Phil S
@phil-stokoe.bsky.social
British husband, father and economist. Likes football (Chester FC, DC United), trains, castles, travel and music. Born in England, living in USA
UEFA is out of patience with Infantino and FIFA
Explosion Explosion Walk Away
ALT: Explosion Explosion Walk Away
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Philippe Auclair@philippeauclair.bsky.social · 6d ago"No UEFA national teams will participate in any FIFA competition for so long as these proposals remain alive, unless this proposal has been abandoned in its entirety and binding assurances have been given that FIFA will never again open its governance or competitions to private ownership".
Number 10 North is a cracking name for a restaurant @soozuk.bsky.social - I trust some Northern restauranteur is working on this already somewhere
Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan
The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.
The most important - and most ignored - news story of this century is that the dominant political party of the world's most powerful nation is a disinformation factory that has half the country's citizens - including its president - believing lies about every aspect of politics and daily life.
Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 3w agoTexas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick says that Obama "violated the Constitution because he served a third term": "I think he was behind the entire [Biden] administration."
There are whole ass countries that don't have 22 shootings by law enforcement in a decade. Yet we don't eye to an agency w/ 20k ghouls hitting that mark in less than 2 years. #AmericanExceptionalism
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 3w ago"DHS agents have shot at least 22 people just since the start of Trump's second term. Six of these shootings have been fatal." Utterly damning stuff here from beginning to end. These really are Trump's death squads.
I made this because as far as I can see nobody else has?
So, hey, everybody in the news business, could you maybe stop saying it’s being “tested” or “strained”? TYSM
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoTrump: "The Cease Fire is OVER!"
@footballcliches.bsky.social can’t believe you said Keysey was moving into a whole new realm, moments after the bit about him lasering his hands and bollocks, when it’s obviously a whole new ball game! That’s a miss worse than that Swiss CB penalty yesterday
Any Clacton residents who want to nominate your friendly neighbourhood intergalactic space warrior, ping me a line!
Should have played 6’7 Dan Burn from the start, he’s used to playing at altitude
Worthy institutions like this make X look like a normal website with normal, fair, pluralist discourse. By doing so they contribute to the ongoing threat to our information ecosystem and our democracy. This is surely contrary to their purpose which is to educate and inform.
The news photos when the temperature hits 55c and kills thousands:
Look, Americans, British homes aren't designed with air conditioning in mind. Our architecture values other things: heat retention, space management, trapdoors, automated breakfast-serving mechanisms which can be operated by a literal dog
Fauci needs to sue this man into bankruptcy, if only to dissuade the other inveterate liars of this administration.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Peter Navarro on Maria Bartiromo's show lies with impunity that "it's an indisputable fact" that Fauci "created that virus" and "killed people"
Why is the universities crisis being ignored? Essential piece by @gsoh31.bsky.social for Arguably on the “grim dribbling away of one of Britain's great triumphs and economic advantages” – and why so few politicians seem to care. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...
The quiet collapse of British universities
One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away
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When I meet people in the real world, they have 0% - and I mean zero - knowledge of the disaster unfolding in British HE. Even if their kids are actually at uni. They look at me as if I've gone mad. This is why. 👇
George Eaton@georgeeaton.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhy is the universities crisis being ignored? Essential piece by @gsoh31.bsky.social for Arguably on the “grim dribbling away of one of Britain's great triumphs and economic advantages” – and why so few politicians seem to care. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...
The general election is in *November.* Taking a week to count votes is fine.
this World Cup we should stop asking 'is it coming home' and focus instead on 'are you coming to The Museum of English Rural Life'
Your regular reminder that this clearly-it's-a-war is neither approved by Congress nor the UN Security Council & it is an egregious violation of the US Constitution, international law, & our signed, ratified treaty commitments, & if we were a serious country, we would care about these things
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2mo agoNormally you wouldn’t increase the likelihood of US casualties by announcing something like this ahead of time, unless you are bluffing to use it as a negotiating ploy, you are stupid, you don’t really care about the troops, or all three.
The government needs to leave X. EVERYONE needs to leave X.
Republicans believe the hard evidence of Republican election cheating should be ignored, while the unseen evidence of Democratic election cheating should be imagined.
Grudgie the Whale@grudgie.bsky.social · 2mo agoElection cheating is actually not hard to prove. We caught Tina Peters. We have Trump on tape with GA state officials.
🚨🚨 Huge breaking news from Brussels: Hungary has lifted its two-year-long veto on Ukraine's EU accession. Ukraine and Moldova will soon be able to open the first cluster of the accession process. The saga is over.
Nigel Farage is a danger to Britain. An elected MP, a party leader and a powerful voice giving licence to racist rioters and Tommy Robinson with incendiary remarks. #FarageRiots
Southport murders. Farage ignores victims' parents. Riles up his base. Riots. Henry Nowak murder. Farage ignores victim's parents. Riles up his base. Riots. Murders by white people. Silence. If that's not a pattern of racially motivated incitement to riot, I don't know what is.
