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I don't have a TV and don't have any club or streaming subscriptions so generally I only see games when I'm visiting my parents at the weekend. Or when there's a game on in a pub I'm in.

I'm not a criminal lawyer (and not even and English lawyer in the first place) but that sounds iffy. It isn't generally done and I would guess it's because it raises the problem that the defence has no opportunity to cross-examine and therefore it causes a massive procedural unfairness. A judge might feel the unfairness is balanced out in cases where there is a genuine reason (I think I've heard of old statements being read where a witness has died) but a witness just refusing to cooperate isn't really a legitimate reason. So I imagine a judge would be wary. And you can't ask a police officer what the victim said at the time because that's essentially hearsay - it's someone repeating what they heard someone else say. If the evidence is what someone has said, then you always want it first-hand, from the person who actually said it, and you want the person who said it to formally swear to and stand by its accuracy.

The most important evidence in a rape trial is typically the victim's testimony. If she gave evidence, then the pictures and the recording would do a great job in corroborating what she said. But trying to piece together a precise sequence of events without any witness is just too much of a stretch.

Yes but what I'm saying is that for many people it still feels plausible that we are just in a short-term, random hot period. Hence the usual UK pundit types saying "of course summer is hot, calm down". It might take many more years of this kind of thing consistently happening before people realise or admit that the trend is never going to reverse, or at least not reverse within a time frame which is meaningful for humanity.

I picked the "impending disaster" option but I don't think there's going to be a sudden Day After Tomorrow type of sudden disaster. On the one hand, I think we are already in many subtle (and not so subtle) ways experiencing global warming, but still in a limited and familiar enough way that it can be dismissed. On the other, I think we are yet to experience it. But the effects will still be hard to distinguish from already-existing problems. Climate disasters in other countries will trigger new or intensified waves of global migration, which is a problem which already exists. Increasing crop failures and decreasing biological diversity will (a) increase food prices and the cost of living in the developed world and (b) lead to mass famine in the developing world. Again, inflation and world hunger are not entirely new issues, so for those who wish to ignore the problem, it will not be impossible to do so. For the first world, until London for example is literally experiencing flooding, which none of us might live to see, the effects will not IMO be anything completely new or unprecedented. It will manifest itself mostly as an exacerbation (and a dramatic one) of already-existing problems. The only truly novel things we might have to deal with in the UK might for example be for example getting AC installed in our homes.

Just finished the first and now onto the second.

I thought that Liverpool were struggling a bit with their home-grown quota, especially if they want to move any HG players out? Even if they have to pay somewhat more than you'd ideally want to for a squad player, it might be worth it in that respect.

I'm increasingly getting the feeling that the board completely lucked-out with Ange and are still otherwise clueless. Knudsen is probably the strongest candidate I've heard get mentioned but if Ajax are also after him then there's no chance.

Defending one-on-one against PL forwards and trying to play through PL presses is more individually demanding, I think is fair to say. CCV is far more athletic and technically solid than the average Scottish Premiership CB. I don't think the same is true for Maguire and the average PL CB.

I cannot picture Harry Maguire coping well trying to play in a Postecoglou team in the Premier League. His touch under pressure and ability to play in a high line are bad enough, never mind with a manager who's going to demand he plays in an even higher line and take even more responsibility in possession.

I'm about a third through and it's easily taken the top spot for most violent book I've ever read. Even more than The Road, which I thought would be hard to beat. Comeplling stuff though.

In terms of competence/effort it is possibly the most a team has ever deserved to be relegated. But having one of the best coaches in the world for a few games and a team with multiple elite players in almost every position has just about been enough to brute-force their way to survival.

I get that Mount isn't the most exciting signing but I think he could be excellent in a midfield 3 for Liverpool. Managers seem to love him, he's presuambly very receptive to tactical instruction and willing to do his bit off the ball. His play style seems to suit how Klopp has been trying to use Henderson and Elliot as kind of roaming #8s who get up and down and in and out of wide areas, except with more legs + ball control than Henderson and more experience + athleticism than Elliot. Plus I guess he could sort of be cover for LW, but Liverpool seem to have loads of forwards anyway.

I've read Siddartha, and Narziss und Goldmund, in English, but I'm reading this in German. Not read a book in German for quite a long time so this will likely take me a while.

So far I would say I'm more impressed by it than I really enjoy it. It's interesting more than captivating, I would say.

Most of the way through this. A good introduction to a period of history I didn't know too much about.

Very good so far. Even before it gets to the Mexican War or the Civil War I'm finding it a page-turner.

There does seem to be a weird trend amongst footballers of "sharing" women between them. There seems to be a select group of women within each footballers network who basically are the go-to for casual sex. You would think that as an impossibly rich and physically fit young man it would be easy enough to find an age-appropriate girl on their own without having her borderline pimped-out to you by a mate.