Iceni warrior

Actually, I was refering to you. Have a happy holiday and a fantastic festive season though.

Well, it is the season for snowflakes I suppose.

You can't know that. If not one single solar panel or wind generator had ever been built then more fossil fuel would have been used. Not to mention all the improvements in insulation, efficiency etc. Agreed, ''not as bad as it could be'' is faint praise indeed but it is still an improvement on ''carry on as before''.

...also, every child too young to be vaccinated is at increased risk.

Nerf ball? Tell that to the families of Phillip Hughes, Ian Folley, Alcwyn Jenkins, Zulfiqar Bhatti, Darryn Randall, Raman Lamba, Abdul Aziz, George Summers or any of the other cricketers who have died after being struck by a ''nerf ball''.

Need to take a break? What other sport stops for lunch and tea? Not to mention stopping every time it rains. If it's breaks you're after then cricket is the game for you.

I get it, you don't have a long enough summer to get a full 5 day test match played. No reason to lash out at cricket though.

I'll not defend football but cricket is the best bat and ball sport ever invented. As for Olympic medals,

Funny you should say that. Hockey is considered a girls game over here. We play the proper verion on grass though... In fact, we are Olympic champions.

No, guitarist.

I persuaded Dougie to watch the Rugby world cup and he's been trolling me ever since.

Afirmative action FTW.

...or all the coal being burned.

Happy impeachment day then if the Solstice is too progressive for you.

I once watched the sun come up on the winter solstice at Stonehenge. Magic moment for me.

..or maybe they just want to wish you a happy solstice.

The size of his majority means that he will no longer be in thrall to the Brexit hardliners in the party and can now move towards the negotiated withdrawal he really wants. No more no-deal rhetoric, back to a reworded May deal with an emphasis on frictionless trade and regulatory alignment.

Are you talking about this... ...or did you read the Gateway Pundit version and get a completely distorted version of it?

So, are the Leafs going to win in Calgary? I've just turned it on.

Not really an old man's game though is it? I played my last game of rugby in my 30's.

I'll be glad to see the back of Jeremy Corbyn. He's been the weakest opposition leader I can remember. Labour is even losing ground in Wales, places that have been Labour since the war. It's a clear message to move back to the centre, New Labour ('97-'10) was the only time in the last 40 years that we didn't have a Tory PM.

Pragmatic idealist is oxymoronic.

This is going to be a tactical vote election. You've got Sir John Major and Tony Blair both recommending voting against their own parties in certain constituencies. Even if Boris wins a large enough majority to pass his Brexit bill that's just the start of the negotiations. This is going to run for years.

Anyone who supports the hateful Katie Hopkins should just be disregarded. As should Hopkins, obviously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Hopkins

How about a predominantly white country music festival in Las Vegas?