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Last time I heard from Captain Tim, there will be 4 Oxford teams.

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Andrew Rawnsley in the Guardian said:- Faced with an invisible menace with extremely visible impacts, a clamour for instant and total shutdowns is understandable. But it comes accompanied by the danger that kneejerk responses by frantic governments can end up doing more harm than good. One scientist...

The Government believes we are about a month behind Italy and that the overall death rate is 1%.
And as we speak, our pension funds are declining in value.

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Any notable politicians among the new intake?

Somehow I doubt it.

One our players flew to Heathrow from the North-East so he could play. Is this a first for Division 3?

Ref Oxford 5, we had virtually an entire team drop nout just before the deadline and had very little choice about withdrawing the team. We hope to be back next time.

Of possible interest to this topic is that I received this message on lichess.org:-

"You lost to a cheater 34 minutes ago
Refund: 2 Blitz rating points"

I have no idea who the cheater was, if he was truly a cheater and how they decided that he was a cheater.

I thought that too, I've no idea how this works.

It seems there will also be an Oxford 5 team!

From Private Eye's Dumb Britain section (issue 1503, 23 August):-

Tipping Point, ITV
Ben Shephard: in 1991, 15 year-old Judit Polhgar became the youngest ever international grandmaster of which board game?
Contestant: Monopoly

Kevin Thurlow said:
I assume Phil is asking if he can refuse to shake hands as his opponent was so obnoxious, he doesn't want to...

Actually it was my opponent who refused to shake hands, after he blundered in a drawn position (as he saw it). Apparently he felt I should not have played on.

I guess I should have known better than to expect any serious answers.