Huw Edwards to be appointed to the party's online safety commission
Andy Burnham Accepter@jorisbinned.bsky.social · 7h agoWhy is she so fucking stupid, may I ask?
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I used to be a pretty big wheel down at the cracker factory.
Andy Burnham Accepter@jorisbinned.bsky.social · 7h ago
I know a few people working on getting a PhD at the moment. Almost all of them have had at least one supervisor on their teams who was utterly useless, in a way that makes me, a layman, struggle to understand how they hold down a job in academia. Maybe that’s how we end up with Jason Arday.
If Liddle was such a brilliant, irreverent writer, how is it that the only time his work was ever passed around was as an example of the latest witless, leaden offensive shit from Rod Liddle? His obiturists talk up imaginary columns he never wrote and refuse to address the terrible ones he did.
Phil Free@philfree.bsky.social · yesterday“He may have been delightful to his friends but he should be judged on what he put out into the world & that was bile by the bucketload.” Liddle to be celebrated - @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...
Does she realise Dunkirk wouldn't have even been possible if French forces had surrendered as opposed to fighting a rearguard action which allowed the BEF to assemble in Dunkirk and the evacuation flotilla to be formed?
Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · yesterdayThe war. It always comes back to the war. That happened long before they were born.
I will fight and die on the hill that no one fought braver and better in 1940 than the French army in June, knowing that their best troops had already been lost and the Germans would show them little mercy
Rob Jacques@knutcrosswords.bsky.social · 2d agoThis is profoundly upsetting
big respect for Wenger dusting off the old "I didn't see the incident" about Infantino's plans www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
“He spoke truth to power” say the powerful, lining up to praise their favourite court jester as a brave and bold challenge to the establishment, despite him never having done a thing to threaten or unsettle said establishment. Just a grubby mirror they enjoyed seeing their worst reflections in.
I remember when the slightly less bigoted A.A. Gill died and all the papers were telling us that he was a controversialist genius. But a decade on, he's completely forgotten except by people who write for British newspapers (and me just now).
Ask any of the people who claim he was brilliant if they endorse his gutter racism and they'd deny it. They all have the capacity to abhor certain of his deeply held prejudices but respect him as if the two were separate things. It's as if they are all playing a game with no real world consequences.
As Sunder Katwala demonstrated years ago, Liddle wrote the most appallingly racist things when he thought he could get away with it. But it didn't end his career. Doubtless due, in part, to the kind of people now paying tribute to him. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Journalist Rod Liddle dies aged 66
Rod Liddle’s children paid tribute to their father, who was their guide ‘on how to live an extraordinary life’
independent.co.uk
this should’ve been the beginning of the end for infantino. the fifa/eafc game is the most popular sports franchise in the world, for a “nonprofit” whose mission statement is to ‘globalize and popularize’ football, getting $150m for the game to literally be called ‘FIFA’ is the deal of the century.
Treblig 🇺🇦@camtreblig.bsky.social · 2d agoAn underrated cause of Infantino’s problems is him playing silly buggers with EA Sports: FIFA got $150m a year just to let EA use the name on a game. Literally free money. But Gianni got greedy and wanted more, EA called his bluff and walked away. Since then he’s been trying to make up the shortfall
How does the BBC thibk its going to get the toothpaste back in the tube, here? After years of framing 'Britain's strictest teacher' Katharine Birbalsingh as a remedy for our hated youth the nation's fossils are not going to want any pivot to 'soft' teaching.
Andrew Sissons@acjsissons.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is a harrowing - though not surprising - read. It’s probably hard to quantify, but I think we need to know how widespread this approach is, and what impact it has on young people’s mental health
While this is good news, there's no getting away from the fact that every one of these national associations should be ashamed of ever having supported the re-election of someone they knew to be totally unfit for office. They condemn themselves even as they condemn Infantino.
Nick Ames@nickames82.bsky.social · 3d agoEuropean countries prepare to formally withdraw support for Infantino’s re-election with announcements likely soon. Pressure tightening. Story: www.theguardian.com/football/202...
My view on the COVID pandemic is: if you think that was bad, wait til you try 3C of warming
“Anything wot I don’t like is ai slop!!!!” is the new “fake news!!!” is the new “clickbait!!!”
Oh look he’s trying to do the right-wing version of that Seumas Milne piece.
David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 3d agoDear me.
Considering his loud hostility to money in football and his favourite mixed metaphor "financial doping", it's remarkable how little scrutiny Arsene Wenger gets for his subsequent decision to work for international bribery association FIFA
This Jason Arday story makes me wonder about how far gone UK universities must be when it comes to basic competencies, let alone academic rigour.
Crumbling infrastructure & lack of water jeopardising govt plans for new homes. Privatisation of England's water prioritised shareholder returns. No new reservoirs, desalination plants, or national grid of water. Companies don't do national planning. Yet govts intoxicated with privatisation
‘We cannot magic up more water’: the supply problems putting housing targets in England at risk
Council leaders say crumbling infrastructure and lack of water are jeopardising government’s plans for new homes
theguardian.com
Then break it down for us. Explain what the better decisions were with what we knew at the time. And show receipts. Otherwise it just sounds like you've been hanging out with too many twitter users.
Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 4d agoNo need for anyone to agree with me - but some of the responses to this on here reminds me just how stifling and absolutist a period in our national discourse Covid was.
Vincent Pastore, actor most known for his role as Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero on HBO’s The Sopranos, has died at 80
Vincent Pastore Dies: 'The Sopranos' Star Was 80
Vincent Pastore, known for playing mobsters in film and TV, most notably Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on HBO's The Sopranos, has died. He was 80.
deadline.com
Danny Welbeck is going to do great at Chelsea, just as Olivier Giroud did.
A rare weekend off with nothing to do. It’s at times like this I really wish I had a new Football Manager I actually enjoyed playing.
Huh. I recall nt long ago a newly elected MP questioned the boozing in parliament & triggered a spectacular multi-week meltdown by the nation's most sensible Sensibles chin stroking & pontificating abt why the corridors of Westminster overflowing with booze ws nt only good bt virtually a natural law
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5d ago‘MPs have had their stomachs pumped’: concerns over ‘alcohol-soaked’ culture in Westminster