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Think I knew them all today or at least could work them out. 10.

Rhino and dead lady both wrong today. 8

More money? Aren't they rolling in all that lovely cash from the TV deal that was coming as part of the B teams being in the league?

Not trendy perhaps but surely it's Paul McCartney. In arguably the biggest, most popular, most influential band of all time and wrote or co-wrote some of the greatest songs ever recorded. A songwriter who can casually toss away classic songs for other artists since he had better stuff for the Beatles albums. In another vastly successful and popular band who musically were probably better than the Beatles but without the critical success. A successful solo artist who has produced some fantastic solo records (and yes, some dross) across a wide range of genres. Someone who has dueted with or collaborated with some of the biggest names of their respective generations (Stevie Womder, Michael Jackson, Rihanna, Kanye West, etc) An early advent of avant garde and electronic music, he's written film scores, classical pieces and everything in between. Tl;Dr - it's McCartney.

8 - band and dolls house.

Exactly my thoughts and exactly my score. 9

There are some apps etc that can be useful (blookit and kahoot are quizzes that can be used, they can be used instead of a stopwatch and light source in science, you can look up stuff when doing research, you can live translate if English isn't your native language etc) but for many regions they can all be done on the tablets of chromebooks that each pupil gets. In Fife, where we don't have individual devices and nowhere near enough laptops to use, it's an easy way out if you don't have immediate Internet access. Personally I think they're more trouble than they're worth but there's plenty money to be made by 'education app' developers who'll insist that they are a massive benefit.

I assumed living sportsman was an in-joke for the best at all the sports they play after training (tec-ball, table tennis, snooker, golf, whatever) but a sportsmanship award sounds like the sort of thing they do at under 11s so everyone gets a medal...

That's an interesting topic starter... not sure where or when that's supposed to happened, but keep on fighting the good fight. We don't score many, so the superbly organised, meagre defence (the second best in the league, I'm sure I read somewhere?) won't have to do too much work. This will be 0-0 or 1-0 either way I reckon.

We have a constant battle with phones - being used in class, being used for bullying/organising and filming fights etc. We would sometimes allow music with one headphone in but for most staff it's a very rare occurrence (revision for a test, doing an art project) and even then I always say to them "fine but pick a playlist and stick with it - no changing tracks, no skipping, no other apps". We had a wee phase where we confiscated phones and were meant to hand them into the office, but the office staff (quite rightly IMO) weren't happy at the prospect of getting the blame if a £1,200 phone they were nominally in charge of was to go missing or get broken. We then had the bizarre idea of taking it to the staff room and leaving it in an (unlocked, unsupervised) area that the year head could then give back at the end of the day. I honestly don't know the answer. Some the kids do show signs of addictive tendencies with their phones - literally not able to go 10 minutes without glancing at it, getting visibility nervy/jumpy if they have to concentrate on a task for longer than that 10 minutes, getting a sense of relief at the end of a period when they can get their phone out, etc. I think the toothpaste is out the tube though and I don't see how we are ever going to get back to anything different. I have a 3 year old and he uses a smart screen at nursery and can navigate to YouTube and pick a video on my phone very easily even though initially we were keen to avoid screen time as much as possible. Even with him, if he's playing on or watching a video on a phone and it needs to go away he'll get angry and frustrated and want 5 more minutes and so on, and I dread to think what it'll be like when he goes to school.

Given Sky don't give two shiny shites about the race for Europe etc already, I think you'd be surprised how little interest our flagship broadcast partner would care about this game...

Nice wee ten to start the week. Didn't even have to guess the year for once.

But as mentioned previously, Five Live mention all the SPFL Results (and noted the consequences for promotion, relegation and play off places), have a reporter at a Premiership game on a Saturday (usually whomever the Old Firm are playing, but not always) and had full live commentary of the recent Rangers v Celtic game. So, it can be done. They also cover all the teams in the 6 Nations, cover British athletes when in individual competitions (golf, tennis, athletics, whatever) and will obviously do the same at the Euros. Or do you think Five Live ignores Wales v Scotland, Andy Murray, Laura Muir and our Euros games because they are really just an English station?

That kind of negates your argument tbh. If it was a handball that gets given 100% of the time then maybe, but if it's only a 90% chance then a VAR isn't going to overturn surely? I guess there's maybe an argument that he should have been told to go to the screen to make sure mind you.

That's the thing isn't it. Radio Five is good in that Chappers yesterday went through the results and mentioned what had been settled (he said Dundee Utd had all but confirmed promotion but officially still needed a point, and that Spartans had clinched the play off spot in League Two - do our sports reports even mention that kind of stuff?) because it's a national (UK) broadcast. Same for network news broadcasts etc. We aren't expecting a full run down (that should be done - but often isn't - on Reporting Scotland etc) but they wouldn't in England either, where the lower league and non league results in each region will go to Look North or whatever. A Scottish Cup semi final, especially one that had so much happen in it, is clearly a national story and not just a regional one.