Good to see Arsene back at the Emirates last night, but should we have barred Gianni Infantino, on principle?

We are all condemned to live like General Zod in Superman, hurtling through space inside a giant iPad, faces pressed up against the glass in a silent scream.

The other element that every World Cup requires: Brazilians

He has his eyes on all his company; he is tender towards the bashful, gentle towards the distant, and merciful towards the absurd; he can recollect to whom he is speaking; he guards against unseasonable allusions, or topics which may irritate; he is seldom prominent in conversation, and never wearisome. He makes light of favours while he does them, and seems to be receiving when he is conferring. He never speaks of himself except when compelled, never defends himself by a mere retort, he has no ears for slander or gossip, is scrupulous in imputing motives to those who interfere with him, and interprets everything for the best. He is never mean or little in his disputes, never takes unfair advantage, never mistakes personalities or sharp sayings for arguments, or insinuates evil which he dare not say out. From a long-sighted prudence, he observes the maxim of the ancient sage, that we should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.

This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:

I’ve read the whole article now. Yes, I agree, dystopian

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Ha ha. AI has come for the management consultants. Little sympathy youtu.be/-c4CNB80SRc?...

Get down to Streatham Ice Hockey next time

Reurm Novarum On the Condiction of the Working Classes www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

The Gunners have reached such a level of expertise, they even scored from a Burnley long throw

Get Anne H on the pod stat!

Must get my solid stick umbrella fixed…

Hear hear

On the edge My week in the NHS

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Union shenanigans make the national press. Catnip for the baby politicos. The shame is it just continues at Westminster.

Disgusting

Paul Laity · After Martha For the hospital, and for the NHS, it was a closed case, another preventable death: medicine is imperfect, such things...

‘All doctors get things wrong. What matters hugely to families in our position is that they have the courage and humility to admit to these mistakes. If they do, it transforms the way you feel about a clinician.’

@paullaity.bsky.social on his daughter Martha’s death: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I love this print

“Nothing as profoundly stupid and insidious as telling the players to not take Tylenol because that makes them more injury prone, or something.”

Indeed it was qualitatively different to John Paul II’s apostolic trip. And, did include a speech in Westminster Hall.

I don’t see Pope Benedict XVI’s state visit in 2010 on the spreadsheet?

“I suspect everyone will be told to lose weight, and if you smoke you will be told to stop smoking – and that will be in your data so that advice isn’t going to change remarkably”

The English can’t wash up period. Quick dip in that bucket in the sink and that’s it. Gross.

Trullo and FK Black Axe Mangal

What has taken the place of the austere values of the nobility, he (the Viscount of Ayala) says, is their “pursuit of money”.

Is this apropos a certain announcement?

Sign the Petition Honour Arsenal legend Ian Wright with a statue at Emirates Stadium

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Yellowtail? Clive has massively gone down in my estimation! Oh well, de gustibus non est disputandem.

Britain’s medical exodus is a warning sign for the NHS Doctors are increasingly prepared to travel abroad in search of better pay and conditions

This is a truly excellent piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social
Face it guys, you have to pay the doctors
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What did the Tories ever do for us?