“Bless your heart”, Professor Joe Butcher

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The Messi of journalism
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Don’t think many had Gloucester 20 points up at Exeter.
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None of his teammates or coaches ever hint at similar, but Dave knows the score.
If press attention was solely focused on his on field ability, he'd get an awful lot less coverage. He's a flat track bully who doesn't understand that rugby is a team game.
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It's important to understand that Arday's suicide was a way out for the whole corrupt lot of them. They've won, and they've established the threat of suicide as the winning argument.
Cambridge has abandoned its plan to investigate the hiring of Jason Arday. It will only investigate whether it offered him enough support.
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Why should a benefit provided by British taxpayers reflect "the mix" of a city at all? Are we inviting migrants into the country to work or to receive benefits?
Social housing mix in London reflects the city’s mix. In fact, UK born more likely to be given social housing, or to own.
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Unbearable. Beautifully, succinctly expressed.
Dostoyevsky on the death of his infant daughter. A passage that has stayed with me years after I first encountered it
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RT @Bocephus7: @FraserNelson Social housing in London reflects the city’s mix because so many foreigners are given social housing. If they…
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Given that immigration is supposed to be selective, this is not a defence.
Social housing mix in London reflects the city’s mix. In fact, UK born more likely to be given social housing, or to own.
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The decline is truly terminal isn’t it. Nothing can or will shake it.
Cambridge is no longer planning to investigate Jason Arday’s academic record or the university’s decision to hire or cover for him. Instead, the investigation will focus on “his welfare, his care, his well-being” and “whether the school offered him sufficient support amid accusations that he plagiarized.”
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That Lewis Moody doc was bloody awful, in the best possible way. Glad I made myself watch it. What a great chap.
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Unreal Henry Pollock break 😮‍💨
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This might go down as the prediction of the year
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Superb thread
This is a poor take that suggests he doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's line that it was all the West's fault. Long🧵
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Hey remember that one big pro-growth thing that we were finally going to do?
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Man City’s fixture list 2027/28
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If Zack Polanski is allowed to dance on stage in Trafalgar Square with a man in chaps while "a genocide is happening", I reckon I'm allowed to ask him about a promise he made with his own mouth. Or did the genocide pause during Polanski's Trafalgar Square party?
Jesus Christ. This is so telling from Hadley Freeman. There's a genocide happening and her snarky question is about a story from decades ago that Zack had answered to endlessly. Do these people not understand how tone-deaf they sound? How glib and facile? Well done to Zack for staying calm and collected in that environment.
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Be nice to build up to the first match of the season with something other than Henry Pollock. “Well that’s enough of me talking about Henry Pollock, let’s talk to Phil Dowson about Henry Pollock. Then play the Henry Pollock segment”.
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By popular demand, I present to you.. my magnum opus.
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Purgatory on Peleliu. There are no living US survivors of this horrific and arguably futile battle, raging today in 1944. 1,794 Americans killed and 8,010 wounded in a 73 day battle. Of the 10,900 Japanese defenders, 10,695 were confirmed killed in action. Think about that.…The Americans captured just 202 men, mostly laborers. A chilling foretaste of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
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Rugby tonight. Love that the champions also have the youngest squad in the league. One player over 30 in the 55.
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