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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

The Tel Aviv derby was abandoned at half-time in Jan 2025. There were significant clashes in 2023 which led to unusual clashes at the basketball fixture, which was forfeited. The biggest clash was 2014 abandoned over Zahavi switching teams + fan violence
www.insideworldfootball.com/2025/01/29/i...

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Jack Greig-Midlane @thejackgm.bsky.social · 2d

I do not and never will ‘culturally cohere’ with people who share Lam’s views in a very profound sense, whatever our other similarities. You can’t force cohesiveness without authoritarianism.

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Alex Stevens @profalexstevens.bsky.social · 4d

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Jack Greig-Midlane @thejackgm.bsky.social · 4d

‘Consider football: the rough and tumble of our national game is nothing new…’

@accidentalp.bsky.social #accidentalPartridge

Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 4d

If Robert Jenrick thinks the story of 1980s football hooliganism is ‘The police put a quick but firm end to it’, I’ve a big bag of magic beans that he’s gonna *love*

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Jack Greig-Midlane @thejackgm.bsky.social · 5d

Is anyone else a bit taken back by the amount of energy being expended by the government here?

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

No 10 says talks happening 'at pace' across government to get Maccabi fans ban lifted
Downing Street has said that discussions are happening "at pace, across government" to resolve the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending the Europa League match in Birmingham.
At the morning lobby briefing, a No 10 spokesperson told reporters:
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You will have seen the West Midlands police and crime commissioner has asked police and Birmingham's safety advisory group to immediately review the decision.
Culture secretary Lisa Nandy is meeting officials to discuss what more can be done to try and find a way through to resolve this, and what more can be done to allow fans to attend the game safely.

The secretary of state for housing, communities and local government, Steve Reed, spoke to the local council this morning, and the Home Office is urgently working to support police to try and find a way through this.
You can expect to hear further updates today. I won't pre-empt the conversations, but these are happening at pace, across government, with all the relevant groups to find a way to resolve this.

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Jack Greig-Midlane @thejackgm.bsky.social · 5d

If the decision does get overturned, wouldn’t this potentially increase the risk of disorder to higher than it otherwise would have been? If the MTA fans resent the treatment by Villa and WMP, that surely is a new part of the risk profile.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 5d

I suspect the police will have to overturn the decision but operational independence is a pretty important convention. (Starmer's already said it was the wrong decision).

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Jack Greig-Midlane @thejackgm.bsky.social · 5d

Some good data here on apparent radicalisation of the right wing movements in uk politics. Though I think the authors perhaps mislabel the phenomenon by calling it ‘audience capture’. Doesn’t seem expansive enough

theconversation.com/inside-the-f...

Inside the far-right social media ecosystem normalising extremist ideas in UK politics

A process of normalisation has led Reform to propose mass deportations where once it believed such a policy would never be politically viable.

theconversation.com

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Jack Greig-Midlane @thejackgm.bsky.social · 8d

a man in a suit and bow tie is standing next to another man in a room .

Alt: Famous cop, Dr Who, flashing his psychic paper ID

media.tenor.com

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Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social · 8d

Two big changes to the precarity of the AI industry in the last year: (1) more and more companies are turning to debt to finance AI capex (see Meta, xAI, Oracle), and (2) OpenAI's flurry of deals in the past month are tying major companies to the fate of this startup

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John Shjarback @shjarback-ccj.bsky.social · 12d

Great discussion today on @whyy.org with @cherrigregg.bsky.social & @avi-wa.bsky.social . Watch if enhancing your perspective on complex & nuanced topics like police reform and public safety interests you. Discussion begins around minute 12 after the Intro.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YCn...

Camden crime reversal | Studio 2 from WHYY | 10/9/25

YouTube video by WHYY

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Jack Greig-Midlane @thejackgm.bsky.social · 11d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Anti-protest proposals put free speech at risk | Letters

Letters: Readers respond to the proposal to give police further powers to curb ‘cumulative’ protests, in response to actions by the proscribed group Palestine Action

www.theguardian.com

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Jack Greig-Midlane @thejackgm.bsky.social · 14d

Would a happy medium to the right’s problem with higher education in ‘the arts’ just be to make all courses about how great Blighty is, and in exchange for students writing numerous ChatGPT prompts on how to express patriotism we give them a job in a think tank?

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14d

Also, the nostalgic lionisation of apprenticeships is intensely irritating. There are some great ones but also a lot of poor quality ones and dropout rates are much higher than unis.

You can also do apprenticeships in arts!

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14d

At some point these imbeciles are going to realise that arts courses are *funding* the courses they do like and if they cut those places unis will just go bankrupt so no maths or science either.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 14d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 15d

From Wikipedia:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday_...

The Monday Club policy was of voluntary repatriation, in 2001 seen as a policy too far right by the right of the Conservative Party

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Jack Greig-Midlane @thejackgm.bsky.social · 15d

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Jack Greig-Midlane @thejackgm.bsky.social · 16d

It’s just signalling her opposition to identity politics, I think. The idea being that ID politics does categorising in a way that is socially harmful, which is obviously a nonsense way to summarise it

Jack Greig-Midlane @thejackgm.bsky.social · 16d

A different category to adults?

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 17d

Badenoch says she will not allow anyone on the left to say her children 'belong in a different category' (?) or anyone on the right that they 'belong in a different country'. Only minutes ago she attacked Labour for saying it was racist to say the latter.

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Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social · 17d

(1) Police can already take into account cumulative effect - restrictions on repeat disruptive protests are more likely to be proportionate. (2) Vast numbers of DefendOurJuries protesters have been arrested. It's made future protests more, not less, likely.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

www.theguardian.com

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 17d

Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations.

Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 17d

BREAKING: The Home Office is giving police new powers to restrict repeat protests like pro-Palestine marches.

Police can consider the ‘cumulative impact’ of protests on an area and could ban the protest / force it to move elsewhere.

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Jack Greig-Midlane @thejackgm.bsky.social · 21d

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21d

Nick Robinson asks "Can you have a racist policy without being racist yourself?"

Macpherson definition: racism not only simply intention - but discriminatory impacts too.

Farage policy on ILR discriminates: he protects Europeans but threatens those from Commonwealth countries (India, Nigeria)

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Jack Greig-Midlane @thejackgm.bsky.social · 22d

My desperately optimistic take before Trump v2.0 was that the off the charts incompetence of him and those he surrounds himself with, added to his narcissism, would mean there’d be too much chaos for them to pull off a good chunk of P-25

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