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Just in case anyone was dim enough to be taken in by Sturgeon’s self serving sob story this morning, the site which was onto her conduct from the outset forensically demolishes her lies. And it doesn’t spare Kuennsberg for letting her off the hook, either.
The programme didn’t tell us much we didn’t already know, although it was quite good at setting the event within the context of what was going on in Ireland on both sides of the border at the time.
I suspect it was made on a shoestring budget. We must have seen the same shot of Shergar galloping towards the finishing line at Epsom at least a dozen times, together with a few stock photos. I also lost count of how many times we saw those balaclava clad IRA men brandishing their guns.
Still, at least it gave Derek another chance to milk his big moment of fame for all it is worth.
She is being “interviewed” on the BBC this morning. I have better things to do than listen to her whining excuses.
That question has me stumped.
Later tonight, David Raya will become only the third player to appear in a Champions League final after playing non league football:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ce8pm9zdmy9o
It seems a long time since he played for Southport but he has done quite well for himself since!
I suppose he must be Southport’s best known former player now, with the possible exception of John Bishop. Yes, the comedian played 38 games for the Sandgrounders in 1990/91 the season in the old Northern Premier League.
I see Byrnes the Younger received a 21 day ban from the stewards earlier this week:
It looks like he was penalised under the dangerous riding rule. The stewards report states he “rode in a way which was far below that of a competent and careful rider”.
Have the Irish authorities finally grown a spine and had enough of this gruesome operation? Even if we accept the official explanation that he did not jump off at Wexford last year, it should have been possible to say that ride was incompetent as well.
The SNP’s corruption goes much deeper than Murrell and Sturgeon’s squalid antics.
Any sign of those ferries yet?
“It would be nice to think that Sturgeon will shuffle off into the backwoods never to be heard or seen again”.
I fear she is too brass necked for that. She will say she has been cleared by the police. Although according to the website which exposed the corruption (and did the job the BBC and the Scottish media should have been doing) her idea of co-operation was to turn her chair to the wall and refuse to speak for seven hours.
Sturgeon may well have been cleared by the police but she has not been acquitted in the court of public opinion. If what remains of her cheerleading fan club thinks that is unfair, bear in mind she used exactly the same argument against Alex Salmond when he walked free from court in the spring of 2020. A man she launched a vindictive campaign against and in effect hounded into an early grave.
Be fair, HDLG. A home isn’t complete without a salt and pepper set by Lalique, costing £2,600. And who doesn’t need a £110 pencil sharpener?
Sturgeon was a busy woman. She had all those daily self aggrandising press conferences during lockdown to attend. She couldn’t possibly be expected to notice a £80,000 Jaguar or a £125,000 mobile home on her driveway.
What a tale of hubris. This gruesome, arrogant pair really did seem to think they were untouchable. The press was either compliant or intimidated into silence.
The result: they ran Scotland as their own private fiefdom. Any ideals they might have had were replaced by greed and a love of power. Precisely what Orwell warned us about in the late 1940s with his pigs in “Animal Farm”.
The fact Murrell’s hearing was moved from its original date of February to after the elections to the Scottish Parliament is of course nothing to be suspicious about. Who could possibly think otherwise?
I was saddened to read that Tony Ives died at the weekend. He was a fine rider, never more so than on Teleprompter in the Arlington Million.
RIP.
As Steve Mellish said on the RTV preview show, the horse is rated 107 but O’Brien is talking him up as if he is rated 120+.
O’Brien was already making excuses for him yesterday, even saying he might “run green”. On his fifth start?
It sounds to me like O’Brien knows he is not going to live up to the hype and sure enough he has been beaten by a horse rated 100.
It has got beyond tiresome with O’Brien now. If only someone in the racing media would grow a backbone and tell him.
Newbury today sums up why I have little interest in the Flat now. The latest Coolmore Champion the Wonder Horse beaten and the (admittedly impressive) Group 1 winner owned by someone who shouldn’t be allowed to be involved in the sport but is too powerful for the BHA to do anything about.
“Corbyn says Burnham isn’t as radical as people seem to think he is.”
And for once Corbyn is correct.
Since when did Burnham become a standard bearer for the hard left? When he launched his dismal campaign to be leader in 2015 (and lost to Corbyn), he presented himself as some sort of Blairite.
Makerfield on Betfair now:
Labour 1.75
Reform 2.38I think Burnham will win. It looks to me like there is a plot to make him Prime Minister. Losing a by-election isn’t in the script.
Why haven’t Streeting and Rayner launched challenges straightaway? Why would they wait for their main rival?
Perhaps he has already promised Rayner the Foreign Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister posts, and Streeting as Chancellor?
Yes, the Makerfield constituency is in effect Ashton in Makerfield and the surrounding area.
I believe the name Makerfield was chosen when the constituency contained both Ashton in Makerfield and Ince in Makerfield but the latter settlement has been transferred into the Wigan constituency.
I am not sure if Haydock Park is in the constituency or not. Haydock itself is in St Helens North but the racecourse is located just outside and on the way to Ashton.
He probably didn’t expect Starmer to become so unpopular so quickly. I expect his plan was to see out his term as mayor, stand in 2029 in a safe seat and take it from there.
It is a risk by Burnham to stand but maybe he is working on the basis that the combined Reform and Conservative vote in Makerfield would not have beaten Labour in 2024.
Cheap entry is a consequence of a Tote monopoly, of course.
It was only $2 to get into Belmont Park for a ten race card with two Grade 1s, three other graded races and five other competitive contests. Even the opening race, little better than a low grade handicap, was worth $50,000.
Punters were screwed over by the take-outs from the Tote pool, though.
