"we're _totally _in favour of a regulator in principle, y'understand, but we've very serious concerns about how this specific regulator is acting in practice" will be a statement they (and all institutions needing of regulation) make a gazillion times a year until the heat death of the sun
Is is - or a digest - available for those of us outside academia who don't have access to journals?
Craig Johnstone did a similar thing with the FA in 2007: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB6W...
Do you know what Baggio was recommending?
Ooh, tried to find that but couldn't find it via a quick search of the transcript. Can you recall? (BTW John Hume saw it a serious negative!)
Major, however, also privatised the railways as a show of Thatcherite fealty, and danced to the UUP tune and lost 4 years when peace could have been delivered in NI, so all good ideas aren't sufficient to free him for the level of hell he belongs on for those
Cones hotline was a world beater - it's basically a national equivalent of the US 311 service, which launched in Baltimore in 1996. It's a clever idea - the state does really important but not tangible things, but also does a lot of comparatively trivial things that totally boil your piss
DT got done in by Melissa Jacobs, in whose interests she acted it was never revealed, but I always felt the press pack had a fairly good idea who was behind it, but, as with Abramovich's reasons for buying Chelsea, were always warned off the story, not least by the WC Bid who wanted a line drawn
In the end, everyone decided to cosplay the early 2000s, with a WC bid; the FA thought this would give them leverage, and the PL thought it made it less likely there would be govt involvement given Blatter's deep antipathy to that.
as an opportunity to gain authority over the PL, who were intensely relaxed about all this, being totally neutral on ownership and very pleased to have new money coming in and never mind where from. DT knew nothing could be done on state ownership with the PL holding the whip hand
He said he was as, if not more, concerned about state actors controlling clubs and pumping limitless sums of cash in. This was around the time Abu Dhabi bought Man City, but can't recall if before or after. It was also the time Andy Burnham was consulting on governnace in football, which DT saw...
So, I met with Triesman when I took over at Supporters Direct to chat about issues we were concerned about. We're were most agitated about cost inflation and the way it worked with the wider inequalities in the game.
...'emanations of the state' owning clubs. That's very different from saying regulators didn't get switched onto this until around 2018. There's obviously a gap between 'bloke being aware' and 'governing body taking action' but in that gap is the perennial territorial shitfight between the FA and PL
@migueldelaney.bsky.social Just been listening to the pod you did with @jonawils.bsky.social on club ownership. You said regulators weren't switched on to state actors but in a previous life, I met with David Triesman when he was FA Chair in 2008 and the thing he said he worried about most was...
Hilariously, the Premier League's Audit Committee was chaired by Bruce Buck, Chelsea Chairman. Fancy!
An incredible amount of statecraft takes place whilst people are changing from one shirt and suit combo to another
Campbell's diaries are absolutely choc-full of him, Blair and Prescott constantly getting changed in each other's company. It's really weird. The first time passes without note, but after about the 4th one, you're starting to think this is odd, and by the 10th time, it's a full on thing between them
You can use this for estimating the length of speeches at weddings - just average the guesses. It's a classic where few people will know all speakers and the length of their speech, their nerves etc, but everyone knows all the relevant data
Everyone could see from TV that whatever the specific cause of the failure was, the solid rocket boosters had failed catastrophically, and they were 100% made by Thiokol. That their share price went down more indicates that traders watched TV on the day of the disaster more than any crowd wisdom.
Totally a thing - this was another pic recently in the Guardian, which is giving strong Darth Vader vibes
There's a lot to be said for naming seats after front-rank ex-pols Aussie style. A great many geographic names rub constituents up the wagon way for what they don't include, because to choose to name some areas is a choice to not name others.
It's a cheap point, but she looks like she's aiming for 'Imperial badass advisor to Darth Vader in the Andor universe' with her coat.
Sorrry-that should have read Zubov not Subov
There’s more recent research from Lynn Subov’s work suggesting adoptee suicide attempt rates are 35 times higher than the kept population. See adoptiontruth.org/adoption-and... for example or just google her work.
and so it's more that kids _were_ arseholes, and so it's the kids of the old bigots who were the arseholes and their kids have been better parents to their own kids that their parents were to them then IYSWIM
As an aside, I remember when naming our daughters, we had a backdrop idea that kids could be arseholes, because they were arseholes back in our day. But modern kids have been really nice, kind and thoughtful and are taught in environments that tend to meaningfully promote these values...
I read she gets out of bed in the morning thinking of nothing else in 2026. Curious.
Reluctant Labour voters realised there were, in fact, enough Green voters to remove this fear, and voted what they wanted to do all along in subsequent elections. It's a really tough thing for the first election where the Greens are competitive and needs bravery, but after that, Labour are cooked.
They did the same in Brighton in 2010. My wife had an argument with 'Lord' Steve Bassam on our doorstep as he bare-faced bulshitted to her about how a Green vote would let the Tories win the seat. It was a 3 way marginal, but the Tories finished third. The seat is now a solid Green majority /more
They were doing this back in Jack Straw's day - they had a piece in the Sun saying Labour had refused more asylum applications than any previous government, and one in the Guardian saying how the percentage of asylum application accepted was the highest of any government since records began.