I love it when the Guardian finds a Guardian way of doing stuff that feels a bit Daily Mail somehow.

I find British folks frustrating on this. Dudes, the reason you see fewer unhoused people in London than, say, Seattle is that the latter has made a decision to allow a level of high-profile, central encampments. Try setting up tents in Russell Square and see how the Met lets you get on.

So many things to love here
1) The original Elway saga.
2) Lol Jets.
3) In the grand scheme of things, kinda lol Patriots? So many things that almost worked. (And one thing that very much did.)

TBF the melting pot is a cliche that doesn't get taught anymore, thankfully.

Well, I saw Livorno beat Bra in extra time in what was undoubtedly today's most thrilling Serie C match, and then the team I loved as a kid won the Super Bowl. Fun day of sport.

Wait, that last part is legal there?

There is decidedly more curling on the TV.

If I ran ICC outreach, we'd go to all the olive oil European countries with a pitch centered around beating the English at their thing and stopping twice a day for meals.

In Italy for work and I am sad to report that T20 World Cup Fever doesn't seem to have taken hold as thoroughly as we might have hoped.

Calling the first six overs of a t20 "LAUNCH" feels like when every Sci-fi movie comes up with a new name for coffee

I really want to write to the publisher of Chiropractic Weekly magazine, to ask them if they have any back issues

Honestly? This could be the last straw for me with this guy.

I thought a john pond was what a town has when it's too small to justify an industrial wastewater treatment facility.

All true. But Democrats need to be bolder and more aggressive, not change their core beliefs. Labour seems to be turning genuinely xenophobic.
And yeah, a party that has never led a government and doesn't have the numbers to do so any time soon is not, practically speaking, an alternative.

It's also worth noting that the US has another party that, while often flawed and craven, offers an alternative to immigration brownshirts. Not sure where you can turn when it's the leftwing party doing the xenophobia.

"I no longer feel an obligation to think of peace."

I mean, that bill will have its uses if you're cutting overhead.

Well, yes. But scale is the problem. You cannot get to 3.5% without some fundamental choices that are going to be unpopular.

Obviously. It's a bad plan for everyone that will also bite the US in the ass in many ways.

Even with Canada, you'll need an increased level of military funding that will involve the kind of choices politicians don't like making and citizens don't like experiencing.

You don't have to love your bodyguard (particularly after he's been on an extended coke-and-steroids binge,) you just have to like him more than you like the idea of learning to shoot and going to the gym seven days a week.

If I have hope for a NATO future, it involves a future Democrat president on a Let's Be Friends Again tour and European leaders weighing (entirely legit) trust issues against the fundamental changes that come with spending US-style money on the military.

To be clear, I love Greggs more than any other fast-food purveyor in the world.

And in baseball, the pitcher's spot bats as much as any other spot in the order. If your worst batter needs to bat in cricket, you're probably in the process of getting bowled out for about 90 anyway.

In baseball, the American League brought in the designated hitter after a season when only one team hit above .250. Today, Perth put up 219. The Bash is probably fine without this.

Ah their favourite thing.

Ban this filth.

(That's my one football skeet for 2026. Terrible sport.)

Ah lovely. They hate Wrexham in Mansfield, they hate them on the north side of the Trent and now a new bunch of Nottinghamshire football fans gets to hate them.