people get really, really weird about jofra archer's gold chain. why does a piece of jewellery get them so rattled?
a material culture analysis via gold chains in hip-hop style 👇
https://t.co/pnbYJ7NRmn
Scenes at Edgbaston where India are playing Pakistan but people are watching the England game.
2 sets of rival supporters united by their love of England!
#PakvsInd#ENGSUI#comeonengland#england
Englands obsession with German WW2 chants is an example of this weird identity crisis this country is currently in.
The national identity still majorly defined by a war that ended 70 years ago.
Funnily enough, Germans don’t consider 🏴 to be their main rivals at all.
Lucy is just someone trying to do positive things. She has said that football changed her life, but has had mental health struggles. And now she’s being spitefully bullied like this, the only point of which is to be cruel and harmful.
“This is the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history,” a reconstructive surgeon who specializes in pediatric trauma said, of the record number of children who have been injured in the war in Gaza. https://t.co/3CyjkzxGMp
Some of the worst operators getting riled up about that new England kit because they want to re-legislate who this England team is for. Then by proxy, they can sneak in a conversation about who the country is for and who they think should be allowed to partake in it. Grim.
‘If liberalism shows no ability or desire to protect civilian life, regional security and even its own electoral prospects, then its mission-defining claims of principle and competence collapse.’ https://t.co/wLwrKA6v5z
The TikTok video that features an audio clip of London Mayor Sadiq Khan saying Remembrance Sunday events must be postponed to prioritise a pro-Palestinian march is AI-generated and fake.
What the past 48 hours or so has revealed is that there are a lot of people who mourn for dead Israeli civilians but not dead Palestinian ones, and a lot of people who mourn for dead Palestinian civilians but not dead Israeli ones.
What has happened to our collective humanity?
The total collapse in affordability for low income private renters is alarming.🚨
In some parts of England there are now literally no properties available to rent for households receiving housing benefit.
We’ve been working with @crisis and @Zoopla. The data is grim 🧵