Some thoughts on the Manchester City Affair
This week it was announced that Manchester City FC – which has dominated English football in recent years – has been found guilty by an independent panel of 114 charges relating to the breaking of the...
View ArticleEven the Guardian can no longer make itself believe Jason Arday
“Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor”, writes the Guardian’s Lanre Bakare. Bakare has made strenuous efforts to be fair to Arday, but, alongside...
View ArticleFate played a cruel trick on teachers of modern languages
“Spanish is clearly now the world’s coolest language. So why do we push children to learn French?”, asks Gary Nunn in the Guardian. His argument for pushing children to learn Spanish rather than French...
View ArticleWithout their monopoly on force, the police are just the second biggest gang
Nick Timothy writes in the Telegraph: It was last summer when Aston Villa drew Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Europa League. Immediately, the local, “Gaza Independent” MP Ayoub Khan launched a campaign to...
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I was right. I wish I wasn’t.
News today got me thinking about a quote from T.E Utley’s Lessons of Ulster which was first published in 1975. Below is a scan from my copy. Click for full page. For the uninitiated he is referring to...
View ArticleSamizdata LOL of the day – Mate, can you do us a favour… stop beating us up
It has almost become a feature of the English sporting calendar, like the Epsom Derby and the FA Cup final, to watch a local heavyweight lose to Oleksandr Usyk in a packed football stadium or on...
View ArticleWomen’s Rugby Safety
In The Times, no less: …evidence has emerged of letters from Dutch premier division women’s rugby teams and players expressing concerns about trans women players and specifically warning about injuries...
View ArticleRichard Dawkins’ Facebook account has been deleted
Professor Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL sent this tweet at 8:01 AM · Aug 10, 2024: My entire @facebook account has been deleted, seemingly (no reason given) because I tweeted that genetically male boxers...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – Olympic edition
“Yes, the Chinese put on a display of thousands of co-ordinated drummers, itself an extraordinary physical feat, but hey, WE HAVE DRAG QUEENS, DECAPITATION, AND A FAT SEX-SWAPPED JESUS.” – David...
View ArticleCraig Foster has won the victory over himself
The captain of the Australian women’s football team, Sam Kerr, is awaiting trial in the UK on a charge of “racially aggravated harassment” for allegedly calling a London police officer a “stupid white...
View ArticleWanjiru Njoya on the feminist double standard
"The feminist double standard was born. Women could invade men’s spaces, but men could not do the reverse. Girls could play for the boys’ high school soccer team if they were good enough, but boys...
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What I did on my holidays
Switzerland is a great country. In most respects Machiavelli’s description of the Swiss as “armatissimi e liberissimi”, “most armed and most free”, still applies. But… It says, Mandatory shooting...
View ArticleSport with or without performance drugs could work, so long as competition is...
“Drug-taking ‘Enhanced Games’ aims to rival Olympics with 2024 launch” reports the Telegraph. It leads with how the proposal has been denounced, but leaves itself some wriggle room in case the outrage...
View ArticleI can relate to the way the Guardian spun this
On December 3rd 2021, New Zealand spinner Ajaz Patel took all 10 wickets in one innings of a Test Match against India. He was only the third bowler in history to achieve this feat in international...
View ArticleMore thoughts on bias, TV presenters and contracts
I was going to put this into a comment on Patrick Crozier’s excellent item about Gary Lineker, the UK former footballer, and now TV show presenter (and enthusiastic Tweeter). But as the comment was...
View ArticleThoughts on the Lineker Affair
There is a bit of a kerfuffle here in England. National hero, sports presenter and self-appointed moral authority Gary Lineker reacted to government plans to reduce illegal immigration by posting a...
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Kann Union wirklich Meister werden?*
Well over a decade ago fellow Samizdatista Michael Jennings and I walked into a bar in Berlin. There was a game of German Second Division football on the telly between Ingolstadt and Union Berlin....
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
“Governments over the years have ruined many successful domestic industries. Interference in football could well have the same doleful effect. We have enough problems for the government to sort out...
View ArticleSwatted by Siri
“How a personal trainer’s smart watch caused 15 armed police officers to turn up to his Sydney gym while he was teaching a client” – Daily Mail. Apparently, Jaime Alleyne, who is a a Muay Thai and...
View ArticleWhy Stalin giving a hockey player a house the other day was not as nice as it...
For some reason I was not as enthused about the recent actions of the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin, as the mykhel.com reporter seemed to be: Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin gifts a...
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