Championship clubs reject bringing in VAR next season Championship clubs have turned down the chance to introduce a challenge system of VAR for the 2026-27 season.

Well done. Idiots from the Prem League take note.

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They're so offensive. And you just know the drivers are arseholes in other areas of their life.

To add to the crushing list: those deliberately made loud cars or motorbikes. Offender should be banned from driving for 5 years.

I think gender id has taught us that quite brilliantly.

Gender id has been the biggest eye-opener to how selective most progressives are.

Yep. But I don't think it would have had anywhere near this level success without the support of almost every 'progressive' going, all of whom would describe themselves as feminist.

Nothing about this ideology makes any sense. Except it's no different to surrogacy, prostitution and porn. The winners in every case are men. Liberal feminism has seamlessly given us a men's rights movement.

@glosswitch.bsky.social Right on point....again.

For 'transphobic' read 'uphold the 2010 Equality Act, women's legal rights & Supreme Court ruling'.
That is, that sex means sex and services provisions & sports for women are just that, for women.
So no males in female prisons, toilets, wards, refuges, sports etc.
Some men are frothing at the mouth.

Translation:
This account is campaigning for males to be held in female prisons.
Women said no.
The law says no.
No.

When I say people without orthodox progressive views on Bluesky have a much harder time than others this is what I mean. "Putting the awfulness of this aside" is a fucking mad thing to say in this context but most will nod along here.

They've learned nothing and don't care. Unfortunately for them (but thankfully for women's rights) and their nodding dogs on here, most of the public disagree with them. In fact, their views are insane.

I know this is me still mourning a long dead world but it does feel remarkable that, not that long ago, British papers on the right would have run editorials and columns arguing that Hungary showed that only a solid, reliable centre-right party could defeat dangerous populists, but now? [crickets]

Twenty Twenty Six review – Hugh Bonneville’s World Cup comedy wields jokes as subtly as foam mallets The star returns as Ian Fletcher in this mockumentary from the makers of Twenty Twelve. But for every funny moment, there is a slightly off gag – and some truly woeful ones

How on earth does this even get 3*? Saw episode 1 and it was predictably appalling. "Twenty Twelve" was genuinely brilliant, different and funny. W1A was also good, in parts, before becoming stupid. Once you've become a parody of yourself, time to end it.

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Nice to see something positive about today's retirees. Certainly become very fashionable amongst anyone under 50 to openly disparage 'Boomers.' Yes, I've done it. You really do take volunteers for granted. I'm so grateful to anyone who gives something back after retirement. Lovely piece.

I mean, Wokeism is still very much with us. Too much invested in it for it to disappear, but it is such an easy ideology to take the piss out of. The double standards, the hypocrisy, the stereotyping of minorities/accidental racism. I only wish the film was longer.

American Fiction Novelist Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison's books don't sell well, and he's in a rut. Despairing at the way other black authors are marketed, he develops an alter ego that quickly gets out of hand.

I rarely watch TV shows or films twice, but watched American Fiction again last night. Still great, beautiful and poignant. Released in 2023, post peak Great Awokening, it hilariously mocks cringeworthy white middle class liberals. Only a few days left on iPlayer.

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We shouldn’t look back — but we can’t help it My generation feels envy at the conviction shared just 25 years ago that the country’s best years were ahead of us

I regularly thank my lucky stars I was a teenager through the 90s. I'm convinced we've lived through the last great decade. And yet my life now is so much better, even as The World gets progressively worse. I can't see this ever changing.

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Interesting. I thought their publishing new stories only 3 times a day was a masterstroke. Such a shame the paper continues to bend sharp right under Gallagher's watch, firing some excellent columnists in the process.

The playing loud music or speaking to someone on speakerphone on public transport; not picking up your dog's crap. The breakdown in general levels of civility continues apace post-Covid.

Every time those very important pundits tell us that crime is falling (recorded, yes), they wilfully ignore the spike in disorder, the supposedly low-level crime that makes things just that little bit shitter for everyone else: the shoplifting, vandalism, graffiti, fare dodging.

Nicely ties in with @sonia-sodha.bsky.social piece today:

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This whole “abolish prisons” thing is like “defund the police” - a jarring oddity of dogma imported wholesale from the United States. Please can we decolonise British politics (from American obsessions)?

I think the EDI agenda has been particularly damaging for diversity/multicultural societies. It's been hijacked by overpaid consultants pushing a Wokeist ideology and berating non-believers. So we go from EDI/Woke at one end to MAGA white supremacists at the other.

Yep. It's the standard Woke get out clause now. Let us trash women's rights or you'll keep getting Trump and the rest. It's garbage. But they'll never see it. And they'll never back down from the damage they've done and continue to do. On women and for so-called progressive causes.

mad and wrong because it takes an axe to objectivity and truth and right and wrong and it platforms people with views that voters think are crazy. All this is true with or without Trump and the MAGA nutjobs.

until it was too late. That and then selecting Harris who was never going to beat him. A 12 month run up to the election and a better Dem candidate would have made a difference. But...Trump is pretty unique. It's extremely hard to run against someone who doesn't play by any rules. Wokeism is

Very true. I'm not really sure how much we can blame Wokeism for Trump anyway. I guess it's warped the Democrats' minds and led them further away from the avg voter. But, there are a no. of factors that got Trump re-elected and the biggest (I think) was Biden pig-headedly refusing to stand aside

Europe cannot bet on a post-Trump US turning back to sanity | Rafael Behr If the president’s first term didn’t inoculate the American body politic against tyranny, there is no guarantee that a second dose will work, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

On the Trumpdemic, a mutating crisis that comes in waves. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'Game killer' or 'fairer' - Does the Championship need VAR? BBC Sport examines the arguments for and against and the thoughts across the Championship over the contentious issues of whether to bring in VAR.

Piss. Off.

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