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Doesn't make a difference as you will reveal your hand to be unbalanced with real clubs in your rebid anyway. In any case, this hand isn't really close - yes we might not make anything if we are in a misfit, but equally we make game opposite many minimums, and we have to explore the best game.

These are two separate points. 1. It is absolutely wrong to try for slam after 1♠-2♠ in a standard system. There is no hand that partner could have where slam is good. 2. It is my judgement that in the style most play for 2♣ opening, including I think Richard, and in the style that I prefer, this hand is nowhere near good enough for a 2♣ opening. If you respond with an ace, and also with borderline hands with a fit, there aren't many hands where you are missing game. Even if partner has the magical ♠K or ♥K, you probably don't have enough entries to repeat the ♣ finesse, and you might not have an entry at all. Feel free to disagree. If you disagree about 1., I am certain you are wrong. If you disagree about 2., then I'd think you are wrong, or that you advocate a very different style for 2♣ opening than what most strong players use. But you could certainly be right.

The description include "23+ total points", so the hand doesn't match the description.

Richard, look at that opening hand again - it's nowhere near good enough for a 2♣ opening. And trying for slam after 1♠-2♠ is absurd - what hand are you hoping for? There is literally no hand that bids 2♠ opposite which slam would be good.

That's probably true as the UK still hasn't implemented most of the border controls. Which kind of raises the question about the benefits of the whole thi----sorry, I think I am repeating myself.

A little late, but anyway, here is a chance for all the Brexit supporters to name a concrete tangible gain the UK got from Brexit ("control" over immigration excepted).

Hand 2 is a bit random - based on the results at the other tables, you can guess what the best contract is; you just need to find an auction that gets you the same helpful lead...

This week wasn't so hard.

The price of the Zenith daylong and the Robot reward daylong also increased by 50% as they now pay out 70% instead of 80% of the entry money through the price pool.

Maybe I should be more precise: were these documents marked "Top Secret"? And I would prefer a text reference, not a video link.

In have read not much about this case. Buy I am curious. Ken mentions "Top Secret" again and again and again. The NY Times article https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/us/politics/biden-documents-timeline.html "What we know so far" never mentions these words. Ken, where did you get the information that the Biden case involved "Top Secret" documents? There is a big difference between that and "classified".

So I didn't realise this was an old thread, scrolled back to the beginning, started reading the first few replies and thought "Hm wow, I might be defending 3♦ here, am I the only one?" At least I am consistent LOL

I agree, with just one minor correction. Nige1 would have given a score for 4♣!

Yes, but she kept some of the best bits for her book promotion tour.

That would really add to the discussion, but many of the conservatives on here turned out rather implicitly or explicitly r*ist. And I think that's really the issue. So much of the conservative movement has turned into either pure identity politics ("Look how much I deplore Nancy Pelosi!! Do I need to say anything else?") or "own the libs"-for-its-own-sake politics that it takes someone genuinely independent to advocate a conservative vision with dignity, judgement and intellectual coherence. And Ben Shapiro-style shallow talking points to win you a timed debate won't fly in here when people have time to draft a response or cite, uhm, facts. I follow a bit of politicsy accounts on twitter. In the US, I'd find it difficult to follow conservative accounts. In the UK, there are quite a few that I do follow. Sometimes they irk me, sometimes I think they are wrong, sometimes I think they are right. Much more interesting following them then someone whose opinions I can predict, or that I automatically discount.