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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

NEW The Manchester City decision shows the costs of an aggressive litigation strategy How the club’s lack of cooperation and putting forward dishonest evidence have put the club at a disadvantage By me at the Empty City (£) emptycity.substack.com/p/the-manche...

The club is now not in a happy place legally.

Not only has it been found to be in breach of various regulations, the commission ruling uses terms like “sham”, “disguise” and “conceal” in respect of those breaches, on the basis of “strong, cogent evidence”.

But this post is not about that evidence. This post is about what the club did once it knew it faced an investigation about those matters.

It made a decision not to cooperate.

It made a decision to put forward witnesses to provide evidence on key points which was found by the commission to be dishonest.

Those were aggressive decisions the club made once it know it knew it was in regulatory and legal peril.

And it would have done so knowing the likely consequences of those decisions in the findings of the commission.

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Long way off having a productive herd that can be milked suitable to fill the churn!

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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re...

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

But then there were the Cybernauts featured in The Avengers in 1965. Really scary as a nine year old. Thought they were behind every door at home. 😧

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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Important intervention

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Malhavic777 @malhavic777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's been almost one year since Congress gave the DOJ thirty days to release the Epstein files. It still has not.

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't what else to say beyond what I wrote to him a week ago.

Hi Eoghan - just to say, if there's anything left to say, and within the limits of how I can put it - that it's been such a privilege to work with, and know you. In three decades of work, some of the most meaningful interactions have been with you, and with you present in the same space. It was lovely visiting you and your family in Berlin too - when I found myself in Europe far more than I do now, and the world was a very different place too. Legacy is a selfish thing to think about for oneself, but apart from everything else, I think you made us South Asians feel as if we were working with you, instead of for you. That feeling - how you made us feel - is special, rare, lasting, and, your legacy. It is worth more than anything you taught by way of OSINT, which will either be outmoded or outdated as the years go by. But how you taught what you taught is what set you apart, and why I have valued our friendship so much. I donated to the GoFundMe, but the measure of your value is more than what someone like me can ever quantify or be rich enough to pay in money. Take care my friend. And always thinking of you.

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Simon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

EU Ambo to UK is bring measured www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I visited the Amazon rainforest a year ago ahead of the cop conference in Belem. Historically the only thing that has stopped deforestation has been electing Lula da Silva has Brazilian president. www.economist.com/the-americas...

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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One of Turkey's great chroniclers of the Cold War, the novelist Sevgi Soysal was among the thousands of leftists arrested after the 1971 coup. Her incredible prison diaries are now being published in English for the first time.

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And then comes the Man City debacle.

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hedgerow? More like a tree on a coastal outcrop buffeted by the winds. Thigmomorphogenesis!?

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

'Storm light' by UK contemporary printmaker Mikki Bowers #WomensArt

Print featuring a flock of birds in silhouette flying over a hedgerow in a purple sky

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think the Man City situation is a perfect example of the rich buying up assets. My hope is that the football fan classes could finally wake up to how they are being screwed over. >> #taxwealthnotwork @garyseconomics.bsky.social youtu.be/k769hteV2u0?...

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Do you have a bit of money? Here's how they'll tax you more

YouTube video by Garys Economics

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

...Sanday describes in the fraternities, which may give them power and status in the context of that supremacy, but also corrupts and distorts their psyches into the kind of dehumanized grotesquery described in the Cornell case." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"The only effective, lasting, far-reaching solution is the political, legal, economic and cultural equality of women. This requires the liberation of men from the kind of misogynistic male supremacy...

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Saturday morning on the beach. Coffee and newspapers to hand. Way to go.

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1999 I told the company board that they needed a website. Stole the phrase from somewhere to drum it home “If you don’t have a website you don’t exist!”

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nice but you need to sort out your display on phone screens. VERY erratic

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“It’s no surprise that Brexit has failed to neutralise the immigration issue, as many Leave advocates predicted. We face the same trade-offs as in 2016 between growth, ageing and the cultural change that immigration brings.”

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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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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

“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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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

EU as monolith? Doesn’t accession rely on individual EU member states signing off on any deal? There’s a hell of a lot of political capital to be built back by the British.

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Protests already in Taupo NZ 😂 bsky.app/profile/sanj...

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pine tree responding to the hot summer with masses of fruiting.

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Excellent post Jan. “To make matters worse, Mag-7 stocks currently trade at valuations far in excess of the Dotcom Bubble, so when the adjustment comes - courtesy of rising bond yields - the pain will be considerable”

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hawthorne observes that we must each make that choice for ourselves and find our own place, seeing: -past the values of our upbringing, -the templates of our culture, and -the permission slips of our epoch.

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Tim Harrap @timharrap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

a sentiment Nietzsche would echo a generation later in his insistence that “no one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life,”

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