somedisco

talks cobblers and likes coffee (he/him)

[Russ Neil @ruddlesneil]

There’s about 8-10 proper Conference outfits here but the big problem is the noveau riche tinpot clubs like Harrogate, Fylde, Solihull, FGR who should be nowhere near this level. Obviously throw in the standard handful of failing EFL outfits too.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

I'm happy to announce this new paper — we compile evidence on the extraordinary harms caused by IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programmes in the global South since the 1980s.

The empirical record is devastating: documented negative impacts on wages, poverty, inequality, maternal mortality, infant mortality, healthcare access, etc.

SAPs inflicted misery on the periphery in order to curtail their consumption, scupper independent development, and make labour and resources more cheaply available for the core.

https://t.co/21awBtifPu

[Daily Turkic @DailyTurkic]

Istanbul behind, bosses in front 🐈

[Congolesa Rice @judeinlondon]

In my return to writing, I wrote about how all our politicians are idiots for @LRB

https://t.co/wVB2TitgF4

[Seva @SevaUT]

I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts. link below

[sj @316simsim]

There’s a very very veryyyyy small pool of people on this planet who can show up in any ghetto on the planet and be safe by default. Ronaldinho is easily one of them

[somedisco @somedisco]

@zunguzungu Kriss back on the scene — perhaps more of an issue than the em-dash.

[somedisco @somedisco]

@ThomHetheringto having a few Satd night scoops in west LDN - currently solid 🇮🇪 gaff the Shanakee by Ealing Broadway Liz line - and loud jumper lad in basically spit of you. GF touch of a small Janhvi Kapoor (hair up). Quite the couple!

[somedisco @somedisco]

Fucking hell.

[Chris Deeley @ThatChris1209]

'Pele, I assume one of the greats' is a phenomenal line

[somedisco @somedisco]

@brent_bellamy It’s certainly huge in the U.K., can confirm.

[somedisco @somedisco]

Hot take incoming.

The predictable and pathetic bad-faith about WMP’s correct decision to ban a certain group of away fans from Villa is the horrendous U.K. establishment in a nutshell. Away fans are banned all the time: one recent example the Copenhagen derby.

Fuck them.

[somedisco @somedisco]

@altrinchamfc A disgraceful result.

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

It is not clear that the Home Secretary understands how Indefinite Leave to Remain works. Either that, or she is quite happy to break up families and communities where one member is not in employment.

https://t.co/Kp2rD4wiDC

[RMT @RMTunion]

Delighted to help you get this straight, Camilla.
The Tube is operating with 2,000 fewer staff than before the pandemic so our members are working more extreme shifts (4 am starts, 1 am finishes) to keep London moving.
Fatigue and understaffing are a dangerous mix.

[somedisco @somedisco]

The Metropolitan Police have said that a 32-year-old man from Hertfordshire can be named for legal reasons.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Happy birthday, Thomas 🎈

[somedisco @somedisco]

@Mr_Considerate @NHaliloglu Bunch of my flatmates are Iranian and the conversations have been quietly devastating.

[Edmund Griffiths @EdmundGriffiths]

Even by Germany's standards this is an astonishing tweet

[somedisco @somedisco]

@Mr_Considerate For a fairly extreme example of this, seem to recall David Simon found Sanford, Florida to be far enough away from Baltimore, Maryland. Baltimore on the other hand? Well.

[Laura Webster @LauraEWebsterr]

It is a fact that Labour licensed exports of more military equipment to Israel in the last quarter of 2024 than the Tories did from 2020-2023. The journalists at @ScotNational stand by it and calling us "clickbait" won't wash this government's hands of its complicity in Gaza.

[somedisco @somedisco]

100,000s of people dead. Life expectancy of women in some of England’s most deprived areas not stalled, but ~reversed~. Big uptick in child poverty. Homelessness skyrocketed. Food banks everywhere. The commons viciously degraded. Neighbourhoods assaulted.

All because of Osborne.

[George Osborne @George_Osborne]

10th anniversary of the end of the Coalition Government - almost makes one nostalgic for a long term economic plan.