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Vote for the Tories who don't care about people, vote for the Lib Dems who have a Tory in charge, vote for the Brexit party who are full of disaster bastards or vote for Labour who have a leader who doesn't watch the Queen's speech. Difficult choice.

The coverage from certain media outlets is becoming absolutely embarrassing. Corbyn saying that he doesn't watch the Queen's Speech making front page news on multiple newspapers who refuse to mention the fact that it's because he spends his time with homeless people or at food banks instead. It's a good job the current prime-minister has never shown such flagrant disrespect towards the Queen or royal family in recent history in any way, isn't it . You'd hope at some point that the smear campaign becomes so obvious that people start to see through it as being absolutely ridiculous but I fear that this has become a pipe dream. One can only hope that once more Tory cuts decimate the education system even further, that future generations grow up to be too stupid to notice the puppet strings attached to their conscience.

He just keeps threatening to headbutt anyone who sacks him. Absolute thug.

I understand your concerns, but in either case the digital sphere is going to be a stramash of different independent platforms spreading partisan messages in a head-to-head. That's going to be the case whether the traditional media exists or not. What the traditional media does is that it sort of acts as a referee in the contest between these hyper-partisan messages. But it's not a fair referee - it's systematically biased in favour of the right, and in bits and pieces it normalises and lends credibility to even it's extreme fringes. By using its enormous power of reputation and "normality" it can shape public thought dramatically. It sets a middle-ground, and it sets it as far to the right as possible. I would much rather have a chaotic free-for-all with no widely-accepted points of reference. Then, at least the information war would be somewhat fair. The fact that there are notions of credibility and impartiality still out there only works to the favour of the establishment. Traditional media has already rendered notions of impartiality, objectivity and public service entirely hollow - it's the lingering fantasy of those ideals that does so much harm.

What on earth is going on? What are Moshiri, Kenwright and co. spending so much time on? There's nothing to discuss. It's just cruel potentially leaving Silva in charge for Saturday at Goodison. We've got to be the most ponderous, dithering club in the country. I don't want us to be Watford but please just make a decision and get it done. The worst part about us taking so long to make a decision is that last time we spent all that time faffing around over a manager and ended up with Fat Sam. This time it'll be the same except Moyes instead. If Moshiri is in charge of selecting the next manager as well then what is the actual point in Brands?

People have been quick to blame new technologies and social media for fake news and the downturn in political discourse. But if the media class had even a modicum of competence or human decency they easily could have overcome it. As it turns out they're self-content, arrogant charlatans, and their conduct has led us directly into the current political hellscape we're in. The traditional media in this country can not die quickly enough.

Interesting. Looks worth a watch if I’m being honest

Just read about it as well... RaceFans are saying that if the buyout happens, it's very likely that Racing Point would indeed become Aston Martin and use the traditional green colour livery. That would be cool - although I wonder what would that mean for Red Bull and especially for RB's and Aston's joint Valkyrie hypercar participation at WEC and Le Mans...

Could Racing Point become Aston Martin?

Under Obama, they were doing the right thing.. getting rid of the criminals and helping the young ones that grew up here most of their life (not to mention the fees for DACA were literally paying for better border security AND more tax money for uncle sam) prior to trump, the phrase "if they payed taxes and had a driver license, I wouldn't care if the ones that deserved it stayed" was popular amongst the conservatives. News like the fake college dont surprise me. There is a few local courts here in alabama that are known for working with ICE... even someone with a minor ticket that willingly showed up to pay gets tricked by ice. The court workers are instructed to pull the lawyer out of sight and give ice agents enough time to get a hold of the person

Silva came in just before Brands, although negotiations were underway I think. Moshiri was really set on Silva so I think that was happening whether Brands likes it or not. Brands is now on the board as the Director of Football. Really he should be choosing the next manager himself, otherwise what's the point? There have been some concerning rumours though about who is still influencing what. This goes way back to before Brands' time when Walsh was the Director of Football. Apparently Koeman was adamant on bringing in Sigurdsson, Walsh wanted Klaassen and Kenwright was the driving force behind Rooney's return. So who is in charge really? Apparently this summer Moshiri was the one who wanted Zaha because he wanted a statement signing, even though Brands didn't necessarily want him. We didn't sign him but the club did enter negotiations which shows, if the rumour is true, that Moshiri has some influence on transfers still. Amidst the growing rumours of Silva's demise there were further reports the other week that Kenwright was pushing for a Moyes return, Moshiri pulled the plug when he realised the fans were against it. Again, rumours, but probably a little bit true at least. For me, the decision should lie with Brands, he is a football man with a track record at PSV. Moshiri and Kenwright are not. Recruitment... hopefully things have changed since the summer of number tens and this is more closely controlled by Brands and the manager. Since they've been working together, we've generally got good deals for incomings and outgoings and the average age of the squad has been resolved, so Brands has had the credit for good negotiating. Bernard on a free, Digne for £18m, while fetching £30m for Gueye, £20m+ for Lookman, £15m for Vlasic and £10m for Rooney. The targets though, I can't honestly be sure whether it's him or Silva who have overseen it. I definitely think Brands and his team fucked up on the centre back issue this summer, I'll say that much. I wouldn't blame him yet besides that. I still think the players we've brought in over the last two summers have a lot of potential. I would say that when Silva gets sacked, the time has come for him to prove himself. He needs to get the right manager in to get the best out of an expensive and talented set of players. I just hope he's allowed to control it because I dont like the sound of Moshiri and Kenwright driving the discussions a week or two back. If those two don't let Brands get on with it then I'd blame them more than I'd blame him to be honest. Silva's downfall is a great shame. The players seemed to really buy into him and several of those who joined last summer said that he was a deciding factor in their choice to come. He's been unlucky but ultimately he hasn't done enough to arrest the slide. I like him as a bloke because he seems to concentrate on his job and keeps the media stuff low key. A similar personality to me really. I think he'll eventually be successful elsewhere but he probably needs to retreat from the Premier League for now. The players, yeah, seems like they're shithouses but I've been saying that since the late Martinez era and we've pretty much changed the whole squad since then. There's clearly a rot in the dressing room that has passed through a generation of our squad now. Clearly changing all of the players doesn't fix it so you have to get a manager in who can revive the vast majority of them and then sack off the real dead wood. We're still suffering from the Koeman/Walsh spending spree because players like Keane, Schneiderlin and Sigurdsson were brought in to play a style of football that just doesn't cut it if you want to take risks and push on from mid table. Brands' job now is to make sure the general philosophy of using young, footballing players remains in place even while the manager changes. Probably the biggest role he has at the club as the mad jumps between style of football between Martinez then Koeman then Allardyce then Silva and their respective signings has left us in this mess. Silva has started to go down a progressive route even if the results haven't accompanied the philosophy, so we need to maintain that trajectory for a few more years and then we will ideally have removed that issue. As for Sinclair, was very surprised to see that tweet. Very disappointing.

Turning water into wine is probably easier than turning Everton into a respectable outfit.

Nailed on

He's not a fan of crosses

He's not perfect, no politician ever will be. What I can't get my head around is we have a straight choice between him and Johnson and people from working class backgrounds will go for Johnson. People are heavily influenced by the media there's no doubt about that

More people should be shocked about the news the NHS is up for sale in Tory’s plans to make a trade deal with the US. Us being the one western nation to follow in the US’s footsteps in healthcare would be a massive mistake. Anyone who argues that gutting the NHS and making the push for the UK to go to a US styled healthcare system with private insurance arguing “it’s cheaper for the taxpayer” should take a look at what each taxpayer pays into NHS. Then they ought to take a look at how much an American who wanted the same sort of baseline care has to pay each year. And without the NHS negotiating our drug prices with the big pharmaceutical companies, it’ll be private insurers negotiating those drug prices. Compare drug prices in the US to the UK. Less taxpayer burden, sure. But a greater burden on individuals and even on businesses, as benefits packages are pretty appealing and that’s one thing that employers in the US use to entice people. But even then, the employees are expected to foot some of that bill taken out of their wages that week. This’ll ultimately lead to some working class families needing to make a choice between their ability to pay for things they need to survive, or for properly addressing their own health. As someone who’s directly experienced both types of healthcare, I think the American system is an absolute joke. A really expensive one. And in the US, overall, it’s a place where wages are higher than the UK and the general cost of living is lower - and healthcare and is still a burden. You put that burden on a place where people are paid less on average and where things cost more on average and it’s a much bigger burden. If that’s a big issue in this election, that’s a point that really just needs to be hammered home.

Wow! ICE kept the tuition they made from their fake school too

Christian Groß in NDR Sportclub on Sunday. Should be an interesting talk. https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/sportclub/Sportclub,sendung954754.html Every week watching him I wonder how he never made it into 1. Bundesliga before. Good positioning, solid technique, good passing, intelligent, solid both in defense and going forward occasionally. Happy he got his chance so late in his career; hope he stays in the first team after the winter break as well.

Comes out next month.

As someone who can't stand the colour/livery of Force India I'd definitely be glad to see it go