I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. My antibodies are for ensuring the free marketplace of ideas stays open.

Belgium having antifascism is completely understandable. It was occupied multiple times by the Germans, there are still neo-nazis dotted around, and colluders back in the 40s. It makes sense that these antifacist antibodies still exist, I just don't have sympathy for peacetime assassinations...

Nobody can tell me that I am prohibited from debating and engaging with the opinions of whoever I damn well please. As long as we're in a conversation about politics, free and open debate must be the standard, and killing your opponents must be met with staunch and hardcore opposition.

I'd describe myself as both a classical liberal in peacetime, and a conditional antifascist for wartime.

But antifascism during peace undermines liberal democracy more than it helps it. "if you have two nazis at a table and a third person joins, you have three nazis" is corrosive to open debate.

that abo is going to be a great collectors item in years to come 🤩

My question to you: you knew as a subject expert that definitive measurement is impossible with current data collection, but you wrote "a powerful modern racial myth has been exploded" - how do you reconcile that belief with said data issues? Why present uncertain evidence as myth busting certainty?

Thanks for responding - much appreciated. You're an important voice in this conversation, and I think we'd all benefit from hearing your answers to people challenging your writing for the sake of intellectual rigour rather than nasty backlash, especially as you're cited on p126 of the Casey audit

Hi Ella. Only replying as you were so influential in the national debate and this is your first public comment I've seen since the Casey audit - why did you write definitively in the Guardian that perpetrators were 'most commonly white' when you knew the data isn't uniformly recorded nationally?

I'd bet Arteta would swap Merino and Rice around based on the competition

Honestly that second brain one needed way longer than the 5 mins! The room was absolutely packed for the lightning talks, then was half empty for the longer talk straight after 😅

was a great room today!

Some more silverware 😉

lots of people also want to exclude Arsenal's corners from xG. Why? Do corners somehow count less than open play goals? Excluding penalties makes sense, excluding corners is simply manufacturing a narrative

Arsenal actually underperform at corners...! 7 goals, xG of 11.53 - that's unsustainably low

to read: to LOOK at and comprehend

to listen: to give ones attention to a sound

Wrong. Audiobooks count as listening. Orwell teaches us that the definitions of words matter if you wish to maintain critical reasoning. If you comprehend the same meaning, great - you are still a 'reader', I guess. Audiobooks count as listening if the comprehension remains the same