Laurence Whiteside

Franco-British teacher of English in Paris 🇨🇵🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺

[Laurence Whiteside @lolwhites]

@asubparusername Before the invasion, Thatcher had actually floated a potential solution that involved Argentina gaining sovereignty but agreeing to lease the islands back to Britain. Had the war not hardened opinions, who knows which country would have them in 2026?

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@calciferion @Daniel_Sugarman I'm old enough to remember British right wing politicians telling us that Milei was someone we should learn from.

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@PolitlcsGlobal It tells you what kind of person Milei appoints as ministers

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@SlenderSherbet We obey no one! We are the superior beings!

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@Baddiel We won't get away with playing like that against Argentina.

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@theAlexHos_ What does it mean when someone says "let's just be friends"?

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@AlexTaylorNews Which one is the joke candidate?

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@TSSLUFC "He had easy games" - unlike Hodgson, who lost to Iceland and exited at the group stage in 2014, or Capello, who lost 4-1 to Germany, or McLaren, who failed to even qualify...

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@jan_murray I'm reminded of Orwell's quote about voluntary censorship among British journalists.

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@jan_murray Imagine if a female Girl Guide leader was found to have an Onlyfans account...

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@jan_murray There's private behaviour and public behaviour, and failing to distinguish between the two is a potential red flag.

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@StanCollymore Wonder what the "Southgate just had easy games" brigade are saying now?

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@LoudBonnet @JournalistJill @JoeBryce15 Arthur Conan Doyle was convinced that fairies existed.

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@shhhbreslin Why not remove the referee?

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@westhamster2 When a win and a draw is enough to see a team through to the knockout stage, it leads to negative, defensive football. Everyone berates England for not beating Ghana, but Ghana might not have parked the bus and settled for a draw under the old system.

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@AnthonyW182 @mattforde Ghana parked the bus, safe in the knowledge that 4 points would probably be enough to see them through. A perfect example of how the 48-team format encourages negative, defensive football.

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@archer_rs This reminds me of the far left nutters who insist that real communism has never been tried.

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@TheFl0orIsLaVa Invading a country to demilitarise it only to see it become a regional power?

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@OmieWyse @stuey_beef According to this report, she got a card and gift but not a bigger celebration because no one knew it was a milestone.
https://t.co/ZqPaFLfSHD

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@JamesMelville It will probably take another
Disgrace of Gijón before anything is done, though.