Maggie Tate

Bow Bar in Edinburgh comes to mind as a faultless pub. In fact it's a brilliant beer city and Glasgow isn't far behind. But it is definitely the case that Scotland has a lot of foul pubs that do nowt but Tennant's and McEwen's as well. So avoid them and it be reet. A world of possibility awaits if it is to your taste as huge thick viscous massive ABV stouts seem fashionable at the moment.

I am never without about three hundred and fifty bottles of this in.

Not quite, the Westfjords are a peninsula in the far northwest of the country. If the idea is get off the grid for a while then it is the most remote place. The main town in the area, such as it is, is Isafjordur. Most tourists with their own vehicles would head east from Reykjavik though, probably to Hofn and back or do the full ringroad, which in the south alone will involve passing Vik, couple of waterfalls and Jokusarlon which is a must see. We rented a Kangoo van with a modified double bed and a tonne and ale and jackbit in the back of it, drove about for a week and kipped wherever we felt like. Reykjavik as I say isn't worth the trip on its own and the distances are too great to really allow efficient use of public transport. Need your own transport. Buggered if I can remember the company's name but they were really good and we never had any dramas at all.

Reykjavik is for turning up to and leaving from, nothing else. Very dull. Hire a car or a camper van and drive around the country, it's mega. The Westfjords especially, the black sand beach at Vik, Gullfoss is a must. Reykjavik isn't worth the air fare by itself really.

Don't panic. The US Constitution was and remains deliberately provisioned to stop wrong 'uns doing whatever they want once President. The authors of the constitution saw this kind of thing coming and made it impossible to govern without quite a broad consensus. Under President Trump there will be no wall. There will be no 20% tax cut. There will be no total repeal of Obamacare. There will be no pre-emptive nuclear strikes. America might just look bad for a bit till a normal human beats him in 2020.

If wages artificially go up suddenly then employers will employ fewer people. This hits marginal employees hardest - the old, young, unskilled, those returning to the workforce and migrants. All the people Labour claim to look after. Employers should pay at the market rate and if society as a whole thinks it's not enough, then taxation should make up the difference and low wages can be topped up. If the argument is that we will all benefit then we should all pay, rather than a small group of employers. This is a non-problem anyway because the vast majority of poverty in the UK is self-inflicted.

You missed out supporting the IRA and Hamas. The kind of stuff peoples' Dads might disagree with.

Can't think who that sounds like, and it was 80 odd years ago that Orwell wrote that. Day one since re-election: Corbyn tells Jewish Labour peer who quit to 'reflect.' Corbyn says he supports investigations into British troops Corbyn says he wouldn't support more money for counter-terrorism Corbyn tells Andrew Marr he would increase corporation tax to 20%. Marr tells him it's already 20%. McDonnell defends the statement in which he called for a former Labour minister to be lynched. McDonnell is asked to apologise. He doesn't. Straight talking, an honest, gentler politics!

There's often a bit of coin to be made backing against the Brit, I'm afraid. Many of our boxers are overhyped and not quite up to world level. The classic of all time was Klitsckho beating Haye so easily from a ridiculous price. That was the best one but there have been a few others. Anyone who saw Linares a few years ago against DeMarco before he lost on cuts would have snapped up 5/4, never mind 13/8.

13/8 on Linares to beat Crolla is a very generous price. I would have it much nearer evens. Linares of about five years ago would have won easily.

Current state schools in many areas seem not even able to demonstrate to 14 year olds that they should't do heroin or get pregnant, so how they are expected to provide a useful education I do not know. If the first sixteen years of life have been spent in a steady family home with meals round the table, limited iPhone time, lots of time outdoors, no Facebook but plenty of books, state schooling will have been wasted on them. Likewise if they grew up surrounded by fag ends, empty cans and iPhone addict parents then school will be wasted on them too. The whole thing needs root and branch overhaul which goes much further than selecting clever kids out of schools filled with feral children. The plans are a good thing, but won't improve things for nearly enough yoof.

Ahem that lead was not surrendered, it was viciously snatched!! A triumphant 8 -8 season awaits, harumph

Oi Smiffs - tell the class where you were on the day when Leigh last got promoted whilst all us men were there! Fuckin mega. Lots of time on the M5 and M6 beckons next summer...

The EU's Landfill Directive is to blame because of its recycling targets which councils cannot afford to match collecting weekly. We ought to consider leaving or something.

Literally and surreal have replaced amazing as the chosen word of interviewees this games. Though Jason Kenny did say 'arse' live on air the other night

I think the wimmin's omnium is near the clitoris but I'm not sure. There was a documentary around the time of the London games which showed in forensic detail how a 100m race is run. Very interesting. It's all about who slows down most efficiently. They spend very little of the race at full whack.

Malcolm - the heptathletes. Having watched the Brit girl struggle to clod the javelin further than Phil Taylor would have, the cynic in me has to ask: are they actually any good at these disciplines? Or are they rejects from the specialist events which means they have to be half arsed at loads of events rather than very strong in one or two? I mean I admire their all round ability but I can't help but think they're there because of a lack, rather than abundance, of ability.

Stop The War are not opposed to wars. They are supporters of the other side. You only nee to look at the current Labour leader. What the left could have done after the Iraq war was support the progressive forces, but what they instead did was support or excuse the murderers , sectarians and beheaders of the 'resistance,' because if something is anti-American it must be a good thing. Nor is failing to intervene stopping a war. It is either ignoring one that is already going on or condemning the victims to genocide, usually. Perhaps when we don't intervene the left feels all happy about itself but it does not mean that nothing happens. It means something else happens which in Syria's case at least, might be much worse. And Iraq after the war was a fuck up, clearly. But who is brave enough to argue that it would look better today if the regime had been left in place? The left's record on practically every conflict since Suez is shameful. They should not be so smug.

A few years ago I was on a very heavy night out in Belfast and ended up one of the last two standing with a bloke called Eric, who belonged to the SAS. We got back to our camp at 5 on the Sunday morning and rather than turn in we decided to head into the honesty bar for the two hours which remained till the cookhouse opened for breakfast. Just before 7 Eric's phone rung with an offer to run the Belfast marathon at 11am because someone had signed up but couldn't make it. And he went and did it in three hours forty two minutes. That's my favourite athletics story.

Entertaining. Love Istanbul. Great city. Hope it emerges alright from all this lot.

Brexiteers in all the positions most relevant to Brexiting. You Brexit you fix it.

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Hence why he's 200/1, but should he get Jo Cox's seat by some happenstance those odds would cut. Wasn't he MP pretty well next door? But granted one doesn't make bets at 200/1 expecting them to win, but because it's value. No Cox and Balls jokes please.

I've had a score on Ed Balls at 200/1. Boris for the Conservatives but I'd prefer Leadsom.

A left wing extremist would be in charge of Labour , the Tories would be at war over Europe, Bolton would be in the lower leagues and everyone would be worried about terrorism. Hang about...