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You know the season is over when MF digs up 9 year old articles. It is a pretty good one though to be fair to him.

They've got tsunami zones marked out in Oregon too, public warning systems and all that. Mind you there's still schools, hospitals and what not within those areas so not sure exactly how seriously they are prepared. The general American attitude is probably a bigger threat than lack of preparedness tbh. In Texas they seem to be pretty well prepapred for extreme weather, and north Texas does get a lot of it. Sirens go off for hail, tornados. You also get alerts on your phone, and they tell you exactly what the threat and danger is and what time exactly the storm will be where in the area. Quarter size hail, golf ball size, baseball size. Doesn't stop some from pulling out their trucks and driving off as the alarms are going off Just yesterday Dallas got battered by hurricane force winds. I looked out the window for a brief moment and in that time saw at least 3 people get into their trucks, one of them literally feet away from a place where the roof was flapping and about to come down.

Either way we'll need a wonderwall.

Fair enough with that one

Conference League Final Olympiakos 1-0 Fiorentina (after extra time) The first Greek team to win a European trophy.

While the first 10 minutes of the BBC news was on Dianne Abbot tonight, why has this got no airtime at all?

All governments. Not party specific. Labour definitely does a better job of funding education. I cannot, however, see a real need for any government to give it the correct level of funding until it impacts on the rich kids.

The concept of England was a southern power grab. Ever since it has always been a way for southerners to exercise power without actually caring about the people. In fact throughout history the central government of England has routinely engaged in military excursions into the north to concentrate power.

Hasn’t coke become something that was done in complete secrecy to public events now?

Underfunded by which government?

I would be interested to see how different the high schools in Newcastle looked if there was no private school sector. I think they are woefully underfunded by government and they do not have the correct level of resources.

Or we're just a bit brighter than them? Comme ci comme ça.

It's real. Just not to the scale their paranoia suggests. Ah well. Nevermind.

I'd pretty much agree, I'd like an outright ban but that's not going to happen. Charging VAT should at least decrease the sector and hopefully bankrupt some of the frankly weird smaller ones. Going back to covid, it was a disgrace how the sectors diverged there, the inequalities are more acute than ever. The private school sector has utterly failed the country. Look at the cunts Eton alone has given us.

There'll be some decent England fans no doubt but the cunts who follow them have zero in common with me. I see them as being from a different nation and history tells you I'm not far wrong. I'm not taking any questions on this.

It would be really, really funny if mackem paranoia were fully justified and there really is a mysterious Tyneside Cabal. We're too lowly to be part of the ITK like, once that happens you need to leave the board like Bridget, champagne enema boy, and Quiff.

So, before I look like a private school sympathiser here, my stance is that I think we should abolish private schools altogether. I think that having private schools undermines the school system and automatically enables the Conservatives to underfund state schools. I think the only way we will ever truly level-up or invest fully in education is to do this. On the other hand, there is an argument for the private schools not to be taxed. Children in a state school are allocated something like £7,500 and my understanding is that private schools do not receive the £7,500 from the government to subsidise the education. I know the argument for tax breaks for private schools is the scholarships for gifted children. I really think that taking some of the children with great potential out of state education can only damage the state system and if they have great potential then they should also be able to flourish there.

I'll be the mag at work on steroids. One of my old managers was a manager at nissan, he hated the tunnel travel every day but loved the job apparently. Anyway, he says there was about three managers would select people for interviews, all three B&W. He said there was two piles, an 'interview' pile and a 'naah, y'alreet, mate' pile. The former pile had a high proportion of 'NE' postcodes, 'SR' postcodes.......? Not so much.

It's funny but the only Job interview I ever had in Sunderland, literally on the banks of the Wear, the interviewer said "We're all black and white here. I hope you're not a Mackem". Fortunately a better option came up in Newcastle where football allegiance was presumably assumed. 👍

Never forget.

Looks like Starmer is cleaning house.