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“Danny Rohl MUST Go: A direct appeal to the Rangers ownership” My latest Substack Article, and my first foray into sport in a major departure from my usual topics. Please read, repost, subscribe and like Link: open.substack.com/pub/thehis…
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I see the Leicester support is at the stage of trying to find anything to be hopeful about with Russell Martin. We are talking about a guy here who had *Rangers Football Club* on course for a bottom half finish in the Scottish Premiership last season before getting bagged.
Would he have been my choice? No. I’d have liked the club pursue a different direction. We need to be realistic. The conception that he’s a ‘bad’ manager is false. For a club in League 1, with widely reported financial issues, this is an ambitious appointment. | #LCFC |
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When was the last time a British Government actually made its citizens *more* free? Ban after ban, restriction after restriction. The state has become our mother and us the children. It’s pathetic.
🚨 NEW: Under-16s in the UK will be banned from the following 10 social media apps TikTok YouTube Snapchat Instagram X Reddit Facebook Twitch Kick Threads
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I’m enjoying all the foreign observers of the World Cup seemingly discovering for the first time that Scotland is in fact an absolutely football mad country and that selling out that stadium in Boston was never in doubt. I refer to the below:
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This is a country of 5 million people which has not one but two clubs that can be counted as among those with the most supporters in all of Europe and the world. The quality of the national team relative to the popularity of football is a total anomaly in the sport. Only a handful of nations can match or better Scotlands support at club or international level.
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Do you think if a gang of far right thugs, under the guise of opposing the crimes of mass migration, broke into the Green Party HQ, started tearing the place up and beat the shite out of people in it with weapons, Zack Polanski would be saying it’s a legitimate protest? No.
Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel. Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it. A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.
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The History Novice retweeted
Disabling Fable 5 and other models for foreigners is not a misunderstanding or a mistake, it’s the inevitable result of technology shaping warfare so that sovereignty is more about code than cannons. With high energy costs and the emphasis on safety not opportunity Britain’s response has been to build the brake cutting ourselves off from the future and tied ourselves to the past. We cannot continue like this and remain sovereign.
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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I simply cannot imagine being the type of person that looks at this sort of thing, and rather than be excited at the prospect of it, instead sneers at it and casts doubt on it. The Underclass and the Downwardly Mobile exist due to their poisonous mindset above all else.
SpaceX prospectus is the most monorail salesman shit of all time
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This is about as clear as we can be about the bottom line If we followed the leftist economic agenda, it would have disastrous outcomes that we would never even comprehend because the things it would prevent from existing would never come into existence in the first place
Lewis Hamilton, the Gary Stevenson of formula 1, would have capped Elon Musks wealth at $1bn. Which would have deprived the world of a man building trillion dollar businesses and flying to Mars. But may have resulted in some more egg yolk spilt on some gunt filled joggers.
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Every single criticism you see of wealth and the wealthy, like the below, is just full of these completely vacuous statements that have no basis in reality and betray astounding levels of ignorance about economics and the free market.
This is not an efficient market. An efficient market you would have individuals accruing less so that the economy could grow more, hire more, and invest more.
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Hungary, Poland, Denmark, Ukraine, Russia, Sweden, Greece, Georgia, Serbia, Ireland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Finland, Slovakia, Italy, Romania, Albania, Macedonia and Kosovo would all be competitive in this World Cup. Fans from other confederations are absolutely kidding themselves acting like there isn’t serious depth in Europe
Dumb take. These four teams would qualify from any other continent. I’ll go even further: even teams like 🇽🇰 Kosovo, 🇬🇪 Georgia, 🇭🇺 Hungary, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales and 🇮🇪 Ireland would be competitive against at least half of the teams at the World Cup
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I see Elon Musk is the world’s first trillionaire. Prepare to read some of the most economically ignorant, philosophically bankrupt, downright stupid takes you’ve ever seen from all the usual suspects who literally think he’s sitting on a giant pot of gold somewhere.
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Shocked to hear that Denmark, Norway, Austria, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia and Poland all apparently never had or were a major contributing force in any empires! The things you learn on this app!
Ireland, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Czechia, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Poland, Austria, Hungary and many more European countries did not have empires and did not colonise Africa or Asia. So technically those migrants should not come to them?!
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(That’s not to say I disagree with the overall thrust of the argument)
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The state has decided that rather than crack down on Sudanese illegals beheading your neighbours in the street, they will crack down on you for being outraged by it.
Speaking on The Cathy Newman Show, leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) of Northern Ireland, Claire Hanna MP, said 'we're not doing enough' to tackle illegal content online. 🔗 news.sky.com/videos
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You literally support the dismantling of this United Kingdom you complete and utter hypocrite.
This man is a threat to our democracy. He backs violence and extremism. Blaming a group of people for the awful actions of an individual leads us to a very dark place. Musk, Lowe, Farage, Robinson - these men don't give a shit about this country, they want to rip us apart.
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No billionaire ever gouged my eyes out and cut my head off
"Very poor white people” are being convinced that “very poor, hard-working brown or Black people” are responsible for the “problems caused by billionaire white men”, Allison Morris, Crime Correspondent at the Belfast Telegraph, says in the wake of the riots that spread through the capital of Northern Ireland overnight.
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There really should be no surprise anywhere that the first major sparks so to speak of white ethnic violence against migrants in the UK is currently being seen in Northern Ireland, including the Ballymena riots last summer. Northern Ireland is the only place in Western Europe, nevermind the UK, that has, in recent living memory, widespread ethno-religious in-group consciousness and experience with civil conflict on that basis. This chequered past, coupled with the fact it has economically struggled relative to the rest of the UK, meaning a less potent middle class than England or even Scotland, means that it is essentially ground zero for the after effects of mass unwanted migration into the West. What we are seeing in Belfast is what we will see on a much larger scale elsewhere should current trends continue. The reason the riots and the atmosphere is so shocking in its form in Belfast, is because the people involved, in this case the Loyalist community, have a lot of experience in organising for and engaging in this kind of activity - we have just not seen it till now when it comes to non-European arrivals. They have a different attitude, a different understanding of what is happening and a different feeling towards authority and state infrastructure - and most crucially of all have a clear understanding of their own ideas of how to take things into their own hands when others won’t do it for them. Unlike in England, they aren’t going out to get pissed up, to put on a show, have a carnival, take videos and pictures and do a bit of pavement dancing in the streets with the police. They are going out with a purpose and with tactics they’ve learned sparring with this country’s most competent police force (the PSNI) for decades. They mask up, dress all in black, set up barricades, don’t take phones or devices, chase off journalists and vloggers, self police themselves, have checkpoints and have very deliberate targets in mind. They are very organised. People who don’t think this can work, should look at Ballymena last year, when the same community *successfully* chased out an entire community of Roma from the town using much the same tactics following two rapes. The fact that people are resorting to, and successfully engaging in this sort of reprehensible activity on the streets, is an indictment on our media-political and institutional class. It is a story of state failure, for as much as the yobs on the street are to blame for their own actions, it is ultimately the state that has created the conditions wherein this sort of thing becomes inevitable - because they have lost all legitimacy, there is no faith in them or the police protecting these communities, they refuse to hold themselves accountable for what they’ve caused, and everyone can see them as hypocrites when it suits them. Going forward, the state if it is to survive and avert us from widespread ethnic conflict in the future must drastically change course with migration and law & order policy. It is one thing to see Loyalists in NI do this, but they are just the tip of the spear. The situation will become completely uncontrollable when this spreads across the lines in Ulster, and Republicans begin doing similar as well. Even worse, if this sort of organised and tactical approach spreads to Scotland and England where the police are wholly unequipped to prevent it spiralling out of control. Britain can still save itself from this disastrous endpoint if it acts promptly and strongly.
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Gerry Adams who by all accounts was largely responsible for a long term campaign of bombing and murder across Northern Ireland here complaining about riots and fires. Couldn’t mark this cunts neck with a blowtorch.
Last nights incident in Belfast is no excuse for tonights rascist attacks. Rascists are exploiting mostly young people without thought for the consequences. People deserve better. Say no to rascism.
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You know things must be bad when there are protests in *Edinburgh* 😂
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It appears the detestable tone police are coming out of the woodwork again. Don’t dare comment on the fact a deranged lunatic asylum seeker tried to behead someone and gouge his eyes out.
I think he means you and yours @RupertLowe10 @Nigel_Farage - maybe take heed this time.
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