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Ruth Dudley Edwards Related Topics Republic of Ireland, Woke, Culture wars, Culture wars

This article is obviously utterly bonkers but the funniest part is the related topics 😆 Serious journalism, right?
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Pep Guardiola’s ideology is dead. So where does football go next? After 15 years of dominance, Guardiola’s ideas of pressing and possession which gripped the game have unravelled, giving way to fast transitions and set-piece duels. Is this football’s ‘end of history...

Football's "end of history" moment

For 16 years, Guardiola's "positional" game was THE best practice in a homogenised sport

Now it's not

As everyone including Pep looks to individual magic, set pieces, counters, there's new uncertainty about what next
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The Dilemma of Duty Under Trump What his assault on the U.S. military means for America.

It is disturbing to see the U.S. military employed in such a potentially unlawful fashion. But it is also disturbing to note that, so far, there has been no public protest from anyone in uniform. bit.ly/47aHw7J

Equality and Human Rights Commission Rt Hon Bridget Phillipson MP Secretary of State for Education, Minister for Women and Equalities CC: The Rt Hon Baroness Smith of Malvern Minister for Women and Equalities By email only From: Baroness Kishwer Falkner, Chairwoman Our ref: 20251015Falkner Wednesday 15 October 2025 Dear Secretary of State, Government action on draft Code of Practice I am writing to follow up on my letter of 4 September that submitted our draft Code of Practice for services, public functions, and associations (the Code) for your approval for laying before Parliament. Tomorrow (16 October) will mark six months since the judgment in For Women Scotland Ltd v Scottish Ministers was issued, which clarified amongst other things the correct legal interpretation of 'sex' in the Equality Act 2010. It will also be six weeks since we submitted the draft Code to you. As you will be aware, the version of the Code currently published by EHRC (in 2011) is based on an understanding of the meaning of 'sex' in the Equality Act 2010 which has now been declared by the Supreme Court to be incorrect. The practical implications of this are that our 2011 Code, which remains the published version of the code, now contains some incorrect analysis that is inconsistent with the law in certain high-profile areas of the law. In accordance Arndale House, The Arndale Centre Manchester, M4 3AQ equalityhumanrights.com

Equality and Human Rights Commission with the Equality Act 2006, this version of the code remains extant until you make an order to withdraw it and must legally be considered in certain circumstances. In turn, this might create uncertainty on our ability to take compliance or enforcement action for breach of the Equality Act 2010. We are aware that some organisations are continuing to refer to and rely upon this outdated version of the Code and anticipate continuing to do so until the revised Code is published. This is in our view unhelpful, including to the EHRC's objectives. We also note that there are several parts of the Code unrelated to sex and gender law that are inaccurate due to the passage of time and developments in the law. As you will appreciate, the longer the period before the new Code can be published, the longer the current unsatisfactory state of affairs will continue, therefore allowing practices inconsistent with the law to persist. As the body responsible for the enforcement of equality law, we recognise our own responsibility to ensure that our updated draft Code reflects the law accurately. We are confident that the draft provided to you now does so. It is consequently our strong preference, having been advised at expert level about its scope and accuracy, that the updated draft Code be brought into force as soon as possible to reflect the law as it has now been clarified by the Supreme Court. This is particularly urgent considering the spread of misinformation and misleading information on the law following the Supreme Court judgment, which continues to circulate widely. We are at your disposal to advise on any aspect of the Code if that would help Arndale House, The Arndale Centre Manchester, M4 3AQ equalityhumanrights.com

Equality and Human Rights Commission to speed its progress. I note that the Office for Equality and Opportunity (OEO) requested on 9 October sight of additional information to help inform Ministers' consideration of the draft Code, including our Equality Impact Assessment. We provided this information to OEO on 13 October. I would consequently welcome a meeting with you on the Government's next steps ahead of laying the draft Code before Parliament. Our officials have reached out to your office with a request to arrange this. In addition, as outlined above, the Equality Act 2006 stipulates that the Secretary of State may revoke a code issued under the Act at the request of the Commission, by order. Given that the published version of the (2011) Code currently contains analysis of the Equality Act 2010 which has been shown to be incorrect by the Supreme Court, the EHRC consequently requests that you revoke the current code as soon as possible now that Parliament has returned, so that courts, tribunals and duty bearers are clear that it is no longer to be relied on. This will also mean that we are no longer in a position of promoting an inaccurate analysis while simultaneously seeking to promote and ensure compliance with the correct understanding of the law. Of course, uncertainty for duty-bearers will be reduced significantly once the new draft Code is laid in Parliament. We look forward to hearing from you on the above matters. Yours sincerely, Arndale House, The Arndale Centre Manchester, M4 3AQ equalityhumanrights.com

Equality and Human Rights Commission Kishwer Fallen Baroness Kishwer Falkner Chairwoman Equality and Human Rights Commission Arndale House, The Arndale Centre Manchester, M4 3AQ equalityhumanrights.com

Baroness Falkner getting twitchy that the government has not moved on their final guidelines.
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Falkner writing a pissy letter to the minister going “its been six months and trannies are still legal what gives“ is quite funny tho

The guidance will be challenged if it’s as transphobic as expected.

The government knows there’s a strong chance they lose domestically and a near certainty they lose at the ECHR.

The “risk of legal challenge” looks like code for “the lawyers told us this is a shitshow”.

You thought PL clubs partnering with "opaque" (unlicensed, unregulated and illegal) Asian-facing sports betting operators would soon be a thing of the past? Think again.

It’s Getting Worse. The Trump administration’s assault on the rest of us is intensifying.

"This is what you get after a decade of Trumpism’s ascendance: a young-activist base that has self-selected for the most amoral and psychotic political strivers, and has held them up as a professional ideal." www.thebulwark.com/p/its-gettin...

"Some carnage."

You see a handsome, dashing sexy young man. Obviously this mirror has quite a bit of distortion!

The one and only!

Sure. But you’d expect that desire to win should - in light of a poor performance - result in anger and drive to do better, not a crack in confidence.

Introduce yourself with four video games

I know a lot of Reds will see it that way and more rival fans and pundits will too. But I’m strongly of the view that this team is being built for more than just this season and the impact of a poor performance will depend greatly on how much the players are able to internalise that idea.

Safety and security very clearly are not the top priority at FIFA events. Anyone with even a passing interest in football and global politics knows this.

“Terrible” is an entirely subjective measure. The objective measure is the number of goals you’ve scored and since that’s the whole point of the game, if one team has scored more than the other they are objectively doing better.

But if we scored first then it clearly wasn’t the case that we didn’t create enough in attack and conceded too much in defence at that point in the game. Otherwise we wouldn’t have scored before the opponent did.

I don’t follow the logic here, Dan (happy that this is my failing). We’ve only conceded first twice and that to goals in the 9th and 14th minutes, which means we’ve only been at 0-0 and then gone on to concede first for 23 minutes all season. That doesn’t seem a significant sample size.

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

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Muslim clerics have deemed AI-generated imagery of people ‘haram’ or forbidden. And they told you shariah law would be your undoing.

Bob Mortimer on WILTY

‘I was stopped by police while driving my silver Bentley stuffed with cash and I told them I’m a journalist’

Bridget Phillipson 'delaying trans guidance to help deputy leader bid' The equalities minister is accused of pushing back publication of a code on single-sex spaces until after the Labour election ends Those close to Bridget Phillipson, who is also education secretary, said her opponents were "weaponising gender issues" in a "cynical and divisive" way

Lol
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If it is correct that Bridget Phillipson is sitting on the new, post Supreme Court ruling EHRC guidance on trans rights (and I think it v. plausible) so as not to lose deputy leadership votes of pro-LGBT+ MPs, then not only is that sickeningly cynical, but guidance must be off-the-scale extreme.

Using ChatGPT

this might be Comrade Photographers greatest work yet

2 Panel Comic. 1. Bart Simpson is looking back at you with the remote control pointed at the tv showing Trump turning to Starmer and Starmer with a big smile on his face: "You can actually pinpoint the second he knows he's fucked it" 2: Literally seconds later Trump has turned his back on Starmer leaving him high and dry in front of an assembled crowd with nothing else to do but make the humiliating walk back to his spot

you cannot "abuse" your rights.

civil rights either are protected and real or they are not.

The Offer (TV Mini Series 2022) ⭐ 8.6 | Biography, Crime, Drama 1h | TV-MA

For anybody in the UK who didn't subscribe to Paramount+, ITVX will be streaming The Offer - a drama series about the making of The Godfather. It's excellent.

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He is far from alone.
Do you know how many people I know, journalists, thinktankers, civil servants, politicians, who always excel at explaining to you why what is currently happening was always bound to happen, from which they conclude that it should happen?

Article "Modern News Cycle" from Private Eye.

Brilliant - from Private Eye Magazine.