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A Europa League semi-final will be played here, at the mighty Aspmyra Stadium (capacity 8000, average attendance just over 6000)

My hometown team just knocked out Lazio and is in the semi-final of the Europa League. Absurd - in British terms it's as if Inverness were to knock out Olympiacos and Lazio only to be two legs against Spurs from the final

Bodo Glimt of Norway have put Lazio out on penalties, as Lazio miss 3 out of 5 in the shootout So Spurs v Bodo Glimt, Man Utd v Athletic Bilbao

Lazio v Bodo Glimt has gone to penalties in Rome after Glimt got a late equaliser after conceding 3

The Europa League is at peak drama at Old Trafford tonight ...

Tottenham win 1-0 in Frankfurt - after drawing at home - to make the Europa semi-final. Lazio scored a 93nd minute injury time goal against Bodo Glimt (2-0 on the night, 2-2 on aggregate) so Spurs must wait until after extra-time from Rome to see if they are going to Italy or Norway.

Rupert Lowe MP - elected as Reform in July 2024, now independent - is sending letters alleging defamation to Nigel Farage MP, Lee Anderson MP and Reform chair Zia Yusuf. Lowe says he is willing to begin High Court proceedings if there is no retraction. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It looks likely to be Athletic Bilbao v Man United in one of the semi-finals of the Europa League. (The final is at Bilbao's ground too)

Glad to see Chester Zoo in the news www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

checkmate supreme court when you said to "facilitate" the release of the man we illegally rendered to El Salvador you were actually using a super secret technical definition that means "don't facilitate"

'The bitter education of Vargas Llosa'. After his death at the age of 89, the NYRB has made available this archive review by Alma Guillermoprieto in May 1994 of the novelist's memoir 'a fish in water' and his failed 1990 campaign for the Peruvian presidency. www.nybooks.com/articles/199...

An email "introducing the England 2025-26 cricket collection". But it seems unsuccessful aesthetically & from a sports fan's perspective to have a shirt that shouts "Toyota" so much more prominently than it signals "England" as a second order message

So the criteria here is: culture produced from 1975 by people born after 1945

Save me from cultural pessimism please. Great (likely to be in the canon 100 years hence) works of art , literature, music, philosophy, etc produced in the last 50 years by people who were not already aged at least 30 fifty years ago?

Contra Liz Truss's argument that President Trump is getting all of the big things right, the most vocal supporter of her agenda, Allister Heath of the Telegraph feels that his "epic quest to save the world" is now going "disastrously wrong".