While 51% of English people hope Scotland do well in their first World Cup since 1998, Scots are more likely to hope England do badly (32%) than hope they succeed (27%) Overall, 57% of Scots say they'll be actively supporting their national team, with 46% of people in England cheering on the Three Lions

Here’s the problem. The liberal political class wants us to treat atrocities like Belfast as single, random, isolated incidents. “Yes, it’s horrific, but don’t overreact,” they say. “Let the police do their job. Justice will be delivered. Let’s remain united,” and so on. But the public can see that such incidents *aren’t* random or isolated. They are, in fact, all the consequence of massive state failure in the area of asylum and immigration. All roads lead back there. That’s why people are angry.. They are sick of the platitudes that get trotted out after each fresh incident. They don’t want to hear them anymore. They know that the decisions of establishment politicians have brought us to this current pass, and they don’t trust those same politicians to fix things, especially when some of them refuse to even recognise that the public’s anger is justified. There has been a huge vibe shift in recent years. Imagine - God forbid - there were another 7/7. Does anyone think the public response would be anything like as restrained as it was then? We are in really dangerous territory. The public don’t want flowers and candles and “Don’t let them divide us.” They want someone who says, “I recognise that the state has failed abjectly. We have allowed far too many people to settle in the country without knowing who they truly are. It has disrupted your communities. Your anger is justified. And I will do everything in my power to put things right.” Any politician unwilling to articulate that message, fully and sincerely, is effectively sanctioning more years of growing social disharmony and discord. Things cannot heal until those in power recognise the extent of the problem and what it will take to fix it. And, on both counts, most of them don’t. That’s why the next few years are going to be very, very turbulent.

I know people hate on online dating but the alternative sucks. I need to physically walk around, approach cute guys, see if he has the right age, has a good job, has my same hobbies and sense of humor? That’s crazy. A database with pictures & basic info is so much faster to sort through

🚨🚨🚨 Norway have brought their entire kitchen to the 2026 World Cup! 🇳🇴🍽️✈️ • Norway has decided to send huge quantities of traditional food with the national team delegation to the United States to help players perform at their best. • The shipment includes: 🐟 300 kg of fish 🍊 6,000 oranges 🧀 116 kg of traditional Norwegian cheese • A renowned Norwegian chef is accompanying the squad to prepare meals daily. • The main goal is to ensure players continue eating the foods they grew up with, helping maintain their focus and physical performance throughout the tournament. • Norway has used this approach before, including at previous Olympic Games, where it regularly transports national food products to support its athletes. 🇳🇴🏆🍽️

More evidence it's the phones: @Caitlin_K_Myers and Ezekiel Hooper find "the diffusion of the iPhone explains 33–52% of the decline in the general fertility rate among women aged 15–44" since 2007. nber.org/papers/w35310

One thing Europeans will never have is tailgating. “Ooh I’ll go have a pint with my mates” K man I’m having 14 beers with 10k random strangers at 8 am, and being offered free hot dogs and burgers omw to the game

oh my god LMAOOO

People don’t realize how ubiquitous drinking used to be. Like most men used to drink every day. It was not uncommon for laborers to have a shot of whiskey to start the day. Taking a couple nips before a big meeting or speech was normal. Wine with dinner and an after dinner digestion drink was common. There are certainly people who are just born addicts and would drink themselves to death under any circumstance, at any historical time, in any culture. But now that it’s been almost a decade since I last drank, and I’ve spent probably too much time studying both addiction and historical culture, I am fully convinced that our current culture is not only characterizing non-problematic drinking as “alcoholic,” but the culture itself is making people drink alcoholically. Historically, outside of certain Protestant denominations that strongly discouraged, if not outright prohibited it, there wasn’t much fuss about drinking in general, but more obvious, frequent drunkenness. Now, true drunkenness is permitted, but only in very specific contexts by specific age groups. The striking difference is that casual drinking (not to drunkenness) is also confined to very specific contexts. Lunch drinking, of even a beer or a glass of wine, is virtually non-existent in contemporary American culture. If your coworker at a major corporation ordered a beer at lunch, it would be shocking. The old shot of whiskey to start the day would immediately be interpreted as alcoholism. There is something about the current culture around alcohol that I believe is literally driving people to a weird version of alcoholism. We are increasingly making it taboo and then compounding our interpretation of the behavior and I think people are subconsciously fulfilling the belief that’s been implanted. Even normal casual drinkers are seemingly constantly feeling the need to examine and prove that they are not alcoholics, where they never even would have considered it 60 years ago. The new crew of health podcasters are making it even worse by making normal people feel like a single beer is going to “ruin their sleep” and destroy their health.

Extraordinary from @HomeBuildersFed: Up to £98,000 has been added to the cost of building a high-rise flat since 2020. A huge share of that is driven by policy choices.

According to a group of GTA 6 YouTubers who were questioned by the police after going inside Rockstar North’s office: - A police vehicle with the sirens passes in front of the building every 20-30 minutes - Senior employees were seen leaving the studio in taxis accompanied by police escort - The building is monitored by 50-60 security cameras - There’s a security team of 3-4 is in the main lobby 24/7 - The studio is being protected under a special police program implemented at the request of the Scottish government (Source: viciados.net/gta-6-escolta-p…)

Soho is an asset for the whole of London. It’s a shame that the current leadership of the Soho Society take such a disproportionate approach to licensing. They should support broad licensing and pedestrianising the area, which I wrote about here 👇 greaterlondon.co/p/how-to-pa…

Since we hating on Europeans I just wanna add that I absolutely loathe the way British people say “pasta”