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James Dixon
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Author (The Fix & World in Union) Podcast host (The Ground Jewels). Time Magazine Person of the Year 2006 (co-winner).
As in the party that Marine Le Pen said are beyond the pale?

Nick, don't be thick.
February 24, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Would love to chat Easter Road wi th you on The Ground Jewels sometime.

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February 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I just want all the time I had to spend as a Politics undergrad learning about "checks and balances" back
February 20, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I'm jealous I've never been... yet
February 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I watched. Found it formulaic and lacking but maybe I was in a grumpy. Now the Hope Solo documentary that was wild
February 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Personally, I wouldn't have led with remember when I was incredibly ineffective at my job and all my colleagues ignored me but that's the beauty of Liz. She DGAF
February 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
It gets a v brief mention tomorrow
February 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
It's been a mess for a while. European club football was underdeveloped (for various reasons) and I think the early expansions in the 90s boosted the competition but when they went to 4/5 per big country and squeezed out the smaller champions they made the whole GS pointless and devalued everything
January 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Interestingly (at least to me) the first European Cup wasn't a draw. It was a pre-determined bracket decided by a French newspaper that sceptics (& me) would say was rigged to give the French champions an easier path to the final.

Plenty of non champions in that too. Only 7/16 had won their leagues
January 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I'd call it a rant tbh. Statement makes it sound more dignified than intended. They're just bell ends
January 29, 2025 at 11:36 AM