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Not the biggest issue concerning an FT journalist and a four letter acronym going on right now.
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Which former monarch would be the equivalent of The Final Frontier?
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Why have Palace chosen to celebrate with an open-top bus parade when they could have had a barbecue?
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Given the circular transfers of homegrown players between PL clubs at the start of the season, and the situations of Marcus Rashford and Trent amongst others, where do academy graduates now stand in modern football, and are expectations of them unrealistic compared to other squad members?
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Ngl as profiles go “generally quite dull” is a huge green flag. The world is enough of a bin fire already the last thing I need is a man adding more unnecessary excitement
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Also, if the Giants start badly, there is very little chance of Jaxson Dart’s father being linked with the Head Coach’s job
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Sometimes you really want to change your wide receivers while you’re at work.
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This is an important piece of evidence to show anyone who suggests that a Labour - Lib Dem merger is a plausible future outcome
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The Tories aren’t even in government right now and we’re constantly hearing about leadership challenges
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As others have said everyone is different, but I often did my best revision at some very unusual times. 11.30pm was not great for family life, but was often when I was at my most productive.
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If only there had been some sort of “campaign” where the winning candidate had said that he was going to do these things over and over and over and over again so that America’s journalists could have been prepared.
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Until they invent an LLM that can judge whether to sign off an emails with the friendly “Kind regards” or the passive aggressive “Regards” I’m confident my job in Customer Relations is safe.
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It’s a remarkable skill to imagine a voter who probably doesn’t exist, and if they did exist would definitely vote Reform and never Labour under any circumstances
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Current industrial policy is based on whoever is in the room with him at the time. On Monday the goal was to have 300 million Americans playing baseball for the Los Angeles Dodgers
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Russell Martin will sort them out once he takes over in the summer
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“We Hold All The Cards 2” the big budget sequel
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People often say to me “you can’t be autistic, you have a sense of humour” and then they see what happens when a very small change to my scheduled routine occurs and they never say that again.
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Hopefully this is the first in a series of pizza related surveys they’ll conduct. Next up: Pineapple as a Topping?
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What do this weekend’s FA Cup results mean for United and Spurs?
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We already have this in the NFL with Aaron and the Steelers
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If you actually look in the diagnostic manual for autism all you see is a list of rolling stock numbers.
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Have you seen Canadian polling averages since January?
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"Must be true. I heard it today!"
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It’s possible to select a Test match team without watching any red ball cricket at all, so he’s really pulling out all the stops by going to the games in person
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As a rule of thumb, the optimal number of times to hear from your club owner during a season is zero.
The worst is however many interviews Jim Ratcliffe is on at any given point.
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I assume this was in a professional capacity and that you weren’t just enjoying a meal out with the family?
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He does have a very high profile backer in America though
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Fortunately the party that’s defending all the seats it won at its high watermark has been laser focused on the issues affecting voters in its vulnerable wards rather than appealing to alt-right social media.
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“Well, I voted Remain” has entered the chat.
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If we learned anything from The Brexit Years, it’s that making performative statements designed purely for domestic consumption always gets the desired outcome
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Am I right in thinking that part of the reason the import data was unusual because businesses were filling their inventories before the tariffs hit?
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Now that Todd Boehly is running the Golden Globes it’s adapt or die for the Academy
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If it works for the Grand National there’s no reason it can’t work here
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One answer to the MoDs procurement crisis would simply be to impulse buy the first tank you see irrespective of the needs of your army, so let’s not knock this approach until they’ve tried it.
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I mean it’s good, but it’s not Rod Stewart doing the Scottish Cup draw is it?
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I have a very good friend who has similar issues with time, and instead of an apology when I’m waiting she sends me articles of dubious scientific merit claiming that people who are frequently late are more productive and successful.
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The minerals can be the Ukrainian version of the 10,000 Mexican border soldiers and the Canadian fentanyl police.
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Will Barry, or anyone else, remember who the current Southampton manager is in six months time.
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I am hopelessly naive and I’m sure the crossed swords are deeply sinister, but my life is so football coded that my immediate thought is that he’s really letting Sheffield United fans down
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Analysis of United is perfectly possible without ever needing to go near a 10 score
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Spending countless hours watching lecturers lose battles setting up laptops and projectors should make graduates consider our total lack of expertise outside our immediate field of study, but like everyone else with a decent degree I instead choose to believe my own infallibility regardless of topic
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I’m looking forward to her next big speech on the economy where she bemoans Britain’s quiet quitting culture while her advisors are sat at the back of the room updating their LinkedIn profiles.
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It’s one of those events where footage of the audience would be far more instructive than footage of the speaker.
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Count yourself lucky. Some of your colleagues will be reading this monstrosity tonight knowing they’ll be there in person to see the full horror delivered tomorrow.
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Are Chelsea out of the title race now?
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The Tory line on 2010-2024 is that they were doing the talking but Labour was doing the governing.
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As football fans we are all aware of players and managers who struggle with self reflection, but I can’t think of any who’ve perfected the art like the Conservative Party
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I think the NFL has the best balance where they use it for line calls where there is an ultimately objective truth but for almost all contact fouls they just go with whatever the on field officials call.
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The commanders would already know that the target is Woke Ideology
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They have struggled with domestic away games even while being good in Europe, so the real question is can Amorim turn us into Motherwell or St Mirren for the evening?