Gemmill

They've just played a clip at the end of the latest Quiet Riot podcast of Beth Rigby questioning Reeves. Really annoyed voice on her. "I spoke to Wes Streeting before the election and put it to him that the NHS would need additional funding, and his response was that more funding was not the answer to save the NHS. You've just announced £22.6bn of extra funding for day to day healthcare for the NHS. You just have not been straight with the British public." What do you even say to that? You're getting pulled up for trying to improve the NHS now. These journalists are fucking pathetic.

I thought she was George Osborne?

Villa, Brighton, Chelsea, and hopefully Man City all going out tonight. Still Liverpool, Arsenal, Man United, and Spurs (or Man City) in the hat though.

Tonali had a canny game for a lad that was being fully written off by some on here at the weekend. 😎

I love to bathe in the sunlight of your match thread posts.

I'd love to swing Cucurella around by his hair and see how far I could throw him. Like I'm throwing the hammer.

Their keeper was lucky as fuck there.

Man City look to be on their way out. Still loads of big lads left in it though. Helps when you get a bye in the early rounds though.

Pretty much this. Whatever you think about it, this is not an attempt at more managed decline. They're trying to do something. Don't know if it'll work, but they're giving it a go.

This commentary team will not shut the fuck up for a second.

Need to get to HT without conceding here. Good corners from Fernandez for them.

Need another before they bring fucking Cletus on at half time.

Have they made 11 changes and still put out a decent enough looking side? I mean, just fuck off with your PSR bullshit.

I've PM'd you the channels, McTavish.

Who the fuck is "Ediie"?!

I'm barred from doing the time warp in every bar in Newcastle. Too dangerous.

Palmer on the bench.

We specifically are in this mess because of the enormous fucking hole that Brexit has kicked in our economy.

There's plenty businesses not even paying their employees a living wage, and now they're all moaning about the minimum wage and employer NI going up. And talking about how they'll have to freeze worker pay or fire people. There'll be honest, small business owners affected negatively by this, and that's genuinely a shame, but there'll also be plenty thriving businesses that can afford to make a bit less profit to pay the people that are making them a thriving business fairly. The money to sort the mess that the country has become has to come from somewhere. Of course if we could have an honest conversation about why we're in this fucking mess, that would also be nice, but of course we can't. Yet. Maybe ever.

I think the budget looks decent. We've been crying out for big tax increases, and we've now got them. Let's see what they can do with it.

I think the term you're looking for is "know-it-all cunt". 😎

Bank has 6,000 employees. Civil Service has however many thousand employees. The same applies in every industry. People get trained on responding to phishing emails, and the businesses invest in systems that have safeguards. It's not like legal firms aren't on email either. Or don't have electronic copies of confidential information. I guarantee this is about an unwillingness to invest in infrastructure, and an ability to dictate the terms on which they do business, much more than it is about security. Given how few people own a fax these days, and the fact the technology is going to be phased out, they must be doing lots of interaction by email anyway.

Finished Sweetpea, which was canny. Gonna give Before a go. New horror series with, of all people, Billy Crystal.

How Music Got Free was a canny watch. Two part doc about the rise of file sharing and how the factory workers in this tiny town in North Caroline were responsible for leaking loads of big albums before they were due for launch. The factory workers are the star of the show. The record bosses are stereotypical fat cunts.

It's cos they're stuck in the dark ages. Law firms still insist on doing everything by letter, they'll send and ask for cheques too. They just don't want to spend any money on encryption/decryption software. Business, government, everything runs on encrypted email now.