Rob Baron

@rob-baron.bsky.social

Retired philosophy lecturer committed to living an eco-low-impact lifestyle. Only cycles. PhD. Big fan of the Enlightenment.

After the craven FIFA backdown Infantino must go. His corrupt long-term collusion with Trump has been a disgrace. We've had the embarrassing invented FIFA Peace Prize, the rule-breaking suspended Balogun red card, and now the attempt to cash in on privatising the game. He is totally unfit to lead

Jeanine Pirro should be disbarred. It is absolutely indefensible and gross misconduct to rush through a criminal indictment for political reasons before an investigation has been completed, which resulted in false evidence being presented to a grand jury.

Beware of an imposter posing as Nigel Farage. The one below must be unrelated to the one who called the appointment of Peter Mandelson a, "Grave error of judgement" that should see Starmer lose his job as leader. I think this one is a guy called Hugh Janus-Face (see what I did there 😜)

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A Message for Infantino If you are telling us that FIFA could distribute more money to the footballing nations by selling off the World Cup to private owners, then you are doing a fucking crap job as president and should resign immediately.

A small act of kindness toward someone vulnerable just went viral, proof that you do not need grand gestures to make a real difference. Sharing food, helping a hurt animal, aiding a stranger, this is

By now we ought to have realised that "the art of the deal" is to pretend a deal has been reached but without any expectation that anyone has actually agreed to anything, or will abide by anything they have said they will agree to.

Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.

"That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life." - Kate Bush Happy Birthday to the truly original and influential Grammy-nominated English singer, songwriter, musician, dancer, and record producer, who was #BOTD on 7/30/1958.

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My entire life I’ve never called it the FIFA World Cup. I’ve always called it the World Cup. Fans don’t give a shit about FIFA. If national teams showed up for a World Cup tournament not held by FIFA we would all watch it. World Cup is the brand. FIFA is nothing.