- Rudyard Kipling