I just counted. The French men's side has played in Paris 24 times since 2019. The women's side has not appeared in the capital once over that period.

Very important story on AI-induced mental health issues by @daniellawler.bsky.social.

L'article que j'attendais depuis des mois.

It is notable that two of the resignation letters so far have specifically mentioned a failure to take sexual exploitation and abuse seriously. This is something the UK government could lead on globally, but chooses not to, clearly to the frustration of ministers.

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La réponse féministe à la « crise démographique » consiste à laisser les femmes avoir exactement le nombre d'enfants qu'elles souhaitent. Ni plus, ni moins.

I was a child and even though I didn't actually manage to take it until 20 years later, it still felt like my whole world had changed.

This would appear to be the crux of the whole story. Compare this to the Netherlands, where a dedicated maternity carer will come to your house every single day for a week after birth to help care for newborns.

It's almost as if we never should have listened to these people.

Chinatown.

The Afghan women's team have won a five-year battle for FIFA recognition after the Taliban forced them to flee. I profiled their unprecedented success in becoming the first team to represent their country from exile in last weekend's @theobserveruk.bsky.social. observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

Who is the worst person ever to play for England and why is it John Terry? observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

From today, no one in England and Wales will be criminalised for ending their own pregnancy

FIFA will claim this as a victory for themselves but the Afghan team, who have risked their lives and those of their families to play football, have been fighting for this for five years from exile. It's an enormous testament to their tenacity dedication. sportandrightsalliance.org/fifa-new-rul...

An expert opinion that the scam reported by the BBC wouldn’t work, and so was a scam on applicants not the system, seems like important context

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil joins the long, long list of reporters killed while doing their job by Israel's defence forces. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A bracing read. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Direct HIV financing can work. But, under the Trump administration, will it? That's the question I set out to try and answer over the months I spent reporting this article.

I am LTTA but if you are in a relationship with an ETTA you must adhere to their way of doing things, otherwise you are simply torturing them.

This week on my newsletter: why has France become the global capital of crypto-related kidnappings? There’s been an average of one every 2.5 days in France this year. Absolutely wild open.substack.com/pub/millefeu...

I have found it impossible to read about this story because I cannot compute 'compute' as a noun.

I wrote about Orbán's hideous global legacy. www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/14/v...

I am a little bit obsessed with Georges Méliès and this is wonderful.

Paradise: fun concept but the dialogue is so bad it makes me groan loudly every 3 minutes or so. Unsustainable.

For this weekend's @theobserveruk.bsky.social, I wrote about the heartbreak and wonder of being a lifelong Port Vale fan, ahead of our quarter-final FA Cup match (!) against Chelsea this weekend 🖤🤍💛.

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

I really cannot recommend this podcast more highly for those wanting to understand sex testing in sport.

Mandatory sex testing for all women and none for men – sounds very feminist to me!

The discovery of the oldest ever dog DNA suggests they have been our best friends for nearly 16,000 years -- 5,000 years earlier than had previously been thought, new research said Wednesday. u.afp.com/SboD

After cloning 1,200 mice over 20 years, Japanese scientists discovered there is a limit on how many times mammals can be cloned. The 58th generation all died, showing that without sex, we mammals go into "mutational meltdown". My story for @AFP: www.france24.com/en/live-news...

My partner @daniellawler.bsky.social is wondering why I am yelling from my desk. Because I'm watching the highlights of Port Vale v Arsenal in the third round of the 1998 FA Cup. Obviously.

Pourquoi la langue arabe en France charrie tant de fantasmes en France ? Quelle place peut-elle occuper dans nos vies ? Dialogue avec Leïla Slimani dans le @nouvelobs.com (avec la complicité active de @doanbui.bsky.social )

Here's new Paris mayor Emmanuel Grégoire expertly combining cycling with giving a press conference, while on his way to his victory party. He remained on-brand by taking the Metro home

The bit where John Lennon growls "cookie" in a Cookie Monster voice in the middle of the otherwise absolutely perfect Hold On.

While the rest of France tears itself apart over alliances this week, in Montreuil we will be chilling, having once more elected a communist in the first round with 57% of the vote.

This is a mess.

After trailing in the polls, Doucet has been building momentum in recent weeks following an underwhelming debate performance from Aulas. They are very close after the first round. All will now depend on a potential alliance between the Greens and LFI for round two.

In Lyon, a millionaire football boss is up against a Green in the race for mayor. Who will be best placed to look after the city in the face of an ascendant far-right and in the aftermath of deadly political violence? My dispatch for @theobserveruk.bsky.social. observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Who could have possibly seen this coming?

Why on earth did The Guardian give its “Why Marty Supreme should win the Best Picture Oscar” piece to a writer who self-avowedly didn’t like it, didn’t understand it, and remembers it both incompletely and inaccurately (as the sub missed in the final paragraph?) www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

I completely lost it at "He must not be replaced with an Otter".

In French, this could be mistaken for a book about a very delicious cheese.

"‘Shame has to change sides,’ Gisèle Pelicot said, sitting through the long public trial of the many men who cheerfully raped her drugged body. It would be good if courage changed sides too." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The inventor of Wordle has a new game which basically teaches you to do cryptic crosswords. Excellent. www.parseword.com

Good morning. Here are some samoyeds howling on key via @newscientist.com. www.youtube.com/watch?embeds...

Glorious Montreuil.

Port Vale 1-0 up to Sunderland, what a time to be alive.

Survivors of Mohamed Al Fayed's abuse are fighting to have their cases recognised as trafficking similar to the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein. Requests to the Met have gone unheeded so they are pinning their hopes on a French investigation. My piece for The Observer: observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Met interviews three suspects over Mohamed Al Fayed’s alleged sexual assaults