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What are the views on the likelihood of the 6N happening on time?

Would personally prefer it to be played in NH summer time with full stadiums but not sure how possible that will be, depends on the rapidity of the vaccine roll-out I suppose.

The Speccie does have an editorial viewpoint. It's freelance authors are mostly cut from the same cloth. Andrew Neil, Boris Johnson, Charles Moore all former editors. PolEd as embedded in the cabinet one can possibly be. No editorial line or direction? Okay. Not a criticism, just an observation. Th...

Currently reading Tom Holland's 'Dominion' which tells the story of how Western culture and mindset came about- starting with the Romans, Greeks, Christianity and moving through to the Reformation and the Enlightenment (excellent so far). Just finished reading 'Prisoners of Geography', a great book ...

Fried, scrambled or poached eggs; cheese that is not tasteless like Mozzarella or used as a seasoning like Parmesan; and, tinned tuna (utterly vile stuff).

A very thorough summary of where we are with Sturgeon's potential breach of the ministerial code, the below provides the most detail I've read on the subject, for example, I hadn't known that Salmond potentially wanted to come back to Holyrood via a vacated seat in Aberdeen. Hyperlink for article: h...

https://twitter.com/SpecCoffeeHouse/status/1347848086354214913?s=20 The Speccie has had an interesting few days trying to untangle Johnson from Trump and themselves from their pro Trump opinion pieces. This is my favourite "he reads and writes books" haha! Someone hasn't read sales Bible ...

As I have never had a Facebook account, will this affect me in any way at all? Most reliable sources (gsmarea.com, Business Insider, Saffa ENCA, etc) reckon you won't be able to use the app without a FB account. At this stage just more of an opinion than fact, but especially gsmarea usually have th...

Didn’t realise the tentacles reached so far. Though have experienced a number of regs first hand in financial services. - UCITS KIIDs - PRIIPs - Solvency II - MIFID II None of these have been very well orchestrated. In fact they’ve been terrible. They’ve actually been dreadful, overbearing, impract...

Surely there are better clubs available for these two? Be very frustrating to see them playing for a team at that level. The Joys of not having a development, " Province ". The Welsh had Dragons, & the Irish have Connacht, & the Italians didn't have the player depth to need more t...

KingBlairhorn wrote: ↑Mon Dec 28, 2020 8:40 pm Rumours of Rory Sutherland moving to Worcester. With the Duhan rumour also still kicking around, did I miss the news that the SRU invested in them after all?

Surely there are better clubs available for these two? Be very frustrating to see them playing for a team at that level.

As a SH Rugby fan I have had to put up with smart arse NH trolls deliberately mi-stating the number of teams in Super Rugby for years and years. Now that you guys have the oversized, bloated tournament, and will presumably be expanding every year or two with new franchises being added depending on ...

The second worrying intervention I've read on the SNP's history curriculum (following on from Tom Devine's comments a few weeks ago); falsehoods, misrepresentations and, in some cases, outright propaganda. Judge her by education, she says. . The subversion of history education in Scotland No school ...

Jock42 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 4:50 am
Caley_Red wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 4:49 am
Jock42 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 3:17 am Duty rumour is that meatball might be heading back to the weegies.
Wouldn't characterize that signing with keeping one eye on the future. . .
No but I'd happily have him back at Embra.

Better than Jaco, I agree

Jock42 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 4:50 am
Caley_Red wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 4:49 am
Jock42 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 3:17 am Duty rumour is that meatball might be heading back to the weegies.
Wouldn't characterize that signing with keeping one eye on the future. . .
No but I'd happily have him back at Embra.

Better than Jaco, I agree

Jock42 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 3:17 am Duty rumour is that meatball might be heading back to the weegies.

Wouldn't characterize that signing with keeping one eye on the future. . .

Good result for Edinburgh, a morale booster ahead of xmas period.

Partly exacerbated by Edinburgh's 'classic' (friendly euphemism) game plan which it looks like the competition have worked out. Is it the backs which are notably stale therefore causing a lack of variety? Haven't watched many pro games due to time diff so have no handle on the games other than high...

LandOTurk wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 6:23 pm Just a genuine question here. Surprised by both Scottish pro teams' performances this year. Edinburgh under Cockerill really looked like they were the business last season, up there to win it maybe this (if they or anyone can get passed Leinster). What's happening?

Answers on a post card please.

The Scottish government have scored a horrific own goal in the way they record drugs death and it varies from every other country in the world. A drug death is recorded if there is the slightest suspicion that drugs may have contributed to the death, whether that contribution is significant or not....

Just seen a link to Jamie Lyall on Twitter saying Adam Hastings is off to Gloucester after turning down a new deal. I know that having just two teams means players have to move on in order to bring through new guys, but on the heels of the news about Duhan, it does seem as if neither team can catch...

The second worst combo I could imagine, zero chance I'm afraid.

Absolute fantasy the we'll be competitive against SA, will lose by 15-20 no bother.

Looking tight at Murrayfield. .

First he got us scoring tries and playing exciting rugby. Then he got us tightened up defensively and not shipping soft tries. If he can find a way for us to do both, that might really be something. But whether he can or not is another question. It's definitely worth listening to Eddie O'Sullivan o...

It’s nonsense mate, he has the best win %, the most points in the 6N, the highest ever world ranking. So even if it was the best crop of players he has done well Again, if we look at it on a rolling basis, the team's performance has clearly come off since 2017/18, I personally still think he's dini...

The bottom line is that the UK has land borders with the EU, & the EU has zero faith in the UK policing them; if not doing so is to the UKs advantage. The EU know that the UK didn't even meet its commitments when it was in the EU; why would the expect this to improve now you're outside ? What U...

Apart from the fact it’s the best results we have had under any coach in the history of rugby that is a great post Contextualized by the best crop otf players (by far) It’s nonsense mate, he has the best win %, the most points in the 6N, the highest ever world ranking. So even if it was the best cr...

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/secondary/eu-graphic-brexit-2333487.jpg?r=1582741074408 "These cows are small Dougal, those are very far away !" A nice bubble chart but irrelevant to my question. In fact, it only seems to make my question and argument more pertinent. T...

I dont doubt her professional ability but where she let herself down was a few overtly political posts which imo people in those positions shouldn't be engaging in that sort of thing. I would go as far as to say they shouldnt even be on twitter and other platforms. On the point of the article it is...

Slick wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 10:19 pm Apart from the fact it’s the best results we have had under any coach in the history of rugby that is a great post

Contextualized by the best crop of players (by far)

They understand it perfectly well; but they pretend equivalence to make the EU look like the baddies to the fools who believe them, & voted for them on the strength of their lies. Can someone flesh out this tenuous nonsense that the geographic proximity of the UK means that a standard FTA (ala ...

I dont doubt her professional ability but where she let herself down was a few overtly political posts which imo people in those positions shouldn't be engaging in that sort of thing. I would go as far as to say they shouldnt even be on twitter and other platforms. On the point of the article it is...

To be fair, he's saying that Scotland have to have a good 6 Nations because of Warren Gatland's biases, not because it's the way he thinks the Lions squad should be chosen. On the 6N front, we are probably looking at 3 wins as keeping head above water (home games against Wales and Italy are absolut...

Boris wanking on about "Australia terms", the disingenuous spunkbucket I think this is a fundamental failure that the Brexiters can't understand. Australia (and, to a lesser degree, Canada) are not right on Europe's doorstep. They understand it perfectly well; but they pretend equivalence...

To be fair, he's saying that Scotland have to have a good 6 Nations because of Warren Gatland's biases, not because it's the way he thinks the Lions squad should be chosen. On the 6N front, we are probably looking at 3 wins as keeping head above water (home games against Wales and Italy are absolut...

No advice on the tour from me, unfortunately. However, if you could kindly let me know how the war site visits are: it's something I've been keen to do myself and would be interested in an opinion not varnished within the pages of travel mags!

I'm starting to get a little frustrated with John Barclay who it seems might be heading down the long established route of building a media career as a Scotsman out of being relentlessly negative about Scotland. I have noticed it a fair bit in his punditry recently, and articles like this are also ...

Cover article from Spectator below, Massie (who I personally don't like but seems to have a following here): Before Covid-19, if you can remember such a time, this was supposed to be a difficult year for Nicola Sturgeon. Her party had been in power in Edinburgh since 2007 and, like all ministries of...

Dunc Taylor has been in the press today saying he doesn't know if and when he will get any more game time prior to the 6N as there has been no announcement on when the Championship will be played, if at all. If I were the SRU I'd be on the blower to Sarries offering to take two players off their wa...

Cover of this week's Spectator:

Will paste the article once it's available tomorrow.

It’s just a fact that intelligent, free thinking people that commit to independence have to suspend their beliefs and not consider the financial or currency implications. There is simply no other way around it I've always maintained that you cannot be against Brexit for economic reasons and in favo...

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