Josh Cockburn

Afghanistan women's players to attend World Cup opener Players due to also compete in some fixtures against Indian domestic sides

In the absence of any concrete action against the cricket board which is in flagrant breach of its requirements, at least the ICC is all over symbolic action.

Paula White-Cain took a somewhat different position when defending the Trump administration’s border separation policy and detention of immigrants. According to her, it’s true that Jesus was a refugee because he lived in Egypt for three and a half years. “But it was not illegal,” she insists. “If he had broken the law, then he would have been sinful and he would not have been our Messiah.

lot to unpack here

photo of pre-protest barriers draped with far right banners including one saying 'BeCause HUMza Thinks SCOTLAND IS TOO WHITE WE MUST SECURE THE EXISTANCE OF OUR PEOPle FOR AND A Future for WHITE CHILDREN!' and one with a picture of a remembrance poppy and silhouettes of soldiers. there are also ones saying 'anti racism just means anti white' and 'immigration referendum now'

The Aberdeen Hotel-Shouting Team has managed to combine the 14 Words (global Nazi slogan) with a poppy banner celebrating infamous antifascists. Incredible work.

Sgt Peppers album cover consisting of things that only made it because of immigration in to the UK, either immigrants themselves, the children of or as a result of someone else coming here.

Farage wanting to kick people out of the country because they migrated here made me angry and made me think about which best of British people and things wouldn't have happened were it not for the brilliance of immigration to the UK.

Bit of parochialism, but congratulations to my local county and club.

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Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’ JERUSALEM—In response to an independent United Nations inquiry concluding that Israel is committing an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a defiant...

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

Team Musk: the furthest right faction of the far right.

Musk is personally promoting the group who *left* the Homeland Party for not being racist enough on the forced deportation of Sunak and Bsdenoch, Lammy and Mahmood, and every UK-born minority

They use his platform for criminal racist abuse

I deplore your taste in 19th century French artists, but I do so more in Seurat than in Ingres.

I'm genuinely gobsmacked that the Home Office think this is a good idea. How do they envisage "training" technology to verify the age of a young person from (say) Darfur or Iraqi Kurdistan? They might as well get the calipers out and start doing phrenology

At least some qualification process for the men, but (other than hosts US) no realistic qualification route for Associates. As mentioned before, no chance for the women to have an exciting Olympic Qualifier.

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I think the most impressive thing about that Berger save was not the athleticism (which was awesome) but the judgment - I have to dive now, I haven't got the time for another step or the ball will be over the line.

The Olympics qualification is very interesting as they've clearly spent ages trying to fine tune the men's qualification, and just gone with whatever is the least effort for the women.

I am a head teacher of English and though I love books and reading I absolutely despise the syllabus I am forced to teach but have to pretend that I agree with it. It's utter, utter bollocks; no wonder so many young people hate reading.

That is some 16th birthday.

Congrats on the New DOD Gig, MechaHitler! Turns out, going on anti-Semitic tirades didn’t stop Grok from winning a big government contract.

Usually, when the phrase “extended pro-Hitler rant” is in the same sentence as some HR news, that news is not a hiring. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Cinema’s greatest scene: ‘Casablanca’ and ‘La Marseillaise’ Casablanca is widely remembered as one of the greatest films of all time, coming in at #2 on the AFI’s top 100 list and similarly regarded by many other critics. You can quibble with its exac…

When this scene was shot, Madeleine Lebeau, an actual French refugee who made it to the US, is singing the anthem of a nation that may never again exist.

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Every man a King!

maybe you should have kept Ned Leonard.

"My antisemitic social network poisoned my credulous AI" 😭

A lot of discussion is understandably taking place about the rules on multi-club ownership groups.

The best approach would be to ban them. They have no legitimate purpose - creating two-tier football in pursuit of allowing rich people to buy sporting advantage.
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India's fielding was excellent, though I'm always wary of ascribing excellence to greater aggression or "wanting it more". England had basically lost the game before they took a wicket, so it's not surprising their reaction to wickets was more muted.

Elon Musk’s Grok Has Lost Its Non-Sentient Mind The X chatbot went off the rails this week, tweeting a slew of antisemitic content and praising Adolf Hitler. Now, CEO Linda Yaccarino has left the company, and the future of AI chatbots feels even mo...

I wrote about the Grok Situation

At the very least, I'd say German companies and institutions are breaking their own laws by being on Twitter

nothing has made me lose more hope for the future recently than seeing how many people who claim left wing politics were unable to pass the "is it ethical to stay on the nazi brainwashing site" test. smallest possible sacrifice being asked, and so many people can't even manage it.

She married Derrick Flint, so it is the latter.

Heyhoe-Flint however was.

Surreal is the right word.

Two completely indistinguishable positions on small boats from a Tory & a Labour MP on Newsnight yesterday.

Neither one of them capable of making a case that stands up to the slightest logical pushback. Pathetic.