France's 40 points in Scotland last weekend was the highest ever losing score in the six nations - for one week!
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France's 40 points in Scotland last weekend was the highest ever losing score in the six nations - for one week!
Morpeth Town v Hyde United - 14th March 2026
Morpeth Town v Hyde United - 14th March 2026
Arteta, we are all you in that moment 😭♥️
When it came down to it and it was 0-0 in a must win game for the title, Arteta turned to Max Dowman and that tells you everything about the boy’s talent.
'These figures [George Osborne, Rishi Sunak, Peter Mandelson and Tony Blair] have helped create an AI policy in which the UK has essentially agreed to be a staging ground for US-designed hardware being rented mostly to US tech companies.'
Trumpism didn't happen overnight. It took decades of lies and hate all over the airwaves to make it seem even vaguely normal or mainstream. We still have time to nip that process in the bud here in the UK. We won't.
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“Farage has said he wishes the party "hadn't bothered" to take minority control of Worcestershire County Council, because of its financial problems”
V much summing up his approach to power.
Grifting and gobshiting - yes please.
Hard work and responsibility - god no.
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I’ve got a Scotland / Italy one which I feel is completely justified.
In fact at the rugby in Rome a few weeks ago I gave it to a young Italy fan which I now completely regret! Along with my see you jimmy hat!
Half-and-half scarves: fan culture crime or acceptable souvenir?
They appeared in the late 90s and are now everywhere — from Champions League ties to Six Nations rugby.
Would you ever buy one?
#footballculture #groundhopping #fanexperience
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It's been 2 years since Lee Anderson joined Reform, but more importantly - it's nearly 7 years since he lied to a journalist and got his mate to pretend he didn't know him.
A job advert for campus president of the American International University in Kuwait
I dunno, LinkedIn, I dunno ...
Another cracking NcL Insights lecture - though this time a discussion - @newcastleuni.bsky.social including @robmccargow.bsky.social Technical Impact leader at PwC. Really interesting consideration of ethical use of AI implications … for organisations, educators, communities and individuals alike.
Complaining about & blaming Keir Starmer for a long-scheduled, still uncertain, six month distant increase in fuel prices literally *hours* after calling for more war in the Middle East is quite the flex. These are not serious people.
Can't tell if it's funny or grim that some politicians and papers have moved swiftly on from calling for the UK to enter the stupidest war of this century, to talk about badgers on £5 notes.
Serious people, as ever.
They should put a monkey on the £50 note and a pony on the £10 note to confuse the hell out cockneys.
Once again, the culture warriors deeply misunderstand the deep underlying psyche of the British people. The British people were offered nice animals and they overwhelmingly favoured nice animals.
It's no longer OK for you to sit in the house of Lords because your dad did.
But if your mate put you there?
That's fine.
Neither of these really feel like democracy to me.
Telling how confident Starmer now feels in owning his Iran decision. His best outing against Badenoch at PMQs in months. KB not alone in shifting her position. Many of those in the press and politics demanding war and condemning Starmer loudest have been far quieter since the inevitable chaos began.
When I said 'Kemi Badenoch is so partisan, under her the Tories would oppose puppies and kittens if Labour said something nice about them', I didn't mean it literally.
Doubt much of the electorate have noticed but the mess Badenoch and Farage have got into over Iran shows just how beatable they are.
He’s not playing chess literally. He’s not playing chess figuratively. He’s not playing chess on any level of abstraction whatsoever. I doubt he can play chess.
😂🤣 Badenoch and Spurs … the gifts that keep on giving!
Badenoch said if she was prime minister HMS Dragon would have left a week ago. Presumably with its doors hanging off and with no weapons onboard.
No principles, no morality, no information, no expertise, just endlessly appeasing Trump, Putin, Netanyahu and assorted billionaires and foreign oligarchs or chasing the next headline, until suddenly colliding with reality. Bang, oof.
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Farage and Badenoch are absolute clowns: startled by the entirely foreseeable series of events they failed to foresee. A demonstration of their total lack of judgement.
These discussions would be much enriched by recognising that the social sciences also exist & that 'critical thinking', while central to Humanities, is not their exclusive preserve. Also staggering is the lack of interest in undertaking systematic research on learning impacts across all subjects.
The Iran war should be a lesson for Keir Starmer's Government. If you take a clear line on an issue where the public agree with you then it's your opponents who end up having to back down, not you
FACTS:
Net Zero barely nudges your bill.
Fossil‑fuel wars send it through the roof.
So when Farage and his ilk slags off renewables while fanning conflict, remember who actually hikes your costs.
