untypicalboro.bsky.social
Multi-media tub-thumping tabloid rabble-rouser & ex-Gazette Boro writer. "The bitter and twisted rantings of a so-called journalist." Now does books. Opinions etc.
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What to expect next:
– Escalation framed as “restoring order”
– Mass arrests under vague pretexts
– Targeting of protest organisers and journalists
– Expansion of emergency powers
– Demonisation of dissent as “terrorism”
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All these stories are about “the bookies’ favourite’ and it is a notoriously volatile and easily manipulated market that can swing wildly if someone puts £50 on.
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I've just written a chapter on the Karanka promotion campaign for a new book and he talks about that in some detail. So watch this space.
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Savage cuts at Oxdown University?
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Binns is closed mate. We need a new cultural reference point.
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The real damage is the squandering of political capital among people who would normally be expected to argue for Labour at ground level, in workplaces, pubs and on the estates. It will take concrete progress to win back those who walked away.
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Yes, just main stand and East End open. It was freezing.
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A generation will fall to the unimaginable destructive firepower of the Great Powers. It will be all over by Christmas.
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No, he begrudgingly 'warmed up' a few times.
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I did mention that in the very first game they let slip a comfortable one goal lead to draw 1-1 - against a rugby team and that was going to be a familiar story.
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The Man Who Drives Every Day #Niche
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Aren't they both part of the same Tufton Street eco-system?
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This is just stupid. The point of a question is to solicit information, not to provide it.
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For all us old punks it the logo for multi-monikered band Athletico Spizz 80.
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A turbulent time, dealing with the end of the intense Rioch era, which had been driven by emotion & belief in the padlocks fairytale but had fizzled out. I'm not sure Todd found it easy to make the transition (or players to accept it).
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Are *WE* better off. 'We' is the collective.