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Diwali celebrations evidently (audibly) in full swing. :-)

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

We're also going to have to put up with Glaswegians patronising Sheffielders for bit, like the bloke on #bbc5live earlier: "… with all due respect to Sheffield Wednesday…" Get stuffed. (I'm being polite.)

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For what it's worth, I don't think the government should be commenting on every repulsive thing said by Conservative backbenchers. (Though their own leader should take a view). What it *should* be doing is articulating a clear position of its own. It's *that* silence which is the big problem.

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Mainly just very glad neither of them will be up against us.

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Corriere della Sera @mm-corriere-bot.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

#bbcradio4 studiously ignoring the umlaut, I note. (As they also do on the bbc website, in fact.)

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Addio a Sofia Corradi, «mamma Erasmus»: grazie a lei 16 milioni di giovani europei in viaggio studio www.corriere.it/scuola/universita/2…

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em @civetta.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Set myself the challenge of finishing (or at least reducing) my massive pile of half-read books before Christmas. Of course, I'm just adding to it.

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Ate too much saag aloo.

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em @civetta.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Please, Chansiri, just sell so we don't all have to go through this every week. #swfc

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 17/10/2025

Above all, the police approach in that decade culminated in the unlawful killing of 96 people and decades of cover-up.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Does Robert Jenrick even realise English clubs were banned from playing in any European football competitions after May 1985 for the rest of the decade, returning only in 1990/91, after Heysel disaster, as UEFA + our government felt fans couldn't be policed safely travelling away?

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Banning clubs is not the answer. We didn't ban Roma fans (also classed as 'high risk') post-2018, for instance. Was that 'standing up for Italian hooligans'? As far as I'm aware, the question of banning them never arose. If you have other reasons for not wanting fans of this club here, then say so.

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He needs to look up his heroine Mrs Thatcher and football ID cards.

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Mundane rather than picturesque.

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Andrej @tepid.meme · 17/10/2025

EAL teaching, like most FE teaching, is woefully underfunded. (They also want to defund the teaching of other languages, too.)

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The Old Internet is almost extinct and they’re coming for the last surviving wonder of its ancient world

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Glad to belong to the era when women in bands wore baggy jumpers… (though admittedly there were far fewer of them then).

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · 16/10/2025

Useful thread contextualising this decision (& ultimately arguing against it).

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Here’s another classic Pulp chorus

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Peter Chilvers @peterchilvers.com · 16/10/2025

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Not sure I ever forgave Sam Fender for drinking on the Quayside with Johnny Depp…

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Paul Klee's "Instrument for New Music" (1914) . . . bracketed by my stubborn, baseless conviction that this will be the instrument of the Angelus Novus.

Music staves at cross-currents and clefs jumbled in the center of a black and white notation that cannot be read according to convention,.

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Incredible use of artichokes as accessories here.

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Reading had – I think – 4 winding up orders before they got rid of Dai Yongge, btw. #swfc

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Graham Lanktree @glanktree.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Alas, I imagine what some people understand by 'an Australian-style points-based system' is offshore processing centres with detainees sewing their own mouths up, amongst other horrors. (The Australian use of immigration detention in hotels – see Novak Djokovic – is probably also forgotten.)

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Funny because the UK HAS an Australian-style points-based system.

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Neon Deutschland @neondeutschland.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

The ‘t’ in this sign surely deserves a place in the pantheon of convoluted neon letterforms.

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em @civetta.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Next time I'm in Glasgow it's my mission to go & see these.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

👇 A consequence of the end of changing geopolitics is until 2016, “going into opposition and having a foreign policy that makes you feel good but is strategically brain dead” wasn’t something there was any need for on the British right. Now there is a market for it.

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em @civetta.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Just his angry body language sends a shudder through me. I guess it must appeal to someone…

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em @civetta.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Not a hope. The last school I worked in was winding down its –previously very good – drama department and using its purpose built theatre primarily as an exam hall.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Dialectical jerks at the Adorno Gymnasium

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Heute Abend übe ich viel Deutsch. :-)

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That classy and elegant footballer Nick Woltemade described that game against Northern Ireland as 'ein ekliges Spiel' ['a disgusting match']. (Kimmich, perhaps slightly more diplomatically, spoke of an 'einzigen Kampf' ['a unique fight'].)

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Wirtz is an unattractive player, isn't he…

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It's a great blessing to have very few photos of myself.

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