Hugo Ford

Sorry Jonah. I actually sat in the room for the first half of the movie. For 24 polite years, Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama diplomatically asked NATO members to increase defense spending. For 24 years, it was one excuse after another, all focused in Western Europe on how they wish they could spend more, but their social welfare spending priorities wouldn’t let them. In other words, you the US will spend on defense and protect us. Along comes rude Donald Trump. Finally, someone made clear that if Europe kept freeloading the US was done. It took a bill in the China shop to move Europe. Diplomacy failed. Trump prevailed. That’s reality whether you or I like it. NATO self-withered after 75 years. If Spain, England, Italy and France won’t spend what’s necessary to have a real military, it’s time for something new.

I agree with some of this directionally, but my God the refusal to acknowledge that Trump has worked assiduously to poison the alliance and heap all the blame on Europe is just water-carrying hackery. Saying "NATO will never be the same, and Western European weakness and acquiescence is the cause" is like writing a movie review when you missed the first half of the movie.

I have to say this is the sort of warship I would doodle in my exercise books when I was 10.

@DanJBray @CricketopiaCom Actually there is Bradman, then there is daylight, then another week of light, then there is Temdulkar and Lara!

@KP24 Your bowlers were active over a period of 1984(?) to 2015, so ~ 30 years. If you take bowlers active going back to say 2010 and in the 15 years to come then leaving yours out you can have Starc. Anderson Broad Lyon Ashwin Steyn Morkel Cummins Bumrah, Hazlewood

Don’t shout at me but batting these days is way easier than 20/25 years ago! Probably twice as hard back then! Waqar, Shoaib, Akram, Mushtaq, Kumble, Srinath, Harbhajan, Donald, Pollock, Klusener, Gough, McGrath, Lee, Warne, Gillespie, Bond, Vettori, Cairns, Vaas, Murali, Curtley, Courtney and the list could go on and on… I’ve named 22 above. Please name me 10 modern day bowlers that can compare to the names above?

Surely a no-ball..?

@thinkdefence If they fitted cats and traps, full load of 36 F35C, E2 and C2 for COD combat power would be pretty formidable

@ElonMNews A

@elonmusk $35k in US, $52,000in UK ☹️

New Tesla Model 3 version available in America. 363 miles of range for $35k!

@lucypgeridoc Living the dream

Waterloo station magnificently full of blokes in chinos and chore jackets who have clearly spent the whole day at Lords and are now heading home for a bit of light football. Happy days…

@DPJHodges @NeilLamputt Dog and Duck in Linton. A fine establishment

Question arising from my fearless pursuit of Angela Rayner. And h/t to @NeilLamputt. Who on here has ever actually drunk in a Dog and Duck.

@GylesB1 Reach out