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Lee Savage
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Reader in Comparative Politics at King's College London.

Streetwise Hercules

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Most of my emails to colleagues begin with "I hope you're surviving"
November 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Exactly. It's why we're already seeing the groundwork being laid for mass deportations. There is no level of immigration that will be satisfactory, even zero
November 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Alan Partridge was taking the piss out of people who say this nearly 30 years ago
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
As long as there's a plan for those young people
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Unfathomable decision given where Thiaw was. No way Aubameyang gets away from him from here. Maybe Pope is too used to playing with slow CBs
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November 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I'd back Thiaw every time in that position. If Haaland can't sprint away from him then a 36 year-old Aubameyang certainly isn't
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The strongest squad he's had in four years and he doesn't seem to trust more than 12-13 of them to start games
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Inviting that kind of relentless pressure always raises the likelihood of a stupid mistake. It's Brighton, Brentford, and West Ham all over again
November 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Very lucky. We've shown repeatedly this season that we can't give up 70% possession and hold on to a clean sheet. Why should it work now?
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The gameplan handed the initiative to them. A hard 10 minutes at the start of the match followed by giving up the ball and sitting in a flat back five for 80 minutes means we're relying on bad finishing and luck
November 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Fringe falls into that category. It wasn't top tier but I liked it (it had a character that said "hypothesise" every episode!). It ended well despite getting cut short
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Andor was originally supposed to be five seasons. Reducing it to two might be one of the best decisions any TV producer has ever made
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Final season of the Wire is pretty awful. Everything after Gus dies in Breaking Bad is also quite bad. Neither are unwatchable, just a massive fall from previous high quality
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Sure, it's great writing to take that prosaic character from Rogue One and make him into now the most memorable since the OT
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM