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I've seen at few journalist reactions saying it states Saudia Arabia ran BeOutQ or was behind it. I don't read it that way at all.

It being based in SA and being promoted and maybe even protected is different to it being owned and operated by anyone associated with PIF.

I think it also says they've failed to criminally prosecute BeOut which they should have done.

Suggesting Biden is a radical socialist is probably his biggest bit of bullshit ever against quite a bit of competition.

According to Louise Taylor the WTO report is published tomorrow - she also reckons Ashley is going to chase the PL regarding progress this week.

I think it would work if they said 2m OR 1m and masks all round - problem is that's too complicated for the masses.

I was going to say 20 minutes after reading your first paragraph. I thought about what a meal we made of beating 10 men at Southampton last time out - fucking shit.

Yeah but they're "guys" as well.

Thing is there was enough room in the political statement to get a semi-decent deal eventually - probably wouldn't have happened but there was scope. It's the worst possible scenario now.

There's no incentive to create vaccines for SARS or MERS as they're both effectively dead. Quite a few promising vaccines are being tested at the moment. Even if the Oxford one is limited to drastically reducing the effects it will be hugely beneficial. The Moderna looks even more effective. .

It's not just government helping businesses - we have a division which specialises in quite small loans to businesses for office equipment etc and the policy has been to allow payment holidays as much as possible. Obviously that's a good business policy rather than goodness of the heart thinking but it does mean businesses won't go under for that particular cash flow reason. I think businesses which can just flick a switch and start again will be okay.

I don't mind that they see themselves as women - I guess it's a question of whether that's acceptable to other women. I think the majority are okay with it but that doesn't mean the rest should be deemed hateful if they aren't.

Seems to me to be a contrast between the starting point of saying sex and gender aren't binary or simple which I accept to the rather forceful "trans women ARE women". Why isn't "trans women" enough?

Can't help thinking these fuckers want to return to those "times" - look at the nostalgia for the 50s as if they were some kind of moral utopia when they really mean they were whiter.

People have complained about Friends and Only fools and horses recently so I'm not surprised. Friends is too white apparently and despite OFAH having at least two black characters, having Del Boy use the harmless "ordering a chinkies" means it's beyond evil.

It's not even the week - it was saying the lockdown was starting on Monday and allowing pubs to have the Friday night - even that icing on the cake stupidity probably killed thousands.

I listened to that James O'brien the day after Johnson backed Cummings and he repeated a comment he'd been told from someone who said they knew Trump and Johnson were liars and shit leaders but they supported them simply because they made people like him and other lefties so mad. I think that goes a long way to explaining it. Saw his comment today that the Mail and their readers thought they'd won control with brexit and the GE which is why they're now so angry about the slave traders - it's all about their views being held as the right ones.

You could tell that by the phasing out of the furlough scheme and other support stuff - they want a "normal" economy by October come hell or highwater. Maybe they're betting everything on the Oxford vaccine and I really hope it works but if it doesn't we're fucked.

I think if you were black, walking past a statue of someone like Colston would be a real issue. I can only compare it with a statue of Trelford Mills or Mike Ashley being outside SJP.

Read the novels of Wilbur Smith as a start. You have to read between the lines as his writing isn't exactly "woke" but the truth is in there.

It's the same when people say the met is right to pay more attention to blacks in London because they commit the most crimes. The correlation is poverty not skin colour.

At least there's been dialogue which is hopeful.

I could watch the copper on the horse hit the traffic light all day.

Is the kid related to someone high up or something?

I'm not going anywhere anyway but I still don't see how it can even approach being useful without a fully functioning app.