apart from Weaver's debut, my main memory of this game is the half time entertainment, which was some Jamaican musicians (I think it was a steel band). I remember one of them getting on the mic to say to the City fans, "sorry about the season and all that."

"Perhaps South Africa’s greatest musical innovator and composer of the twentieth century... Nelson Mandela once called him 'our Mozart.'" @seanjacobs.bsky.social on Abdullah Ibrahim

"Perhaps South Africa’s greatest musical innovator and composer of the twentieth century... Nelson Mandela once called him 'our Mozart.'" @seanjacobs.bsky.social on Abdullah Ibrahim

Bari Weiss was exactly like this on a smaller stage, as my editor when I wrote book reviews for the WSJ over a decade ago, constantly trying trying to inject her politics into my pieces, even post copy editing.

The design quality really drops off after 98

“UEFA acted on Russia, they haven’t acted on Israel. We fully appreciate it’s not right. Ultimately it’s not right.” - John O’Shea

going to see The Streets in Berlin next weekend and listening to the back catalogue to remind myself: and, 👌🏻

Pete Shelley mural by Akse in Leigh, Lancashire.

So frustrating that the rights general idea of “the police are incompetent and corrupt” is actually correct, it’s just that they‘re saying the incompetence and corruption is to do with how much they hate while people, when it’s just because they’re shit at their jobs and mostly very evil

Worth noting that Smotrich called the German Chancellor a Nazi a month ago for saying that illegal West Bank settlements are illegal, and Germany is still insisting on protecting Smotrich from EU sanction.

You are creating that debate. There is no debate. There is a far right talking point and a media willing to traffic it into the mainstream.

It’s time for #Germany to get serious about foreign policy. No cheap talk anymore about the ”rules-based order“ while the double standards are plain obvious. Beyond the surface, the result reflects Germany's limbo & strategic dilemma: 1/

a curse upon loud typers in the library

Here in Germany, many people comfort themselves amid fascism by saying "there are more of them than there are of us"; but that doesn't matter, and has never, ever mattered, when the minority is highly motivated and the majority is disaffected, apathetic, or both.

Die Zeit's official Übersetzer for the British far right has offered his well-informed and considered account

Indeed. In the 1960s many more people held racist attitudes but both the government and opposition were consistent in condemning open racism. We now have am emboldened and tolerated minority by both government and opposition.

Sometimes it hard living in a foreign country. So it’s comforting to find British Food in the supermarket

Louise Taylor continues her relentless commitment to The Bit in this Guardian football writers' review of the season Best Player - Enzo Le Fée Manager - Le Bris Goal - William Osula Match - Newcastle 4 Leeds 3 Signing - Xhaka Flop - Isak

WTF happened to Paul Mason

Changes to visa and migration rules of the kind that apply here, and others being currently proposed, are completely wrong on the merits. But there's something extra outrageous about applying such changes retrospectively. This family has been in Britain since 2022.

This is really bad. Not allowing in Kanye West set a dangerous precedent. West is actually antisemitic, these two are not and Piker does a lot to challenge antisemitism. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

The thing is supporting a club has always worked on a hierarchical basis, it's why a casual Reading fan doesn't get first dibs on tickets when they go to Anfield in the cup. Anyone abusing international fans should be banned for life, but points re: community engagement shouldn't be controversial!

Right but you don’t really get ie Norwich City fans in Boston, Accra or Kuala Lumpur do you for obvious reasons because it’s a categorically different way of following a football team.

You think Arsenal losing on penalties is funny? I'll tell you something that's not so funny. Right now, Keir Starmer is at home, crying like a little girl!

„Man hat seine eigene Offenheit in dieser Thematik deutlich überschätzt.” So wird es sein. Noch deutlicher gesagt: seine eigene Bereitschaft zum Nachdenken.

reckon UEFA should have got the killers to perform instead of a cover band without a sound check

Fuck off Arsenal, obviously. But this is a great, great read. Makes me appreciate all the more my football-watching experiences with my dad, and excited to make new memories and experiences with my son. (*Consent depending, assuming he likes football, etc etc) www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Richie on the ball

Such an excellent and withering piece. The massive chilling effect that Starmer and Mahmood have had on high skill / high pay migration needed calling out.

And they didn't. The UNSC was convened, Gaddafi's assets were frozen, a no-fly zone was imposed, NATO began bombing. Now, we watch the entire populations of historic cities get told to clear out by the IDF, lest they still be then when the whole place is reduced to rubble.

15 years ago, I can recall the furious banging of the war drums as Gaddafi's forces approached Benghazi. Surely, blared the front page of literally every newspaper, every television anchor, every commentator, the world would not sit back and watch as the city was sacked and the rebels massacred.

Wie oft müssen eigentlich noch Leute von der taz zu Springer wechseln, bis man sich dort mal fragt, welche politischen und ideologischen Brückenschläge diesen Weg so erstaunlich leicht machen?

Yes it's actually worth seriously engaging with the fact that Israel managed to successfully dilute the international pressure on it for decades by creating what the South African whites could not: the illusion of a semi-independent sub-statelet that is in "conflict/negotiation" with the state.

Vielleicht möchte sich der deutsche Medienjournalismus und das werte Feuilleton dann doch mal mit antideutschen Abwanderungen von Tagesschau und taz zu Springer beschäftigen? Weshalb erscheinen diese Wechsel als Kernprozesse nicht-interessant und in ihrer Relevanz de-priorisiert?

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I’m so tired of this. It is *not* free childcare. We *do not* have free childcare. We pay less than previous parents had to, but we still pay a lot and still struggle to cover the costs every month. We need universal childcare. www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/politic...

Tony Blair on the radio right now saying, “it’s not about traditional left and right politics”. Whenever anyone says that, they mean, it’s about right-wing politics.

Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.

Latest post - The elephant in the room: antisemitism in the shadow of Israel's wars rachelshabi.substack.com/p/the-elepha...

i was just saying to folks on my stream that the true measure of a writer who doesn’t actually know anything is that everything they write is about online discourse

"US sanctions... police official over 'torture' of rights activists"

I think she's right and I just despair. If he wins it's evidence for more of the same, and if he loses then it's either Starmer or Streeting and hence more of the same. Heads they win, tails we lose. And the whole country going to Reform (on 25% of the vote because of our absurd system) as a result!

“Obnoxious about being from the North” = being from the north, plus advocating for its interests in the context of being elected to govern ( and implicitly to advocate for) its largest city-region

Players and manager sniping at each other in public, fierce arguments about squad omissions, inflated expectations and denunciations ready for hair trigger deployment: WE’VE GOT OUR ENGLAND BACK! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I don’t recall being consulted on the appointment

I’m glad the Bojack Horseman writers are still in the business

countries have been tightening restrictions on naturalisation for years and now this is an awful precedent. can people wake up to the fact that we are heading towards a world where having straightforward rights as a citizen where you live is going to be impossible if you've ever moved

Translation: the UK will do absolutely nothing

Obviously Burnham isn't going to talk about this but I expect this goes hand in hand with a rise in inequality in inner city Manchester. Real Manchesterism is accepting that the presence of increasing numbers of wealthy people will benefit a city even as it makes it more unequal.