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So it has been accepted for many years now that, under the current way the law is written and interpreted, human beings cannot determine correctly if a player is offside. They can do that well (i.e. experience and training can mitigate some of the error) but the speeds involved in the game at...

Yeah, read more or less everything he wrote when I was a young'un. Same as you, libraries and second hand bookshops. I can still remember the excitement when they started letting you take 10 books home instead of just 4 😀 99p deals on Google Play Books have allowed me to start buying my old...

Just finished the Foundation trilogy by Asimov (again), part way through Rubicon by Tom Holland and nearly finished St Francis of Assisi by GK Chesterton

All the best with your treatment and recovery, Viv

Had a playoff just today. I'm sure the Underground passengers preferred my Dusty Springfield to the bass beats the young rogue and his little gang were insisting everyone listened too. Once the Dusty karaoke gained enough momentum they turned the beats down a bit and we had a quiet spell until...

Hope you got in, sadgit. If it's a Catholic church it's always worth checking on the notices outside as a lot of the parishes are grouped together now and have one priest as an administrator of a few churches, so not all of them have resident parish priests. The Middlesbrough Diocese directory...

It is complex though, as there has been a strand of anti-EU from before the EU existed in the Tories (and the Foreign Office) and some of them would argue they are in favour of free trade outside of the EU 😀 I personally decided to vote Remain because the Leave campaign had no plans for what...

Was interesting hearing Emily Maitlis not getting it on the impact of low birthrates on the News Agents tonight 😀

There's been senior Tories talking about this possibility since the split in the party over Brexit. They compared it to what happened over the Corn Laws in the 1840s when the then Conservative party split over free trade disagreements. It was at its height when Theresa May was upsetting people...

So the main benefit in the elderly is to reduce fear of falling, which impacts their life enormously. I was gonna write a load here about the interlinked benefits but the UK Government and US National Institutes of Health have summarised it nicely and much better than I could 😀 Oh, and about 2...

"I don’t feel guilty for those that didn’t have the same drive to do well or have a different work ethic." So I am sure you're right, and everyone you grew up with got exactly what they deserved in life based on how hard they worked for it. Given that, I can understand how hard it must be for...

It's Teesside, you muppets I know there are many fans of his work on here. The Graham Smith\Chris Killip 20\20 exhibition is at the Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol, from 11 April to 30 June Gallery link I've written to the Observer correctionsabout the typo 😀

Setting aside, if it's possible, the current horrendous situation that has led us to the point where a despicable terrorist attack on concert goers leads to a fully armed defensive response from the West . It is deeply fascinating that Putin's hollowing out of his own country has led him to the...

Well if computer games are allowed, Elite Cobra Mk III it is!

Yeah, as cooling for the reactor. Didn't realise until I went looking for this artwork that the book was written as the film was planned! The number of times I've read the book and watched the movie n'all 😀 It's describes best in the book when he says it looks like a dragonfly, but no-one in the...