everyone’s discussing how financially stupid this is and they’re right but it’s also logistically stupid. zero way to charge foreigners and not locals without a hell of a lot of racism coming out in the wash

dried mango is the closest you can legally come to chewing on a man’s ear

Corrupt to the core.

And the award goes to Walter 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 @WutTheWut.bsky.social

I really wish Aardmann Animations were still doing Creature Comforts. I can't imagine a better way to put a visual to the best thing I've heard all week: “I think we should be proud of what Churchill stood for. Equally I’m not against hedgehogs.”

It was from an Irish TV show. Incredible that it's live. It's my favourite performance of hers, probably of anyone's youtu.be/mWIaP0NnEOQ

*cries in Catholic*

Very glad that The Jewish News has published this. Good on them. (And shame on the MPs not willing to say the same).

It is lovely that the Art Gallery of Ontario can now name the Black woman in the gorgeous #18thc portrait they acquired 6 yrs ago & also date the painting. It's from 1775. She is Eleonora Susette, enslaved by the Dutch governor of Guyana, accompanying his widow on her return to the Netherlands.

And Christmas Eve will take some getting used to.

It’s now over 12 years since the greatest story ever told.

Always completely throws me when the kids of players I remember watching appear in games, looking like fully fledged adults.

A really depressing feature of modern society: the number of organisations run by people who fundamentally have no affinity to them, or actively dislike them.

Seriously, this crop of Higher Education managers don't want to run a university. Nobody forces them to, they're welcome to go and run whatever meaningless money-making-scheme they want. Just stop destroying universities.

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A senior HE director today: ‘in future HE will be technology and process-led, not academic-led’. So what, exactly, is the point of universities beyond them being a cash machine for senior managers?

This is pure Linked-In Bro Speak magical thinking. This character will be off into the private sector within 2 years, with a resume full of 'step change' and 'transformations'.

I love Cole Palmer’s ‘What are you doing here?’ face

We had 11 players out of contract last summer after a season where we were many people’s favourites for relegation. We moved stadiums and are bedding in new players. We’ve just gone toe to toe with the champions elect for 80 mins and could have been 2 up at half time.

Also, why do they all dress like this? If you spend all day in the gym, instead of - oh, I dunno, off the top of my head, reading a book on misogyny - why would you not go for elegance, instead of looking like you marched into Moss Bros and demanded they squeeze you into blue sausage casing?

When your brand is so mistrusted that rebranding yourselves as Estate Agents counts as an upgrade

The M25 motorway is open for crossing , Legalclaret said. The only thing prohibiting crossing on the motorway right now is the cars driving along at 70mph he said. It is open for crossing should cars not do that.

There speaks a Peace Prize Winner.

This IS good, it’s a better read on the issues facing universities than the vast majority of stuff one sees in the national press. I don’t know how this Manc outfit does it, but it’s really impressive.

I saw a quote somewhere saying that it’s pointless dicking around with pedagogical strategies if you’re not going to address labour issues. That’s my paraphrasing. But I can’t remember who said it or where. #academicsky, any pointers? Feel free to make source recommendations.

fascinating thing about now being out of Westminster but still with some social ties there is that a lot of friends still in the bubble keep going on about how Kemi is doing a lot better these days, but as a now average joe I'm able to listen to them saying that and honestly reply: what?

And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.

Just waiting now for Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch and Tony Blair to withdraw their repeated calls for the UK to join this madman in his illegal war.

Londoners maybe don't understand how huge this is because they've got so many stations. Glasgow has two and they're not set up to be easily interchangeable - Central goes everywhere south, Queen Street everywhere north.

This is an actual Pentagon press release. “An Army believed to be casualty…the believed to be death”

i'm taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist

Oh. And carry an Egyptian Dog god around the stadium.

“I could write three books on my time at Everton”. No, you couldn’t and if one where he is a mere smidgen of the story is anything to go by, it would be a dire offering

The reference to a player “who didn’t wanna play, almost” was really poor form. Similar to Benitez throwing out in his own post-sacking media career that an unnamed player had been injured moving furniture. A real snide.

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the one who loved horses, the one who was a great goalkeeper, the one who kept a diary every day, the one who held her sister's hand when they walked to school, the one who read Harry Potter in English, the one who collected old coins, the one who drew rainbows for her grandmother ...

‘British expats, he claimed, were refusing to fill out evacuation forms provided by the British government “just in case it somehow turns into a tax form instead”.’ No notes. as.ft.com/r/65cf2b43-6...

The @ipso.co.uk ruling of Telegraph’s preposterous “We earn £345k but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays”, reveals the article to have been a fabrication. There is no such family as Al, Alexandra, Ali, Harry and Barry Moy. Glad to have acted as lead complainant on this.

Ayatollah W. Khamenei

A woman’s ex boyfriend, who is a cop, threatens to shoot her Women are at the highest risk for being killed when they try to leave a relationship. She calls 911 for help & the Police Chief WARNS the boyfriend instead. Boyfriend opened fire on her car We aren’t angry enough.

Remember when Everton used to have Saturday 3pm home games? Nah, me neither.

Last night I was sitting with the baby in his stroller while mom and dad spoke on a panel (so fancy)! This child looked me in my eyes, said, “I want to go outside” and then, a millisecond later, added “BY MYSELF” and immediately tried to escape out the front door

Walking around the baby/child sections of major retailers is a real roller-coaster ride between ‘oh, that is unbearably cute’ and ‘the world has gone totally mad’.

Spectator columnists having a meltdown

Nadia, this is a solid thread, but don't forget: 5) Don't make life harder for disabled people, trans people, and migrants. It was missing from your list, and matters.

Poor Matt Goodwin. All he ever wanted was to be a hard working MP/academic/tv presenter/commentator/writer/pollster/wealth adviser/women’s health guru and you all ripped that away from him. A shame

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Worth noting his objection to no fault divorce. I worked a bit on the campaign for that, and one of the striking things with the scholarship was the evidence that demonstrated allowing it led to a drop in suicides of married women.

What does the alternative version cover?

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