I'm not sure about the BBC's 'Sports Personality of the Year' award. They have just announced the shortlist, all of them worthy sportsmen/women in their field, but I can't see why we have this annual ceremony each year. My theory is that now the BBC has cut down to the bare minimum of sports on TV, they have to hype up a ceremony that I expect no other broadcaster cares about. Its an ideal opportunity to splash a relatively small part of the sports budget about without doing much, and as luck would have it, it encompasses about 12 sports all at once - what a bonus! They can then sit back and feel like that have covered all those sports. Then there's the 'personality' tag that accompanies the title - what a misnomer! So, expect loads of hype and not much action for this year's event.
The air strikes debate wages on, but has been overshadowed by Jeremy Corbyn's difficult position as Labour leader without the authority to lay the law down with his cabinet. I guess we'll see more of these situations, and until these slightly more right wing Labourites move on, he's stuck with this type of situation as far as I can see.
However, he managed to row back from a damaging 'split the party' type of scenario, to a bit of a cop out of giving everyone a free vote.
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