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Still a game to go. If #LFC win on Saturday, they're pretty much bang in the middle for Premier League winning points per game. (* - 42 game season).

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Not seen this commented upon, but #LFC in Klopp's final season scored 86 goals and conceded 41. In Slot's first season, #LFC scored 86 goals and conceded 41. Admittedly, this season, they were 'on the beach' with four games to go...

euronews CEPS ThinkTank Kathleen Van Brempt Despite the attempt to shut down as fake news, here are the receipts. bbc.com/news/articles/… timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry… news.sky.com/story/emily-da… And as a bonus here’s a revelation of EU aid linked to Hamas rockets telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

The language of politics feels tired and hollow – ideologies staggering about like zombies in search of brains. An event this summer aims to think beyond that. Our weekend essay from Jacob Reynolds academyofideas.uk/p/understandin…

Good luck at Brentford. Apart from against us, obviously. #kelleher youtube.com/watch?v=g0Avks…

Rosemary Jenkinson, author of 'The Memorisers', on the problems with the publishing industry’s current obsession with identity and 'diversity' (but not diversity of opinion) and the wider policing of language. academyofideas.uk/p/the-memorise…

Here Krishnan Guru-Murthy casually ignores UNRWA's complicity in terrorism, claims the UN's "globally respected", implies Hamas is more "truthful" than Israel & demands evidence that Hamas shoots civilians but doesn't need it when saying Israel does. This isn't journalism, it's PR for Hamas.

Andrew Doyle: ‘People are realising that woke is deeply authoritarian’ Watch Claire Fox in a wide-ranging conversation with author & comedian Andrew Doyle about his new book 'The End of Woke' and the political context today, from blasphemy to BLM academyofideas.uk/p/andrew-doyle…

How it started…. How it’s going

'This is what we’re up against: a political elite terrified of dissent, addicted to performance and hostile to perfectly reasonable common-sense views.' Claire Fox reports from inside the Lords - read it all in our latest Stack: academyofideas.uk/p/inside-the-l…

🏆Good luck to all the students competing in this year's Debating Matters Berlin championship. 🎂It's a special year for us as we celebrate our 10th Anniversary and we're sure you will rise to the occasion!

Reading the Room #2: BAD EDUCATION In which Felice Basbøll and I review Matt Goodwin's Bad Education and discuss our issues with British and Irish universities, inc. curricula, culture wars, and declining standards. Also: I mount a brave defence of therapeutic alpacas.

Alka Sehgal Cuthbert introduces the new @dontdivideusnow report, 'The Equality Act isn't Working'. The Act seems to be exacerbating divisions and encouraging those with ordinary workplace disagreements to resolve them through race-relations litigation. academyofideas.uk/p/the-equality…

A new Family Education Trust report powerfully argues that the obsession with mental health is harming children. Read the foreword by Claire Fox, in which see points out the dangers of labelling children with a diagnosis for what are often just everyday struggles. academyofideas.uk/p/suffer-the-c…

📢YOUR CHANCE TO UNDERSTAND OUR GREAT UPHEAVAL On 5-6 July, our annual intellectual retreat will offer a chance to take stock of why politics feels so stuck. We have an incredible line-up of lecturers and sessions. Still time for tickets (link below) FT/ Professor

“Nobody has the right to not be offended." Salman Rushdie Packed out at Berlin Debating Matters. Great welcome speech from Sabine Beppler-Spahl (Stimme der Vernunft) who says: to debate well, you must embrace free speech spirit of Rushdie.

DM's Coordinator Mo Lovatt welcomes Berlin schools and kicks off DM Berlin 2025 on our 10th Anniversary 🎂 Lots of excitement in the room - it's going to be a good day of debate!🎉

This is a beautiful piece, written by Oldspeak Bookshop 📚 on the power of books, literature, free thinking and the enduring appeal of bookshops as centres of human connectivity 👇