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Oh okay, I must admit that I apparently didn't pay much attention to him in the first half of the race. Anyway, I hope he'll improve his pace then. There's some hot shot french guy doing a great job for the feeder team I've heard.

I thought he wasn't that great until he had a great restart after the safety car and managed to overtake Vettel and then defend his position despite both Ferraris putting pressure on him. However, he was fairly disappointing at the start of the race were he couldn't overtake Bottas with DRS and then failed to keep up with him despite the car being great today. His racecraft is fine and he's not afraid to get into battles but his raw speed isn't great... Will be interesting to see if he improves next season.

Also good to see Alex celebrating together after missing out on the podium.

yeah my neighbours probably hate me too

I enjoyed it for what it is. Still cant get behind the womens divison, the bastard Pac is looking good, surprised Young Bucks took another L but was happy with the match, glad Scropio Skys getting a lot of attention, and I didn't mind the Cody/Jericho ending as its building to something. Cant believe people have moaned and complained about wanting The Attitude Era back and then thought Omega/Mox was too graphic. Wrestling fans are the worst part about wrestling.

The idea that Britain is such an economically attractive trade partner and site of investment, but also that the taps can somehow be "turned off" in terms of foreign lending - at a time of historically low interest rates, when capital across the world is begging for lending opportunities - is absolutely amazing self-deception.

Taking a dump in Canada right now and feeling cute

Great old interview from Heyman about the SmackDown Six.

I'm no expert and I'm not pretending to have read up on the numbers (what's the point? It's basically impossible to find impartial analysis in this country, especially during an election campaign) but I will poke my head above the parapet enough to point out that the current government's own analysis apparently showed that it would be cheaper for broadband provision to be run by the state than to continue as it is now. I just so can't be arsed reading people's takes on these things now. Sections of the media are likening nationalisation to communism now. I didn't do politics at school or university but even I know what communism is and what it isn't. Perhaps certain members of the media aren't so lucky. As to the estimated cost, Labour say £20m, Conservatives say £80m, BT say £60m and you're saying £100m. I would bet then that the true figure is probably around £40m as then everyone has lied or exaggerated or underestimated sufficiently in their chosen direction. Can't trust any of it though, people just make numbers up willy-nilly these days to suit their agenda and barely anyone in this country with a loud enough voice and far enough reach is anywhere near impartial enough to provide real information.

Amazing how when it's Labour who want to spend, it's a magic money tree or 'where will he get the money from?!' but when it's the Tories, it's all fine to give £1bn just like that to the DUP or spunk millions and millions on Brexit to get absolutely fucking nowhere.

Today we launched a report: https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Lifelong-Learning-Report-2019.pdf which I’ve been working on for 9 months since its launch and a few years prior to that to get it to that stage. Very proud of its recommendations and the party adopting it as policy, which if elected, could be a radical step to improving people’s lives and making a huge difference to the social, health and wellbeing of so many adult learners that have been lost from the system over the last decade. Not to mention help to close the massive skills gap in this country that keeps on growing. Sure some of you may have seen it in the media today if you’re following election coverage but just wanted to share in case anybody wanted to have a read.