And to all the players that played a meaningful part in this journey but had to leave along the way, we love you. Xhaka, Zinchenko, ESR, Jorginho, Tomiyasu, Nelson, Nketiah, Vieira, Kiwior, Tierney, Elneny, Turner. We will not forget you.
Last couple of seasons were rough, but I'm so happy Gabby Jesus got to experience this season and moment with us. For me he's representing Jorgi, Zinny, Granit, Ramsdale, KT, Tomiyasu, and all the other guys that helped turn our fortunes around but left along the way.
I just saw one of my close friends sharing Arsenal’s EPL win on his status 😂This guy has never mentioned Arsenal in my entire 7+ years of knowing him 😭 I asked him, “Guy, are you an Arsenal fan?”
And the first thing he said was:
“Chris, we have not had this thing for over 20 years. What do you want me to do?” 😂
I swear, you will see a mad number of Arsenal fans today 😭😭😂😂😂
The next incredible chapter of this football club is written ❤️
We’ll be in Europe for the first time in our 127-year history next season 🌎
On to Sunday for one final push to find out which competition 💪
The Taliban have a truly brilliant plan for Afghanistan’s women: ban them from education past primary level, forbid them from universities, then slam the door shut on medical, nursing, and midwifery training as of late 2024. All while insisting that only female doctors & nurses can treat female patients, because decency and Islamic propriety demand strict gender segregation in healthcare.
Genius, really. What better way to “protect” women than to ensure that, within a few short years, there will be virtually no qualified Afghan women left to provide the very care their own rules require?
Male doctors cannot properly examine or treat women without risking violation of those same modesty rules and women often refuse or cannot access male providers anyway due to chaperone requirements and cultural barriers. So the Taliban have engineered a perfect catch-22: no male care allowed in practice and now no new female providers being trained either.
Existing female healthcare workers are ageing out, burning out, or fleeing the country if they can. Current female medical students were turfed out mid-training. Midwifery and nursing programmes, already scarce, are now closed entirely.
The predictable result? Skyrocketing maternal mortality, untreated gynaecological conditions, women dying in childbirth or from preventable complications because no female professional is available nearby and rural areas turning into death traps for half the population.
Yet the Taliban still claim this is all for women’s honour and protection. One might almost admire the sheer audacity of the hypocrisy, were it not costing thousands of lives. They have decided that female illiteracy, poverty and death are preferable to the horror of a woman learning how to read, work, or save another woman’s life.
It is not merely cruel, it is spectacularly self-defeating lunacy dressed up as piety.
The rest of the world watches, issues statements, and occasionally wrings its hands, while Afghan women pay the price for this masterclass in regressive logic.
The Taliban really are as stupid as they look.
What’s happening in the USA is insane. It should be a lesson to a lot of South Africans who think apartheid can never come back. All it takes is voting for the wrong person.
For context, there's approximately 13.4 million learners and 410,000 teachers in South Africa's public schools. So these figures constitute 1.8% (learners) and 0.8% (teachers) of the totals, respectively
📢 Comment Deadline Extended: 5 Jan 2026
The Department of Basic Education has extended the public consultation period for two key draft regulations:
1.Minimum Norms & Standards for School Capacity
2.Admission of Learners to Public Schools
Submit your input by 5 January 2026:
• Capacity Regulations: [email protected]
• Admission Regulations: [email protected]
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The times I’ve done CPR on real women, it felt completely different because all our training mannequins basically have male chests.but the moment you say healthcare is built around the Caucasian male body, people start yelling “agenda” like it’s not a documented issue. Be serious