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Shoutout 2010/11: Gerard Houllier appointed after MON left us in the lurch Milner / Ireland swap deal, great stuff Instant transition from counter attack to absolute crap possession style football Relegation threatened Liverpool away Houllier love-in, ignored the fans Spunked all our money on Darren Bent in January who then scored bags despite being a largely bad player Won our final few games and finished 9th RIP x

Steady on

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_history And when people talk about an upswing in trans-identified people, show them this:

Eh? Are you saying she's not there on merit? And that she's a loose cannon? Because: 1) She's been heavily stigmatised for being a working class northern young mother, and done very well (IMO) to get where she is 2) She seems to have learnt a lot from the 'tory scum' incident and generally polished up her media performances subsequently I wonder what she's making of authoritarian Starmer though - seems to have been a bit quiet recently

That is really annoying/distressing, although bit confused how weed smoke can travel through a wall? Your nuisance aside, we don't ban music just because people often play it loudly at the annoyance of their neighbours. Weed is already banned anyway. It just really annoys me how Starmer keeps finding things to completely swivel on because .... who even knows any more? He's always been an authoritarian-minded establishment Thatcherite?

And there we go. My opinion of Starmer could not get much lower.

Then: "I have supported schemes where cannabis possession does not result in arrest/prosecution" Now: "Cannabis is ruining lives" Anyone thinking we were getting a centre-left UK government any time soon can put the bubbles back in the fridge

That second one is a banger

I'd hazard a guess this whole affair has millions more people appreciating the problem of a cabal of right wing Tories running the national broadcaster.

I don't know. But here's evidence from a Home Affairs Committee in 2020 that 98% of people who crossed went on to claim asylum: https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/793/default/ Or research from 2022 that at least 60% of people making the crossing would succeed in gaining refugee status https://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/latest/news/majority-of-people-on-small-boats-crossing-channel-last-year-are-refugees-new-analysis-shows/#:~:text=Over 25%2C000 men%2C women and,all who made the journey. But I doubt you'll even bother to read the above or consider that you might have something to learn on this topic. Side note, I'm increasingly of the view that some people that are a total waste of time, I never used to think that way though

Hang on. Are you saying asylum seekers don't enter the system?

You’re so close to a eureka moment Won’t hold my breath

It means human rights law would no longer apply to a certain group of people - plainly in breach of the ECHR. There's no way this gets through the courts, but a right wing tabloid war with 'woke lefty judges' as the enemy is probably the end goal.

What a pathetic, small man, in every sense

The whole point of the piece is that millennials and Gen-Z are bucking the 'eternal' trend that people go more conservative as they age

Also https://www.ft.com/content/c361e372-769e-45cd-a063-f5c0a7767cf4

Like how much Facebook brain rot must you have suffered to think a pedestrianised walkable city centre a) benefits 'the Davos elite / WEF' and b) and bad thing? As far as I can tell a 15 minute city is what every single city on the planet was, prior to about 80 years ago. Walking & cycling are inherently anti-capitalist and I suspect there's some dark money behind these weird-ass protests

Apparently someone has coined this phenomena as 'crank magnetism' which I like

A few places reported recently that Wagner are sending out wave after wave of conscripts as human sacrifices to identify where the Ukrainian forces are, from their fire. Grim

Anyone pretending this was about protecting young girls is either gaslighting or thick. Fascists have long used 'protection of our women from invaders' as an excuse to commit racist violence. When really, these men are far more likely to be predators themselves. Just look at who Tommy Robinson hangs out with.

As a fan of the EU project in principle, am taking some solace in the fact Brexit has had the opposite effect of what many thought it would (multiple member states following suit and leaving). They've all taken one look at the state of us and said 'no thanks'. Good news if you believe in a united Europe IMO https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/how-brexit-made-the-eu-stronger/

Isn't it strange how frequently a discussion about transgenderism veers into the topic of male violence against women, when really it's not a trans issue at all. As far as I know there's no evidence that trans women are assaulting cis women in any statistically significant number. If there was it would be EVERYWHERE in our media. There's two trans issues in society that we need to have a grown up conversation on: - Women only spaces - Competitive sport I'd let individual sports bodies come to their decisions based on the nature of the sport, and let venues make/advertise their own policies on female spaces, bathrooms etc and just let everyone live their damn lives and make their choices. Everything else is noise. Let the healthcare experts deal with gender dysphoria without culture war entering into it.

One might assume that you're not approaching this issue in particularly good faith