little girl initially denied a passport in the UK because her name is khaleesi, which the passport office said is "trademarked by warner brothers" 🤨
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No legal basis. No clear objective. No exit. And much of Britain’s political class spent the week calling Starmer a coward for noticing.
Latest substack from me.
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Thanks for the intelligence of @lewisgoodall.com . I remember a prediction that the mainstream media would die by 2024. It has shown more resilience but some of the shallow warmongering of recent days makes you wonder if that was a good thing.
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I agree. I have worked out how to turn it off on my VW. (A pain to have to remember every time I turn on the ignition). But I have recently hired a Kia on holiday and suffered it for 3 weeks making its own abysmal attempts at cornering and trying to shunt me into traffic.
He was a very highly regarded as a player in half of Manchester. But you could argue that this lack of optimism was a personality flaw that held him back from being a totally effective player at international level. Err, I think.
they think it's all over. a column on dislocation, dissociation and why you're not enjoying football as much as you used to
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Start by turning off lane assist is my advice
I'ver had those sort of nights 😂
I thought you meant Tony Pulis, but no, we wouldn't!
I love the fact that corners are so dangerous these days. I mean, I suffered Leeds United taking 179 corners without ever getting close to scoring from one. It's so much more fun when corners cause havoc. #lufc
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Without the dots, it looks like polygraph test results from a pathological liar.
looking forward to reading this... on Sunday 🤔
Rehan Ahmed's batting really kicked on at Leicestershire last summer. Yes, Leicestershire. He's a livewire cricketer and he has surely just played his way into a World T20 semi-final. And the elitists say county cricket doesn't matter...
If this guy is not arrested does the Equality Act mean anything? Supposedly bans anything that violates a person's dignity or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, or offensive environment. Using racist language, including "banter" that causes offence, constitutes unlawful harassment."🤷
Good spirit at Spurs. Maybe change the manager again this week? 🙄
I was hoping for 4 😉
If it's like that at full time it would be Super enough for me
Well, we are a little closer to agreement than we were 24 hours ago
Even in sport, "skill" does not always equal effectiveness or team need.... so, yes.
But you simply cannot start from DENIAL or from telling people that they are wrong and that actually with a bit of positive thinking we are actually doing jolly well because last month we did some great research at Oxford University or whatever. Because that is not THEIR lived day to day experience.
As a liberal, centre/centre-left voter, I would want to hear from those parties: "Yes, some elements of Britain ARE broken, and it has been broken by the 2008 financial crash, Brexit and a failure to invest in the social fabric - and Reform have blood on their hands. Only we care enough to sort it.
When did you last stand on, say, a Northern rail platform with 30% train cancellations? Or visit a closed provincial town centre? Or fear your graduate debt? Or wait 6 months for a cancer appointment then find the machine is broken? And since when was Reform the prelude to a SOCIALIST revolution? 🤯
These guys are utterly insane
Oh right, that's what guilt does for you!
(And generally - beyond sport - I think countering Reform’s Broken Britain narrative by denying the fact would be a terrible comms mistake and it is a political mistake that is sadly now all too common).
To present sport from a Broken Britain perspective (all parties) it’s easy to reference collapse of state school sport, closed sports centres & swimming pools, terrible & reduced council football pitches, lost cricket clubs & a general weakening of the Sport for All narrative to detriment of health
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Fair cop.
I wrote the occasional political / social piece to be fair and wanted to write more but we all get typecast 😀
Exactly. I understand the desire to challenge the Broken Britain narrative but you can hardly illustrate the efficiency of a public sector by pointing to focused financial support for a tiny driven minority committed to pursuing excellence. As good as it is to see us win medals, it misses the point.
