The other element that every World Cup requires: Brazilians

This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:

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Ha ha. AI has come for the management consultants. Little sympathy youtu.be/-c4CNB80SRc?...

Reurm Novarum On the Condiction of the Working Classes www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

The Gunners have reached such a level of expertise, they even scored from a Burnley long throw

Must get my solid stick umbrella fixed…

Hear hear

Union shenanigans make the national press. Catnip for the baby politicos. The shame is it just continues at Westminster.

Disgusting

‘All doctors get things wrong. What matters hugely to families in our position is that they have the courage and humility to admit to these mistakes. If they do, it transforms the way you feel about a clinician.’ @paullaity.bsky.social on his daughter Martha’s death: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I love this print

“Nothing as profoundly stupid and insidious as telling the players to not take Tylenol because that makes them more injury prone, or something.”

“I suspect everyone will be told to lose weight, and if you smoke you will be told to stop smoking – and that will be in your data so that advice isn’t going to change remarkably”

What has taken the place of the austere values of the nobility, he (the Viscount of Ayala) says, is their “pursuit of money”.

Is this apropos a certain announcement?

This is a truly excellent piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social Face it guys, you have to pay the doctors www.ft.com/content/e263...

What did the Tories ever do for us?

Zohran Mamdani is like Kamala Harris and Obama: children of post independence, ex-empire academics who went to the USA to study. Which will no longer happen with the restrictions on foreign students’ visas, drying up a talent pipeline.

“Once you ‘tune up’ your ear, as Al Pacino puts it in the film, these are ‘not fancy words’.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Shocking

Has Walthamstow won the Cup?

Trip down memory lane. Thank you.

I just sponsored Ben Gotting doing 100 push ups a day for the month of June fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/bens-gi...

one of lifeʼs great truths: no matter who you are, or how edgy you think you may be, there is no purer joy than sitting in the sun, drinking an ice cold pint, and listening to London Calling play in the background (you get that at the emirates)

transfer jargon gets ever-more grandiloquent

Every outlet needs a good news section

Solidarity

farewell picnics

The extra significance ❤️🤍

The closest thing I can describe it is it's like when I had my wisdom teeth out, and I could feel a faint dull ache of 'my teeth have been pulled out/Spurs have won a trophy' but it is drowned out by the sweet release of painkillers/'this could really destroy Manchester United'.

Gunnersaurus is no racist!

A plague on both your houses

A convention arose, beginning with the first productions of the work in Bayreuth, that the audience should not applaud but remain silent at the end of this first Act #parsifal

Champagne problems

My kinda town

Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes review – the horror is still breathtaking

Very good, but the minute’s silence for Mario Vargas Llosa at the Bernabeu was a buzzkill

Happy Easter! Pleased to support the arsenal foundation work www.justgiving.com/page/avp2025

How To Communicate The Health Risks of Drinking Without Being Really F*!*ing Annoying open.substack.com/pub/ianlesli...

Saliba. Cunning. Mistake like that and Madrid won’t want him

The boys did it!

We competed at Foundry Gym in Vauxhall for the Pinckney children’s cancer ward at St George's. Check out their @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving www.justgiving.com/page/holly-t...

I just sponsored Max on the tube challenge www.justgiving.com/page/city-tu...

Story drops as the Arsenal are 5-1 up away at PSV www.nytimes.com/athletic/617... Arsenal to announce ticket price rise for next season despite Premier League rivals freezing prices

“Billionaires won’t save us”

Just sponsored Sean who’s running the London landmarks half marathon for Shelter www.justgiving.com/page/sean-pa...