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England only had one key trait over Spain – but it led them to Euro 2025 glory England 1-1 Spain (England win 3-1 on pens): The Lionesses held their nerve in a shootout thanks to Hannah Hampton’s two saves and Chloe Kelly’s decisive spot kick in Basel

History repeats itself, once with force

Chloe Kelly again wins England the Euros, the ferocity of her penalty reflecting the spirit of the team - the quality that repeatedly drove them through

This Euros was a story of resolve, instilled by Wiegman

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Yes, fair point! Definitely one of those that on it's own you could read either way, but I agree given the previous stuff (I'd not seen this tbh), probably meant as a knock. I still think the stat is a good one the way I read it the first time though!

There's a fair bit of negative feedback to this - I don't really read it as knocking England though, more just a demonstration of the tenacity and grit of this team. They did what they needed to do when they needed to do it - the mark of a winner in any sport. To me, it illustrates that brilliantly.

Daily Telegraph story about Anne Kaplan Mulholland threatening to leave the U.K.

Daily Mail story about Anne Kaplan Mulholland leaving the U.K.

BBC story about Anne Kaplan Mulholland complaining about the loss of non dom status

Mulholland hired a staff of roughly 100, joined her local church and started doing her grocery shopping at the retailer Marks & Spencer . But she is now on her way out. She and her husband, a plastic surgeon, applied to move to Italy, which charges a flat fee of about $230,000 a year for expats in lieu of tax on foreign income.

One of the reasons I’m sceptical about the exodus of non-dom millionaires from the U.K. is that all the stories seem to mention the same handful of names.
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An underlined quote in a book that reads as follows… “The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply. – Stephen R. Covey” And I feel it is important to mention here that I was not the one that highlighted this quote (because I’m not a monster). Again, just to reiterate, I, Adam Sharp, do not, now or ever, go around highlighting passages in books like some kind of savage.

Today is World Listening Day so it's a good time to share this again...

Lucy Bronze on how she decided to blast her penalty down the middle (and score).

“Statistically it’s risky for the goal keeper to stand still… so yeah, I love maths”.

can’t imagine why he’d have to cryptically write about their shared “secret” rather than just talk like a normal human being. can’t imagine why at all.

Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’

🚨NEW: WSJ reveals letter sent by Trump to Epstein on his birthday.

Trump ends with: “Happy Birthday and may every day be another wonderful secret.”

The text is “framed by the outline of a naked woman…and the future president’s signature is a squiggly “Donald” below her waist, mimicking pubic hair”

So tragic!

I don't know the circumstances of this case, but the sad reality is outbreaks are so preventable.

Vocal anti-vaxers, especially those with a large platform, are complicit, especially since covid, by undermining public confidence in vaccines, against scientific and medical consensus.

Today’s Climate Forecast    And onto today’s climate forecast,  where we can expect to see a prolonged spell of inaction, interspersed with patches of hazy promises across many areas.    Over Westminster and other centres of government, a build-up of hot air will cause inactivity to soar to record levels over the coming days, in spite of the high pressure.   Elsewhere, a front of chronic misinformation  will sweep in from the east,    bringing with it a thick band of climate change deniers and the chance of scattered falsehoods,   while powerful gusts of idiocy and ignorance look set to blow across social media. Outbreaks of ‘We just got on with it in 1976’ and ‘It’s called the British summer, mate’ are likely.   In summary: unsettling.   Brian Bilston

And now for today’s climate forecast …

I don’t know what’s wrong with people who still use X. You’re getting your breaking news and sports chat from a Nazi site. Draw a line

From the texas community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the texas community

In areas hit by Texas floods, officials were sent over $5 million in federal ARPA funds in 2021.

They didn't want to spend it on flood warning systems due to their disdain for Biden - and didn't send it BACK because it might go to a blue state, and "values that we in Kerr county don't agree with."

"We are very sorry about your cancer diagnosis, but you should have thought of that 20 years ago, when you decided to marry a Danish man."

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future.

But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

I wish people would stop describing things that are indisputably provable as a matter of fact as "controversial." People not liking a fact doesn't mean the fact is controversial. Reality is not malleable around our beliefs and it shouldn't be. We need to stop acting like it is.

AllTrails launches AI route-making tool, worrying search-and-rescue members One of the world’s most popular hiking apps has a new generative AI feature that can be asked to "shorten my route" or "make this more scenic." But the people in charge of searching for lost hikers sa...

"AllTrails has a new generative AI feature that can be asked to 'shorten my route' or 'make this more scenic.'

But the people in charge of searching for lost hikers say the feature is going to exacerbate an issue they’ve been warning about for years: hiking apps providing false information."

Great work by @alchapman.bsky.social in revealing the travel behaviours of 'ultra frequent flyers'.

This group are "consuming vastly more than their fair share of the aviation sector’s carbon budget".

NEF argue this group should pay a new tax reflecting the environmental cost of excessive flying.

The UK government should long ago have exited X. The platform is not interested in appropriate moderation. It is a hotbed for extremism. This was clear nearly a year ago during the riots.

Mars?

1/Almost 9 years ago I was standing in front of the TV in shock and disbelief over the Brexit vote. To be truthful, my anxiety was not because of the predicted economic consequences. It was because the vote showed me that campaigns based on prejudice work in this country. And it went downhill since.

I’m old fashioned enough to think the BBC should be leading on what the deal is and what it means. Rather than the political claims from both sides.

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If I were the owner of the @washingtonpost.com, I would not do a deal with the people who dismembered my columnist. Seems like a low bar, but Bezos managed to not clear yet another one. The world is awash in capital and that this is the choice should tell you all.
He’s so poor, all he has is money.

Looks like today modern football beat the outdated tactics of the previous decade. City looked like they felt entitled to win. Times change. #facupfinal

Astonishing evidence at the Covid Inquiry.

The Government repeatedly ignored offers from the Crick Institute to provide mass testing on a national scale.

Instead, the Government paid Deloitte consultants to project manage, not yet established, privately run labs.

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Good thing you saved this for the book, guys.

Rather than, say, reporting it when it might have actually been relevant.

I’m one of those dodgy immigrants who came here on a spouse visa and got indefinite leave to remain after 12 months.

The incalculable harm I have done to the UK includes dedicating my life to public service, educating thousands of British young people, and paying more tax than I’ll ever get back.

Slightly amended so I can fit this here: I am writing to you as an immigrant who chose to make the UK my home. As someone who is now also a British citizen. And as a German-born historian who understands where the complete normalisation of the far right can end. I write to say: For shame! I first came to the UK in the 1990s for a visit with my grandmother. Objectively, much was backwards here. No mixer taps in the bathroom; awful ‘bread’; and strings had to be pulled to switch on lights. But however I felt about this, my own string had been pulled: I loved this Cool Britannia. It was quite possibly then that I decided that the UK was to be my home. When I arrived to settle here permanently, I made a choice: to contribute my skills, my knowledge—all I have to offer—to this country rather than another one. I am deeply disgusted by your comment today that immigration has done ‘incalculable damage’ to the country. This is the language of the far right. It is insulting, hateful & will fuel xenophobia. And it is just wrong. Migration is a normal part of the human existence. None of us would be where we are without it. Open your fridge and you will see migration. Immigrants help make the UK tick every single day, whether we clean toilets in our hospitals or provide care for the elderly; whether we empty our bins or carry out cancer research. We are mothers, sons-in-law, aunts and uncles, friends, neighbours and colleagues. I ask you not tell me that you do not mean me. I know that you do not—at least not primarily—mean a white woman from Europe who has a PhD. But who do you mean? And, much more importantly, who do you think those racists who were engaged in riots on our streets last summer think you mean? Anti-immigration narratives have defined UK policymaking for the best part of two decades. And fundamentally so. They were the key driver in delivering Brexit, for example, and, as such, have directly limited the rights and opportunities of British citizens.

This obsessive focus on immigration as the ‘problem’—that is the real problem. And it is consistently delivering poor outcomes for the UK. Instead of tackling this, you are choosing to consolidate it, sowing divisions along the way. You may point me to polling and tell me that this is what voters want. Do they? I am not surprised at all that over 50% of voters might say they want to see immigration reduced if that is the question they are being asked. What we need to know is what they would answer to the question: “Would you like to see immigration reduced? What this would mean for you and your local community is XYZ.” That is not how surveys can ask questions, but governments absolutely can choose to make policy using such a more informed position. Prime Minister, you continue to talk a lot about making the tough choices. But let’s be clear: setting immigrants up as the ‘other’, as a scapegoat—describing us as a threat ‘pulling the country apart’, a ‘squalid chapter’, a risk that might make the UK an ‘island of strangers’—these are not tough choices at all. These are the easy choices. They are the choices that populists make who have no solutions to the real problems a country faces. What I would like to know, Prime Minister, is what you will do when your policies lead to the implosion of the UK’s Higher Education sector. What you will tell communities when they can no longer provide any care for the elderly. The policies you announced today will not solve anything at all. They will have exclusively negative impacts. For those immediately affected; for our communities; and for our economy. Being pro-immigration—it is progressive, yes, but the much more crucial point is that it is also the most pro-UK policy approach that any politician in the country can pursue. And you are choosing to do the opposite. This, Prime Minister, is the real damage—and it will be very calculable indeed. Tanja Bueltmann

My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration

Covid inquiry: 180,000 lives could have been saved If the government had listened to experts and implemented the same strategies used in other countries, 180,000 lives may have been saved during Covid, the UK Covid Inquiry heard today.

Covid inquiry: 180,000 lives could have been saved
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