Rayvin

I agree - but it hasn't published -this- article. This is a big deal. This is the first time I've seen them publish something that so directly cuts to the very heart of all they hold dear. The Guardian may now be starting to realise that identity isn't the be all and end all of leftwing politics. I don't think they even would have considered publishing this a year ago. EDIT - I've read their opinion articles almost every day for over a decade. I'm fairly up to speed with what they think...

Happy to do conquest as well but I thought you were fine on rush. You're better in tanks than I am!

Trump did get a swing from the working class but he still had less than 50% of them iirc. He actually had fairly wide reaching support through a few groups.

If a newspaper publishes a disproportionate number of opinion articles on a specific theme, are you suggesting that said newspaper has no agenda or overriding belief system? The Guardian itself admits it does ffs.

will you be running a live blog? That's the done thing these days isn't it?

I think he was just a cult figure. I know what you mean though, maybe it's a slow news day.

Aye but then the counter logic goes, if we get a PL standard player who is prepared to drop down to the Championship for 6 months, couldn't we get a better one in the summer who wouldn't drop down, but would join us as a PL outfit?

Good sitcom though, and one that is certainly well loved by a certain generation of people in this country.

awesome mate, happy for you!

I almost exclusively post links from the Guardian And I know, it was just a timely report in terms of the discussion.

Obama's impact: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/dec/01/obama-fossil-fuels-us-export-import-bank-energy-projects Not good.

I'll take whatever I can get, could do with improving my stats.

I get the assist on that one

Murphy is a bit of a left of field suggestion Troops...

I have held to it as a metaphor more than fact. I think politics since Brown has been one long tragedy to be honest. The financial crisis is probably something I will look back on as one of the defining political moments of my life, judging by the trajectory the world has taken since. It definitely has been more intensely bad since the last GE though.

Communicating is useful for low level planning but and spotting, but the reality is that when you're in a firefight, by the time you've called out an enemy either you're dead, your teammate is dead, the enemy is dead, or you're all dead. The most effective forms of communications I've had with people tend to be around who is going to 'trigger' the objective and who is covering. That said, I'm generally not the squad leader. I think that individual has to play it more tactically - maybe hang back and act as an advanced spawn point for the rest of the team by ensuring he isn't killed when the rest of us are, etc. This person may do more communicating.

Ah ok. I want to make clear that I am also horrified by what has happened - while I think much of it was unavoidable and a fairly logical consequence of failed political strategies, I don't want to see hard right governments, Brexit, diminished prospects for the future and tribalistic hatred in resurgence. All of these things horrify me. I stand with you on that. I made 'darkest before the dawn' something of a personal motto years ago, and I think it's that notion that's getting me through!

I don't think that last part is true at all, I've never sought to ridicule anyone. Otherwise I'll concede on the point about how difficult it will have been to come to accord on tackling the ozone layer problem. I'm not saying any of this has been easy - I think what I'm saying is that the reason this is so difficult is literally because of politics. Each country trying to work out if every other country is just trying to screw them over, focusing on how they can maintain their competitive advantage and relative power in the world, etc. This is an event that will bring us all together - probably in our lifetimes - as we watch in horror at the hell we have wrought by worrying about profits and politics comes to fruition. Yes, Trump is a total disaster for this process. But he thinks Climate change is a conspiracy by the Chinese. The Chinese think the same thing but about the West. Politics getting in the way of solutions.

I note that Shepherd is trying to distance himself from it - pointing the finger at Fletcher who has, conveniently, died. Our wrongdoing appears to be that we failed to alert the police and just sacked the guy - presumably to prevent any bad press. Fucking stupid decision though.

Well, we've now been accused of a cover up: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/dec/01/newcastle-accused-cover-up-1990s-abuse Disgraceful if so.

Oh really? I thought it formed in the mid 2000s following a break away from NO. I assume it was still a breakaway group, just from further back though?

You think our leaders have done enough? We've had 'serious warnings' about climate change since the early 1990s man, they've done fuck all. While I've no doubt that Trump will do us no favours, at this point he has done less harm to the fight against climate change than most other politicians worldwide.

I'm sometimes amazed to see that some of you joined TT about 11 years ago. That's fucking loyalty to a forum.