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I fail to see why my initial comment was so controversial. It's pretty clear what I meant and if it doesn't apply to you, what's the problem? No one who actually has something productive to do with their time takes part in a riot. Going to a football match is, by comparison, productive.

They could have done "cos I'm just human" but maybe that doesn't work as well in terms of rhyming.

I specifically said football hooligans, not football fans. Either way, that's the image that's out there.

It's what many people have been saying since Brexit - all of that just emboldened bigots and it only got worse since then. It's like the mask is fully off in many cases. Evidenced by the amount of people who treat Keir Starmer's violent disorder plan as him being a "traitor" and pigeon holing the far right as though it would have been anyone else who would target a mosque for no reason whatsoever.

It's not an unfair generalisation. How many times has violent disorder broken out at football? It's totally plausible to me that the worst of that crowd would be the ones rioting. Didn't you similarly have an issue with the "domestic violence increases when England lose" statistic being mentioned?

Where did I say all football fans? It's a very specific demographic. I stand by what I say when I said it was people looking for a fight.

Hooliganism. How many of those people were likely there because they had nothing better to do? Or were just looking for a fight?

The easy thing to say would be that he might have had incel tendencies, given he seemed to target girls, but I don't think it helps to speculate. I hope that he, and those who incited and took part in the riots, are dealt with.

Isn't the football season on a break? That probably doesn't help...

Correct. They felt that because of the gravity of what happened, it was best to name them.

All these riots are becoming extremely concerning. I don't recall it being this bad.

I'm pretty sure that's exactly what happened. They clearly wanted it to be an immigrant or a Muslim and are disappointed that it's not.

Just horrible. There's no depths the far right won't stoop to.

I don't think speculating without having the facts necessarily helps anyone. Unless I'm reading things wrongly, what has come out today seems to be separate to what was reported on last year.

No one knew about this at the time.

That sounds very positive, apart from the cuts.

Yet it's his most streamed song. I don't think even he would consider that to be one of his favourites. If you use some of his more stripped back stuff, that's a greater representation of his songwriting.

Interesting approach with the outdoor setting but I'm not sure it's hitting as well. I think these things are actually better visually when it's dark.

I wish they'd focus more on making sure there's more jobs available over making sure that people are working regardless of their health.

I mean Ed Sheeran did enjoy 19 weeks at #1 with four different songs in 2021 but it's hard to get excited about whoever's going to be #1 because it's always going to be a streaming friendly act. Before streaming, you got a bit more variation. Robbie Williams got a #1 single in 2012, he'd have no chance now (even if he released a banger).

Even in the era of downloads, that wasn't a rule. As far as I'm aware.

I think it needs simplifying. I know why they brought in ACR as otherwise we may see little movement in the chart week by week, but I think it overcomplicated it.

Yeah, thanks for posting! The Royal Wedding 2011 figure seems to be a cumulative one - the BBC1 coverage did 13.6m.

I haven't following the campaign very much, are they only able to choose between Biden & Trump or can someone else come in?

I cite these two because they are the two biggest boybands to come out of The X Factor and they were about at around the same time. JLS have had five UK #1 singles, while One Direction had four. JLS had just the one #1 album while One Direction had four. In terms of the impact on pop culture though, I think JLS around about 2009/10 was just as big as 1D. It's interesting how many people seem to associate their earlier songs (Beat Again, Everybody in Love) with their school days, something I haven't really noticed with One Direction (I say this as a massive fan of them). Maybe it was "cooler" to like JLS? I dunno, this came to mind today.