Paul Boldrin

Incredible stat that it's England's first ever victory over a European country at a T20 World Cup.

"These leopards are simply not going to steal all your biscuits, and are actively good for controlling deer populations. I would question the motives of anyone who exaggerates the hypothetical and highly contested downside of electing these face eating leopards."

Like Chris Froome?

Yes, good catch! I made a mistake saying that my output would be ready in time for your deadline. I am working on it and will update you when it is ready.

RIP, taken too young from this world.

Yeah, it's not just about that though. These guys might think they're the next Sagan but as a fellow cyclist who doesn't know them from Adam they're just someone who might stack it right in front of me.

Unfortunately a lot of our traffic laws are based on "what a competent person would do" rather than specifying things which aren't allowed. Leads to lots of drivers being let off for injuring someone while breaking the law because they're breaking the law in a way lots of people do (eg speeding).

Ah, actually having now read beyond the headline it seems like they did charge him with that. I think his confidence that cycling with no hands wouldn't fall under careless or without due care and attention is misplaced and he's lucky police dropped the charges.

Yeah, I dislike no-handed cyclists as much as the next person but just give them a ticket for careless cycling. Police are honestly clueless about the rules on cycling sometimes.

Imagine sticking with a manager who won you a trophy!

Gosh, posh private school then PPE at Oxford, what a marvellous diversity of life experiences we have at the top of our society.

Intensity and playing on the front foot sound good after the last few months.

Screen grab of Igor Tudor's wikipedia page showing his sole achievement as a manager is a Croatian cup win 13 years ago.

Looks promising

They're going to have to do something about corners, it's pathetic, embarrassing and boring.

It is an interesting figure to use. Tate Britain has always been a bit anonymous and out of the way, I wonder what the aim of the post is?

Was just about to say the same thing. Sometime around 2040 every person in the world will simultaneously become cabinet secretary, and also get sacked. Could have implications for Whitehall.

Also it's slightly out of kilter with how much it actually costs. "You can have an all powerful AI that can do anything you want for $20 a month" - great, that's like an hour's work!

Yes, but my point was that Labour wouldn't have delivered them. As they have shown repeatedly in this parliament they can't do big cuts.

Graph showing a tiny decrease in public spending in the last year of the last Labour government, which is dwarfed by at least an order of magnitude by the cuts passed by the Lib Dems and Tories over the next five years.

Labour's austerity budget and following cuts by the Lib Dems and Tories:

The obvious reason is what's happening with this current Labour government. With a massive majority they haven't been able to make any more than relatively minor benefits cuts, do you really think they would've been able to half the local government budget like the Lib Dems and Tories did?

Mine used to just have Alan Coren on the Wikipedia page but I see someone has bulked it up a bit so there's now seven names on it.

I guess one of the advantages of being a tankie these days is there's very little chance of your position being undermined by the Soviet Union committing another inconvenient atrocity.

I kind of feel like the 19th century economists who came up with these theories were partly contrasting their ideas with the kings who controlled half the world's wealth but were mainly either lusting after teenage girls or indulging in colonialism oneupmanship against other kings.

Definitely it's not just science. I suppose culture is also important because often in science as in other jobs "convincing your boss and/or other important people that you're doing a good job" can be a viable alternative to "working out why you were wrong and fixing it".

I'm not saying I'm a guru but working in science for a long time gives you pretty brutal lessons in being wrong and the need to work out why you were wrong before you can progress. Something which seems to be very lacking in the media, football or otherwise.

Yes, it's crazy and it shows how intellectually-threadbare football pundits are to have switched seamlessly from "Spurs need a manager who can organise a defence better" to "Spurs' squad is lower mid-table quality" without considering why they missed the latter when they identified the former.

Two interesting facts here:
Labour have contracted more renewables in a year and a half than the Tories and Lib Dems did in 14 years and;
The amount contracted this year should reduce LNG imports (eg from the middle east and US) by three quarters.

They'll be accountable to the democratically elected commons. Need to think about what you actually want a 2nd chamber to do. If it's just democratic accountability then we already have that with the commons.

I don't know, I think you could probably design a quite good unelected second chamber, eg by lottery or giving different groups like trade unions seats to appoint who they wanted. Obviously the way we do it now is madness though.