Here in Ireland there is genuine astonishment at Kinahan's involvement in all this - he was named by the High Court as the leader of an organised crime and drugs gang know as 'The Cartel'. The feud with Gary Hutch's gang has killed at least 18 people and is well known to everyone in the country - regular front page news. He's a proper villain. Four years ago one of his weigh-ins was attacked by men armed with AK-47s and someone got killed - this doesn't tend to happen to 100% legitimate promoters.

Fury may as well have got Vito Corleone to put the fight together.

Looks like Justin Trudeau has found himself a new style inspiration.

Not a bad day to bury this one

The government has quietly admitted that it's double counting its tests. Results have never hit more than 80k in a day.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/coronavirus-in-the-uk-how-many-people-are-really-being-tested-0ln33dp7n

LOL - they've got a week to hit 200,000 a day.

Saw a great comment on Twitter - ‘Boris Johnson sacking Cummings would be like Emu sacking Rod Hull’

Those trotting races are terrible things to watch but someone seems to know about them - just had a race there where the first two home were backed from 8/1 to 5/2 and 16/1 to 9/2.

I was having a look at the card at Caen later today and noticed that in the 3.15 and 3.50 every horse is 3yo and their name begins with an H, the 4.25 is 5yo and names start with an F and 4.58 for 4yo and every name starts with a G.

What's that all about?

Looks like something out of a 70s porno.

I’m not averse to a slightly more mature woman but I think that’s a bit too old for me.

Was he the fella who Tank has some kind of SnG challenge against?

Lots of potential answers here result in quite a few aces but some high scorers also.

2. A television programme presented by Noel Edmonds

CORRECT ANSWERS

MULTI-COLOURED SWAP SHOP - 4
Pokerpops: SwapShop
bobAlike: Swap Shop
arbboy: swap shop
Rubbish2407: Multi coloured swap shop

NOEL’S HOUSE PARTY - 3
redsimon: house party
duno1980: Noel’s House Party
stribling: Noels house party

TOP OF THE POPS - 2
MintTrav: Top of the Pops
4KSuited: Top of the Pops

DEAL OR NO DEAL - 2
celtic: DOND
scotty2hatty: DOND

THE NATIONAL LOTTERY - 1
KarmaDope: The National Lottery (pretty sure Edmonds presented the first ever draw)

ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 10 YEAR OLD - 1
Ironside: Are you smarter than a 10 year old

NOEL’S TELLY YEARS - 1
Chompy: Noel’s Telly Years

TELLY ADDICTS - 1
TightEnd: Telly Addicts

NOEL’S CHRISTMAS PRESENTS - 1
HutchGF: Christmas Presents


PASSES
nirvana

I forgot to enter this week but disappointed no one put the post-modernist masterpiece that was Cheap Cheap Cheap.

If Paul Pitchford won it then this was Bb9.

Here's the full list

1 - Broadway, Birmingham - 7th Jan 2006
2 - Cincinattis, Glasgow - 18th March 2006
3 - Walsall - 9th Sept 2006
4 - Luton - 28th April 2007
5 - Cardiff - 13th Oct 2007
6 - DTD - 10th May 2008
7 - Luton - 20th Sept 2008
8 - Alea, Leeds - 12th Sept 2009
9 - DTD - 29th May 2010
10 - DTD - 9th June 2012

There was one Blonde Bash where I was the first one knocked out and, judging from the fact there are zero photos of me playing poker and all the photos of me standing around drinking I guess it was that one.

Raab and whatsherface both seemed nervous to me. Raab should be used to this sort of thing by now you'd have thought.

Tonight was garbage. Not the same without Hancock in charge.

Peston should be banned imo and Laura should be shuffled down the order occasionally. We're all having enough Groundhog Day without this being like the Q&A equivalent of Last Of The Summer Wine.

I read that only 14% of CV victims who go on to a ventilator make it out the other end. Scarily bad number if so.

I don't think that's right.   I saw that number and think it was an at the time number.   Others were still in intensive care and alive at the time.   Think it will be more like 50/50 in the end. 

Seriously bad for Boris, having watched it first hand last year, it is amazing what they can do.

Good luck Boris.

I had a reply to this with a link to a study but the thread pruning last night chopped it off - maybe the moderators could put back the non-controversial posts that were pruned(?)

This post is back in the thread now.

This has got really serious now - we knew from the shenanigans at the press conference earlier that we weren't being told all the facts and now we know why. People who are in intensive care don't just go back to work after a couple of days right as rain.

Someone (presumably Dominic Raab) needs to be formally named as an Acting PM, someone who with whom the buck stops with regards to decisions being made - now is not the time for a power vacuum.

Dominic Raab saying he hasn't spoken to Boris since Saturday - so in what way is Boris running the country if he's not communicating with his deputy?

If Boris is actually seriously ill, it's fine for him to step back from governing and take the time needed to get better - there's no need for a charade whereby he's pretending to still be in charge.

This computer racing is worse for Denise than the coronavirus