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Director @ukandeu.bsky.social Bitter and twisted observer of politics. ‘Not yoda’ (DC) ‘Slightly matey politics don' (Q. Letts) Trustee, @fullfact #LUFC Most views someone else’s

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Dunno. I want one to finish below us and I still can’t quite believe it will be Spurs. Then again, they’re crumbling.

05.03.2026 20:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

To help Leeds by losing

05.03.2026 20:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Please show your workings.

05.03.2026 20:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Spurs or Palace? 🤔

05.03.2026 20:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 8    📌 1

Just to pre-empt the discussion. NZ always beat us.

05.03.2026 17:28 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Can't believe how well they caught after a couple of dodgy fielding performances.

05.03.2026 17:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Need to shut the Overton window quickly.

05.03.2026 17:11 — 👍 22    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0

I do hope England manage to get to 150.....

05.03.2026 16:08 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0

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05.03.2026 15:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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a man wearing a blue jersey with the name howzat on it ALT: a man wearing a blue jersey with the name howzat on it

😉

05.03.2026 15:35 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 1

Actually, we're nowhere near as negative as we might be given our plight. But we don't have depth of sheer attacking excellence the top clubs have

04.03.2026 08:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Fair

04.03.2026 08:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Assimilated law – the role and future of retained At the University of Oxford, a conference on “Assimilated law – the role and future of retained EU

Fascinating conference coming up on assimilated law, hosted and organised by the Institute of European and Comparative Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

04.03.2026 08:32 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Germany’s Merz sits powerless as Trump attacks European allies in Oval Office The chancellor’s strategy of never contradicting the U.S. president is front of the cameras looks humiliating, but he believes he can talk him around on Ukraine and trade.

'Perhaps the biggest question for Merz, however, is whether the appeasement is working'. Quite the choice of words . Not sure it's fair - we don't know what was said in private. The optics of the public meeting were, as so often, a cringe. www.politico.eu/article/frie...

04.03.2026 08:11 — 👍 26    🔁 3    💬 6    📌 2

Yeah, and that ended well for us 🤦🏾🤦🏾

04.03.2026 08:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Actually, we were open and aggressive against you, as I recall. Ok, it didn't work but..... And yes, that's a view on the uncommitted. I was simply saying making a point about the 'product'.

04.03.2026 08:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

😂

04.03.2026 07:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well yes. Arsenal have such a wealth of talent they could play more attractive football. I also think it might be more effective than the 'keep it tight and score from a corner' approach. My point is that the product is less attractive to the uncommitted now.

04.03.2026 07:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 1

It's a crap game

04.03.2026 07:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh sod off

03.03.2026 20:59 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 5    📌 0

Oh ffs

03.03.2026 20:56 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Is "deliverism" dead? Lawrence gave his first take on Iran at the weekend and will return to it later this week.

What is "deliverism"? Is it dead? And what would its death mean for progressive politics?

This essay (kindly published by @samfr.bsky.social) is my attempt to trace five years of trans-Atlantic debates, to set out what I see as the stakes, and to analyse where these arguments have now gotten to:

03.03.2026 09:27 — 👍 62    🔁 24    💬 7    📌 9
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03.03.2026 16:15 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

Pretty good for mid table premiership too 😉

03.03.2026 15:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great player.

03.03.2026 15:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I mean, even I see we have worse players than Arsenal.

03.03.2026 15:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Aggressive, attacking, front foot football. We’re a joy to watch.

03.03.2026 15:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yeah but we’re near the bottom of the table. We’re meant to be scrappers

03.03.2026 10:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Massive signs of progress in terms of people talking football on Bluesky

03.03.2026 09:53 — 👍 35    🔁 0    💬 5    📌 0
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While I hate to agree with a Liverpool manager, he’s right. Arsenal in particular are practising a brand of football that will turn audiences off.

03.03.2026 08:49 — 👍 28    🔁 3    💬 27    📌 4