RobJFH

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This week I'ave been mostly skeeting: #COYS, Bromley FC #WeAreBromley, classical music, F1 #LH44, Olympics #TeamGB, Discworld, space, science, photos, puns, occasionally sweary left-leaning liberal secularist views, 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺 / 🇺🇦

Feels like some of the wittier aspects were flattened/removed from Nolan's #Odyssey, how the cyclops was tricked for example. And no appearances from actual Gods, Athena aside. Stephen Fry should've been drafted in to help! 'Twas epic though - the scenes in Troy and Ithaca were stunning! ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4/5

Football chiefs are now rightly pushing for Infantino’s exit But it doesn’t stop there and the reform that didn’t come in 2016 is now badly needed Football also has to live with his decisions, like Saudi 2034, because the same critics let too much go www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

Gianni Infantino’s demise isn’t enough – Fifa must fundamentally change

Infantino’s fall after his scandalous World Cup sell-off plan is being compared to that of Margaret Thatcher, writes Miguel Delaney, but football needs to think much bigger than just getting rid of on...

independent.co.uk

If you cannot accept that what Trump has done over the last year and a half is starve Ukraine of air defense, and put off any new aid for as long as possible, so Putin can terrorize Ukraine from the air for as long as possible--you cannot accept reality.

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.

Terrible news. Aside from learning more about the universe, we're not going to get much economic growth by cutting science funding. (If only we had a Prime Minister who was interested in supporting the north, and Manchester in particular, who could stop this.) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

bbc.co.uk