They bought the city council centuries ago.

"The Committee report you speak of was prepared by 3 of 17 supposed members and spent its time mostly ignoring the evidence. "

What evidence did they ignore?

What else would you like to mock Emily Coyte for? Her shoe-size perhaps?

How much business support is the pro-mayor campaign getting ?

They musty be convinced they can buy the Mayor and bypass democracy

The letter was fake, wasn't it? Someone else wrote it pretending to be him.

We know that because he said he didn't remember signing anything of the kind and because of the solicitors' comments, that it wasn't valid and didn't reflect their client's instructions. In other words, it was a hoax.

So far, so obvious. It only takes one idiot to write a hoax letter.

But the really weird thing is that the council have ignored those comments and have immediately taken it totally at face value.

What's more, they're all over the media this evening saying this is the green light for the new stadium, ie they're going ahead already and acting on it – even though someone else might be able to take the case if the first man has had to step down because of being intimidated, as he says.

Without waiting for a legal judgement on that point, the council and the club are saying it's fine to go ahead and that's what they're doing. They've announced it. And they believe the letter in the teeth of what the other side, and their solicitor, have said. How weird is that.

Or else, we're supposed to believe that it's all fine and that same person who went to so much trouble to bring this case suddenly for no reason has a change of heart and "humbly withdraws" his application for a judicial review? Because of making employment for young people, he says?

Something less convincing would be difficult to imagine. The people defending this green space have been doing it for the sake of future generations. They would not now give up the fight voluntarily to betray those same future generations, or give them jobs (it won't be that many jobs and there's no saying any young people would get them).

Totally implausible. What is there to be humble about? Angry, yes.

Several questions.
First, who really wrote the letter?
Second, why have the council – and their expert legal advisers – accepted this letter as real so instantly and uncritically?
Also, how badly has this person been intimidated and by whom?
Is he still being intimidated?
Where are the police in all this and what's their view?

For what it's worth, the problem with this stadium I think is not the stadium itself – no-one is arguing about that – but where it is. This is Bristol CITY football club, and it should be in the CITY. It's not called Bristol COUNTRY football club, is it?

So let it be in the city, just like Old Trafford, Maine Road, Wembley, Aston Villa, Hillsborough, Anfield and all the others. There is a good reason for football clubs being slap in the middle of cities. But those very good reasons, which would help Bristol, are being ignored in this debate. Maybe there's a good reason for that, but I have yet to hear it.

Meanwhile this mystery not just of the hoax letter (if it was a hoax) but also of the Council and club's strange response, just gets deeper.

I've read the articles: you overstate their quality by a sizeable amount. He gets paid to promote homeopathy. As for quantum, you don't need Peewee Herman: it's one of the homeopaths' favourite words. Not that bthey understand it. They will waffle on, using half-digested physics terms, mixed in with a "humours" theory of illness, trying to claim that there is an active ingredient. Yet when it comes to actually showing any effect beyond placebo, in over 200 years there hasn't been a single, reliable study in its favour. This is exactly what science predicts.