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  1. Suleman Dawood was a student at Strathclyde University - Business school. We had an e-mail from the Principal just a few minutes after BBC Scotland broke the story, but no one was saying much until after it was confirmed the sub was lost.
  2. They are indeed - but, it really isn't the original stone. No way I can prove it on a message board, but I do actually know for sure - believe me or don't.
  3. They've been pushing this for some time - also reducing Jury to 12 from 15. Very worrying, in theory if you dont think there's anough evidence one way or another you should have Not Guilty, but with Not Proven removed research seems to indicate we will get more Guilty verdicts. In a decent system Not proven should open the door to a retrial and that's all - despite what the TV cop shows would have us believe , sometimes you just can't know or decide and Not Proven is a perfectly sensible verdict. Justice has nothing to do with "closure" (whatever the fuck that is) for "victims" , "families" or anyone else.
  4. Should ask aaid they work at GCHQ after all. Only joking..... aren't I ? What is the colour of the boathouse at Hereford ? 😛
  5. Going into an election for the next First Minister of the country and we don't even know how many folk are eligible to vote seems farcical.
  6. This is perhaps the most accurate post I think I have ever seen on this message board, if there was ever an event that could be compared to 1930's germany , this is it it. It's not overstating or hyperbole, it's exactly what the National socialists did in their rise to power.
  7. Seems they are battering each other and no one knows who the chief whip is - https://news.sky.com/story/chaos-among-tory-mps-as-labour-motion-to-force-vote-on-fracking-bill-is-defeated-12724777 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63322533
  8. A very British Coup ? Has whoever is behind Hunt taken control without even the pretence of any kind of an election? Truss is terrible, but this is looking very suspicous.
  9. On a lighter note - one bit of Scotland declares Independance. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-62150163
  10. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1499380929567072265 No such thing as fake news .... err
  11. The Judiciary both North and South of the border is firmly part of the "establishment" - party politics really don't come into it at that level - same as in the media - the "4th estate". I leave it as an exercise to the reader as to whether this is a good or bad thing. I'd suspect Craig Murray is as likley to be "Pour Encourager les Autres" - he was once the Ambassador to Uzbekistan and firmly part of the "establishment". Remember no matter who you vote for the Government always wins
  12. As I may have mentioned I live bang in the middle of Cop26 - last night all the cars in the area deemed to be "SUVs" had their tyres let down and parking style notices put on them declaring us the second worst polluter etc. I suspect sourced from this https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/oct/25/suvs-second-biggest-cause-of-emissions-rise-figures-reveal That seems somewhat unlikely - just one container ship pushes massive amounts of pollution out see - https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/cargo-container-shipping-carbon-pollution-114721 So take your pick of whatever "evidence" supports your view at the minute. I would point out that I drive an old Landrover that runs on Biodiesel - so I take a little umbrage at this accusation (and being called an SUV - it's a 4x4 😋). Also not a great way to engage folk and potentialy opens the folk doing this up to criminal charges. Anyway I have tonight helped pump up the tyres on a couple of elderly neighbours cars (those evil polluters) one of whoms car hasn't even turned a wheel throughout the pandemic. I've also printed out notices for my car windows stating that I run Biofuel in the hope it might discourage a repeat performance. I'd have happily engaged in discusion with anyone who wanted to discuss my cars carbon footprint - especially versus that of a new vehicle and would also have informed them of the electric conversions now becoming available, such as https://www.plower.nl/electric-defender or the more fun (but expensive) Tesla based one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjFzhFHyYl4 I suspect, though that the outrage is being driven in many cases by a dislike of folk having large cars rather than any environmental reason. The extinction folk who "chained" themselves to Glasgow Uni's gate on the opening day - did so to a gate thats only opened once a year, inconveniencing no one - but it made a nice picture https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/19682273.extinction-rebellion-lock-glasgow-university-gates-ahead-cop26/ - also those bike D-locks round their neck aren't holding anyone in place - just turn your head and you are out. Also why would they want to disrupt the very conference thats meant to be trying to do the things they want ? Yes we know it's all bollocks really - but surely let them at least try ? I will bet they don't try letting down the tyres of any "SUV"s in Easterhouse, Drumchapel or Castlemilk though..... On a more usefull note Biodiesel is currently available at £1.20 a litre from http://alexanderscottoils.co.uk/contact/ On London Road just past Jewsons on the other side - fine for most cars since 2000 on, but will clean out your system on first use - so expect to need a fuel filter change and I'd recomend not going a00% right a way especially in winter.
  13. Not keen on the Brown sauce, but we used to have these for lunch when dodging school dinners back in the day. Forgotten how good they were - well, that's tomorrow's dinner decided then Kandy Bar also has a branch in Kilwinning (or did last time I was there) - great wee bakers.
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    England

    I'll be watching - as much because I've fancied Italy from the start and have enjoyed all their games. I hope Italy are as near full strength as possible, not just because I wan't them to win, but if England do manage to beat them, then I wan't it to at least be a deserved win against a good side. I reallly don't think Engalnd have much of a hope against Italy, but they are in the game so who knows what can happen - but, please no last minute wins from dodgy penalties. I actually have high hopes it might be a good game to watch as a "neutral" - just need to keep the comentary off.
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    Croatia vs England

    Croatia had no interest in winning that game - was like a friendly. They would've taken a nil all draw, after they went one down they showed no appetite to try and equalise. Unfortunately, they won't play like that when they play us
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