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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 5h

Amol and James are both completely broken by this.

Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 10h

I’ve been thinking about suitable Man City penalties. There’s nothing I hate more than when I’m in a rush & I get stuck behind someone slow, often with shopping bags moving at snail pace. The City team should be sold (all proceeds to non-league) the replaced by slow folks with shopping bags.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Good to hear Burnham repeat the £2 bus fares BUT the reality is my daughters pass for her to get to and from 6th form college from our local authority was almost £900, well over £2 per journey. Getting someone under 18 to and from education shouldn’t cost more than the £2 cap.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fun to hang out with Michael Salmon, Jim Dickinson & Sharanya Sivarajah on the @wonkhe.bsky.social this week. We chatted international students, graduates social mobility, & I shared a few thoughts about the blend of academic & professional backgrounds of VC’s. open.spotify.com/episode/1UNz...

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yet again positives for ITFC. Even Fatawu who was silly for both yellow cards had looked a huge threat before he was sent off. I can’t decide whether the break comes at the perfect time or an awful time. Team need more time training together but I want us to press on & find the next 3 points.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Surely as Canada looks to strengthen ties to Europe + the EU, and the UK devolved nations state they see their futures more closely aligned to the EU it’s now essential for England and the UK to start to formalise its relationship with the EU and acknowledge Brexit has been damaging.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I have only seen the brief highlights on MOTD and obviously delighted with 3 points but ITFC didn’t look that great. Emersonn looks class, Leif is better defensively and attacking than in his previous prem season but we still give opposition lots of opportunity and space.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I don’t understand why it’s controversial to prioritise welfare over warfare. I would rather invest money in caring for the vulnerable in our country than for arms to be sent overseas. I say that while accepting we might never be in a world where we do 100% of one versus the other.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I thought Emersonn looked good for ITFC last night. Hes got the physicality of Delap but with slightly more discipline and signs of more ability to take people on rather than just run at them. Enciso continues like he would get in the starting line up of most Prem teams. And Fatawu showing promise.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The worst type of trustee: ‘I support this decision from a safe emotional distance’.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ipswich fans on twitter need to grow up and get real. Newly promoted clubs, even those spending vast sums of money to replace their entire squad, will still have some weaker areas of their squad. If you seriously think we should have 11 elite world cup winners in every position you aren’t serious.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If America can rename Lake Ontario Lake America just because Trumps a baby, can Ontario rename America ‘shit Canada’?

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Really great first half. Felt for Nunez who had been class right up till the slip for the equalizer. Second half was clearly not good. We could feel robbed by various decisions but reality is Man Utd were back to being a very strong prem side and we weren’t. Onwards and upwards.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dear company marketing team, when you send me 3 emails daily, every day of the year telling me ‘offer ending tonight’, ‘final chance to secure this offer’ and ‘last few remaining’, it DOES NOT create any incentive or urgency to secure your services or buy your product. Thanks

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Helsinki trip booked for Feb with daughter. Two Euro trips in the diary now for the first 8 weeks of 2027.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Too much of the free speech debate focuses on enabling people to talk ‘at’ or ‘against’ others. Perhaps more focus on enabling and supporting people to talk ‘with’ or engage / consider alternative perspectives is overdue.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I feel like the only person in the world who hasn’t been signed by #ITFC in a multimillion deal this summer. Never too late I suppose……

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I forecast that Saša Lukić is going to get a yellow card at his ITFC new signing press call today. There’s a lot of new faces - excited for the season ahead but it’s going to be very hard. We need GON to gel a new team with a new manager very quickly to stand any chance.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

10 days till a summer break in Suffolk and I am dragging myself to that finish line. Year-end to sort before then along with some more Autumn conference prep, a couple of London trips, a couple of Manchester trips, an exec planning meeting and board member shortlisting.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

As the panic for a for and strong midfielder grows for ITFC I’m increasingly pissed off we didn’t take Cajuste. He knows the club, has prem experience, would have cost far less than alternatives we are now looking at. Let’s go back now and snap him up.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Booked a New Year trip to Vienna for me and my daughter. Her first time in Austria since we got her citizenship sorted.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I hear there is a vacancy for King of The North so here I am Manchester…

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Tomorrows 10.30 meeting with DSIT should be interesting…..

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The moment captured as the King of the North appoints Charles the King of the South.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I wonder if we might need a couple of outfield player to accompany our team bus full of keepers next season? #ITFC

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I got arrested for playing Engelbert Humperdinck records at full blast all night. Police released me…let me go.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Very good first half from England and we are holding our discipline and calm far better than Argentina so far. I’ve spent all day saying that I think the team that wins will be the ones who keep their head and do rise to the bait from the opposition.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This country spends far too much time debating rules for toilets and whether we have to let racist hate peddler’s come and lecture us. We should spend more time thinking about health, poverty and homelessness.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Hi FIFA, can you confirm who we need to know or pay in order to get Quansah’s red card written off please. Thanks.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Jeepers I did the right thing staying up for this. It’s a cracker of a game.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I’m not a big Gordon fan but he’s had a good start to this game. Pace is fast and both teams look physical but Gordon not phased. And how, 1 -0 up!

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I’m pretty sure that, as someone who works in Manchester at least once a week, calls the last meal of the day ‘tea’, lives closer to Newcastle than London and rarely wears a coat I’m a top candidate for the next Cabinet.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I’m not suggesting I take ALL the credit but I missed the first 70 minutes of the England game because I was at a round table with @wonkhe.bsky.social It was 5 mins after I turned on the TV England started to take the game to DR Congo.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

As I (& everyone in UK HE) thinks about the Burnham devolution agenda + how his ambitions for education might sit within that I’m increasingly reflecting on my Canadian trip last month and the effect of the provinces on education. I may well be paging @alexusherhesa.bsky.social in the coming weeks….

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Big fan of @michaelsalmon0.bsky.social @wonkhe.bsky.social daily briefing heading ‘Pro devolution soccer’.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I really like the white Japan kit with the coloured pinstripes.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

An awful lot of the idiots who insist on filming people with phones being their right also, in a somewhat contradictory quirk, also insist on wearing face masks themselves while sticking their camera in other people’s face.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I’m at a university in Canada and have found the campus dentist. If a UK institution could establish a campus dentists it would be a huge hit.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

New ITFC signing is apparently a strong Northern Number 10 with good leadership skills and better on his left.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Have Belgium ever met (never mind exceeded) expectations? The quality of players they have should secure them some good scalps in major tournaments but they seem to continually fail to deliver.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Newfoundland has been an absolute dream. What a discovery. Beautiful coast line, lovely people, whales, walks, sour beers, quirky place names, good coffee, fantastic wildlife. I’m very determined to come back with more time in future. Now Guelph.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Really good to catch up With @alexusherhesa.bsky.social for a drink and to compare notes on the world around us. Hope we can get you over to the UK soon.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

We didn’t deserve two chances but we will take them!

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I’m at the fab CAUBO conference and the brilliant @alexusherhesa.bsky.social session resonated lots with me and my UK perspective. My key take aways: 1) the rationale for transformation goes way beyond efficiency and has to respond to higher opportunities and challenges AND

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The people who angrily claim they ‘want Britain back to how it used to be when they were a kid’ are exactly the same people who are spitting venom at the idea there might be some controls and restrictions applied to unvetted expansion of social media into children’s lives by the tech bro’s.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Imagine working for a think tank with a group of people who benefitted significantly from university & writing a policy paper on the value of a university degree that concludes university is not worth attending & future generations should have less opportunity to enjoy benefits the authors enjoyed.

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I came all this way trying to find a total landscaping service…..

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Ben Vulliamy @bvulliamy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’m in Toronto. a very pleasant lady in a FIFA tracksuit was helping footy fans navigate from the airport to the City. I’m not here for the footy but thought I’d strike up conversation. ‘Are there any tickets left for Canada’s opening game on Friday?’ I asked. ‘Wheres it being played?’ She asked.

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