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@anandmenon.bsky.social
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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 📌 0Fair
04.03.2026 08:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fascinating 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 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0'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 📌 2Yeah, and that ended well for us 🤦🏾🤦🏾
04.03.2026 08:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Actually, 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 📌 0Well 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 📌 1It's a crap game
04.03.2026 07:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh sod off
03.03.2026 20:59 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 0Oh ffs
03.03.2026 20:56 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What is "deliverism"? Is it dead? And what would its death mean for progressive politics?
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Pretty good for mid table premiership too 😉
03.03.2026 15:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great player.
03.03.2026 15:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I mean, even I see we have worse players than Arsenal.
03.03.2026 15:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Aggressive, attacking, front foot football. We’re a joy to watch.
03.03.2026 15:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yeah but we’re near the bottom of the table. We’re meant to be scrappers
03.03.2026 10:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Massive signs of progress in terms of people talking football on Bluesky
03.03.2026 09:53 — 👍 35 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 0While 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 📌 4Blimey. You're a fast reader....
03.03.2026 08:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hats off @BrookingsInst for putting out such a timely and interesting collection www.brookings.edu/articles/aft...
03.03.2026 08:07 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1Buy them loads of presents 😉 www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...
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Last week, Shabana Mahmood visited Denmark and has made changes to the UK's asylum policy that emulate the stricter Danish system
✍️ In this piece from September, @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social argues there key pitfalls to copying this approach
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"Simply making conditions harsher in the hope it will deter arrivals appears, based on the evidence, unlikely to achieve the desired effect."
✍️ @cbarnard.bsky.social, @fionacostello.bsky.social & Ali Ahmadi on 'pull factors' & whether stricter asylum policies matter
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Well that’s not ominous at all….
02.03.2026 08:57 — 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0No, indeed. They've not fielded that well for a while now
01.03.2026 15:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Some decent bowlers too….
01.03.2026 14:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ha!
01.03.2026 14:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Howzaaaaaat. Thank God for that.
01.03.2026 14:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0