Jason Kenny becomes the 30% favourite for this year’s BBC SPOTY election

Jason Kenny becomes the 30% favourite for this year’s BBC SPOTY election

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One of the big betting events in the run-up to Christmas is on the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year. Whenever this has taken place in the December after the summer Olympics then it is almost a certainty that who gets crowned will have played a big part in the games. This is how Betfair punters are currently seeing it and after Jason Kenny’s record-breaking seventh Gold yesterday morning he looks on course to make the running in the betting…

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I am shocked by this poll finding

I am shocked by this poll finding

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That we British are the least likely in the world to think referendums are a good way settling political issues has left me shocked in a way only matched by the time Captain Renault discovered gambling was taking place in Rick’s Cafe. After the rancour following the Brexit plebiscite you can understand why the polling shows what it does. What I would really like to see and have suggested to Ipsos MORI is that they conduct a full scale Scotland…

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Cuomos and goings

Cuomos and goings

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It has been a disastrous week for the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, following the publication of a report on his behaviour, at least eleven women were harassed by Governor Cuomo. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed numerous women on his staff or in his circle in Albany, repeatedly touching, grabbing or making inappropriate comments towards them and retaliating against at least one when she came forward with her story, according to a long-awaited investigative report from Attorney General Letitia…

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Could Johnson be planning to sack Sunak?

Could Johnson be planning to sack Sunak?

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According to an excellent long read by Tim Shipman in tomorrow’s Sunday Times last Monday morning at a meeting with aides the PM was apoplectic and raging about his Chancellor. This had been sparked by Sunak’s leaked letter to his boss a calling significant easing of the coronavirus travel restrictions and other measures. Shipman writes: In a fit of frustrated impotence, Johnson openly suggested that he might sack his chancellor of the exchequer, Rishi Sunak..The problem was that the first…

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Johnson might come to regret his joke about pit closures

Johnson might come to regret his joke about pit closures

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How will it go down in the “Red Wall” seats? If BoJo’s aim when he made his joke about pit closures was to get coverage for his Scottish trip then he has succeeded but he appears to have touched a raw nerve about one of the most difficult periods during the UK’s recent history. This is from the Independent: The prime minister was reported to have chuckled as he made the comment about his Tory predecessor’s wholesale closure of pits,…

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Johnsons needs to be more careful about off the cuff comments like this

Johnsons needs to be more careful about off the cuff comments like this

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This is the sort of comment that looks set to be remembered and could be damaging. In many ways he was right but he could have expressed himself very differently given the impact that the move away from coal had on many communities across Britain. This reinforces established perceptions that the Tories didn’t care. Paul Waugh in his Tweet above reckons that there will be a “clarification” from Number 10. The danger here is that this would focus attention on…

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