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I feel so bad for Harvey Elliot, what's happened to him this season is just not right. He was player of the tournament last summer as England won a 2nd consecutive U21 Euros title. He'd played 127 games for Liverpool over the previous 3 seasons, but not favoured by Arne Slot, it felt like the perfect time to move on. Whether this is Liverpool's fault for not selling him, Villa's fault for loaning a player under terms where they couldn't play him or his agent's for organising a bad move... He'll be 23 in April, has only been able to 110 League minutes this season and because he's played for Liverpool and Villa in 25/26, he was unable to move in January to another club in Europe. What a complete shambles of a move that has cost one of England's most promising young players a year of crucial game time and development.

5-time draft dodger Trump just called NATO countries "COWARDS" for not wanting to be sitting ducks in the Gulf clearing up his mess 👇 Royal visit still on ?

'It is quite right that the UK should defend British nationals' Cabinet Minister Steve Reed defends the decision to allow the US to use British bases, after the Iran Foreign Ministry claimed the UK was participating 'in aggression'

This story below reveals the true extent of Angela Rayner's cluelessness when it comes to economics, the public finances and financial markets. I say that not with glee - but deep alarm and regret. If this is really how the probable next Prime Minister of the UK thinks - betting markets put a more than 50% chance on leadership coup by June - then the ousting of Starmer/Reeves by Rayner (or Miliband) is likely to spark an instant spike in gilt yields, from their already elevated levels. Just the fact that Rayner has said what she has below will put yet more upward pressure on the market-driven borrowing costs – whatever the Bank of England says is these days mere mood – that drive the interest rates faced by firms and households. I have nothing against more social housing – on the contrary, the arguments in favour of building more are at the heart of my book "Home Truths", along with policy mechanisms that could get that done. But if you think that, in the current environment, hard-nosed international creditors do - or even should - give a monkey's about the "social benefits" of subsidised housing then you are utterly and dangerously deluded. Again, I say this in sorrow, not glee. I knew plenty of smart people at the top of successive Blair governments. The architects of New Labour – at least the Blairites – always made sure there were financially literate and market-savvy people in the room when big decisions were made. That was important back then - when the national debt Britain had to service was 35pc of GDP. Now – with the same metric pushing 100pc of GDP and Britain paying more than Morocco to borrow money – it is absolutely vital. It seems that there is no-one – NO-ONE AT ALL – near the top of today's Labour government who has the first clue about the realities of public accounts and global finance. These are – once again – NOT tribal or party-political points, but statements of cold fact ....