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

This post is brilliant and in a calm and understated way. Call it Operation Effective Fury.

Went to see Operation Mincemeat last night at the Alhambra. Brilliant show and songs. Loved it!

Ultimately the leadership of this team has shown in their two seasons at this level that for all the big talk they don’t really know how to put together a competitive team. Next season I’d prefer it if they went about their business a lot more quietly because they’re embarrassing themselves.

Why do our second-tier cities underperform? Why do we have fewer trams in the UK? I try my best to give an answer to these two interconnected questions. chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/to-grow-th...

BREAKING: Iranian Revolutionary Guards say the Strait of Hormuz will never return to its previous state, particularly for the United States and Israel.

Oh dear Leeds

No teacher has ever said the words, "You'll never amount to anything."

Birmingham trying to get on the beach early if this shambles of a performance anything to go by.

My school (St Aidans in Harrogate) recently had its SIAMS inspection. It’s a reflection very much of the excellent work of my colleagues and especially our brilliant headteacher. It is a lovely report which I very much wanted to share with the world. cms-site-files.reactfiles.co.uk/staidans/upl...

My most controversial education opinion is probably that I would remove football entirely from the PE curriculum at all ages.

Not clinical enough in front of goal is the story of the season for Blues unfortunately

Typical Calcutta cup at Murrayfield with England wilting under the crowd pressure and Scotland playing their usual only good game against a good team while underachieving against everyone else.

These people are soft as anything. Soft cowardly people who like to do big talk but can in no sense back it up.

Chaser. Paper is a wild read this morning. I should've gone into private equity and profited from state failure and suffering.

Where’s the cue ball going…? 😢

West Ham v Leeds on the last day of the season could be interesting…

Wikipedia tells me the NFl playoff record for turnovers is 14! Houston Oilers v Pittsburgh 1978 season AFC title game. Oilers with 9!

Hard to believe we’d boycott the World Cup after going to Russia and Qatar the last two times. But definitely should consider it. Fuck these guys.

They’re gonna have to do one more drive either to score or salt the clock

Purdy that was a horrible horrible throw and decision

Shanahan with the husk of his old offensive roster and some guys and a joke defense leading the world champs on the road in the 4th quarter. Even if SF eventually does lose this is embarassing for Philly

Cowardly field goal from Shanahan

Also the same as Farage. These people are the least patriotic people going and should be attacked as such.

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

This military action wasn't some MAGA policy goal, it's been the dream of mainstream GOP to toss Maduro out of Venezuela for years now. This isn't a MAGA anomaly, this is the worst of mainstream American foreign policy using MAGA's power and cover to do regime change.

I don't think "oil" is a sufficient explanation for what's going on. Rubio being a neocon when it comes to Latin America feels more important.

Plausible worst case scenario with Venezuela in four steps: 1. Rubio and Venezuelan exiles sell the idea of decapitation strikes against Maduro to Trump as the one big thing that solves Venezuela, cartels and Cuba for the US.

So my hot take is that assuming everything the admin is telling us is true the Trump WH has pulled off a spectacular (albeit illegal) tactical coup in coop with some in Maduro’s circle, and it will now declare victory without clarifying in any way, including to itself, what the bigger strategy is.

it's time to play America's favorite new game, 'what the fuck am I waking up to now'

"Popularism is a loser's mindset. A commitment to popularism allows the right wing to shape public sentiment, giving up the entire playing field to a movement that is all too glad to take it (and keep it)."

The FIFA Peace Prize doesn't mean what it used to

Niners struggling in run defense today.

Typical 49ers game three players injured on the opening kickoff lol

Bye bye Chiefs

Darnold is dying to give this game away but it’s Atlanta so they’re gonna give it right back

If we can do something about the away form the Blues might have something this year.

People say the fumble through the end zone for a touchback is the most stupid nfl rule when it’s clearly the defense can return a 2pt conversion interception to the other end zone and get a 2 pointer themselves.

Best 49ers performance of the season by far @statsonfire.bsky.social - all 3 phases came to play and no dumb stuff from Purdy!