This is a round table about college sports. This is what he thinks is more important and challenging than the war he started and has lost interest in
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This is a round table about college sports. This is what he thinks is more important and challenging than the war he started and has lost interest in
A very normal guy
My issue is not so much balance but the absence of red lines and the pretence that this is philosophy. Seems like a bad vibe to me
I agree. When I hosted a politics podcast during the Johnson years I banned panellists from calling him Boris
Yes it probably does feel quite normal on the ground but it’s more far right friendly than most and I don’t know why
Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead
Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead
Ha ha excellent
What kind of person goes to How the Light Gets In? Fascists with intellectual pretensions, yes, but who else? (Kudos to whoever came up with the euphemism "demystifying populism")
there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).
the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.
I don't know. Some political commentators like to say Boris, Keir, Kemi, etc but I'm not one of those people
Conservatism has fried its brain. It doesn't care about or understand the public anymore
I used to think it was fear of Jenrick taking over but now he's gone I guess they know they're fucked for the time being and Badenoch might as well carry the can
I certainly want someone dim and thin-skinned with terrible judgement in charge of the big pow-pow. What could go wrong?
I spoke to some of the people behind the Trans Mission benefit concert at Wembley Arena next week
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
I think there's a lot more artistry in West End Girl than that. It's storytelling with tunes. Take the way a song like Tennis times the release of information. And unlike autofiction she doesn't list what she ate.
there are like 50 people in the country who want the UK to get involved in the Iran War, one of them is Kemi Badenoch, one of them is Nigel Farage, and the other 48 are newspaper columnists
In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.
I mean, that's basically what autofiction is
Delighted to learn that man of the people Matt Goodwin is dating… the features editor of Tatler
Our major recent study on young men, masculinity, and misogyny questioned the extent to which Gen Z men are really more likely to hold misogynist views than older generations of men
yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
Yes I know what the book is about but it popularised the word. Often the person who popularises a word is not the person who invented it
I disagree. I don't think that's where the bulk of the PLP is
Female athletes must pay £185 to prove their sex Matt Lawton - Chief Sports Correspondent British female track and field athletes are being asked to pay £185 for a sex test if they want to compete internationally. World Athletics requires all athletes to take an SRY gene test before competing in the female category at major championships and Diamond League events to guarantee fair competition by excluding trans and DSD (differences of sex development) competitors. Before the World Championships in Tokyo last September, World Athletics gave $100 per test for the thousand or so female athletes needing one. More money will be provided by the international federation for this year’s World Junior Championships. But British women have been advised by UK Athletics (UKA) to pay for the test themselves, urging them to have the cheek swab, which indicates the presence of a Y chromosome, “as soon as possible to avoid delays around selection”. However, some women have complained it is unfair when the test is not required for men. UKA has a hardship fund to pay for the test and will assess requests on a case-by-case basis. But the situation is symptomatic of a national federation already facing financial challenges, made worse by UK Sport cutting its funding for this Olympic cycle. While almost £32 million was given to the relatively niche sports that won five medals at last month’s Winter Olympics, athletics has had its funding cut from £22.18 million to £20.45 million despite winning ten medals in 2024. It was only last year UKA returned to some form of financial stability, posting a profit of £107,588. But it is now facing a big fine after admitting corporate manslaughter over the death of Abdullah Hayayei, who died in 2017 after a metal cage fell on him while he was training for the World Para Athletics Championships in London.
"Feminism" [Times]
Plus the 1945 Labour manifesto and the concept of meritocracy! You have to wonder if Toby's whole career has been a twisted response to his father's unmatchable achievements
Genuinely fascinating divergence.
Oil and energy market types: really beginning to freak out.
Global macro types: mostly relatively calm and expecting this to all blow over.
The press is OBSESSED with the idea that young men are radicalised reactionaries. I look at my daughter's male friends and see nothing of the sort
I just felt bad for him when people started mocking his appearance based on a misunderstanding but then the onus is on the editors not to feed that misunderstanding with stupid headlines
There's something deeply undignified about this
He’s actually saying the opposite in the piece but the headline is aggressively, perversely misleading
"British female track and field athletes are being asked to cover the cost of their own £185 sex tests if they want to compete internationally"
A tax on women courtesy of the Gender Critical.
You know feminism /s 🙄
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