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- Thu May 16, 2024 1:15 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Heart of darkness: Lucy Letby
- Replies: 120
- Views: 4168
Re: Heart of darkness: Lucy Letby
Sorry didnt read article so it may have been covered there. My comments aren't about whether she is guilty or not but more about wider systemic failures. Having had some experience in neonatal care I cannot believe that the pattern of deaths wasn't picked up earlier. I know that in Scotland there i...
- Wed May 15, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Heart of darkness: Lucy Letby
- Replies: 120
- Views: 4168
Re: Heart of darkness: Lucy Letby
Might be worth noting that the New Yorker article can't be published or accessed directly in the UK because Letby is due to be retried in June on a charge of attempted murder as the jury at her first trial failed to reach a verdict on that charge. UK Media are legally restricted from discussing or r...
- Wed May 15, 2024 11:08 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722280
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
I see s. 28 ver 2.0 is on the cards with the new sex education guidelines, which are the usual batshit culture war lunacy, and will just drive kids to shit places to fund our about sex, gender and porn. You can tell its a shit policy as they had to wheel out Chris Philp, who seems more than happy t...
- Wed May 15, 2024 11:00 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18279
- Views: 551991
Re: The Official English Rugby Thread
Cohen? Nah, he had a purple patch but he wasn't a great wing. Shit on the Lions tour It was an important purple patch. And Lions form complicates things: Daly was excellent on the wing against the ABs, whereas I can't remember May even playing for the Lions. Struggling to remember many properly goo...
- Wed May 15, 2024 10:51 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18279
- Views: 551991
Re: The Official English Rugby Thread
When he started to play for England May's main (only?) attribute was his pace. However, unlike some others he worked really hard on improving all his weaknesses. At his best he was lethal in attack and could score tries from nowhere. Even when he started to lose his pace, he continued trying to impr...
- Mon May 13, 2024 10:53 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722280
- Thu May 09, 2024 2:47 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722280
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
It's a nonsense, but we can dream... Corbyn was polling far behind the Tories in the run up to 2017, about 23% to the Tories 40%+, he was over 20 pts behind at times. That's where predictions of Labour wipe out come from. Corbyn then closed the gap in the final two months won over 40% and was 2.5 p...
- Tue May 07, 2024 3:19 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722280
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
I'm not sure if it has been reported here yet, but following Laurence Fox's failure to submit the correct forms on time to stand for London Mayor, he did manage to submit an application to stand in the elections for a position on the London Assembly. Sadly for him, he didn't do terribly well and los...
- Sun May 05, 2024 9:13 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722280
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Which major city in the western world doesn’t have stabbing and muggings? It’s part and parcel innit. Not like The Wire - mind you. Despite the spurious and unevidenced claims made be Susan Hall, GB News and YMX, London has relatively low levels of violent crime. There are more than 30 police areas...
- Sun May 05, 2024 8:47 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722280
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
I see the Tory loons are out in force this morning demanding that Sunak 'change course', move even further to the right and emulate the party that secured a grand total of 2 councillors across the UK, rather than consider why it is that the election saw large swathes of former Tory voters switch to ...
- Sat May 04, 2024 9:17 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722280
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Lib dems ahead of the Cons now :clap: Screenshot_20240503-203259.png I really can't see London bucking this trend and voting for that mental hag. Although it would be a surprise, it's certainly a possibility through a combination of factors. The biggest Labour areas are in Central London where the ...
- Thu May 02, 2024 5:41 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722280
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Khan will retain his duties, demographs are demographs. Quite why he needs a bullet proof £300,000 chauffer driven car, I don't know. Because two politicians have been murdered in the last decade and some right wing loons think he is an Islamist who has handed London over to his fellow Islamists. A...
- Thu May 02, 2024 10:02 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722280
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
It's much easier to be a Tory Mayor when a Tory Government is in power in Westminster that wants to back everything you do. A Labour Mayor will find it much more difficult to work with a Tory Government determined to make things as difficult as they can for him.
- Wed May 01, 2024 10:54 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722280
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Are there any figures showing how popular, or not, the Rwanda scheme is with the electorate? Support is around 47%. The problem for Starmer is Labour MPs and core Labour voters don't support it. And what does he think will happen? Fully supporting the Rwanda scheme if anything strengthens Farage an...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 9:47 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Scottish Politics Thread
- Replies: 4123
- Views: 139488
Re: The Scottish Politics Thread
Politics aside, who on earth ever considered Yousaf to be anywhere near the calibre required to run a country? I'd say the same about Liz Truss. It's what happens when careerists within a party vote for whatever benefits them and their agenda, rather than the country. Mind you, when Sturgeon went, ...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:16 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: I wonder who this is...................
- Replies: 370
- Views: 15051
Re: I wonder who this is...................
I don't suppose a UK Court would consider fining this bell end $83,000,000 ? ... pretty please, just to shut him up once & for fucking all ! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68132377 Not quite the $83m you were hoping for, but Fox will have to pay £180,000 for his "gross, grou...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:50 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: I wonder who this is...................
- Replies: 370
- Views: 15051
Re: I wonder who this is...................
I don't suppose a UK Court would consider fining this bell end $83,000,000 ? ... pretty please, just to shut him up once & for fucking all ! Laurence Fox loses High Court libel case over social media row Laurence Fox has lost a High Court libel case with two people he called paedophiles on soci...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:36 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722280
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- Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:57 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722280
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Apologies if posted previously..but WTF?.. https://twitter.com/CliveWismayer/status/1780854197392486652?t=OV2Shf2cQRz4ygJu0eJQkQ&s=19 Kwasi's on that list a few times :lol: William Wragg's on that list as well, not for handing out other MPs personal details, but for starring in a video in which...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:02 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722280
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The Times seems to have found a way to stop their articles being read on archive sites, so the only part I can see of former Tory MP Mathew Parris' article is this "The hounding of Angela Rayner is outrageous: brutal, snobbish and completely out of proportion to any mistake she may (or may not...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:09 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Kicking off in Israel
- Replies: 3137
- Views: 145632
Re: Kicking off in Israel
He has a point. https://twitter.com/eylonalevy/status/1779770062263501156?s=46 Although the consulate bomb was a bit of a catalyst. Then again if Yemen who we have recently bombed, sent 300 drones and missiles to Britain. We would be of the mind to end them. He doesn't have a point, it's a really, ...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:20 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722280
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Serious question. Since when do the police get involved in what is essentially a revenue matter ? Certainly in Ireland the revenue have far more powerful investigative powers than the police do, and if they think you've been economical with the truth in your return, will go through you like a dose ...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 5:05 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations (Official Thread)
- Replies: 85
- Views: 2832
Re: Women's 6 Nations (Official Thread)
Conditions absolutely ruined the game as a contest. It picked up incredibly in the second half and made it virtually impossible for Scotland to break out of their own 22. Couldn't kick it and didn't stand a chance of running it out. Conditions were difficult for both side, with driving rain in the ...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 5:08 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18279
- Views: 551991
Re: The Official English Rugby Thread
Strawbridge into the England coaching set up for the Summer tour. England have bolstered their backroom staff by adding Andrew Strawbridge to their ranks as an assistant coach and coaching advisor ahead of the Red Rose’s upcoming tour to Japan and New Zealand. Strawbridge, who was part of the All B...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 11:38 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722280
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Just so pleasing to have spent so, so many hours on GDPR only to see an MP act like this. Makes it all feel worthwhile And I do recall every now and then it being mentioned there were some serious sanctions for egregious breaches The potential fines for infringing an individual's data rights are su...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:26 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722280
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All for the sake of a dick pic or two. What an absolute twat!!!! A senior Conservative MP has reportedly admitted to giving out the personal phone numbers of colleagues to a person he met on a dating app. William Wragg told the Times that he gave the information after he had sent intimate pictures ...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:21 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722280
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Don't think this has been mentioned yet, but this is hilarious "The former actor Laurence Fox will not be a candidate at the London mayoral elections after failing to fill in the nomination forms correctly." https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/mar/28/laurence-fox-ruled-out-london-mayo...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:15 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Women's 6 Nations (Official Thread)
- Replies: 85
- Views: 2832
Re: Women's 6 Nations (Official Thread)
England Team is up 15 Ellie Kildunne (Harlequins, 38 caps) 14 Abby Dow (Trailfinders Women, 40 caps) 13 Helena Rowland (Loughborough Lightning, 28 caps) 12 Emily Scarratt (Loughborough Lightning, 108 caps) 11 Jess Breach (Saracens, 33 caps) 10 Zoe Harrison (Saracens, 46 caps) 9 Lucy Packer (Harlequi...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:54 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: 6 Nations round 5 - France v England
- Replies: 173
- Views: 3755
Re: 6 Nations round 5 - France v England
Bollocks to England third, head to head comes into play :grin: They’ve got more points than us. I don't care Scotland should have come fifth in the table. You lost more games than Ireland, France, England and Italy and if your head to head with Italy came into play, you would have been fifth. It wa...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:54 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: 6 Nations round 5 - France v England
- Replies: 173
- Views: 3755
Re: 6 Nations round 5 - France v England
U21s looks like it was a good game. Under 20s - and it was a cracker. Great comeback from 21-5 down to win 45-21. Lots of skill on show but also lots of errors - which always makes for lots of entertainment. England were just that bit smarter. Well deserved Championship title. 45 - 31 actually. It ...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:30 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: 6 Nations round 5 - France v England
- Replies: 173
- Views: 3755
Re: 6 Nations round 5 - France v England
Its a great shame that France have finally realised that Le Garrec is their best back up to Dupont. As he showed against Wales, a France with him at 9 is much more dangerous than one with Lucu.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 4:53 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18279
- Views: 551991
Re: The Official English Rugby Thread
It's been a good while since I've seen one, but a penalty kick shootout in cup competitions is usually a bit of a laugh, especially once it gets to the forwards. Although I remember Martyn Williams missing one in sudden death for cardiff, which seemed a bit cruel as he was one of the better players...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 1:01 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18279
- Views: 551991
Re: The Official English Rugby Thread
Yep, he's already taking on a few touchfinders so he could step up. Not sure if it would be a benefit to Ford, to take away pressure, or a slap in the face. Didn't we once end up with Tindall kicking when Charlie Hodgson had a few wobbles? The ignomony. If I were a rugby coach my first rule would b...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:56 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722280
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
Some people still bang on about three day weeks, power cuts and rubbish in the streets when thinking "Labour could be worse". Its worth remembering that the Three Day Week was introduced by Edward Heath's Conservative government. It was Wilson's minority Labour government that ended the t...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: 6 Nations round 5 - France v England
- Replies: 173
- Views: 3755
Re: 6 Nations round 5 - France v England
I don't think we need to win, but we do need to show a continued attempt to play alongside a sensible shape. Losing Feyi-Wabso will hurt, we cannot likely replicate turning a defence and yak yards like that Interesting as what worked in large part against Ireland was the power aspect to our game, a...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:31 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722280
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It was hardly chess let alone 3D or even 4D chess from Starmer if even I saw the hole that Sunak was digging for himself. Starmer merely gave him a bigger spade to keep digging with! This stuff about Hester goes back 4-5 years so it is highly likely that someone in the Labour Party knew of its exis...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:20 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18279
- Views: 551991
Re: The Official English Rugby Thread
Slade is the obvious alternative as he's kicked several pressure kicks for Exeter this season. Yep, he's already taking on a few touchfinders so he could step up. Not sure if it would be a benefit to Ford, to take away pressure, or a slap in the face. Didn't we once end up with Tindall kicking when...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:11 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722280
Re: Stop voting for fucking Tories
The full story here. Donated £10M to Torys in the past 12 months. I'm sure there must have been full due diligence! https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/11/biggest-tory-donor-looking-diane-abbott-hate-all-black-women The Party really is a cess pit of racism and hate. They will be under mas...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:36 am
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: The Official English Rugby Thread
- Replies: 18279
- Views: 551991
Re: The Official English Rugby Thread
Yeah I thought Ford played very well ball in hand. Kicking another story of course but that happens The kicking off the tee was really quite poor. I was expecting that to come back and bite us. What's Furbank like off the tee, I wonder? We should go back to 15s kicking for goal. Slade is the obviou...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:52 pm
- Forum: The Bear Pit
- Topic: Stop voting for fucking Tories
- Replies: 20562
- Views: 722280
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This hasn't aged too well. Just about everything Sunak touches turns to rat shit!!!! https://twitter.com/ToryVote_/status/1745561079109886215?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1745902359706751322%7Ctwgr%5Ea57badc5fdccbd778aee2385133fcadc3d7935ef%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&ref_url=https%3A...