Excellent LR on why religion & state should never mix. State sponsored terror under the guise of Christianity is abuse of the Cross. Not a single religion can lay claim to a monopoly on truth. Religion should be a personal intellectual pursuit providing guidance not a tool for justifying mass murder

“The truth is now a spectrum of relativity.”

“I did not have sexual relations with that man and woman. Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

Given the similarities with Ivan IV the history books will remember him as Trump The Terrible, First Tsar of America. This is not a compliment. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Truth: - Gaslighting is bad. - Gaslighting an entire nation is much, much badder.

I was waxing lyrical about PSG last night. It seems Oliver Kay feels the same way too!

PSG are a strong collective unit of technically gifted players. They’ve got the La Masia stamp all over them through Luis Enrique. They attack creatively and press well out of possession. But what impresses me most with PSG is the small details that they execute so well…

Re:Truth: - You might be high up on the ladder of life…but life isn’t exactly a ladder, is it? - You might win the rat race…but you’re still a rat. - Hiroshima & Nagasaki were low points in the history of humanity.

I’m no royalist at all but seeing people question the royal visit to the USA is silly. Like the Pope, the monarchy wields soft power and acts as a diplomatic force. Given his delusional obsession with being king of America, the orange felon might actually listen to a real one! It’s worth the risk.

Truth: - Under the ICC’s Rome Statute a lone actor can be held criminally responsible for genocide irrespective of whether they are a head of state (or indeed the leader of the ‘Free’ world!). - It’s sometimes difficult to discern whether people are laughing with you or at you.

Good read. The manager won’t care if you’re having relationship problems. They won’t care if your family members are unwell. You have to be a selfish & often obnoxious specimen to succeed in sport. What Evra details is the harsh reality of that misunderstood term ‘elite mentality’.

A few ‘Truths’: - There’s very little correlation between financial wealth and intelligence. - Businesspeople don’t always make good politicians. - A specific accent doesn’t make someone superior to others. - Badmouthing people doesn’t make you better than them. - Cultural hegemony is bad.

Happy Easter to all Christians throughout the world, especially those persecuted and oppressed by tyranny. ✝️ 🐣 🥳 Ephesians 6:10-18.

Never knew Bruno had a side-hustle as a referee! 😂

Good read this. Not all Christians are warmongering fundamentalists in the same way that not all Muslims are jihadi terrorists.

Artemis II is gonna find Syd Barrett’s mind on the dark side of the moon. 🤪 💎

The Amorim comparison is totally unnecessary in my opinion. 🥱 Amorim was hired to implement a very particular style, that, quelle surprise, was a virtual disaster. Carrick has the easier remit of getting the best out of the players at his disposal.

A quick internet search says that approximately 100,000 British soldiers died before the USA joined WWII in 1941. The war effort began in 1939. The MAGA enclave is probably incapable of doing the maths…that’s a TWO YEAR wait! Now he wants everyone to join his war at the drop of a hat? Jog on. 🍊

Off to *watch Wuthering Heights tonight. *stare at Margot Robbie for three hours.🤫

The full homily of ‘Punk’ Pope Leo XIV. Spoiler: he absolutely hands the Orange Fellon his ass on a plate. 👊🏼💪🏼

Si comprehendis, non est Deus.

No excuses now, lads! 💪🏼👊🏼

My Mondays? Happy.

The eldest lad has been out causing trouble in Warrington tonight. Collected another trophy in the Warri league cup. The team as a whole had a stinker in all fairness but their name is on the cup after a sudden death penalty win! 😅

I did wonder how long it would be before the Tory Murdoch media machine started churning this stuff out again. 🤦🏻😡

Yes, we’ve seen a Casemiro renaissance of sorts this season…but him moving on is the right decision. I think #MUFC need athleticism and dynamism alongside Mainoo in midfield and Casemiro is no longer the solution. Put it down as another player #MUFC should’ve got 5years earlier.

Forgot to say this artwork is called ‘The Art of the Game’ by Michael J Browne for anyone interested! www.michaeljbrowneart.com

I know this is a sensitive issue for many people, but I think it’s the safest & most commonsensical conclusion. I would caveat this by suggesting that perhaps the IOC should carry out individual screening on certain biological factors of athletes & make decisions on a specific case-by-case basis.🤷🏻‍♂️

I think I’ll launch another post into the timeline void…only for it to be crushed by the weight of a billion, more recent, posts.

Metacognition. The strength and weakness of reductive materialism is that we only know what occurs with~5% of the matter in the universe. Therefore, how can we be so sure about our scientific findings? Consciousness & quantum physics show there’s more at play in this universe. #FlawedMethodology 🧠

Watched this tonight. Enjoyed it but felt like it was about 30mins too long. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Rating it at 6.5 out of 10.

Consciousness fascinates me. Any proud, self proclaimed scientist enamoured with the scientific method should read about consciousness. A truly humbling and eye opening experience. Great book this, released last month it’s a suitable introduction into the ‘hard problem’.

The 90’s were as close to a utopia as there’s been in my lifetime at least. Everything post 1999 can be described as virtually dystopian. This isn’t clouded nostalgia. Meet you under the clock at midday tomorrow for a fight?!

Tech & the internet used to hold a secondary position in our lives. We’d go out, window shop, eat, drink, play, meet up & then if we had a bit of idle time afterwards we’d go on the web or games console for a bit. I miss the time when the internet & virtual world wasn’t the primary focus in life.

A two handed push is a free kick. A two handed push in the penalty box should be a penalty. Bruno/Carrick are right, both incidents are either penalties or neither of them are. Refereeing needs to find a happy medium where pens are concerned…and a bit of consistency! 🙄

Full-time verdict: Thought #MUFC should’ve won that. A draw is not a disaster though. Aren’t Bournemouth a weird team?

Halftime verdict: Not an easy place to go to, Bournemouth. Think #MUFC have done well on the whole and should definitely be at least one up. It’s all set up for Big Ben again. 💥💪🏼

Carrick is managing Sesko in exactly the right way. Keeping him hungry

As a multicultural society, I’d argue that the UK is doing quite well. We have our moments still but it’s not absolute chaos. The CofE & monarchy might want to reevaluate the use of terminology on our coins though, like Fidei Defensor and maybe remove the globus cruciger from the crowning ceremony.

Excellent article by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social on the charlatan that is Farage. He’s a careerist with nothing but his own self interest at heart. He would be a disaster as PM & does not represent Joe Average. If you’re backing him or his minions in forthcoming elections, please think again. 🙏🏼

Dear Deidre, I’m not a morning person. I have coffee first thing…a spoonful of coffee, sweetener, & milk. My Mrs. likes coffee in the morning too but she has a sachet coffee, drizzle of honey, spoonful of collagen, & oat milk. Am I being mean or is it justified that I shouldn’t have to make her one?

I was today years old when I learned that the word ‘soccer’ comes from the phrase ‘association football’. Everyday is a school day! 😂 Highly tenuous framing of a word for me. It is, and always will be, foot-ball unlike the NFL which is definitely a game of hand-ball. This shouldn’t be a discussion.🤣

Update: My brown eyed girl is getting big now! Look how happy Suki is to have had her perm at the salon 😂

@andymitten.bsky.social @lauriewhitwell.bsky.social @mjcritchley.bsky.social The lads at The Athletic are not coping with the recent game drought very well…

Post a GIF of who you wanted to be as a kid…

Hello sunshine my old friend, It’s time to wear a sun hat once again… 🍋 🎨 ❤️🖤🤍

Would you be the Prime Minister for £170,000 a year?! Wouldn’t do that job for all the money in the world.

Someone please correct me if I’m wrong but this seems like a relatively recent news issue i.e. the last decade or so? Why does the data go back to 2001 and why has it taken ~25yrs for them to realise that it’s now an issue? There’s shadowy networks all over the shop! 💰