Yeah, not enough leaders in the front half of the pitch. Clearly got some good players, but other than maybe Malmo no team has looked worse at the City Ground this season. Forest were taking the piss after the 3rd goal.

True but there's still a £60m AM on the pitch. He looked pretty lightweight. Spurs were generally v lethargic, let Forest dominate physically.
(plus Solanke and Kulu started this fixture last season and Spurs didn't score then either!)

Watching that as a Forest fan, amazed at how poor Spurs were and how little Frank did about it. From afar, I've been thinking the Spurs fans were overreacting to him starting slow. Not so sure after that. Richarlison was dreadful. Muani is a donkey, but only brought Brennan on at 3-0 down?

I would say that this year's is the first y1 cohort that feels more or less 'back to normal' . They had time to put their social lives back on track before GCSEs etc. Those who were 15-16-17 in 2020 seem to have been hit the hardest.

I agree that 'what will these things be like once they've become enshittified profit-maximisers' is a pretty key question

The deal he offers is 'I will take racism up to, but not beyond, the point where it becomes blatant - & thus give you cover for your cruder form.' If he can't uphold that bargain there's no point in him. His brand depends on mainstream acceptability. This is harming that.

There has to be some backstory there no? Like if this had happened elsewhere in the world, the default assumption would be that there was some sort of money laundering or something else dodgy involved. How can you burn that much money on an obvious dud?

Depends on how the drop is distributed and what young people are doing for their kicks instead

He had this crisis point in 2015 where his brain was telling him one thing and the people he thought were cool were telling him another. His last decade has been defined by choosing social cowardice over intellectual courage

I hope they go for popular alliance. Two words and both of them a lie.

I dunno man, it seems to be annoying all the right people

It's the problem with the government in general. Some good individual measures, but lacking confident joined up narratives and bold sweeps of transformative reform

And get killed. Matter of time before some fake AI crime/atrocity is pinned on a racial minority and causes a real pogrom.

450k kids get lifted out of poverty; people on 50k+ pay a bit more tax. I'm fine with this tradeoff.

It's a fake map

it's nice that they played a two-day game as a prelude, but do you think England will be better when the test series starts?

the argument there is that rental housing tends to be more densely occupied. people are more likely to house share while renting than to take lodgers after buying. so overall the stock of available rooms goes down

honestly incredible that you can *write multiple successful Jane's Bond novels* and yet *not understand the concept of suspension of disbelief*

Mad example of this trend from real life though - we pitched an investigation to a commissioner at a major broadcaster, and they put the thing we were investigating and said “oh I’ve put it into ChatGPT and it says the answer is…”

And then we’re confused when we said “thats not true”!