Will Davies

makes me wonder how weird (or rare) it must be to be a therapist in small towns

It references ‘Denmark’, aka the new ‘Australia’

Refused asylum seeker families will be offered up to £40,000 to leave Britain under pilot scheme, says Shabana Mahmood – UK politics live The home secretary said that Britain will trial a scheme to encourage a small number of asylum seekers whose claims are rejected to exit the country

I realise this can’t be the measure of good policy, but just imagine what Reform can do with this www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Football’s converging moral panics hold up a mirror to our fractured world | Jonathan Liew From grappling at corners to VAR, the endless list of complaints reflects a wider sense of dislocation from ‘the product’

www.theguardian.com/football/202... @jonathanliew.bsky.social channelling Raymond Williams to diagnose the melancholia of current football discourse (and the sexual dysfunction of its pundits)

Can’t wait until I no longer have to have a take on World Book Day

Reform UK receives another big donation from crypto investor Christopher Harborne gave the party £3mn in November, on top of £9mn donated in August

Reform UK receives another big donation from crypto investor ft.trib.al/eXBmrkF

I went through a phase of watching league. The pace - and the fact that players can restart without any discussion - does make it far less frustrating to watch

Yes they probably are. Need some rotation at some point. Mansfield might be the time to give Zubimendi a rest!

Yes sorry!

It was a total mess. The winning goal should have been saved. Only about one other chance to speak of.

It feels very like rugby, not just because of set pieces, but the centrality of the ref - what can he see or not see, how much can he let pass - in virtually every moment of the game

Having just suffered another 100 mins of Premier League football, it seems to me that set piece hatred is by the by. Where the game has got worse is a) the ball is in the air constantly b) every challenge is a potential foul in either direction, both parties hoping to con the ref in their favour

Trump seems to be re-running the Apprentice, but every time a new candidate comes forward, explaining that they're already dead

It's not up to me to prosecute the US 'fascism debate', but now that ICE has answered the "but there is no armed militia loyal to the leader" objection, Hegseth is now answering the "but there's no glorification of war for its own sake" objection.

what is becoming clear is that the means are the ends. The weapons aren't being used in pursuit of anything; Hegseth's goal is to be using the weapons, a far more deliverable objective than 'regime change'.

feels like what happens if the manosphere seized control of the Pentagon

the absolute worst is trying to prove to an American employer that you're neither a US taxpayer nor a fraudster 🤯🤯

tfw you definitely don't harbor a long-standing desire to burn a copy of the Quran yourself, but somebody else might

In retrospect, there was no way Trump was going to manage 8 years without doing something like this to someone or other

Trump: "Most of the people we had in mind are dead. We had some in mind from that group that is dead. And now we have another group. They may be dead also. Pretty soon we're not gonna know anybody. I mean, Venezuela was so incredible because we did the attack and we kept govt totally in tact."

Finally, the wake-up call those MAGA-loving Guardian readers needed

that's because Leeds is the only team Arsenal seem able to beat, without nearly passing out with exertion and anxiety in the process

what the public really wants is for the 'taxes' and 'spends' questions to be asked separately

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with the exception of Mohammed Salah, every single footballer in the Premier League is now expected to get behind the ball when their team loses posession

I think what happened was that, over the past 5-6 years, all Prem teams perfected low blocks and extreme pressing (partly thanks to insane levels of athleticism) and tiki-taki football became nigh-on impossible. So Arteta and others sought a solution.

Hey, Rio is only there out of social democratic solidarity

Guys, looks like the Mirror might be worth a follow