crossley

crossley

  • Joined: 4 December, 2020
  • Articles: 380

Labour using Tory sleaze won’t cut it with voters

Kier Starmer

Over the past week since the Guardian exposed the farce of the prime minister's flat refurbishment the leader of the opposition, Kier Starmer, had made it his mission to maximize the embarrassment factor for Boris Johnson. There was the bizarre photo opportunity in a store with wallpaper to ram home the message.

Intrusion by Ken MacLeod: dystopian rules

Intrusion by Ken MacLeod

Intrusion is a meditation on a near future where life is regulated with a high level of morality and ethics. Extrapolated ideas on what that may look like a quite restrained with the occasional AI toy and truck. The main…

Gearbest.com: a case study in customer experience

After six months of no progress I have attempted to nudge Gearbest into escalating the matter to a senior customer service person but it seems impossible to go beyond the robotic responses in their ticket process. Now their customer service staff have stopped "supporting" the resolution of my complaint.

Manchester City 1 Leeds United 2: 10 Men

Stuart Dallas

Cooper changed everything. In spite of being first to the ball his follow through was judged dangerous and after the ref had his own look at VAR the yellow card was upped to a red – the letter of the law. Leeds ended the first half on ten men. Bamford had to sacrificed so Struijk could bolster the defence.

Vaccine Passports – ID no one wants

Vaccine Passport

When there is so much goodwill from the UK population in getting vaccinated, in that over half the population is already vaccinated, in that the infection rate and death rate are both down to a safe level, and staying there despite the return of the lockdown and a third wave in Europe, why then impose a freedom of restriction that is both unpopular and undemocratic?

Leeds United 2 Sheffield United 1: Almost

Llorenete

Leeds defence was assured without any evidence of being vulnerable to set pieces. Llorente was a rock in defence picking up so many balls coming into the box and filtering them out. Midfield with Harrison, Roberts and Raphinha surged into the Sheffield United box with over 20 shots reigning in goal, but finishing was missing for Leeds with statistics not translating in to goals. There were so many almost moments.