makes me think of @hofrench.bsky.social book Born in Blackness about how West Africa was tied into global circuits from the 15th century onwards. Cape Verde and that region was such a fulcrum
More than a year ago I argued @foreignpolicy.com that German government has to open there eyes to what policies they are supporting by delivering weapons to Israel & why they should change their Israel policy. Unfortunately nothing has changed & my artguments still apply so reposting my piece again:
Yeh, even if the article isnt really like the headline seems to promise, the use of the headline itself is alarming
also embarrassing for the Guardian. Who edited the piece and did that line not stick out to them? comment is free but facts after all are sacred
Check your MP against the list of names and if they haven't signed, contact them and ask them to do so.
(Jeff Smith has signed it, in case you're from Manchester Withington)
he's also seemingly incapable of thinking for himself without a brief. Someone told him "say this" and he did so
I'm not trying to be facetious. I just ignore the vast majority of comment on football
see to me I don't especially see any response to PSG winning the CL, because I simply don't care to read about it
Take two 7 year olds in a primary school in PM's constituency.
His Dad is a banker
Her Mum is cleaner at that bank
Does he say Pascal Banque's son gets perm status at age 10 while in primary school & working class classmate Marie Cleaner not until 22 (consequence: international student fees)
Everyone is. You just don’t follow the others!
That’s true about off field issues in general, but the one about the charges is the one that has become most entangled (potentially) with the game itself because of the potential for points deductions. And consequently is discussed more than the others
all fans want this now, that’s my point. Arsenal have a particular narrative about how and why that came about in this case but the phenomenon itself is not unique
the funniest outcome this season would be City getting the most points then losing out on a charges points deduction, so Arsenal are champions but with an asterisk
The other thing about the post above is that it’s a great example of social media allowing you to believe what you want. no one talks about City’s charges? thats news to me
City fans have been the same. One burst into the press box at Wembley after City won the FA cup a few years ago to chastise them for what he imagined they would and wouldn’t put on the front pages the following day
One of the lamest things about contemporary football fan culture is the obsession with getting the requisite Respect and Credit from the world at large. It’s like the prize for having the most points shouldn’t be winning the league, it’s having everyone doff their caps and say Youre the best
I truly hate these ppl
When I played football for UCL (the 7s, lol) as an undergrad, the club president expressed his disappointment that players didn't hate KCL more and tried to encourage us to synthesise some more rivalrous feelings. Not even sports players care (apart from rugby players, of course)
& no one stands, of course. because everybody, whatever else they might say, knows privately what the reality is
kind of similar to that 90s Jane Elliot speech.("I want every white person in this room who would be happy to be treated as this society... treats our Black citizens... if you, as a white person, would be happy to receive the same treatment that our Black citizens do in this society, please stand.")
One of the biggest and most persistent gaps in mutual comprehension when it comes to conversations about 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 is that a lot of Liberal Zionists see "there is no public support in Israel for ending the Occupation" as exculpatory, rather than condemnatory.
"i SAW HIM IN A CLUB IN MONTREAL (CANADA) DUDE WAS THERE JUST LIKE ANYONE ELSE ....HUMAN LOVE THIS MAN SIMPLE AND LYRICALY BLESS ...NO GANG SHIT JUST THE REAL DEAL ....BIG UP TO THIS MAN i SHOULD OF SHOOKED HIS HAND..."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cTC...
easy to miss with all the other nonsense in here, but at one point Trump says that his father was born in the UK. seriously losing it.
otherwise known as "invading the sovereign state of Lebanon" or...?
Keine Lust die Tagesnachrichten anzuschauen? Dieser Artikel in Haaretz heute ist ein Must-Read! Neue Dokumente, einige wurden zufällig auf der Straße gefunden, zeigen ausführlich wie Israel Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit systematisch eingesetzt hat, um Palästina 1948 ethnisch zu säubern.
I've always said that registration and accountability of the kind he (trollingly?) suggests can be a subject for discussion once similar levels of resources are provided for cyclists as for other vehicle users.
The corruption is obviously bad and illegal (add it to the huge list, somewhere below the illegal war itself), but at this point how is anyone without secure inside knowledge stupid enough to bet the other side on something like this?
Came here to suggest the same thing!
“What happened to the permanent post that *redacted* promised to me when they manipulated the process to get me that JRF?”
