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John Foot
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Historian specialised in contemporary Italy - has published books on Italian football, radical psychiatry (Franco Basaglia), Fascism. Book on the Red Brigades out in 2025. John-foot.com

John Mackintosh Foot is an English academic historian specialising in Italy.

Source: Wikipedia
Political science 38%
Sociology 32%

Commentator spinning this as a City triumph.

Are you a terrorist if you have read a book by Sally Rooney?
I see the "migrants taking all the new jobs" nonsense is back, in the Mail, Telegraph and Times.

Reminder that this is BS, and IPSO ruled repeatedly that this is not what the data says. I expect corrections from all of them (Times has already agreed to correct)

www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/1183...

This week the Italian edition of Red Brigades is out with Einaudi and I also now have advance copies of the paperback of the English edition - both updated and revised...
Going to run for parliament for the sole purpose of being sworn in on my sacred text: this 2015 article by Matt Goodwin announcing his resignation from the Cameron government's anti-Islamophobia taskforce because it wasn't serious about tackling the issue. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The fight against Islamophobia is going backwards | Matthew Goodwin
As long as the government resists real engagement with Muslims, I can’t stay on its anti-hatred taskforce
www.theguardian.com

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He may actually have lost the ability to tell reality from what he's imagined.
Nathan Gill - Reform's leader in Wales - is serving a ten-year prison sentence for accepting Russian bribes. And still Farage insists that that Russia doesn't attempt to influence British politics.

Yes, an MP in the British Parliament is calling for people to be murdered by the British Army.
Robert Jenrick for Reform says that Royal Marines using "lethal force" on small boats could end it in days.

"Deploy the Royal Marines into the Channel. If they need to use lethal force then they'll be able to do so. I think the problem would come to an end within a matter of days."
Start the clocks

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Very bizarre first WH press briefing from the new press secretary. She takes questions from 3 reporters and leaves: Breitbart, Fox and Daily Mail.
OMG she is brutally bad at this

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Don’t threaten me with a good time.
I think a shocking number of our major societal problems would vanish overnight if you could magically pull the plug on the X platform and Meta, both of which are carefully designed to turn people into the worst version of themselves.

Isn’t the Chelsea case even worse than Man City?

Rupert Lowe will deport ‘millions’ of people with legal rights. Indistinguishable from Nazism.
Zelensky on bombing the Russian data centers: “It’s pretty clear where the bots were coming from.”

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More confirmation that the US is a police state.

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"“we are all, well many of us, are certainly immigrants to some extent. My name’s an unusual one but I think my ancestors just caught an earlier boat than other people’s. This country’s been built by great immigrants"

Robert Jenrick's first national campaign in Newark, 2014 byelection
Robert Jenrick for Reform says that Royal Marines using "lethal force" on small boats could end it in days.

"Deploy the Royal Marines into the Channel. If they need to use lethal force then they'll be able to do so. I think the problem would come to an end within a matter of days."

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The official Premier League account posting videos of City goals is comical. And confusing. An absolute farce.

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Arsenals warm down on Saturday
Clumsy Cheese Rolling Falls
Alt: Clumsy Cheese Rolling Falls
static.klipy.com

The Today programme is a joke.

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Course they did

I was sick of seeing Alfred Inge Haaland yesterday, has benefitted financially because of the off the books deal for his son, Haaland himself pocketed a huge sum like his Dad but I was told I was chatting bollocks at the time

They all know
Erling Haaland got so much goodwill during the World Cup and now him and his dad have “acquired” houses in an Abu Dhabi residency project that has, as a whole, been valued at €3.6billion.

Nice work mate.

The players knew, the current players know, and Pep Guardiola certainly knew.

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Farage referencing D-Day in his anti-migrant rant. It clearly is one of the most painful days in history for him. The beginning of the end for his side.

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Erling Haaland got so much goodwill during the World Cup and now him and his dad have “acquired” houses in an Abu Dhabi residency project that has, as a whole, been valued at €3.6billion.

Nice work mate.

The players knew, the current players know, and Pep Guardiola certainly knew.

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I'm grateful to Justin Webb on Radio 4 this morning for letting Zia Yusuf repeatedly blame all the problems of the NHS on asylum seekers without challenge, as if it is an accepted fact.