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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026

Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection. (Published May)

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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Instructing Colonial Natural History Seminar Series is back and we have a stellar line up: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social, 6 Oct; @cberiksen.bsky.social, 28 Oct; Jim Endersby, 25 Nov; and Ma. Mercedes G. Planta, 9 Dec. All seminars are on Zoom, 15-16 CET

Poster for Instructing Colonial Natural History, Autumn Term 2026 seminar series. The design uses an 1785 watercolour by Sarah Stone showing the interior of Sir Ashton Lever’s Museum in Leicester Square, London: a dark green natural-history collection crowded with display cabinets, birds, shells, antlers and other specimens, with green curtains opening onto receding galleries and a large elephant on the right. Four online seminars are listed: Sadiah Qureshi, 6 October; Christoffer Basse Eriksen, 28 October; Jim Endersby, 25 November; and Ma. Mercedes G. Planta, 9 December. All seminars are on Zoom, 15.00–16.00 CET. Registration: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/09/2026

Google wasted no time complying with Trump’s “Lake America” order. That's no surprise, considering its track record.

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Google's obedience to Trump's "Lake America" order follows a depressing pattern.

The tech giant renamed Lake Ontario for American eyes only—and hedged everywhere else.

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Reveal @revealnews.org · 28/08/2026

Abortion rates were expected to tank after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Instead, medication abortion became easy to get—and it changed everything.

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The battle over abortion pills in post-Roe America

Abortion rates were expected to tank after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Instead, medication abortion became easy to get—and it changed everything.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/07/2026

This would be the end of my US federal funding if of the anyone in thrall to the current powers-that-be knew that Nature is not a homeopathic aromatherapy magazine. Below, the thread referenced. h/t @thomasbackhaus.eu

Some scientists have been quick to criticize the report. Carl Bergstrom, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Washington in Seattle, wrote on the social-media platform Bluesky that the administration seems determined to “destroy” US universities. (Trump and his Republican allies have accused US research institutions of being discriminatory towards conservative views, and the administration has withheld funding from some universities, citing antisemitism.)

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

📢 New addition to the Forum on Tech Oligarchy! 📜 "How the tech oligarchy colonizes our futures," by Jennifer Chubb and @drfuturity.bsky.social, shows how tech oligarchy conjures opposing visions of desirable and undesirable futures in their technoentrepreneurial projects. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

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How the tech oligarchy colonizes our futures

Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

'Reports', or 'reporters'? 'Reports', or 'editors'? Reports don't write or publish themselves. People do. There are humans in this loop.

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Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis

Exclusive: Analysis of nearly 2,500 articles finds almost three-quarters made no reference to global heating

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Tibet Network @tibetnetwork.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The death of Tibetan activist Lobga Rangzen is a tragic reminder of the devastating human cost of China's policies in occupied Tibet. As Beijing intensifies assault on Tibetan identity through the implementation of the new Ethnic Unity Law, the international community cannot remain silent.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

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The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)

The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/05/2026

Videos show an oil spill has reached the shores of a pristine Persian Gulf island in Iran surrounded by clear turquoise waters that provide refuge for endangered sea turtles and dolphins.

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Oil Slick Reaches a Pristine Persian Gulf Island in Iran

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

MAP MENNOUNCEMENT!! To celebrate the release of the paperback version of ’This Way Up - When Maps Go Wrong’, Mark and I are doing another book tour! Come and see us, and ask ask us any question you like in.… Birmingham Reading Guildford Manchester Greenwich bio.to/MapMenOnTour

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MAP MEN ON TOUR

Go to MAP MEN ON TOUR.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Today’s Education Select Committee report on higher education is the best report on HE to come from Govt/Parliament in ages. It takes a rounded view of the whole system, moving away from the more atomistic or narrow accounts we’ve seen 🧵 committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...

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“A very serious problem”: No clear government plan for universities risking insolvency, MPs find in new report - Committees - UK Parliament

Today MPs on the Education Committee warn that the government has no clear plan for universities facing insolvency and that protections for students are inadequate, as the Committee publishes a new re...

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

My reporting finds that sexual violence against Palestinians by Israeli authorities is widespread. I'm grateful to these assault victims for sharing with me the brutality they endured. Whether we're pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian, we should unite in being anti-rape. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

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Opinion | The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

To address the harms chatbots can cause, we need to start at the beginning, D&S exec director Janet Haven tells @npr.org: "Chatbots are designed to be agreeable & validating, and that can become really dangerous when users are spiraling or contemplating harmful actions." www.npr.org/2026/04/23/n...

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OpenAI is under scrutiny after two mass shooters used ChatGPT to plan attacks

AI companies are under growing scrutiny over the potential harms chatbots can pose amid investigations into how mass shooters allegedly sought advice from the tools.

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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Alberto Sosa-Cabanas, 2022 ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow, has edited a new book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera’s "El Monte." "El Monte's New Itineraries: Afrodiasporic Spirituality in the Contemporary Caribbean" is out now from @rutgersupress.bsky.social

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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Things are grim for academics in UK universities, but it's not all gloom Top administrators have done extremely well for themselves Number & pay of such lucrative positions has rocketed Here's pay of Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University as multiple of average staff pay

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

And De Montfort University! Which other Nous-victims are there in #UKHE?

short private eye article about de montfot university spending millions of pounds on private consultancy on leadership, management, and finance

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Seriously, who else's got the NOUS bros in in #UKHE?

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Nayeli Urquiza Haas @nayeliurquiza.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The most accurate statement about the university sector today.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

In case you missed it, Utrecht, Netherlands has begun building the largest Dutch “car-free” neighbourhood. 12K people 6K homes 1.8K social rental homes 1.5 mid-range rental & affordable owner-occupied homes 21.5K bike parking spaces 250 shared cars 2 parcel hubs Parking structures on the edge.

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Utrecht to start construction on largest car-free neighborhood in the country next week

Construction of a new neighborhood is set to begin in Utrecht next week. The neighborhood, called Merwede, is scheduled to be the largest car-free district in the Netherlands, with 6,000 homes. The ar...

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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 25/03/2026

Democracy is on the brink of a worldwide depression — with the US leading the decline. Civil rights and equality in the land of the free have fallen to the levels of the mid-1960s and freedom of expression is at its lowest since the 1950s. Read Martin Wolf on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/ylR5qXv

A bar chart showing a shift since 2005: fewer people live in democracies, while autocracies and autocratising countries now account for a much larger share of the world’s population.

A line chart comparing democratic decline across countries. The US shows a faster early drop in democratic standards than peers, outpacing countries like India and Serbia, though Hungary and Turkey see deeper long-term declines.

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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 24/03/2026

Minutes before Trump's announcement of “conversations” with Tehran sent crude tumbling yesterday, traders made well-timed oil bets worth $580mn. "You have to wonder who would have been aggressive at selling futures at that point," said a strategist. Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/n3wZnOc

Two side-by-side charts tracking market activity around a Trump Middle East announcement.

Both show a sharp surge in trading volumes (red bars) just before the post. Oil prices jump immediately after, while S&P 500 futures spike in activity and then fall — suggesting markets reacted fast to the news.

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Nayeli Urquiza Haas @nayeliurquiza.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Best summary of Trump's FP even if not intended : "This war is not just creating new geopolitical strife; it pitting the world view of earnest European actuaries against an impetuous American president who wants to bend financial gravity and geopolitics to his will." www.ft.com/content/f20f...

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The war over tail risks is in full swing

Trump’s financial fight with insurers will affect business confidence as much as the kinetic battle

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Is Hegseth and his merry band of Christian nationalists doing this intentionally? Or are they just this incompetent: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w...

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Strikes on Iran Damage Cultural Heritage Sites, Infuriating Iranians

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 17/12/2025

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

NEW on Wonkhe: The Office for Students makes many regulatory decisions, but the evidence for these decisions is often hard to come by. David Kernohan asks whether more transparency would make for better regulation buff.ly/6p0Wwug

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."

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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say

Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

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