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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 9h

From asking around today the sense seems to be that he’s genuinely worried about the impact on Mcr - he also said something about wanting to “review” decision when it first leaked - and has made an unusual error in not reading the room (+mistakenly equated it too closely to the Everton situation)

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 17h

NEW The diabolical defending of Manchester City Understanding an aggressive litigation strategy By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk (Prospect paywall is down currently.) www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... #MCFC

What can explain such an aggressive and counterproductive approach? To an extent the answer may be in the facts and the evidence. Perhaps the view was that the only chance of getting out of this was to be unhelpful as well as robust. In respect of an earlier dispute with Uefa, an internal communication at the club apparently said “Uefa doesn't respond to anything other than aggression”. Maybe the view was taken that this would work here too. Maybe the club still thinks it will work in the end, with the league being pushed into settlement on appeal or at the doors of the High Court.

But this does not offer a total explanation. What may work with Uefa may not work with other adversaries. The structure of the league’s investigation and the disciplinary approach meant that aggression would not only be unhelpful, but would count heavily against the club. An appeal on the law or procedure at the High Court in this sort of case only has a remote chance of success. It can be assumed the club was warned of all this.

There is a phrase in football punditry that “the defending is diabolical”. Here diabolical is, of course, a synonym for dreadful. But in its more literal sense, diabolical means bedevilled with wrongful purpose. And the strategy adopted by Manchester City in contesting this matter is also in this sense diabolical. The club will have known that it was unlikely to work, and that it would make things harder, but the club decided to do it anyway.

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Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com · 16h

A Russian drone struck the grounds of Kyiv's Institute for Nuclear Research, home to a research reactor, Ukraine’s nuclear regulator said. The facility was undamaged and radiation levels remain normal, with officials calling the attack a war crime. www.kyivpost.com/post/85849

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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 21h

Chris Dixon posted this on LI and I had to share it here. It’s just too good, the @jonronson.bsky.social twist is superb…

The image shows a film poster “The men who stare at Boats” featuring, Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Danny Tommo, Ruper Lowe and Angry Balaclava man.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New Mystic Meg prediction by Daniel Hannan who famously predicted the ‘blue eyed Sheikhs’ of Iceland Banking would would save us in 2004, Brexit Britain would be booming in 2026, and that Covid wouldn’t kill anyone in 2020 In other words, we will be rejoining the EU

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One for the great grandads.

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Better to say nothing. At the moment it looks like it would be much better if they sold City and gave it a fresh start, after ruining 15 years of the Premier League with their cheating. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Andy Burnham 'really concerned' if Man City owners sell up after rule breaches

The prime minister compares the allegations against Man City to the plight of his own club Everton.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026

I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I volunteered for Childline for a decade at uni and I know firsthand a snapshot of how many lives Esther Rantzen changed. Her later years were known for assisted dying but her legacy will be giving vulnerable children someone to listen to and care. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Esther Rantzen, TV presenter and Childline founder, dies aged 86

Rantzen announced lung cancer diagnosis in 2023 and became a vocal assisted dying campaigner

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Alskicav @alskicav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dame Esther Rantzen. TV legend I was an avid fan as a child. Now I can't get my head around how massive That's Life! was. 15-20 million viewers a week Consumer affairs, human interest, investigative reporting, sketches, carrots that looked like genitals. 5 shows rolled into one uniting a nation

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Such sad news that the legendary Dame Esther Rantzen has passed away. Campaigning right until the very end. It was an honour to interview her several times in her final years. Thoughts with her family, who loved her so dearly.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Alskicav @alskicav.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Man City arranged "sham contracts" with a number of commercial partners as part of a scheme to disguise secret funding of more than £830m, the Premier League says. City recorded £360m in sponsor fees in the 3 seasons they won the Prem League - 2012, 2014, and 2018. Only £43m of it was legitimate.

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Manchester City charges: Premier League confirms club guilty of all charges related to financial rule breaches

The Premier League confirms that Manchester City have been found guilty of all charges related to breaches of Premier League financial rules between 2009-10 and 2017-18.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The news of Michael Kiwanuka’s stroke is really upsetting but sensitively handled in this interview. He’s a great artist and a lovely human being and his new album is terrific. I hope he gets to record and perform again www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...

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‘Everyone can relate to pain and struggle. So I’m sharing mine’: Michael Kiwanuka on life after his devastating stroke

The Mercury prize winner hasn’t been able to go home since falling ill last summer. In his only interview, he opens up about the ‘poignancy’ of finally releasing the new album his stroke shelved

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's as if Andy Burnham had been injected with a truth drug. Brexit has done more harm than good, so let's try other options. Triple lock has to go, social care will be reformed if it kills us, double or quits...it's absolutely working in the hall, in the emotion of the moment. But outside it?

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

On this day in 1998, Joni Mitchell released her 16th studio album. It was her last album of completely original material until she released Shine in 2007. The album received one Juno nomination for Best Pop/Adult Album.

Album cover showing a painted portrait Joni MItchell in a straw hat cradling a tabby cat inside a decorative wooden frame, with a pale green left panel that contains the text "Joni Mitchell Taming The Tiger"

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Gaijin Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anita Ekberg, 1954 She was BOTD in 1931 Photo by Andre de Dienes

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Trump administration blocked the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium from reapplying for funding, terminating at least 2 clinical trials for children's brain cancer treatment.

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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Extraordinary for any American president: Trump offered to sell weapons to Xi Jinping of China. That was revealed by David Perdue, US ambassador. Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan approved by Congress. China aids Iran and Russia. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...

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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says (Gift Article)

President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the U.S. ambassador to China. Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan.

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Alskicav @alskicav.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh christ I've just finished watching the final episode of 7 Up I'm 56. I've been watching this show since the 70s, and how these lives have taken shape and developed in a changing Britain. It's a compelling body of work. It has many flaws but is utterly remarkable in what it managed to capture

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Alex Morris @asjmorris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Now seems as good a time as any to post the plasticine Frank Muir that I built for the ‘Amateur Frank Muir Modeller’ Viz ad back in 2006.

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Alskicav @alskicav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My #playlist of the week #newmusic from Tame Impaler, Michael Kiwanuka Solo songs from the Fab Four. Some blues & country - Dylan, Graham Nash, Bonnie Rait, Son House, Mississipi John Hurt + Beck, The Cure, Bowie, Teardrop Explodes, The The, Lloyd Cole, REM, Marvin Gaye, Durutti Column, Radiohead

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Alski's 30 Songs For The Week

NewWave to Indie PostPunk to Funk Soul & HipHop. 70s 80s 90s to the latest BBC6 Music releases. Changes weekly

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New word: CLICKWALL. (n) The opposite of clickbait. A headline so unappealing, promising so little reward even by the standards of these things, that it is physically impossible to tap the link to the article.

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David Bowie News @davidbowienews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

David Bowie, Chance Theater, Poughkeepsie, New York, August 19, 2003, by Kevin Mazur.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Farage posted this at 12.38 today. It has been hopelessly overtaken by events and shown to be entirely wrong (British nationals involved and they've been released on bail - not very terrorist-like). And if you believe anything Trump says, you are a credulous moron.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

BIG TECH: This thing is going to kill everyone TRUMP: I want to be the one to name it

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Alskicav @alskicav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've not heard these 4 new songs yet, but let's face it they're gonna be good aren't they? He'd been on a run of 5 years or so of creative genius that rivalled the Beatles, Bowie, Gaye, and Prince.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 27/09/2026

One of the things that links Farage and Trumpism is the complete disregard for the seriousness of government, and restraint Vs making everything content.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Velázquez’s “Las Meninas” has taken its rightful place as one of the most fascinating artworks to analyze in the whole of Western painting. Scholars describe “Las Meninas” as an embodiment of art itself within a painting: It is the philosophy of art depicted on canvas --Foucault

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

AB: "I don't think you get the welfare bill down with crude cuts. It plunges people into crisis and they show up in other parts of the system which end up costing more." LK: "Yeah, you've said this before, but I'm looking for a specific commitment you will cut the bill by the next election." WOW

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

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researchdoom @bananaintherama.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

She actually said migrants should be castrated upon arrival 😱 another Ofcom complaint from me. Not that it will matter much…….

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

chat is this good?

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A Pint at the Gaslamp, Manchester, painting by Michael Ashcroft.

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Holy Jesus, Mary Immaculate and all the fucking saints. How can anyone who has been both ELECTED and PAID SO MUCH be so GOBSMACKINGLY stupid and ignorant? How? How is it possible that her husband and children don’t stop her? Are they all sucking at her money teat? I just don’t get it.

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Alskicav @alskicav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Connections Puzzle #1202 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟪🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 .....Hmmmpf

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

He was stupid then. And he is stupid now.

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Michael Emonds @michaelje67.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Send this to every Man City fan you know. #115

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

South Tyneside Council has just decided to close 10 state-owned nurseries next yr, incl some that do excellent work for SEND children. This came as a shock to parents, guardians, staff. Not once does this #BBC report mention that the Council has been under #ReformUK majority control since 2026.

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"rapidly medicalised layabouts" really jumps off the page as being an absurdly hateful thing to say

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oligarchs. The word for very rich businesspeople directly connected to the top of the government and playing a role in high-level government functions is “oligarchs.” Way beyond lobbying, donating, and advisory councils. Trump brought them on his trip to China too. America has oligarchs now.

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We can now look forward to a long appeal process, I know. But we can also say, now, "Manchester City, who were found guilty of 114 charges..." every time we mention the club's name; and I believe we should. No more "allegations". They were found guilty, and that is a fact.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 25/09/2026

"some" 😂😂 How about 99%?

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