1/ This is so dangerous and I have been saying this for ages: many people do not realise what government they have elected.

New bill quietly gives powers to remove British citizenship without notice theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
2/ This proposed law isn't about Priti Patel or Boris Johnson, it goes beyond them. Just imagine this law in the hands of a yet more extreme government, doing its best to appease hard-right sections of the media and the electorate in a time of public unrest and climate collapse.
3/ What a painfully complacent country we are. We think, as a nation, that the engines we have often turned against others won't be turned inwards against us.
4/ "I feel sorry for my elderly relative, who in her later years has to endure a growing nastiness in the land to which she has given so much. She doesn’t deserve that: but it is her reality, and unfortunately I think it is our future."

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17 Nov
1/ A key reason that my book doesn’t name names is that English political discourse is obsessed with gossip and sensationalism, with he-did-this and she-did-that, which deflects from the vital conversation about structures.
2/ Just look at the current political discourse. I’m not saying we shouldn’t name names, just that certain people who are used to being in the spotlight are experts at making the conversation all about them: instead of about the society that produces and enables them.
3/ Can I also say this: it’s easy to get caught up in the minutiae of the lives of people harming society rather than looking at the lives of people suffering that harm, which can end up in a form of sympathy for those who are doing the hurtful stuff.
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6 Nov
Manchester City are not possessing the ball, they are confiscating it.
Certain pundits looking for anyone to criticise but the coach.
Watching Manchester United’s defence is like seeing one of those highway roads collapse under the weight of a monsoon.
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4 Nov
Remembering when many of us compared Boris Johnson’s contempt for democracy and the rule of law to that of Donald Trump, and several Very Serious People scoffed at the comparison.
Still thinking about how Boris Johnson’s speech about climate change - in which he claimed the Roman Empire fell due to uncontrolled immigration - was a beat-for-beat remake of Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech: “wars, terrible wars, and the Tiber foaming with much blood.”
Boris Johnson, on the eve of a crucial climate summit, made the UK’s endgame clear. Here’s the Rivers of Blood speech, for those who don’t know it; it was condemned at the time by Powell‘s own party leader.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_of…
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5 Oct
Barcelona are attacking Arsenal with advanced geometry! They are making the smallest gaps look huge.
It’s wild when you think how open Chelsea were against this Barcelona team in the Women’s Champions League Final. That was like walking into a sandstorm.
Just took a picture of these half time numbers:
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25 Sep
Chelsea inviting so much pressure from Manchester City: it’s not so much Stamford Bridge as Helm’s Deep.
It’s a sign of Tuchel’s success and the faith that he has rightly earned that he is getting away with an approach this defensive.
Am now confused by Chelsea’s tactics and execution because they aren’t (1) holding the ball up well or (2) breaking with purpose. I just don’t think this is sustainable for ninety minutes.
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18 Sep
This story breaks my heart. Workers from Mozambique - “Madgermanes” - fled Germany in the 1990s due to horrifying levels of neo-Nazi violence. When they got home, they were denied years of back pay by their government. Many died in poverty. voland-quist.de/wppb_works/mad…
The story of the Madgermanes (above) is so grim since it gives the lie to the argument that, if you are a migrant who just works hard and keeps your head down, you can make a life for yourself. They were hounded from their homes. They were never forgiven for wanting quiet lives.
I have been thinking a lot recently about scenarios in history where the surrounding social and political forces were just so overwhelming that, no matter how kind and resourceful you were, you were absolutely doomed: and about how we can stop those future scenarios from arising.
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