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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 19h

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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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 16h

The last 5 years we entered an Era of extreme ice loss in the Alps! 🧊🔥 Over this period, 20% of initial ice volume has gone! 📈 This is evidenced here on Aletsch Gl. (2,900 m asl), a place where the ice shouldn’t melt to maintain glacier in balance! ⚖️ 📷 @matthias-huss.bsky.social

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 17h

“We are fighting a mad, irrational, dictatorial theocracy that is impervious to appeals to reason, rational self-interest, or international norms, guided by their leaders’ lust for control and based on a misunderstanding of a single religious book” said a spokesperson for the Iranian Government.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The view from your cozy, comfortable home when your neighbors are genocidal murderers. Kyiv, Ukraine 📍

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Sarah Calvert 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺 @sarahcalvert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Have argued this since 2016. Class definitely plays into this.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'Harvest Light' by Laura Holden, contemporary artist from Somerset in the UK, inspired by folklore #WomensArt 🌞

Photo looking up at a silver metalic radiating sun with a face, on a pole. against a blue sun

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tidying up. Reminded by mail I have a Pinterest account ….. now deleted.

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ok. Bleeping out more words and requesting a real human review instead of the AI scanner has allowed me to clear this video for publishing. I would really like to be able use accurate terms w/o having to censor them. It sanitizes men's violence to insist we bleep words and talk around the crime.

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It was fun for them. They ruined her life. And got away with it.

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Flowform 1 Patnem Beach Goa

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Citizenship should never have been allowed to become a conditional and impermanent gift from the state to the individual. It is a permanent status, universal and equal to all that have it, that brings obligations of care and protection *from* the state as well as to it.

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againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Blueprint Mahmoud Khalil Imprisoned for no crime, I discovered my arrest was a message: speak out for Gaza, and we will come for you www.equator.org/articles/mah...

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The Blueprint • EQUATOR

Imprisoned for no crime, I discovered my arrest was a message: speak out for Gaza, and we will come for you

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

At the age of 90 year old, Czech former agricultural worker Agnes Kasparkova continued her 13 year project to decorate her small village with hand-painting traditional Moravian motifs on the local houses #womensart

Three images, one of a window surrounded by blue floral patterns on a white exterior wall, two other images of an elderly womam painting the designs

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@chrischirp.bsky.social seems they haven’t spoken to Independent Sage type folks. Be interesting in your take. >> ht @helenebismarck.bsky.social

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Horrific moment one of today's russian strikes hit an office building in Kyiv. This and other attacks on the capital killed 7, and injured 59 people just today! Russia must be stopped, this daily terrorism cannot go on.

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“…the ‘good chaps’ theory is dead, having been severely strained by Brexit before, [&] killed off by Boris Johnson’s premiership. And if Johnson did not mark its death knell, the rise of Reform UK certainly does.” @chrisgrey.bsky.social chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/leth...

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Lethargy in place of strategy

<a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.online/@ChrisGrey">Mastodon</a>

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Go visit. Marvellous exhibition. 👏👏👏

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Woman in Gold: portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I 1907, by Gustav Klimt, Austrian Symbolist painter (1862-1918) founder of Vienna Secession. Inspired by Japanese art, he became known for his ‘Gold Phase’ large-scale female portraits, with flat, dense decoration and gold leaf. Neue Galerie New York

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is what russian "defenders of Christianity" and "traditional values" did to the church in Kramatorsk yesterday. Everyone must see this church, as it unmasks russian lies perfectly!

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Protology #wordoftheday 1)The branch of theology pertaining to origins and first things (theology) 2)A text or oral history giving the origins of a people "Or, alternatively, perhaps they are the first human beings as described in tribal protologies. Juxtaposition eschatology end times

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Monsoon returns to Goa ☔️ ⛈️

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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thrilled to launch our new Alternatives to Capitalism public lecture series at LSE this year with Evgeny Morozov @evgenymorozov.bsky.social on Socialism after AI, co-hosted with @equatormag.bsky.social ! www.lse.ac.uk/events/ai-so...

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Socialism after AI | Dr Evgeny Morozov

6:30pm Mon 5 Oct | Dr Evgeny Morozov | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The disappeared*" was a term for those the military dictatorship in Argentina imprisoned/tortured/murdered during the dirty war. *"detenidos-desaparecidos" (detained-disappeared)

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 21/09/2026

"The state is trying to reframe Palestinian solidarity as terrorism. The aim is to create an environment of fear. " Really important guest post this week from Liam Mullany - one of the Filton 25. Well worth a read. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-state-...

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The state is trying to scare pro-Palestine activists into submission. It won’t work.

Filton 25 political prisoner Liam Mullany explains why the British state is targeting him and his fellow activists - and why they’re fighting back.

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The best of The Marginalian this week, in one place – Tolkien on how to fall in love with life, regret vs. remorse and how to reconcile your most painful mistakes, getting over heartbreak in stone and clay mailchi.mp/themarginali...

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Patnem Beach Goa Sunday 20th September

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A much better thread than @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social's original article

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Time for a dinky chai ☕️

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The New McCarthyism Richard Flanagan 18.09.2026 #longread 👏 How Israel’s advocates are working to silence dissent in Australia – and everywhere else @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/gaz...

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Deviancy, politics and the media Stuart Hall 1971 Me playing catchup. Amazed this pdf is a rendition of a typewritten manuscript . Like finding an ancient papyrus ! epapers.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/33...

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