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Writer of books, most recently: No Questions Asked - How Football Joined the Crypto Con (amzn.to/42aKE0w). Investigative pieces at http://theuglygame.wordpress.com/

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Thread about the long tail for fraud and why football clubs need to take due diligence more seriously. Sometime in January, the website of TitanCapitalMarkets.com vanished... 1/

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

The US is now literally a mafia state, demanding protection money from another country with menaces.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Thread about the long tail for fraud and why football clubs need to take due diligence more seriously. Sometime in January, the website of TitanCapitalMarkets.com vanished... 1/

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

I tend to think that, if you've run the club so unsuccessfully for so long that the word "spursy" has entered into the sports lexicon, then you ought to think be wary about trying to govern how people refer to your football team.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

We need to re-emphasise the idea that politicians going abroad to slag off this country to foreigners in return for money or prestige is a shameful thing to do. Because even though I would guess 75% of normal people instinctively understand this, certain others do not.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

A Nazi salute is a Nazi salute is a Nazi salute. And anyone saying otherwise is either unable to face the true situation in the US, is too much of a coward to call it out or is on-board with Trump's regime.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Hard to think of any other heads of government who weren't running Russia puppet states who would go to bat for Putin this way. You'd expect it of Alexander Lukashenko but the President of the United States of America?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

In a multiverse of infinite possibilities, somewhere there is a timeline in which each of us has Robert Caro as our biographer. Everyone's lives are presented in their intriguing fullness, their flaws and qualities fairly appraised, and each of us, finally, is understood.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Handsome looking book, there.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

And did the next tweet read, "And so, with my judgement shown to be so flawed that I allowed my political prejudices to blind me to the most basic and obvious facts of Trump's character, I will never again consider myself qualified to offer any public commentary on geopolitics"? If not, why not?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

As a bare minimum, if you are a UK politician or political commentator now disavowing Trump, you ought to admit you have no business going on TV to talk politics. Either you were fooled like a toddler seeing a card trick or you thought Trump was bad but useful and didn't think he'd go this far.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Listening to this now and it's absolutely amazing. Like an even slower, more minimal Stars of the Lid.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

"Rulers are not generally good men... How can we expect human affairs to proceed in a tolerable fashion? Of what use are introductions into the art of commercial management if the overlord is some buffoon who acknowledges no sovereignty but that of his own stupidity, caprice, whores and valets?"

Thread about the long tail for fraud and why football clubs need to take due diligence more seriously. Sometime in January, the website of TitanCapitalMarkets.com vanished... 1/

The US is now literally a mafia state, demanding protection money from another country with menaces.

Thread about the long tail for fraud and why football clubs need to take due diligence more seriously. Sometime in January, the website of TitanCapitalMarkets.com vanished... 1/

I tend to think that, if you've run the club so unsuccessfully for so long that the word "spursy" has entered into the sports lexicon, then you ought to think be wary about trying to govern how people refer to your football team.

We need to re-emphasise the idea that politicians going abroad to slag off this country to foreigners in return for money or prestige is a shameful thing to do. Because even though I would guess 75% of normal people instinctively understand this, certain others do not.

A Nazi salute is a Nazi salute is a Nazi salute. And anyone saying otherwise is either unable to face the true situation in the US, is too much of a coward to call it out or is on-board with Trump's regime.

Hard to think of any other heads of government who weren't running Russia puppet states who would go to bat for Putin this way. You'd expect it of Alexander Lukashenko but the President of the United States of America?

In a multiverse of infinite possibilities, somewhere there is a timeline in which each of us has Robert Caro as our biographer. Everyone's lives are presented in their intriguing fullness, their flaws and qualities fairly appraised, and each of us, finally, is understood.

Handsome looking book, there.

And did the next tweet read, "And so, with my judgement shown to be so flawed that I allowed my political prejudices to blind me to the most basic and obvious facts of Trump's character, I will never again consider myself qualified to offer any public commentary on geopolitics"? If not, why not?

As a bare minimum, if you are a UK politician or political commentator now disavowing Trump, you ought to admit you have no business going on TV to talk politics. Either you were fooled like a toddler seeing a card trick or you thought Trump was bad but useful and didn't think he'd go this far.

Listening to this now and it's absolutely amazing. Like an even slower, more minimal Stars of the Lid.

"Rulers are not generally good men... How can we expect human affairs to proceed in a tolerable fashion? Of what use are introductions into the art of commercial management if the overlord is some buffoon who acknowledges no sovereignty but that of his own stupidity, caprice, whores and valets?"

From the new issue of Private Eye.

Bro, are you sure.