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Views own, but can be changed for the right price

[Ruxandra Teslo 🧬 @RuxandraTeslo]

Again, I am going to call out this madness everytime I see it. We must not forget about the facts: Jason Arday's death is a tragedy, but the media had every right and indeed should have reported on what is an academic scandal.

We have evidence from some of the best and least right-wing biased publications in the world, including @nytimes, that Jason Arday was utterly unqualified for the job he was given. That he lied in ways that were extremely easy to spot for anyone above 6 and that everyone at Cambridge responsible for his hiring chose to ignore this, in what must have been an "Emperor's New Clothes" situation.

This is not just about Arday: reporting on this is relevant to the topic of the decline in our institutions. All the glaring mistakes I listed above are just the tip of the iceberg. For example, the entire discipline Arday was operating in, education studies, is a joke that seems to have been created by an enemy of our civilization. It has promoted false ideas about education for years, including the concept that all kids are the same. This has led to bad policy measures, like reducing advanced maths classes, and a degradation of the education system, with devastating effects especially on bright kids from less advantaged families.

[Harry @H_arryyy]

@PhilipProudfoot What is your alternative? Ban the free press? Somehow try and control what the media spits out? Get people from your echo chamber to be judge, jury and executioner of the media?

[Harry @H_arryyy]

@BBCPolitics Revolutionary idea: why don't we just build more prisons, recruit more prison staff and then pay them better. Find the money for that by cutting the pointless jobs in the civil service

[Harry @H_arryyy]

@ZackPolanski The UK conts. less than 1% in global emmissions and we've decarbonised at a faster rate than most other countries. Why can't we produce more of our own fossil fuels instead of importing?

Nuclear the obvious alternative to this, but you ideologically oppose this don't you?

[Harry @H_arryyy]

@CallumLyon Sorry but no one is going to spend £1200 on rent when you earn 30k. Unless you have a partner to split costs. If you do then you are an idiot.

Can rent a decent place in places like Leeds or other Northern English places for 400-600 per month

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

The question now is not whether Infantino’s divisive plan survives. It can’t. The question now is whether Infantino himself survives as FIFA president. He shouldn’t.

[UEFA @UEFA]

Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National Associations

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

“Some things are simply too important to sell. The FIFA World Cup belongs to football. It always will. And so long as Europe has a voice, it will never be for sale.” Well said, UEFA. And well done, UEFA. Organising all it 55 member associations to threaten to boycott the World Cup if FIFA president Gianni Infantino goes ahead with his damaging plan to invite venture capitalists in.

No UEFA, no World Cup. Infantino has no chance trying to host a men’s World Cup without Spain (the world champions, their second), Germany (4x champions), Italy (4x champions), France (2x champions), England (champions 60 years ago today). Infantino has no chance trying to get the broadcasters and sponsors without European teams to screen. No Rodri, Bellingham, Mbappe or Olise? No chance the sponsors and broadcasters will fund the World Cup. Ceferin 1 Infantino 0.

[Harry @H_arryyy]

@bencsmoke Getting to net zero earlier would contribute almost nothing to global temperature & CO2 emissions. UK has decarbonised faster than almost any other country, and it makes no difference if US, China, Russia, Middle East decarbonise slowly (They are and will continue to!).

[Joseph S Blatter @SeppBlatter]

Red cards are not overturned by political phone calls. They are overturned by rules, evidence and independent bodies. If a U.S. President intervenes with the FIFA President — and a player is suddenly cleared before a World Cup knockout match — the question is unavoidable: Quo vadis, FIFA?

Football must never become a playground for political power. #FIFA #WorldCup #GianniInfantino #DonaldTrump

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Trump pressuring FIFA is such a depressing sign of how far we've fallen.

I'm so sick of the right pretending to care about American culture. What is more pure American culture than the sanctity of fairness in sports?

Our suspensions get revoked because we're more powerful now.

A backwards, third world country would be proud of winning like this.

Americans shouldn't be.

MAGAs are destroying our culture.

[Harry @H_arryyy]

@SkyCricket Yeah, great calling playing Bashir ahead of him who offers less than nothing

[Harry @H_arryyy]

@RootFan66 Pope isn't consistant either and doesn't deliver in many places. Bump Smith or Brook up to 3, give Rew the gloves at 6/7 and drop Bethell for Dan Lawrence

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

This is the year when the game of two halves became the game of four quarters. And the greatest sport and event was damaged for fistfuls of dollars. Hydration breaks ruin the game’s flow and frustrates fans and viewers. If hydration breaks were solely about player welfare then they would be linked to the temperature in the stadia. It’s a nonsense having a three-minute break in an air-conditioned arena.

Fifa should long ago have established a working party of coaches, sports scientists, national team doctors and Fifpro to agree a set temperature at kickoff, say 25C, which triggers the breaks. That would prove the breaks were for player welfare. At the moment, and to nobody’s surprise, it is widely accepted that these breaks are for US TV to accommodate commercials. Big bucks for the small screen.

Fifa should have thought more about the effect on games and to fan (and viewer) experience when negotiating. Coaches’ desire for a mid-half tactical time-out masquerading as a drinks stop should be resisted anyway. Games have been played for 150 years without needing such intervention. Coaches can shout instructions. And who says that 22 mins and 67 mins is when a coach needs to intervene anyway. It’s nonsense. It’s about money.

Respected and sane footballing voices from Virgil van Dijk to Mauricio Pochettino have spoken out against the breaks. Fifa should listen to them not appear only to listen to the rustle of dollar bills. It’s important that there is resistance to this from all over. Because if we tolerate this, our TV games could be next. BBC can’t do ads, ITV says it won’t follow its US counterparts. But it has been discussed by TV people. It’ll come one day. #FIFAWorldCup.

[Jonathon Kitson @KitsonJ1]

Under these proposals at 17 you’ll be able to vote, join the army and drive a car but not allowed to watch premier league highlights on YouTube on a Saturday night. What an absurd idea.

[Harry @H_arryyy]

@LolaAshton5 @KemiBadenoch Renewables like Solar are intermittent and lack storage capacity, and unless you build lots of nuclear like France, you need something to provide large amounts of baseload power. Harvesting our own oil and gas helps this short term, and is better than importing it from Russia etc

[Harry @H_arryyy]

@BBCNews Because of unneccessary tunnelling in places like the Chilterns and overregulation. Costs per mile of track higher than almost anywhere... project should have started in the north and worked down anyway. Complete national embarressment that we can't build any infrastructure.

[Oz Katerji @OzKaterji]

1 - Press report Zack Polanski does something wrong

2 - His supporters spend 24 hours denying he did anything wrong and attack the reporters

3 - Zack Polanski admits he did the wrong thing and apologises, his supporters move on like nothing happened.

Rinse & repeat.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

By far the clearest of the videos and by far the most jarring.

[Joshin and Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

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