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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City found guilty on virtually all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations. #MCFC expected to appeal against verdict issued by independent commission. Sanctions undecided, process ongoing @TheAthleticFC nytimes.com/athletic/7049721…
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Eh? The ethos of conservatism, particularly its 21st Century variant, is the exclusion of mass participation in politics, culture, business & other spheres. Conservatism by its nature seeks to ring fence elite pursuit. Giving out free opera tickets is anathema to conservatism.
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The only other person on the planet coming close to hitting bullseyes with this relentless amount of regularity is the Turkish olympic shooter guy. Simply does not miss.
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You need a 5 hours plus documentary on the collapse of France in 1940 and its subsequent Vichy government centred on the residents of the town of Clermont Ferrand, trust me.
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I'm in the supermarket and appear to have stumbled into the laoganma section. Anyone needing any picked up?
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BREAKING: Harper Collins has confirmed it will no longer publish any books by David Walliams.
The publisher has gone a step further from previously saying it will not publishing any new material from the author following allegations of inappropriate behaviour.
Walliams denies all allegations against him.
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1984, Chapter 1
RNLI volunteers were branded ‘traitors’ after bringing migrants ashore
Read in full: independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
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Serie A used to be beautiful catenaccio 0-0 after beautiful catenaccio 0-0 after beautiful catenaccio 0-0. All gone of course because of woke.
TELLY GOLD: Elvis Costello makes a guest appearance on punditry during Genoa vs Sampdoria, 1995.
James Richardson weaves in song titles aplenty during the half-time scores round-up.
Delightful.
(👍🎥 @cormacpro) nitter.net/cormacpro/status/94384…
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An 18-minute extended mix of Double's 'The Captain Of Her Heart' has just started playing on my youtube mix in the background.
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I always imagine Toyota execs in the boardroom like this trying to decide whether they approve or not of the prominent worldwide advertising for the endurance and reliability of the hilux.
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The leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will gather on Monday to sign a deal designed to kick-start the break-up of the United Kingdom, The Telegraph can disclose.
🔗: telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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The only thing I have to say on the 25th anniversary is what Hunter S Thompson said in the aftermath. There's been few things said more prescient than the party's over. For someone like me who partied like hell in the 90's, 21stC has been very different. The party is still over.
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“You have to have freedom of thought.”
Ahead of provocative new album named You May Offend, Craig and Charlie Reid talk about their anger at the SNP, Western warmongering and the imperilment of free speech.
Read the interview with The Proclaimers here ⤵️
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Can't let the 50th anniversary of the death of the Great Helmsman go by without remembering the time he tried to drown Khrushchev
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What's great about this clip is that you can pinpoint the precise moment van Gaal irked by the question is deciding whether to make this reporter's next five minutes an ordeal or not. In a rare turn of events he opts for diplomacy but you can see that volcano bubbling.
1993. Van Gaal, ahead of Besiktas. Istanbul will be a hard away night, he says the opponent is strong technically. Then a reporter asks: didn’t you talk to your players about Besiktas? His answer comes sharp, almost angry.
#ajax#besiktas#vangaal
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Every single European administration's policy response post elections since 2008
German Chancellor Merz seems about to make the mistake that other centrist leaders have made to fend off the far right. Preemptively implementing their program does not diminish the need for them but legitimizes and reinforces them. trib.al/ETA8yO2.
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It wasn't a unification but a fire sale annexation. The Kohl govt set the exchange rate of the Ostmark to the DM at a rate of 1:1 resulting in Ostmark value increasing over 300%. This made it impossible for DDR firms to be competitive given that the cost of inputs were revalued.
extraordinary account of the shock therapy that CDU/West Germany inflicted on East Germany post 1989. Made me wonder about the neat identity Vs material benefits account of AfD success from
@adam_tooze
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Farage promises the Reichstag Fire Decree, Enabling Act and Gleichschaltung all in one Facebook post.
BBC Morning Live, The Jeremy Vine Show & Loose Women: "Robust language from Nigel Farage. Do his targets have a case to answer?"
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The way the media treats fascists in contrast with the way it treats protest from the left eg genocide protest, again reminds me of the fact Weimar media portrayed the Nazis as the lesser evil in comparison with the Left, to the extent a vote for the NSDAP became 'common sense'
'I think this is a real wake up call to the Government that the British people are fed up with the lack of control of our borders'
Donna Jones, police and crime commissioner for Hampshire and Isle of Wight, spoke to #BBCBreakfast after hundreds of people protested against small boat arrivals in Portsmouth last night
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A complete and utter shithouse with the surname van Bommel?
Hollanda liginde cinayet girişimi
PSV li Van bommel rakibi Aaron Bouwman a kafa göz daldı
Bouwman ölümden döndü
Önce kırık var zannedildi
Hastanede akciğer ve boyun ezilmesi yaşadığı anlaşıldı
4 hafta sahalardan uzak kalacak
Bu pozisyonda van Bommel sarı kart gördü
VAR devreye girmedi
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newleftreview.org/sidecar/po… This by Owen Hatherley on the Glasgow School of Art and the disappearance of art and culture in the city is typically excellent as well as heartbreaking and enraging. The conclusion is an indictment of the neoliberal cultural urban wasteland we now inhabit
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I saw Belle & Sebastian are playing, so thought I'd buy a couple of tickets. Not only is it nearly £70 per ticket, the fees on top are £65 then there is tax. Sorry B&S, you & I go back a long time but there's no chance. Like everything, rock is being destroyed by rent extraction.
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How on earth did we end up with 'Generation Screwed'?
GENERATION SCREWED by @Victoria_Spratt
If the 1980s and 1990s spawned Yuppies – young, “upwardly mobile” professionals with university degrees, well-paid jobs and disposable incomes – the 2010s and 2020s belong to the “Dumpys”: the Downwardly and Unhappily Mobile Professional Young. The Dumpys have some of the trappings of a middle-class existence – a degree, a professional job – but lack its foundations: a secure home of their own, financial freedom.
For the first time since industrialisation, huge numbers of young adults are no better off than their parents were at the same age. The comfortable, educated, professional middle class is collapsing, and with it the aspirations of many who wish to join it. Class war is not over, but the battle lines are being redrawn. Far from being a Blairite meritocracy, Britain is now an inheritocracy: a place where a young person’s life chances are defined not by their hard work, but by their access to family wealth.
Today, there is no single, widely agreed definition of what it means to be “middle class” or “working class”. Where once it may have been as simple as those who owned property, it is now more complicated – not least because Right to Buy meant council tenants could enter the property-owning classes. A person’s profession is no longer a clear guide to their class either, because thousands of people with apparently middle-class jobs and the historically middle-class credential of a degree rent and live from one payday to the next.
Intergenerational inequity is a problem for most Western economies, but it is particularly acute in Britain due to expensive housing, stagnant graduate wages, a fraying social safety net and extortionate childcare costs. Young adults everywhere are angrier than older people, and Britain is no exception. This, perhaps, is due to the gap between aspiration and reality: the chasm between what they were told life could be and what it is.
Cover art by Kris Andrew Small
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It's the same time gap between the first screening of the infamous Love Thy Neighbour & the first appearance of Ali G, to the first appearance of Ali G to now. It was beyond the pale for LTN to have borne repeats in the late 90s, yet here we are still enduring Cohen's blackface
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On the MTR to work with Dolly helping me channel my workplace alienation with one of the all time classics on the subject. Cheers Dolly 🫡
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Refugee and disabled children will be removed from mainstream education in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt if the far-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party wins the imminent regional election.
The AfD’s manifesto sets out plans for a major educational overhaul, which would decrease the number of comprehensive schools in Saxony-Anhalt. It states that the “inclusion experiment has failed and must be ended” ⤵️
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The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra with I'm Getting Sentimental Over You has just popped up on my spotify for some reason
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When Germany exploited the Euro fixed exchange rate system in combination with domestic cost-cutting policies (Hertz reforms) to crowd out other Eurozone manufacturers resulting in the contraction of their manufacturing sectors to Germany's benefit- was that the Rules also?
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Time to crack open the ancient texts again
So, this is Cofnas's position boiled down. He claims that prosperous, enlightened liberal-capitalist societies led by a genetically endowed, IQ-intelligent, successful elite turn out nicer, more empathetic people. Plato meets John Locke, Francis Galton and Norbert Elias. Schoolboy tosh. And his supporting network have the money and power to impose it on us. The fightback starts now.
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"You either read Paul Mason's book on communism or die."
Me: nitter.net/gem_ste/status/2091147…
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Northern Olympics?
Exclusive: Prime Minister Andy Burnham is exploring a bid to host the men’s World Cup in the UK, alongside plans for a Northern Olympics, The i Paper can reveal.
The move would bring the World Cup back to the UK for the first time since England hosted in 1966 and forms part of a growing push by Burnham to use major sporting events to drive investment, tourism and regeneration beyond London.
Burnham told colleagues at a Friday morning meeting at No 10 North in Manchester that he is looking at how Britain could host the tournament and is already in talks with the nation’s footballing bodies about how a campaign could be delivered.
A source familiar with the discussions said the bid was raised as part of talks on “stadium regeneration”.
The next available World Cup is in 2038, followed by tournaments in 2042 and 2046. FIFA has yet to begin the formal process for awarding the 2038 tournament, and the Government has not said whether its ambitions are focused on the earliest available opportunity or a bid further into the future.
The World Cup plan is being considered alongside the previously reported ambition to bring the Olympics to the north, with Burnham understood to be pursuing both projects as part of a wider push to attract major sporting events, investment and tourism to the regions.
Story👇
W/@connie_dimsdale and @Kat_Lucas_
inews.co.uk/news/politics/bu…
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The Terror emanated from the insane decision by the sensible, centrist Girondins to declare war on Europe, a war Robespierre & the Jacobins bitterly opposed. The Terror was a temporary & successful measure to save the Revolution. You'd never understand that reading this historian
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Reflecting on the past week, it's become increasingly clear that the family of Jason Arday should be apologising in full to the British press.
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This is a lie of course, hardly anyone outside academia knew who he was, he is being made out to be a "superstar" because the poster wants to undermine ethnic minorities in education and other fields.
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Remember the New Statesman letter when the author said that since the 60s he'd moved from tory to hard left without changing a single belief, well I'm rapidly understanding firing squads & gulags without changing a single belief in a just, equitable and flourishing society.
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One of my favourite passages from The Politics is when Aristotle hammers the Spartans reputation and achievements into dust.
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A independent public inquiry into the British press? Hoo boy, I would hate to be in their shoes now!
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Prince Alone In The Studio- Smog piped.video/watch?v=cNlnC2jQ…
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Invited round to a work colleague's for dinner. He's handed me a can of Blue Girl and a drinking bowl and it's the first time I've ever drank a beer where I feel like I'm taking part in an elaborate Tang dynasty ceremony with every sip.
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"It became a major public interest story because we the British media decided it was for one highly specific reason. There are no consequences for us, there is nothing you can do about it, so suck it up, we will do it again and again and again and again"
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Why would a self-monikered "working class academic" seek to deflect blame from the most racist, toxic, right wing media on the planet? Let's have a look shall we.
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As Michal Kalecki argued, control over employees is more important to business than profits. Extending freedoms either through the effects of full employment or in this case WFH threatens capital's disciplinary power. The office ensures greater discipline & control over workers.
We blew the incredible opportunity to make remote work the global standard. Seriously: What happened? Why did so many companies go back to the office?
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For once I'm not going to be cynical. This place is a complete madhouse but I've met brilliant people, love my mutuals, I've seen sentences constructed I didn't think possible and I laugh out loud at least 4 or 5 times a week at tweets. Yep, I'm here til I drop. Cheers.
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As the Calvin & Hobbes cartoon once went- the surest sign there is intelligent life out there is that none of them have tried to contact us.
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Amid high gas prices — an average of more than $4 per gallon across the country — a gas station in Upstate New York offered 20 percent off to customers who were down to bust a move. wapo.st/4c9hd4V
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Sailing
Takes me away to where I've always heard it could be
Just a dream and the wind to carry me
Soon, I will be free
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