The Artful Dodger

I'll say this, it's telling that Asia and Africa have handled this so much better the West. Africa especially. People in the UK seem to think they are owed a completely safe life, they've no idea what the rest of the world goes through. As we slowly strangle ourselves because people 'don't feel safe' we will eventually realise how wrong we have got this all. Every single one of us over the age 21 of UK is responsible for what comes next. We are cowards who expect everything on a plate.

The instances of healthy people being badly effected for months are still very rare, the honest truth that the West is not willing to face is the fact that we are a fat, unhealthy people. Nobody will talk about that right now but it has to be mentioned we go forward. If the UK wasn't a colony of the USA it wouldn't have the death toll it has. We are a sad, pathetic mess as a country. Thick and lazy, nobody reads a book and we watch all our sport sat on our arse. If this doesn't make people realise how awful our culture is then nothing will. This is a warning shot.

Remember when we had the tug of war over Pearson, was genuine arguments about which club had the better future

Why aren't we doing everything to get vaccinations done asap? Get the army in, anyone who can help etc. It will be very expensive but lockdown till Easter will be far more damaging.

Well in. I wonder if we’ll ever get to the bottom of why this virus effects some people so severely. Clearly old age and certain medical conditions are important but not the only factor.

Best make the most of the pub then, reckon this next lockdown will be until we’ve got most vulnerable people vaccinated.

A new virus strain was inevitable at some point, just need to up the vaccination process. It's very slow at the moment, despite millions being promised before Chirstmas.

Excited for Canelo v Smith now. The usual height different pictures going round, shows just how phenomenal Canelo is. Stepping up to much bigger men and beating them. I think Smith at his best can do it though, anything less and he’s done.

Managed to cling on to tier 2 for now, I presume we'll see another full lockdown at some point. As it is I've just booked a table at a local pub for me and my 5 brothers on Xmas eve.

Will still respond to the vaccine though. So shouldn’t be a major concern.

Perfect display from Joshua really, showed his best. Fair play to Pulev for carrying on that long but his limitations were pretty obvious.

Hoping for an impressive Joshua performance on Saturday, just to keep the pressure on the Fury fight. Hard to see him losing, Pulev is tough but doesn't have anywhere near the dynamism or danger of Povetkin, who Joshua despatched impressively.

Suarez's was about the context, he was grabbing Evra's skin and saying it, can that really be considered as 'friendly'? I don't think so. The whole defence was based around Suarez not understanding that the word was offensive though, so I can't see Cavani getting away with it.

So Cavani could be in bother for his use of the word 'Negrito' https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/nov/30/edinson-cavani-fa-investigation-social-media-instagram-post I do think context is key here, but it'll be interesting to see how it goes seeing as this was the word Suarez used and was banned for 8 games.

Weird seeing Liverpool getting full on sucked off by the Tories in parliament, but it's certainly helped out this mass testing. Hopefully we've seen the worst now and can slowly march towards the vaccine.

Whichever way you feel, this arguments shows what is wrong with boxing. We're arguing about companies, rather than boxers. It's like having huge debates about BT v SKY when it comes to footy, rather than the actual sport. Let's just hope we get to see the best v the best over the coming year or so.

It's not really Hearn's fault, his obnoxious, wideboy persona is sadly aa part of it but I just dislike his role really, boxing seems to have so many people leeching off the talent of others and a lot of his cards are just rip offs, imo.

70% was about as good as was expected prior to these other ones getting over 90%, which is extremely high. It's still a good vaccine and further signs that we could be out of this soon.

Problem is that a lot of public sectory pay has been effectively frozen for years, in fact in real terms civil servants have taken pay cuts. This is just classic turning on the public sector because the private sector is going through a tough area. The answer is clearly that income tax must rise for all but the lowest earners. I'd raise income tax to a standard 25% and then 50% for those over 50k. This would work. People just won't do it though, even many on the left baulk at actually raising tax. Even the supposedly 'marxist, red, commie' Corbyn didn't actually outright propose tax rises in his last manifesto. That's how unpalatable it is. I am far from a high earner but extra 30-50quid a month is affordable, we'd sort the debt out in no time.

Christmas is now the big topic, with arguments about whether restrictions should be eased at all etc, with talk of us easing for 5 days followed by a month harsh lockdown etc. I have some sympathy with the government here, I think people are going to visit family pretty much whatever the circumstances so I think it makes sense to allow it legally. No point criminalising millions, the police won't enforce it anyway.

Positive news keeps coming, the Oxford vaccine looks to be especially useful in older patients. The question now is managing the loigistical roll out of this as quickly but efficiently as possible. I'd imagine it'll be Spring earliest that we see society starting to see restrictions eased en masse but it'll be worth the wait. I hope the government give us a week long bank holiday or something, we need a chance to party.

At least the mask has slipped and we can see the truth (which I pointed out a long time ago).

Of course they haven’t but why let the truth get in way of an enjoyable lie. Don’t forget you live in a country whose population tried to stop you winning a league you were 20 points clear of. Their hatred is so strong it ignores facts and rational thought.

What an absolutely ridiculous comment. How have Liverpool got anyone ‘removed’; there has been no complaint or asking for people to be removed. Instead an actual physical presence is needed elsewhere so they’ve moved things around, like they do all the time. This paranoid, conspiratorial nonesense that English people have about Liverpool is insane.

Why do you think that, do you not think they'd be pretty easily caught? The amount of people who would have to be involved is incredible. As barmy as the anti-vaxxers.