Yeah, well, take it from a Liverpool fan, the bloody Toffees’ll do that out of spite.
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Yeah, well, take it from a Liverpool fan, the bloody Toffees’ll do that out of spite.
EU vows to enforce tech rules, despite Trump pressure
I don’t know what the hell the Tigers are cooking up for this season but if I were Northampton or Saracens, I’d be getting worried at this point.
This guy would have a stroke if he came across Cape Malay curries in the Cape or bunny chow in Durban. Or if he found out the origins of vindaloo.
Oh, you need to see their takes on druids. Crusties, man. Fecking crusties and tankies.
This guy is coming out with stuff that would be considered a bit racist by the bloody BNP.
The one thing I will say about that discourse is that it suffers dreadfully from one of the scourges of social media: Americans who think speaking English means they know how the UK works. Mind, there’s a stack of US-take influenced Irish takes on the UK are nearly as bad.
With regard to recent British food and British colonialism discourse, I don’t know about tikka masala, but I’d definitely batter a bucket of bunny chow.
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And, not going to lie: if the HBO adaptation adds Vickers machine guns traversing the Hogwarts ranks, well, it would be churlish not to give it at least a fair hearing…
But then, sir, there isn’t an actor thinking speaking someone else’s lines makes him a political sage, so, of course, that means the Beltway press won’t even be able to, for example, do a bit of reading on the medical conditions already revealed.
Well, sir, that’s because Biden was old and the Presidency takes a toll on anyone who does the work but even old men bounce back from jet lag and a cold. Some things, you don’t bounce from.
I mean, in a school-centred fight between good and evil, well, they’ve picked a side, you know?
Also: as a long-term fan of Ronald Searle, St. Trinian’s is *very, very, very definitely not to be put in that bracket.*
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“Elevation of the leg” in the sense of giving a toe up the a… [Recording garbled]
TL: DR - President Nixon has an appreciation of all the performing arts. He particularly enjoys Swan Lake. - RZ.
I mean, it’s not like there was anything like Ireland taking the UK to the ECHR over rights abuses during the Troubles, now was there?
Hugo, have you ever *met* anyone from the Irish government of the time? Because I have, Colm has, and we can tell you: the Government here did and does care about it as part of the deal.
Now, strong exception here: if so instructed, and if arguable consistent with the relevant code of conduct, it’s not a barrister’s case to pick and choose. Outside of being instructed, different matter.
Europe is only safe if its Eastern border is safe. Over the past days, President von der Leyen visited frontline states to reaffirm Europe’s unity and solidarity. Together, we are strengthening border protection, our defence industry, NATO cooperation and support for Ukraine.
I could now go on about how it took 3.5 years to get here, and how much the previous German government, and partly this one, failed to realize this simple fact. But for now, let’s just be glad that the metaphorical floor of what must be done has finally been reached. 1/3
There is something glorious about Brits of all races, creeds and genders standing shoulder to shoulder to snarl at a Yank to go do one for saying anything about tikka masala.
It would be an interesting exercise to find out how much how many paid for the rail line of the old West Cork Railway…
[Scargill was bloody awful, mind. One of the worst things to happen to the union movement in the UK. The “Later years” section of his Wiki entry is… Well, a good solid oooffff.]
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We go now to Armin Papperger:
Meanwhile, someone’s happy out with himself.
We may not think we're at war with Russia, but Russia is at war with us www.ft.com/content/3c33...
It’s set square in that direction.
We need to improve our defence posture, at speed and at scale. At the informal European Council in October, we’ll present our Roadmap for the next 5 years. Looking at defence investment and capacity gaps – and how to close them ↓ europa.eu/!nDBn8q
I suppose that, to adapt the law of defamation, no right-thinking person’s opinion would be remotely altered by this nonsense. Which is, in and of itself, damning.
When it was an absolute red line for FG during Brexit, then there is no redder line.
… … … Good?
It’s one thing to take the money (they want to pay you to tell them what the law is, good luck to them, and get it up front), it’s another thing entirely to produce nonsense after so doing.
Cinema Parmiggiano. #FromageUnTitre
Let’s put it this way: I find it hard to see how it maintains the trust and confidence that the public place in the profession.
Howl’s Moving Cashel Blue #FromageUnTitre
Les Époisses du Paradis #FromageUnTitre
The routine criminality of the openly fascist Steve Laws, whose agenda is to deport all migrants and all ethnic minorities from Britain. And who is now openly backed by the radicalised X site owner Elon Musk who openly champions extreme fascists While regulators & government just carry on using X
Although God knows, that, too, is but a pale shadow of what it once was.
Let’s go pick on the United fans, is all I’m saying. They have it coming.
David, I am, at heart, a blindside and Laser sailor. I know that there is no better time to kick someone than when they’re down, because that way they stay down. I know you do what needs doing and do it cold and clean. But even still, there’s limits to ruthless, you know?
The inner morning monologue of every scrumhalf.
One lesson of the Brexit period: don't listen to politically motivated lawyers (and economists). Seems that certain former ministers haven't learned it.
This is spot on, and not just with regard to legal reporting. We increasingly live in a world of binary and deeply simplistic thinking. Which means that everything is slowly turned into a us-versus-them question. It is disastrous for reasoned debate.
Storm Tadhg, rolling through around the last weekend of the 6N, devastating but tired. So tired. So very, very tired…
[You lot aren’t pretending away that idiot Mark Clark that easily.]
[Three. Sicily and Italy started in 1943.]
Jean de Raclette. #FromageUnTitre
The Good, The Bad and the Etorki.
Message to Mélenchon et al: the subtext second half of the sentence is, “But might well do if you keep dicking around.”
Look, Paolo, I can understand being somewhat vexed that the Italian women lost, even in a game with as good a try as that SA one, but it’s a bit much trying to induce “Burn it all” in legal Bluesky. Now, pass the matches, please.
Not only is this claim demonstrably what in a past era was collected in buckets from the streets to be put around one’s roses, but: “Ulster peace”, you’ll note. Not “NI”; “Ulster”.
Ah, the periodic opportunity to plug something I wrote almost exactly 2 years ago when this argument was made (itself a repetition of the same argument made over time) ☺️ ukhumanrightsblog.com/2023/08/29/t...
Someone at the Times could have read the GFA or even used Google to know that the Policy Exchange report is utter rubbish. And in what kind of messed up polity are people engaging in wishful thinking to deprive themselves of rights?
It’s just perfect, isn’t it?
These vibes
“Hanged”, damn it. There are *some* standards left in this world.
The big question the media haven't noticed or started to ask is why none of the trouble & disorder in summer 2025 (most of the sporadic disorder is in London suburbs & southeast Epping, Cheshunt, Hillingdon/Heathrow, Canary Wharf) & v little protest of any scale is where riots happened a year ago
Any plans to deport people to Rwanda? Otherwise, I’d suggest that’s hyperbole.
This is… Not what you want to hear from a judge.
It appears the Trump admin may again be lying to a federal judge.
Stephen hates the red team, you say…?
Still a great deal for the Clyde, mind.
That’s Dutch. JESUS, NO, CIAN, THAT’S DUTCH!!!
Happy 'greatest correction ever' day to all who celebrate
From Linda Colley’s “Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837” (2nd ed.):
It is of course a frivolous charge by a frivolous man. But there is a serious point here: the attempt by some on the reactionary right to claim that left or left of centre affiliation is illegitimate and disqualifying.
“Lawyers with Boundaries” might be slightly more in their damned line.
Dreadful creature.
There were people from the Levant in Britain long before the bog-Germans rebranded as Anglo-Saxon and crossed the narrow seas.
Wasn’t that jackanapes shown the door by his chambers for making a holy show of himself over Southport?
I think this is connected to the refereeing. Enforce the laws, there’s room to play. bsky.app/profile/radi...
The jerseys definitely are.
I’m going to be entirely blunt: I think the overall refereeing standard at the WRWC is better than at the MRWC.
Quite astonishingly Brezhnevite.
Every authoritarian regime that embraced this aesthetic inflicted violence and chaos on its society
“Tuberculotic Sputum Jim”…
And, btw: that’s a knowing affectation by him. South Africans are taught to spell “labour” correctly, with a “u”.
Kaja Kallas, "Russia is not preparing for peace, it is the opposite. They are preparing for more war" "Sanctions have deprived Russia of tens of billions" "Today, Ministers also discussed the use of Russia's frozen assets for Ukraine's defence and reconstruction"
Elle avait raison, quand même.
Hit creative crisis after, almost burn out. Go to Berlin. And out of that comes five years of simply mind-boggling stuff. Oddly, I don’t think it’s truly explicable now. You had to be at one of those concerts to feel the full sensory overload of the introduction to get just how mind-boggling.
[Actually, I’m wrong. It’s “Bullet The Blue Sky”, to “Running To Stand Still”, to “Where The Streets Have No Name”. From about 1:05 on.They were good at this, you know. They were very, *very* good at this.] m.youtube.com/watch?v=X_z5...
Basically, we put brilliantly lucid postcodes on the law.
One of the most brilliant and efficient things we’ve collectively done, and Bailii’s role in it has been critical in my view.
And, yes, I know everything U2, let alone anything from Joshua Tree, is achingly cringe now. But: go look for the Sydney Zooropa concert. The transition from “Bullet The Blue Sky” into this. They may be over the hill now, but by God were they all the way to the mountain top at that point.
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Trumpism is an internet phenomenon. It’s Gamergate with nuclear weapons. All that counts is being able to crow at someone, no matter what you destroy en route.
there are a few ways to make sense of it: eugenics and using disease to cull the population has a long fascist history, but also the idea that nothing *actually* matters beyond controlling a narrative is a core trump belief, so telling people we are healthier than ever is the same as being healthy
It’s an awfully long way even to the start line for 2028, let alone 2028 itself, but they are the ones shaping the course that obstacle race will be run over.
The feedback loop to attack first and hardest between him and Newsome is now established, sir. Everyone else is just going to be fighting on ground already prepared by them. And to be entirely fair: I don’t think it’s just opportunistic. I think both genuinely despise and want to stop Trump.
An incredible natural talent honed by relentless application to the art.
The national motto of Welsh rugby.
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
[Rugby-playing France acknowledges Parisian success, dies inside.]
