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A career in international relations or diplomacy was never on the cards for me. Too emotional :)

Appreciate where you are coming from (my post was more a rant than well reasoned argument :) ) but what relationship do we have with the US? Apart from being a lap dog, of course? Not quite sure what you mean by middleman between US and Europe but the US seemingly now regard Germany as their...

Worth noting that there are people in Trump's staff and the VP, have criticised Trump in the past. While Musk was previously a Democrat. These kind of people are transactional. They do not hold grudges. They simply do what is best for them at that time. Let's see what Musk's role is as I...

For along time, I have disliked our relationship with the US. The 'relationship' being the UK acting like an over excited lap dog. It's about time we looked more towards Europe than the US as they are our neighbours, we have more in common with them and our interests are more aligned. In fact...

I honestly do not think Trump is a fascist. To be a fascist would require him to have an ideology, which I don't think he has. He just does not come across as that kind of character. If socialism was in vogue, Trup would be advocating leftist policies. However, he is driven by self interest and...

Even if it were not for the court case, we would have ended up making a significant loss on him as he was simply not up to scratch.....when he was fit. It's a net positive for City as Mendy being unavailable led to a situation where a midfielder who cost us £1.5m and paid comparatively low...

Well, the culture war BS has made the situation far worse for universities with it being more difficult for overseas students to study here. Someone else now has to make up for the shortfall in income. Some Tories will be happy as it means reducing the chances of oiks getting a university education.

It's just the way the financial markets. Reeves' budget has not had a devastating impact on Britain's finances. It's wishful thinking (a bit weird) to think otherwise. Nit quite sure the US employment figures were a massive surprise following the hurricane they have just dealt with. It hardly...

A few, especially the weird, alt right, conspiracy theory freaks on Twitter, were running with it for a day or so

Don't go giving United fans any ideas!

The budget had some surprises so there was always going to be some adjustment and re-adjustment shortly after. It makes SKY News' reporting on the markets yesterday to be, quite frankly, pathetic. 24 hour news channels have a lot to answer for.

My view too. I would expect any budget with higher costs for business and increased spend on public services to generate a slight ripple in currency value. I believe what most people are missing is that the main growth element the Government are focusing on in the medium term is through...

I knew. I have a degree in economics :) I was simply making the point that a comment from the Governor of the BoE had a more substantial impact, even though the decision is made by the MPC.

It fell 3p a few weeks ago after the Governor of the BoE said they should be looking at reducing interest rates. Notable that the Euro also fell against the dollar.

He said he decided he was ready to leave Liverpool when the club tried to sell him in 2008 (and replace him with Barry). He left in 2009, three years before the end of his contract. That doesn't scream 'desperate to go back' to me.

If it's any consolation, I would pick Petrov ahead of Rick Holden :)

A couple who are pretty much single handedly ruining the housing market in and around Colchester ask for sympathy. I hope the Government bring in rent controls to really squeeze them. I'd hope the Government enables authorities to double council tax on second properties, triple for third...

Surely not! :) I am guessing you are not going to refer to his emotional intelligence, reliance when the chips were down, team work and willingness to get stuck in :)

Moody and possibly the softest player to ever wear our colours. When he was annoyed with a teammate on the pitch it would seemingly take him an age to get over it.

How else can the Government pay for the compensation to postmasters and victims of infected blood (I think it is around £14bn) following the Tories kicking the can down the road so they could look after their benefactors and supporters? Businesses will pass on a proportion of the costs. Most...