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Musk showed what a vile individual he is when he called one of the divers rescuing the Thai football team trapped in a cave a paedophile.

In the pre-original Popmaster section of the television version, I got the year from the first song in all three :cheer:

You mean the Stephen Yaxley-Lennon who is in jail after admitting contempt of court?

Obeying the law is not a matter of "reading the room". The PMs of the day will have had intelligence information about the killers of MPs Jo Cos and David Amess. They kept it to themselves. There was no post-trial outcry and no howls of "cover-up". That's because there was no cover-up in any of these cases.

That's potentially the start of a slippery slope. You move from "only a few weeks short of their 18th birthday" to "only a few months" and so on. As for Prevent, do you know how many people are referred each day? Do you know how many might have had similar reasons for referral to this attacker, yet go on to lead perfectly crime-free lives? Identifying potential offenders without taking action against perfectly innocent people is not easy. If it was, there would be countries who had succeeded in doing so and we could copy their methods.

If Trump is not happy with Starmer, that shows that Starmer must be doing a reasonable job. Someone needs to get through to one of Trump's few active brain cells that he is not the president of the UK.

Saturday 18th January Newcastle United 2-1 AFC Bournemouth (12:30) Brentford 0-2 Liverpool Leicester City 1-1 Fulham West Ham United 2-1 Crystal Palace Arsenal 3-1 Aston Villa (17:30) Sunday 19th January Everton 0-2 Tottenham Hotspur (14:00) Manchester United 1-2 Brighton & Hove Albion (14:00) Nottingham Forest 3-1 Southampton (14:00) Ipswich Town 0-2 Manchester City (16:30) Monday 20th January Chelsea 2-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers (20:00)

This week's attempt to make the singles chart seem exciting can be found from the front page or the latest news box.

I saw Eraserhead and had little idea what was going on :lol: OTOH, the first series of Twin Peaks was an outstanding piece of television.

Let's go for Laura Palmer's Theme (not a Bastille song).

Oh yes, we probably did. I’ll try and find another piece from Twin Peaks unless there are other suggestions.

Film director David Lynch has died, so we have to have something from Twin Peaks. I would go for the brilliant theme tune.

Tuesday 14th January Brentford 0-2 Manchester City (19:30) Chelsea 2-2 AFC Bournemouth (19:30) West Ham United 2-1 Fulham (19:30) Nottingham Forest 1-0 Liverpool (20:00) Wednesday 15th January Everton 0-2 Aston Villa (19:30) Leicester City 2-0 Crystal Palace (19:30) Newcastle United 3-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers (19:30) Arsenal 2-1 Tottenham Hotspur (20:00) Thursday 16th January Ipswich Town 1-3 Brighton & Hove Albion (19:30) Manchester United 2-0 Southampton (20:00)

https://sync-tube.de/room/G3URuYMG but there's nobody there yet.

Tamworth on the brink of taking Tottenham to extra time :o

The Cure - Lovesong Tears For Fears - Sowing The Seeds Of Love

Best The Beach Boys - Kokomo George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You George Michael - Father Figure Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine Terence Trent D'Arby - Wishing Well Worst Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes - (I've Had) The Time Of My Life Richard Marx - Hold On To The Nights Whitney Houston - Where Do Broken Hearts Go

Nonsense. You seem to think the president can simply order prosecutions and guilty verdicts. As Trump may soon be about to find out, he can't.

So why did the enquiry, commissioned by the Tories who set the terms of reference, praise Starmer? If they had evidence that he was compromised in any way, don't you think they would have made sure that the enquiry report said so?

This week's musings on the charts can be found from the front page or the latest news box.

Starmer is not compromised. He was praised in the report from the enquiry that has already happened. He authorised prosecutions in these cases. He oversaw changes in the rules that made it easier to prosecute. Stop believing the Daily Mail and Elon Musk.

Don't you think he might have been doing something else? After all, he is the PM.

Exactly. The Tory amendment would have delayed the provisions of the government Bill until after a new enquiry had reported. That is very likely to be after the next election, meaning that the legislation would have to start again. A new enquiry would also give the government a reason to delay implementing the recommendations of the enquiry that has already happened. Of course, that is not how the Daily Mail will report it.

It is time to congratulate the Tories for reaching a new low. They are tabling an amendment to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Among other things, the Bill provides greater protection for children who are home-schooled. This could have prevented the murder of Sara Sharif who was killed by her father after she was taken out of school. The Tories are proposing an amendment, calling for an enquiry into grooming gangs. The Tories, of course, have already had an enquiry. They said they would act on the recommendations, but failed to implement any of them. This is where the Tory move is beneath contempt. If the amendment is passed, it won't lead to an enquiry. That is because the whole Bill will fail, meaning that none of its provisions, including the enquiry, will be implemented. That means that Labour MPs will have to vote against the amendment to save the rest of the Bill. The Tories, of course, will then make political capital out of the vote, in the hope that the reasoning behind it will be ignored. Not surprisingly, Farage's mob will vote for the amendment. The Lib Dems are planning to abstain.