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    Cricket

    England can be practically guaranteed to continue with their ultra-aggressive approach in the summer against the West Indies and Sri Lanka. Two home series where whoever is selected for the batting really should cash in.
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    Russia invades Ukraine

    Well, the USSR was in Afghanistan for 9 years. Even if they "won" they would, like there, face endless problems trying to run the country effectively. As with Afghanistan it seems it will take a much more enlightened regime to end the conflict.
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    Football

    Well it's the big one tonight as Maidstone United travel to Coventry for the FA Cup 5th round. Rather disappointed to learn there are no replays at this stage, as somehow scrapping to a draw would have perhaps been their most realistic prospect. We will see.
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    Royal Mail Sunday deliveries and the future of Saturday letters

    For what it's worth, by comparison, the delivery of regular letter post in Sweden is now every other weekday - Monday, Wednesday and Friday one week and then Tuesday and Thursday the following week. There haven't been Saturday deliveries for as long as I can remember.
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    Physical activity guidelines: what do you do?

    Brisk walking, probably around 7 hours a week. Plus play indoor and outdoor sport for about 60-90 minutes nearly every week year-round.
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    Which films have been shown the most times over the Christmas period ?

    There is a similar thing in Sweden and other the Nordic countries with the Disney animated Christmas special "From All of Us To All of You" made in 1958, which in Sweden has been shown (with some slight amendments) every Christmas Eve since 1960. In 2019 it attracted an estimated 3.3 million...
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    Has public transport ever run on Christmas and Boxing day?

    I read some time ago that Christmas Day services at least stopped due to the economic woes of the early 1970s - remember 1973-74 saw the Three Day Week. Around the same period a lot of secondary routes had already axed Sunday services, either all year round or for the winter timetable, so on...
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    Bullying surrounding trainspotting

    I went to school in the 1970s and never ever had a problem and never considered in the slightest that this was something to hide. It is perhaps worth noting that this came before the absolutely hideous stereotyping of 'trainspotters', entirely fuelled by the media, came into effect. At that...
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    Remaining Effects of Covid

    However, Farr's law of epidemics means that this cannot go on forever. What goes up must come down. Farr's law is based on the bell-shaped curve of epidemics. Eventually cases become so high that they start to fall because there are fewer people left to infect. This was exactly what we saw...
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    Pointless journeys in London

    What about the numerous trains from London Cannon Street to London Cannon Street that go out to Slade Green and Erith via Woolwich and then come back in via Welling and Lewisham? They take about one and a half hours.
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    Refusing to work notice

    I hear you. However, my point was more that no-one should be “struggling at work” because one person disappears suddenly. Struggling at work is different to “I took on a couple of extra jobs to help out”. At the end of the day it’s self-evident the employee won’t be coming back, so the...
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    Refusing to work notice

    Perhaps your friend should be asking what would have happened if the same person had, say, been hit by a car, and was off work immediately for months. They shouldn't be "struggling at work" because one person is missing, for whatever reason, as absences are part and parcel of the workplace and...
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    Football

    I see that Estonia are set to be in the play-off matches for Euro 2024. Goodness knows on what basis they have earned it as they are one of the worst national sides in Europe.
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    Remaining Effects of Covid

    The "world" seemed a crazy place because, as noted in some of the posts above, that was the messaging by governments. They made it seem crazy. But it wasn't. In Sweden where I live I continued to go to the pub in April 2020 and lived life reasonably normally. There were serious restrictions in...
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    Cricket

    Fair enough but it should be remembered that at its core live sport isn't established for people to spend hundreds or thousands of pounds to travel hundreds or thousands of miles to a game or tournament. While a club or team might be grateful for the support, possibly very grateful, they didn't...
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    Cricket

    Unsurprising, as most of them played in The Hundred, some extensively, and what's more, some straight after a very demanding Ashes series. For that month of August they should have said "Go away and have a holiday, forget about cricket altogether, and come back to prepare for this in September."
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    Cricket

    I expect England to be destroyed at this World Cup. Not only does it come after a busy period of playing in England for many of the players, but they have made almost no preparation. For the 2019 World Cup they made 4 years' preparation, down to the finest detail, with a plan of how to win it.
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    German Rail in decline ?

    I travelled across from London to Stockholm by rail over the past couple of days and I have to say the experience with trains in Germany was abysmal. Every train I travelled on was delayed, including Köln- Hamburg by 80 minutes. Practically every inter-city train I observed was delayed. A Flix...
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    Reflections on travel in Germany

    I'd seriously question how effective these are at achieving anything. I've been through the one at Padborg (Germany-Denmark) where they checked everyone on the train and looking at the surrounding countryside I dare say anyone determined to get across without detection could simply get off at...
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    Cricket

    There is a preamble to the Laws which covers it, see here: Cricket owes much of its appeal and enjoyment to the fact that it should be played not only according to the Laws, but also within the Spirit of Cricket. As you hint, two of the key points include: Accept the umpire’s decision. Show...

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