I apologise if my comment was not clear. This is about why elite athletes would engage in violence at a sporting event. The police response seems irrational to me, and I acknowledge how it could raise questions of differential treatment given the history of policing in the US.

The real question is here - are players really capable of regulating their own behaviour?

Better to link this to creating economic opportunity on a geographic basis in areas of greater deprivation, alongside greater collaboration between HE and FE and a renewed focus on job creation.

I very much doubt that mainstream media is dying, although it sounds like Americans have had a rough time of it lately. I'm hoping it's a moment of transition for the press - fewer agendas, fewer causes, more analysis.

That makes a couple of big assumptions - that people who vote for a candidate agree with every position they take, and that voters pay attention to every detail. It's also likely that many votes were *against* Democrats, not *for* Trump.

Which then leads to questions about who gets a say in how that funding is allocated and used, and whether it is used reasonably (as Philip Augar points out).