Oh no. It’s not that we have an education system built on a university route. It’s that we have a social-economic order built on access to prestige universities.

Canada deserved that. South African keeper has conducted a heroic rearguard but it was a great finish - keeper no chance.

Is this stadium quiet, half-empty or both?

"You just knew it was going to be him," says the commentator, who gave no previous indication it was going to be him

Jude Bellingham what a guy.

We need to see some subs now not in 10 minutes

Nope - not good at all. Kane is invisible.

With temperatures soaring, you'd be forgiven for thinking every classroom must have air con by now... Think again. Even in London, only 22% of primary and 24% of secondary teachers have it. In Yorkshire and the North East, that drops to just 8% and 12%. 🥵

It’s sadly been the case for a while that the Germans actually don’t make the trains run on time.

That game is a product of the tournament format where a Ghana draw basically gets them through. Possibly a bad result for Scotland with it being another 3rd place time potentially on 4 points.

Come on Tuchel this needed a sub 10 minutes ago

Well that’s been difficult.

So far my expert assessment is that France have a significantly better football team than Iraq.

For the young’uns out there - THIS is the Germany us older ones grew up with - figuring out how to get out of a complete jam when they don’t really deserve it.

Starmer - the Gustav Stresemann of his time?

The Scots fans have been good but enjoying the Dutch side to side thing to some crazy Europop type song.

The gulf in quality between these two teams is rapidly becoming highly evident

I did my best

"WITNESS HISTORY IN DALLAS" is certainly a *choice* for an advertising slogan, FIFA.

Best England performance in a game that matters for years

palestine in 1920:

African history textbooks summarised:

Messi hat trick means we’re about to see some generational ball hogging from Ronaldo tomorrow, I can’t wait

The footage of the Scottish fans having a whale of a time at Fenway Park is just absolutely marvellous.

Emma Hayes: "this is a victory for immigration" (because the team are all disaspora). I thought I couldn't like her any more.

Cabo Verde absolutely brilliant.

What a disgusting result if you’re Switzerland.

Also a 12 noon kickoff in June in this stadium that has no cover whatsoever is certainly a choice.

Insane decision not to take him off after that

Sam Matterface with his first bozo comment (it’s not usually artificial turf at Levi’s Stadium)

Canada deserved that.

Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.

This is no more about the details of immigration policy than the progroms my great great grandparents fled were about Jews committing crimes. It's straightforward racist violence and it needs the strongest possible response.

An observation about this World Cup compared to the previous two. Russia and Qatar made massive efforts for obvious reasons to change public perceptions and really went extra mile with hosting. The United States seems to not care about external reputational harm in same way. And we are seeing that.

Are you watching IOC?

I understand why political campaigns have to say it but I just reject the premise I have more in common with these people than divides us. We need to confront the fact that 10-30% of the population wants to end democracy, establish a fascist regime and ethnically cleanse the country

In positions of power the Right maligns & makes no concessions to anyone outside its constituency. Everyone else has to understand, reach out, look for common ground, appease & concede. Bigotry gets a special license & sympathy, denying its exponents any agency & relieving them of responsibility.

Sunderland in Europe good news for next seasons teams worried about relegation I would think.

We love you Freiburg, we do, oh Freiburg we love you.

The rules that protect democracy are like some school behaviour policies. They are entirely geared to the people who wouldn’t normally break the rules but when forced to confront people that flagrantly do, every contortion is made to avoid implementing what the policy/rules say.

Up the Freiburg!

If this Scottish season ends with that miserable Celtic team winning the league that would be a disappointing outcome to say the least. What a win for Hearts today!

Not only does most Ed-tech not work, the best piece of educational technology ever created (the well designed printed textbook) was chased out of the classroom on a tide of digital over enthusiasm.

Right, kid is fed, kid is well-behaved and knows bad behaviour will be punished, is taught by a subject expert where possible, kids has knowledge-rich curriculum, huh, turns out that works most of the time.

Well Chelsea took their chance and Leeds blew theirs. Chelsea v City as a final is a proper yawner sadly.

Glad I put the Bayern game on instead of Arsenal.

I’d love to believe Leeds will hang on to this 2-0 lead.

I don’t know if Peter Magyar is going to be any good but seeing Orban and Fidesz be rejected so decisively is pretty good.

Kemi Badenoch! Roger Scruton! MattGPT! Bari Weiss! Rod Dreher! Jair Bolsanaro! Howard from the Halifax adverts! JD Vance? You hear me JD Vance? Your boy took a hell of a beating! Your boy took a hell of a beating!

I feel like Ibrahim Osman misses big chances in every Birmingham game these days