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Clearly they have different standards to most local papers.

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

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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A Catholic can be prime minister. We had one, oh, three prime ministers ago.

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I don't know where I dredged that up from!

Are you sending these into the local newspaper yet? ;-)

Mixed feelings on that. They're not called 'Lotto Men', either.

& Chloë (though I guess that's really a tréma).

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Yeah. Too painful. (Even if everything's already painful.)

Sadly I'd trust my attempts at pronouncing German much more than any attempt at that. :-(

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Well, the BBC Radio Sheffield journalists made a heroic fist of it for two seasons & even managed to find it on their keyboards.

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I don't think I've read one of this writter's columns yet, not even hate-read, so for that reason I doubt they're actually clickbait, though they must have some reason for employing her to write them.

(The Guardian used to ignore them completely as well, until – I think – Arsenal or someone complained on behalf on Mesut Özil.)

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In this case it's the ö in Röhl… The bbc website has a weird policy of ignoring them (& all other accents) in writing, but #bbcradio4 used to pride itself on getting pronunciations right. (When Danny Röhl managed Wednesday for two seasons, the local bbc journalists seemed to manage all right.)

This sort of trivial strawmannery is that particular columnist's stock in trade, I think.

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

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I have never heard of this ever.

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

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

What sounds (& feels) like clog dancing this afternoon… :-|

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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.

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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em @civetta.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Come on Wednesday. Done all right second half.

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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 away fans is *a very* 80s response.)

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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If the argument is rather "Israeli clubs should not be playing in UEFA competitions in the current circumstances" then that's something different.

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I do think banning all fans of an entire club on the grounds of hooliganism is a very slippery slope. (See, for instance, the current situation in France and Italy. We have our own domestic potential examples, too.)

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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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