Vince Green

Europe is imploding so quickly now if we don't get out soon there won't be an EU left to leave!

That is a money pit if ever I saw one, cost of purchase is just the start

Not unless you are aware they have serious previous, then it might be wise

Numerous examples have come to light over the years highlighting the failures in our checking procedures because they only check the UK database. The worst example I heard of was a man who had an international arrest warrant out for mass murder during the genocide in Rwanda was found driving a minicab in London. It was said he had personally hacked to death over a thousand Tutsi people, mostly women and children, with a machete. Modeste Kennedy Hakizimana was not deported, a judge said he would not get a fair trial in his home country, and as far as I know he is still driving a minicab

Henry, you seem to be baiting Gordon, not nice, I'm sure you don't mean to.

Nobody comes out unharmed by that story Drinking in a pub with a shotgun in the car outside (loaded or not?) come on, that's not how you should behave I did not even stop for a pee by going in a motorway service station when transporting my guns to Wales if it meant leaving the car unattended. Plastic bottle and out the window somewhere discrete at the top end of the car park out of the way. Fortunately it never got to big jobs but the same would apply. No way am I ever going to lose sight of those guns for one minute.

Players today are paid too much, they are not hungry for it. Although I am not in any way a Spurs fan one of my enduring heros was Jimmy Greaves, back in the 60s he was the first division's top goal scorer six seasons in a row. In those days a first division player was only paid approx. twice what a postman would earn but without the pension. Hard to believe now The manager of Spurs put a secret £10 win bonus on top of the players wages and that alone was enough to propel Tottenham to the top of the first division year on year. It was secret because I don't think (without checking) it was allowed back then. So probably paid as brown envelopes or "boot money" as it came to be known But as Jimmy said later, I needed that money so badly I just had to win and he and the rest of the team the same, they played their hearts out every game. It brought success but it also brought great football. People today would be shocked if they knew how little some of the greats of that era actually earned.

I agree, the women's teams show a lot more commitment to the game and don't look perpetually bored with the whole thing like the men.

As a moving road user, if you hit a pedestrian then its hard to challenge the assertion that you we not in some way negligent/travelling too fast/ not anticipating or whatever because the onus of responsibility lies with you to always travel within the limits of safety

Henry I don't know if you are very nieve or just don't want to believe what is fairly obvious to the rest of us. You are not going to get that word for word quality of a sound recording on a smart phone through a substancial floor in a quality building like that. Their flat was professionally wired and its pretty obvious why and by whom.

They were still going on about it today on the news saying they were unfairly treated. I think they were right, if they had been fairly treated they would have been down to about five players by the end of the match.

How many people have a tape recorder and the Guardian's phone number to hand at 1 in the morning? I'm sure half the people on here have it on speed dial just in case. Doesn't everybody? Not a conspiracy, just a stitch up

Yes, predictive texting error

can't post a link, just google Peterborough Vote rigging

I would hope the Brexit Party would have the sense to not try and split the vote. But who knows? It now looks likely they were the true winners in Peterborough so maybe they feel empowered to go for it. Just when you think it couldn't get any more crazy

There are a lot more drug dealers than there are police officers in the UK and their earnings from importing and selling drugs is far greater than the entire police budget many times over. Diverting a few resources isn't going to come close.

PPU is the benchmark, and also possibly the most widely available over all. Some people love it some people hate it

Truly appalling! You have to remember this was a job interview.

Marriage in the early teens used to be common in the US, many states have a lower minimum age than here. Also marrying cousins was much more common than here, primarily to keep the land / farm assets within the family circle.

The problem with legalising drugs is that the dealers won't just give up their criminality and get a job stacking shelves in Tesco instead. That's what the authorities fear, a pandora's box. The present situation may be far from ideal but they don't want to replace it with something much worse. Putting thousands of violent drug dealers out of business overnight with our police force in the state its in would be carnage. Otherwise they would have done it years ago. One of the most interesting aspects of that article was the commonly held belief that what they were doing wasn't really so wrong as long as they were selling the stuff to "their own". Very similar views emerged from the grooming trials, I think that double standard could be actually the key to a lot.

There is no evidence that Jimi Hendrix ever took hard drugs, Janis Joplin certainly did and died from an overdose but in America. Hendrix's intoxicant of choice was red wine which he drank in copious quantities. He also took speed to stay awake for days at a time (uppers) and so had to take sleeping tablets (downers) when he needed to sleep. He died from an overdose of sleeping tablets and a lot of red wine which he inhaled as vomit in a flat just off Notting Hill, not a fashionable area in those days.. His autopsy revealed no needle marks or scarring from needles. The evidence of hard drug taking in the swinging sixties in London is scant, not the hard drug fuelled era it is portrayed as today. The seventies, especially the latter half was certainly different, very different but the musicians that succumbed mostly were introduced to hard drugs when they went to USA West Coast

As a lot of poppies are grown in Pakistan for the drugs trade its not that difficult to make the link.

It also depends on whats available to buy in your locality. Dealers don't usually keep much of a selection.

I believe this story exactly mirrors what is happening in Luton

Gifts are still charged duty, there is no exemption from duty for gifts. Duty is based on the value of the goods not whether (or what) you say you are paying for them. They are well aware of that old trick, they are just as likely to charge you a steep estimate if you don't put a proper declaration of value on the paperwork. You must have just been lucky they couldn't be bothered to chase it up