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Galaxy-brain level mental gymnastics at play here. How do you both-sides a school bombing? No idea. But we are trying our best here, cut us some slack.
The most boring team in world football that cheated its way to dominating the Premier League. If it wasn't for the Qatari state and financial misconduct Manchester City would be in a League One relegation battle.
Man City at the business end of the Premier League season:
📅 2019:
14 consecutive wins to win the league with 98 points
📅 2022:
Unbeaten in last 12 games
📅 2023:
12-game win streak to lift the title
📅 2024:
Currently on a 19-game unbeaten run
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@PropheticAI Hi, do you have an email address that press/media can get in touch with? Thanks.
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This is journalistic vandalism. Newsnight causes lots of problems for the powerful and the government in particular. Hmm.
A tragedy. For decades Newsnight has set the agenda with brilliant investigations and coverage made possible by having a dedicated team of reporters and ample running time. A huge loss to viewers. A boon to anyone in power who feared being exposed bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment…
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Everything that "hasn't worked" with VAR so far has been human error. There's barely anything wrong with the technology itself being used.
All the use of video technology has done is give incompetent referees more opportunities to demonstrate their incompetence.
We tried it. It hasn't worked.
The use/implementation of video technology is damaging football & the experience of watching it. Officials are suffering too.
And there is no magic formula out there that will change this pattern.
It doesn't suit this sport. Concede defeat.
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All signs point to something ontologically dark about to unfold in the Middle East. Hamas attacks and subsequent outbreak of war just the start. Does the right to self defence grant Netanyahu license to target civilian populations? This rationale suggests yes.
Israeli ambassador to the UK cites the firebombing of Dresden in 1945 (deliberate aerial incineration of civilian population centers by US and UK) as precedent for what Israel is about to do in Gaza
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Okay so the Snake Eater remake might actually force me to cave in and grab a PS5. If they ditch the ladder, we riot. #playstationshowcase2023
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I cannot actually believe this isn't a parody but some lawmakers in America actually want to legalise child labour.
BREAKING: The Iowa Senate passed a child labor law before dawn today.
The bill lets 14-year-olds work 6-hour night shifts, 15-year-olds work on assembly lines, and 16- and 17-year-olds serve alcohol.
The Senate went through the night, and voted on child labor at 4:52 a.m.
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Gee what a mystery.
Something has gone badly wrong in the past decade, and large numbers of Britons have lived shorter lives as a result econ.st/3KzgT0I
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Come on dude @Keir_Starmer what is this. And don't blame it on an intern.
Labour is the party of law and order.
ALT Graphic with picture of Rishi Sunak with text reading: Do you think adults convicted of sexually assaulting children should go to prison? Rishi Sunak doesn't. Under the Tories, 4,500 adults convicted of sexually assaulting children under 16 served no prison time. Labour will lock up dangerous child abusers. Text underneath this reads: Based on Ministry of Justice data. Produced by the Labour Party.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Tweet implies that the PM, Rishi Sunak, doesn't support prison sentences for sexual assaults against children.
The current sentencing guidelines for this crime has a maximum sentence of 14 years imprisonment.
sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/crown…
There is no conservative party policy that plans to remove this.
conservatives.com/our-plan
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