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Looks like Maccabi have saved the UK government from the spectacle of somehow overturning an expert public safety assessment.

Either politicians make public safety at sports stadiums an absolute priority or they do not.

#AVFC
Maccabi Tel Aviv say in a statement that they will "decline any allocation offered on behalf of away fans" for next month's Europa League match against Aston Villa at Villa Park, adding that "the wellbeing and safety of our fans is paramount."

#AVFC
October 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament.

But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside.

Good night.
October 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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THREAD: v niche sport-based plea!

The N.U.T.S. (National Union of Track Statisticians) Athletics & Olympic Archive & Library will be evicted from its current premises in ten days, and urgently needs either a) a permanent home or b) temp storage.

Croydon area preferred but all offers welcome. (1/4)
August 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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On Wednesday 20th we are getting our Pub Of The Year Awards (for Ealing & West Middlesex). We’ve decided today that it’s going to be a black tie event! Dress up like it’s a proper awards ceremony! Just for fun to keep us amused! 😂
August 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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open.spotify.com/episode/79uJ... Feel so privileged to have interviewed Dame Stephanie ‘Steve’ Shirley, who’s died aged 91, back in April. Her life story was extraordinary - arrived in UK on the Kindertransport,,started women only software business, pioneered remote working, major philanthropist
August 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Meet the destroyer HMS Glowworm. In April 1940 she was forced to fight the German Heavy Cruiser Admiral Hipper, ten times her size, and Hipper's destroyer escorts.

Her extraordinary last stand earned her captain the first Victoria Cross of WW2. In part because THE GERMANS nominated him for one /1 🧵
January 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is absolutely tremendous. My first computers were a Vic20, a C64, then an Amiga500.
The latest in my history of home computers is live. Covers the era of Commodore, Atari and Jack Tramiel.

He was a brutal manager. But also an Auschwitz survivor, and that shaped him, and his legit drive to build a better world.

This warning from him hit home, right now.

every.to/the-crazy-on...
March 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Feels a good day for a thread. So I would like to introduce you to a mostly forgotten, but actually rather pivotal figure in PC history.

Meet Dr Portia Isaacson Bass.

If it wasn't for something she did in 1981, we'd all still be forced to use IBM (or IBM-licensed) PCs right now. /1
March 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Thread on how Joe McGinniss, the writer of football classic “The Miracle of Castel di Sangro,” was once sued for libelling a murderer as a result of “a stunning lack of ethics.”
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March 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Patrick Barclay, talented and respected football journalist, dies aged 77
Patrick Barclay, talented and respected football journalist, dies aged 77
* Wrote for Guardian, Telegraph and Times among others * Barclay also wrote a number of highly-acclaimed books Patrick Barclay, the much talented and widely respected football journalist, has died at the age of 77. Barclay began his career at the…
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February 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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The Adventure Game (21st January 1986). Ian McCaskill tackles the terror of the Vortex.
January 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Everton very clearly thought tonight's match would get postponed due to weather. So wanted to sack Dyche in the gap that created.

Then the game didn't get cancelled.

It's the most Everton explanation for the timing of this firing, when you think about it.
January 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"

The story of a 40 year book-quest and of its remarkable ending

And about goblins and Christmas; the perils of ChatGPT; and the real value of librarians and so on

Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...

Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twel...
December 20, 2024 at 10:30 AM
November 27, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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Thanks so much to all my new followers on here.
Please ask your friends to follow me if they love sport and those who play it. #playerwelfare
November 20, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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Today should be all about our nuclear test veterans.

Please watch the programme tonight. 👇🏻

Support the call for an end to the cover-up and a one-year special inquiry.

Let’s give them truth and some justice before it’s too late.
November 20, 2024 at 7:49 AM
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Are we doing those old-school, meandering, ludicrous threads here? They were the best thing about ol’ Twitter.

And, hoo boy, have I got one for you.

Buckle up. We need to talk about Gromit.

🪡 🧵 🪡
November 16, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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Word of the Day is a true favourite, as some of you will know.

Apricity (17th century) is the warmth of the sun on a winter’s day.
November 17, 2024 at 10:09 AM
It’s good to have @garius.bsky.social back in my feed. Had missed him by not coming here often enough.
November 15, 2024 at 1:11 PM