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So you don't care if he leaves the country and doesn't return if he is charged?

Why should his case get a higher priority than others? Isn't that the two-tier justice your lot keep complaining about?

One of the considerations when deciding whether to grant bail is the risk of a suspect fleeing the country. You seem to want Chris Brown to be encouraged to leave so that he can continue his tour. Would you also want to allow an Iraqi or an Iranian to leave the country if they were accused of a serious crime?

As a Brighton fan. I don't like seeing Palace win a match, let alone a trophy. OTOH, it's great to see Man C fail to win a trophy. On yet another hand, If City had won., that would have opened up another European place for Premier League positions which could help Brighton.

Alex Warren’s run at the top of the singles chart continues as Ordinary gets a ninth week at number one. The last single to spend exactly nine weeks at the top came fairly recently - Sabrina Carpenter’s Taste last autumn. Ravyn Lenae’s Love Me Not is still at number two. Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club still tethered at number three. WithTheMC with added Bees & Honey remain at number four with Show me Love. Sombr’s Undressed continues its steady climb up the chart. It is up one palace to number five. Calvin Harris made his chart debut with Acceptable In The 80s in 2007. Since then, he has had at least one top forty hit every year. He extends that run to an impressive nineteenth year with Blessings at number eight. The song is sung byClementine Douglas who now has four top forty hits as a featured artist or part of a duo but has yet to chart on her own. It is Harris’s 31st top ten hit and his 44th song to reach the top forty. Austrian producer Ely Oaks enters at number 35 with Borderline. He is joined by Lavinia who was born in Italy but raised in the UK. She then moved to Berlin where Ely Oaks also lives. Borderline is one place higher than Oaks’ previous hit Running Around. After climbing to number 21 twice, Benson Boone’s Sorry I’m Here For Someone Else finally makes it into the top twenty at number twenty. It is in its eleventh week in the top forty. Myles Smith’s Nice To meet You climbs back up to numb ten. It was last in the top ten in January but has remained in the top twenty all year. This does not mean that there is another lack of new entries and re-entries in the singles chart this week. It’s just that some of them fit in better with the albums round-up. Speaking of which,... It has been an extraordinarily successful year for rock band Sleep Token. At the beginning of the year, their chart record comprised two top forty albums, including a number three hit, and no hit singles. In March, they had their first hit single with two more following in April and May. The singles weren’t even flash-in-the-pans, two of them gained further weeks in the top forty. That meant that hopes for the new album were high, with the likelihood that they would get their first number one album. That has indeed come to pass as Even In Arcadia, a pretty strong album, finishes clear of all rivals this week. The old-fashioned among us will welcome the length of the tracks, and the album itself. Stereophonics’ recent chart-topper had just eight tracks with a running time under half-an-hour. Sleep Token’s album, by contrast, has ten tracks with a running time a few minutes short of an hour. Tracks from Even In Arcadia are in the singles chart once again. Look To Windward, one of the tracks not made available in advance, is at number 38. Caramel, which reached number ten last month, is a re-entry at number 33 and the album’s title track is at number 31. They have now had five top forty hits, highly unusual for a rock band. Some recent number one albums have picked up only around 1,000 “sales” from streams, some significantly lower than that. Unusually for a rock album, Even In Arcadia has around 7,000 “sales” from streams. Whether the album continues to be streamed in significant numbers next week remains to be seen. Sabrina Carpenter’s Short ‘n’ Sweet gets a 24th week at number two. It now holds the record for the most weeks at number two, beating the record for a studio album held by Simon and garfunkel’s fabulous Bridge Over Troubled Water album. That album’s 23 weeks were spread over a period of over two years. Carpenter’s run has taken about nine months. Ed Sheeran’s Tour Collection is at number four. While The Kooks can hardly claim to be among the very best bands to come out of Brighton, their song Naive is regularly one of the most streamed songs from 2006. Nevertheless, they still manage to sell albums in reasonable numbers - most of the time. Their last album, 2022’s 10 Tracks To Echo In The Darks only got to number 32, making it their lowest charting album by some margin. By contrast, album number seven Never / Know enters at number five, their highest position since Konk reached number two in 2008. There is a certain degree of pinkness to two of the new entries and that is without anything new from the singer born Alecia Moore. PinkPantheress enters the top ten of the albums chart for the first time with her mixtape Fancy That. Arcade Fire are at number eighteen with Pink Elephant. Any hope that they might one day match the excellence of Funeral is surely long gone. The final new entry comes from Berkshire-based The Amazons. Their new album 21st Century Fiction, probably my favourite of last week’s releases, is at number 26. Last week saw the release of a film to accompany The Weeknd’s Hurry Up Tomorrow album. As a result, it leaps back into the top forty at number 25. Timeless from the album, which featured Playboy Carti reached number seven last year. It returns to the top forty this week at number thirty. The album contains a remix of the song by one of the current flavours of the month, Doechii.

Friday 16th May Aston Villa 2-0 Tottenham Hotspur (19:30) Chelsea 2-2 Manchester United (20:15) Sunday 18th May Everton 2-0 Southampton (12:00) West Ham United 0-2 Nottingham Forest (14:15) Brentford 2-1 Fulham Leicester City 1-0 Ipswich Town Arsenal 1-1 Newcastle United (16:30) Monday 19th May Brighton & Hove Albion 2-1 Liverpool (20:00) Tuesday 20th May Crystal Palace 1-2 Wolverhampton Wanderers (20:00) Manchester City 3-1 AFC Bournemouth (20:00)

Most British people don't want to eat the fish that are caught i9n British waters. If we could only fish in UK waters, we would have to import almost all the sea fish we eat. UK fishers were given licenses to fish in UK waters when the EU fisheries policy was introduced. Thatcher insisted that fishers should be able to buy and sell licenses. UK fishers chose to sell them in large numbers.

Whereas the Tories just gave away all the public utilities.

Yeah, the album is OK, but nothing special. It's a long way short of the quality of Funeral.

I saw that as well. Another very good series.

That would actually be even more hilarious than him failing to win a byelection engineered to get him back into the Commons.

It sums up Man C's season that they are the ones to allow Southampton to avoid matching Derby's record. Let's hope that they continue to under=-achieve for many years to come, ideally in lower divisions after being punished for multiple breaches of the rules.

Don't you think it is a reasonable rule for members of the armed services to be barred from representing a political party? This numpty should also have realised that, and checked with someone.

How is it a minor mistake? It shouldn't be too difficult to work out that a serving member of the armed forces is probably not able to stand for election under a party banner.

Saturday 10th May Fulham 2-1 Everton Ipswich Town 1-0 Brentford Southampton 0-3 Manchester City Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-2 Brighton & Hove Albion AFC Bournemouth 2-1 Aston Villa (17:30) Sunday 11th May Newcastle United 3-1 Chelsea (12:00) Manchester United 2-1 West Ham United (14:15) Nottingham Forest 3-1 Leicester City (14:15) Tottenham Hotspur 3-1 Crystal Palace (14:15) Liverpool 2-1 Arsenal (16:30)

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There is still no stopping Alex Warren as Ordinary gets an eighth week at number one in the singles chart. The last song to spend exactly eight weeks at the top was Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding’s Miracle in two separate runs in 2023. Afraid To Feel by LF System was the last song to have a single run of exactly eight weeks, in 2022. Warren’s album You’ll Be Alright Kid (Chapter 1) enters the top ten for the first time, at number nine. Ravyn Linae’s Love Me Not climbs three places to number two. Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club finally vacates the number two spot after being three for the last six weeks. It is now at number three. Show Me Love by WizTheMC along with Bees & Honey slips one place to number four. Normality has returned this week with just two new entries in the singles chart. The first is from Ed Sheeran who brings his tally of hits up to 64. Old Phone is about exactly that; yes, he really has written a song about finding an old phone. There was a time when even a song about such an odd subject would have gone straight to the top simply for being by Ed Sheeran. Old Phone enters at number seventeen. The release of a physical version of Sheeran’s Azizam is not enough to stop it falling one place to number five. Jorja Smith made her UK chart debut as a featured artist on Drake’s Get It Together. She has had a further seven top forty hits since then although just one has made it to the top ten. This week she gets top forty hit number nine with The Way I Love You at number 39. Sombr’s two hits continue to climb. Back To Friends is up to number fifteen. Undressed enters the top ten, climbing seven places to number six. Benson Boone’s Beautiful Things gets a thirtieth week in the top ten. Thanks to Mrpopquiz on Buzzjack for the information that only six songs have spent longer there. Of the ten songs to have spent at least 26 weeks (six months) in the top ten, five have been released since 2018. Three of the others are Christmas songs which notch up extra weeks every year. Although they didn’t become a massive name until the release of Dark Side Of The Moon in 1973, Pink Floyd had been releasing albums since 1967. Therefore, by the time they toured in 1971, they had plenty of material. They also chose to record a live film in the ancient Italian city of Pompeii. The film was recorded over four nights with some additional material shot in Paris. The film was released in 1972, but without an accompanying album. A DVD was released in 2002; a CD followed in 2016 as part of the Early Years boxed set which reached number nineteen in the albus chart. Now we have a remastered double-CD version to enjoy. The first update, on Tuesday because of the May Day Bank Holiday, showed this new release at the top of the charge. However, the lead was relatively modest, making it uncertain whether it would stay there. Twenty-four hours later, the lead had been cut, but only narrowly. That left me more confident that it would hold on and, by the time the final chart was compiled, it was indeed still on top. Pink Floyd At Pompeii - MCMLXXII is theri seventh number one album. The list, which famously does not include Dark Side Of the Moon, began in 1970 with Atom Heart Mother. That leaves Sabrina Carpenter's Short 'n' Sweet back in its regular slot at number two. The remainder of the top five are all compilation albums. Ed Sheeran’s Tour Collection is at number three. As it is also known as the Mathematics Tour, I would like to congratulate Maths graduate Robert Prevosdt on becoming Pope Leo XIV. Fleetwood Mac’s 50 Years:Don’t Stop is at number four. The Weeknd’s Highlights is at number five. The first thing to do when an Andy Bell solo album is announced is to check which Andy Bell it is. Is it the vocalist with Ride or the one from Erasure? With the two Andy Bells having very different voices, a listen is generally enough to find out. That brings us to ten Crowns, a new solo album from the Erasure Andy Bell, his first solo release since 2010. Ride’s Andy Bell is not likely to release such a strongly pop-sounding album. Bell’s two previous solo albums failed to reach the top 100. Ten Crowns is at number fourteen. Live albums rarely make a major impact on the charts. It is particularly unusual to have two live albums entering in the same week. That, however, is what has happened this week. As well as Pink Floyd, James have a new live album out, albeit one recorded a lot more recently. The fact that Tim Booth was only eleven in 1971 may have played a part in that. Like the Floyd album, this was recorded at an ancient site, the Acropolis in Athens. As an extra treat, they played with an orchestra. James, Live at the Acropolis is at number 27. Singer-songwriter Andrew Cushn scores his first top forty album with his second release Love Is For Everyone at number 35.

Thanks @jimwatts from me and my nephew!

Thanks for the votes for Syndicate so far. I do have a particular interest in the band. My nephew is on guitar and backing vocals. Thanks, particularly to @HarryGarfield for the 20m points!

Many people from South American countries consider themselves to be American, in the same way that I call myself European. Therefore, to call Leo the first American pope will offend many people, most obviously Argentinians.

It is reciprocal. Numbers, and your numbers are probably wrong, don't affect the definition of reciprocal. Look elsewhere for reasons why the rest of your argument is nonsense.

Standing under a party banner is still engaging in political activity.

And he went ahead and did just that. Michael Heseltine famously bought himself out of the armed forces so t hat he could start his political career. This numpty seems to have decided that the rules don't apply to him. I assume his erstwhile party will support any action against him given that they oppose what they think is a two-tier justice system.

He has broken the rules. He should be dismissed.