Letter in The Times today:

Next up Place North West #paullkin Bury Council promoting #interchange and town centre potential #residential now integral to future success and sustainability. Tamsin Francoise proactive. CBRE masterplan with Buildings + Places AECOM proud to be supporting Matt Allsop Nicola Leahair

Epic and brilliant thread on our new Harvard-Kings paper on UK regional divides and 'levelling-up'. You can also read CEPR summary here cepr.org/voxeu/columns/… and Times article here thetimes.co.uk/article/levell… Anna Stansbury @DanTurnerSY Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government KCL Department of Political Economy

This is grotesque: The Ugandan parliament has adopted a bill that imposes the death penalty or life imprisonment for gay sex as well as “recruitment, promotion and funding” of same-sex “activities." theguardian.com/world/2023/mar…

To accumulate this amount of debt and not fall foul of the league’s financial sustainability regulations tells you all you need to know about those rules and who the real cheats are.

Once again, the player being abused is the only person to be punished.

I reckon after a couple of years as a senior leader we should all give our heads a serious wobble & reflect on what we have become. Because people treat you differently to further their own careers, you can become a raving narcissist very easily. Keep those truth speakers close!

This person will be a legislator in this country for maybe the next 50 years Why? Who is Charlotte Owen & what has she done to deserve such power? This is actually far worse than giving peerages to unpopular former cabinet ministers who were at least elected.

It's 6yrs since we started seeing mass proliferation of scam ads 5yrs since I sued Facebook. 4yrs since they settled (for £3m to charity). 4yrs since the online harms white paper (still not law) 18mth since they agreed to inc scams in it. 1 day since first deep fake scam ad

I knew Margaret Thatcher well. Her judgement of people was usually good, but she took an unaccountable liking to Jimmy Savile & invited him to stay at Chequers several years running. Would the vice-chair of the Conservative Party accuse her of providing a safe haven for perverts?

🚨 Net spending on transfers in the world since 2013: 1️⃣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Man Utd: - €1,396 BILLION 🔺 2️⃣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chelsea: - €1,033 BILLION 🔺 3️⃣🇫🇷 PSG: - €1,010 BILLION 🔺 4️⃣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Arsenal: - €872M 🔺 5️⃣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Man CIty: - €856M 🔺 6️⃣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Newcastle: - €671M 🔺 7️⃣🇪🇸 Barcelona: - €663M 🔺 8️⃣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tottenham:

The friendship & respect that existed between Manchester City Manchester United players was incredible. A great photo Kevin Cummins

Here we go again: some folks in the US will invent reasons for repeated mass shootings, when the answer is obvious to all.

Now the Local Government Finance Settlement has been published, I'm going to write a mega-thread on the status of individual local authorities. 1. Havering Council is "on the brink" of a Section 114. It now receives less than £2 million, down from £70 million in 2010-11.

This is a recently completed British train station. Value engineered to a level of comatose ugliness that dispirits & dulls the mind, dissuading passengers & degrading the trains that run through it. It is not civic or sociable architecture….

The line's gone OVER Wan-Bissaka's foot, they're fucking CORRUPT! Disgraceful decision. VAR have just ruined one of the most incredible and biggest moments in the history of the FA Cup or, indeed, English football. Corrupt cunts favouring the Scum 6 and the brand as usual.

😂😂🤣🤣 £68 million 🎣🎣🎣🎣 … and you thick Reds attack Manchester City for trying to level the playing field but in YOUR fair entitled world you think it’s fine you lot can feed off any non #Cartel club as and when you fancy! Hideous. Toxic. Self-Entitled & Anti Competitive #NUFC 🎣

Stan Collymore The evil face of hate!

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