😳 I’m sure there is some innocent explanation

‘I accidentally got a Nazi tattoo’ could only end one way

‘Norway are accustomed to playing in the heat’ seems a bit of a stretch

600 excess deaths in London during the June heatwave, only Paris hit harder

Such good ideas

NEW: Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate KEY FACT: Many European cities, on the world's fastest-warming continent, never needed AC in the past For some strange reason – I can't imagine why – many commentators prefer to ignore this

So apparently “anti-establishment” politics now means defending the right of wealthy aristocratic families to make huge undeclared political donations, while “the establishment” is anyone who asks questions about this

CEO Reveals How He Used AI To Build One-Person Company That's $1.3 Billion In Debt

Wise words from @casmudde.bsky.social as usual: social democrats should stop chasing the votes of old men who support the far right and focus on young women who are left-orientated. And principled figures such as Pedro Sanchez and Zohran Mamdani are leadership models: voxeurop.eu/en/cas-mudde...

Hooray! Getting Better* has received the Richard Titmuss Book Prize from @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social. We are so pleased! *available open access at Policy Press: policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/getting-better @profbambra.bsky.social @profkatsmith.bsky.social @premnsikka.bsky.social

This has got to be the most cosmopolitan international football match ever played

First blood to France: no beating that anthem

I’m constantly thinking this guy is a genius and then realising that all he is doing is identifying problems people care about and offering to do something about it. Is that really such a revolutionary idea? Yet it doesn’t seem to have ever occurred to the existing Democratic establishment

Well that is a promising sign. May not change very much but at least some recognition

So this is the moment to do some of the *cultural* work we need to do by making the association of Trump with coal, oil, and gas explicit and relentless, tying fossil fuels to everything voters loathe: Trump's selfishness, his incompetence, his corruption, his dishonesty, his criminality. 8/n

Worth reading in full, an absolutely cracking story and a great little explainer of Suspicious Activity Reports www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Excited to share a new paper on transformative statecraft. We start from a critique of the compensation consensus in climate politics/political science. Compensating losers works – plenty of evidence for that. But when the goal is transformation (not reform), we need to think about mobilization. 🧵

Huge congratulations to Prof Kat Smith (Co-Lead, Scottish Health Equity Research Unit, @ScotHealthEq), Clare Bambra and Julia Lynch on winning the Richard Titmuss Book Award for "Getting Better"! 🎉 Free to read open access: policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/getting-better

my crankiest Marxist take is that Bourdieu has a lot to answer for re the total deformation of class analysis over the past decades that has tech bros and mining magnates denounce 'the elites' aka a precarious university worker.

Britain may be in a mess but at least most of are never going to take ourselves that seriously, which is probably why a Trump figure is unlikely to make it here

In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.

Why not take what we’re really good at and starve it of funding, that seems a smart competitive strategy for an economy

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

I’m not the biggest fan of the BBC at the moment but iPlayer is a brilliant app and @itvx.com is total crap

Oh so it turns out that the cheeky chappie was just a tool of some big media empires and now they want to put him back in his box it hurts so bad

For 90% of the game, Haaland just lurks around. He hardly even pays attention to the ball. But then - out of a sudden - at the exact right moment, he awakens, scores a historic goal, and immediately goes back to lurking around. He cannot be replicated.

You could search for years and still never find something that Trump cannot strip of its beauty. It’s an extraordinary gift

Fifa allowing football rules to be written by a guy who didn't know what a red card was a week ago bsky.app/profile/atru...

I’m assuming someone has already done the Andrew formerly known as Prince joke? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

UEFA, ooofff, oooofff, UEFA. www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

All of England’s strengths and weaknesses on parade there but huge respect for getting through it. A real unit

It's the Gulf of England now, I don't make the rules.

What a picture

What a fitting end for Neymar…shit talking the goalkeeper who won the game for his team while you score a consolation penalty

Still time for Brazil to turn this from miserable surrender to flattered by the scoreline

Norway playing like Brazil now

Well you can’t say Norway haven’t been worth this

Not quite Italy but Brazil increasingly living off their history

Burnham has 3 years and a big majority, so aside from building a million council houses he needs to relaunch Leveson 2 and get a grip on the BBC

Almost 1 in 4 voters in Europe now votes for a radical right party (23%), up from 7% in 2006 and 11% in 2016. Almost 1 in 3 votes for a populist party. By contrast, only ≈1% now votes for a radical left party, the lowest level since 1989 Source: The PopuList 4.0, via @caterinafr.bsky.social

I think that it’s a very good thing that refereeing has changed in ways that make players a lot safer, and that coaches have to find different ways to be aggressive that don’t end in compound fractures. That said: people, it’s a contact sport!

If Europeans want to understand what Copa Libertadores is like: imagine what Paraguay did today, but with a raucous crowd intimidating the ref, plus it’s in a dimly lit stadium 4000 meters above sea level.

This is definitely the only chance of a banter outcome

Amazing that France have two yellow cards and Paraguay none. That’s premium sh*thousery on display

That Caceres is the kind of defender that nightmares are made of

That was a pen but surely the statute of limitations?

It’s not pretty and hardly worth staying up for but you have to admire what Paraguay are managing to do here

Hard to believe this is the same Paraguay who rolled out the red carpet to the US three weeks ago

At some point we have to just bite the bullet and recognise that most of the British press are not engaged in journalism at all, they are quite literally mouthpieces for specific political groups

Definitely appoint him (also, he probably won’t)