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I don't see you making a big career as a publicist.

India's right to control their part of Kashmir is disputed, as the population would mostly favour independence or being under Pakistan. Pakistan is, on the other hand, scared of India for obvious reasons and been using various terrorist organizations for pressure and destabilization of India, Afghanistan, Iran. All Kashmir militants are allegedly directly controlled by Pakistan's intelligence agency (ISI).

And ISI is also pretty powerful they say.

Wasn't Pakistan hit last year by Iranians after similar allegations of harbouring terrorist bases? Maybe they should ease up in stirring the shit all around them.

He decided a long time ago that the best thing for him is to keep his options open.

Every cloud...

Well, as they say, it also reflects the ever increasing power of players and agents vs. the clubs and we may benefit from it next time. If you look at players we got young on the cheap (OK, there is a considerable risk involved also), I'm not sure the status of the club or emotional attachment in the case of Elliott wasn't used by us in getting those deals. I'd say clubs will be paying even more money to agents who can keep someone available for you, with release clauses, specific clubs release clauses and through advising them what to sign. And it is not like the wages and signing on bonuses are already not as important as transfer fees, in two years time, what we paid for Salah would be dwarfed by what we paid to Salah during his career here. We tend to see Chiesa deal as a little risk no-brainer but, comparing his fee (if we don't manage to recoup it) and wages to his contribution in his first season places that deal in a complete different light, at the moment. It will hurt smaller clubs with business models relying on producing or uncovering gems elsewhere and selling them on, more than the big clubs.

I think this has been at least two years in the making, ever since Bellingham decided he will go to Madrid, and TAA was then told to keep himself available for the possibility. And this announcement probably has little to do with our timing, other than that it wouldn't have been made before the title was officially won, and all to do with Real trying to get him for the club world cup.

Is this even allowed? I thought every citizen was legally obliged to think she was great.

Unusual, I know, but I can't stand Helen Mirren. She just gives me the heebie-jeebies when she speaks.

Wasn't there something Real leaked to AS about already striking a deal for that, a million and he doesn't collect his last monthly paycheck or something along those lines.

They are the real victims, misinterpreting his every cuntish look-at-me celebration and believing all the way to the bitter end. And now this.

I was talking more beyond UK, I don't think you can look at politics in terms of country exclusive trends anymore. Populist right wing is eating into traditional mainstream parties and I don't think this is something that can be easily prevented by policies, it's a trend and we don't know where it will stop or lead us.

Well, post WWII in general with the rise of social democracy and its policies, welfare state, health care, society getting constantly more liberal and opening up to gender equality, sexual orientation permissiveness etc.

You may be also underestimating our willingness to believe lies and bullshit. And people are way more irrational that we are usually prepared to admit, is my take from decades of arguing over issues. You (I think) mentioned a rational debate on immigration for example, in the exchange with Mook, I don't think it's possible because it deals with identity, which in itself isn't particularly rational nor is the sense of danger to it, and which always has to have some xenophobic if not racist undertones and cannot be rational because it tends to preserve something which only exists at one moment in time / history and then proceeds to change - indigenous identity. Immigration erodes it and it is hard to rationally agree on the speed or level of acceptable erosion.