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Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 23h

Going to be a bit frosty at @theguardian.com football journalists xmas party this year if both Jonathan and Barney show up.

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Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew

Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 3d

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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area

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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction

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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it

Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…

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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely

[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over

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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat

[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster

Minister:
I understand your concerns…

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Nurse:
Are you OK love?

Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters

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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian

[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]

Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love

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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to

[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]

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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR

[woman looks baffled]

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woman:
I just want a bus service

Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]

[ends]

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Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 2d

But if we stop celebs doing travel progs then Susan Calman might have to try her hand at comedy. 😱

Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 2d

You are now attracting the attention of the Sûreté.

Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 2d

The Sûreté are investigating...

@forbes.com

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Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like Israeli police have also decided to ban #MaccabiTelAviv fans. Seems like #AVFC, police and SAG judgement is sound.

UK politicians should probably try to STFU on this matter.

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Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 3d

I get it. You're just seeing red at the moment, aren't you?

Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 3d

For a football reporter, Barney doesn't seem to know much about footy.

Or politics in sport, or risk management protocols or the long history and frequency of football fans being banned for violent behaviour.

MTV fans are renowned for violence and racism.

www.middleeasteye.net/news/why-mac...

Why Maccabi Tel Aviv fans with record of violent rampages were really banned

Starmer has condemned restrictions on Aston Villa match amid widespread outrage, but the Israeli club's supporters have a history of violence and disruption

www.middleeasteye.net

Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 3d

Ottilie, a drama workshop leader and sex educator, says scream clubs have resonated ... for “so many reasons”: “The state of the world, all of the horrific things that are happening – sometimes it can feel hopeless and we’re conditioned to think we’re not allowed to feel that.”

Peak #GenZ.

Mardy Kid @mardykid.bsky.social · 3d

After the joy of Ronnie Wood last week, we now have a litany of tiresome name dropping, dull anecdotes and a one tone track selection chosen by some vapid privileged drop out turned make up artist.

Lauren must be suffering as well.

#DesertIslandDiscs