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For all the easy hypocrisy of arm band wearing and talk about rights (when if they really believed that they wouldn’t have been there) the extraordinary bravery of the Iran team stands out like a beacon. Real consequences for them not just a corrupt FIFA penalising from afar

Iranian military moving in to clamp down on protest hotspot towns with live fire and deaths as Iran players refuse to sing their national anthem - pretty much sums it up. No doubt we’ll get another moral lecture from Gianni Infantino

In case you hadn’t noticed I absolutely detest FIFA. And galloping up behind them the utterly loathsome IOC. Grey men in suits and limos and 5* hotels with no love of sport but an intent love of the depths of their pockets. Why have we put up with these turds for so long?

We're deeply saddened to share the news that our founder Doddie Weir has died. Doddie was a force of nature, a great family man, tremendous rugby player & loved & respected by all who knew him. Our love & best wishes are with his family. Full statement: myname5doddie.co.uk/whats-on/artic…

Art is the free exercise of the informed imagination. It terrifies tyrants.

I read the @chelseabwrites was miffed when only 2 peeps turned up at her book signing. When touching the void came out no one turned up for a signing at a Leeds bookshop. I quietly slunk out the door mortified and too embarrassed to say anything to the staff! 🤣

Joe Simpson just casually scrolling netflix and come across the film…. At least 5 years since I last read the book. Settling in for some gripping emotional viewing. Once again credit to you and Simon.

Looking for a gripping, inspiring, miraculous alternative Christmas movie (with plenty of snow)? We just re-watched Kevin Macdonald's superb dramatisation of Joe Simpson (Joe Simpson's) extraordinary book. And you should too.

“We all realised the extent of our happiness and knew that it could not be lasting. For things that last grow stale too soon, and joys are all the greater for their unexpected capture.” Malcolm James. ‘Born of the desert,’

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing.” The Raven. Edgar Allan Poe. I know the feeling Ed…

Twitterrific seems to have been closed out by Musk so forced back to user unfriendly Twitter. Can’t get tweets chronologically, no letter count, unwanted tweets etc. think shall be leaving soon unless other apps are allowed back

A few of Scotland's wonderfully progressive and kind politicians, posing proudly in front of banners calling for women to be decapitated and eaten.

Fight that FOMO, bro.

I don't know about you, but excluding women from women's prisons just because they've got penises, male pattern baldness and have committed a couple of rapes seems awfully TERFy to me.

'Sturgeon’s opponents are wholly entitled to scream “We told you so”. Because they did and then they were treated as though they must be bigots. And so, here we are. What a disgrace it all is.' ✍️alexmassie thetimes.co.uk/article/trans-…

You’re not required to buy it. The truth is the truth whether you buy it or not. The planet is round even if you don’t buy that and insist it’s flat.

My heart has just broken reading Regions of the Heart on Alison Hargreaves. I had no idea that one of Britain's greatest female mountaineers was also a victim of domestic violence.

Last year J.K. Rowling responded to a letter I wrote her. I’d asked if she’d be part of a conversation seeking to understand her perspective and those of her critics. The result is a new audio series from @thefp: THE WITCH TRIALS OF J.K. ROWLING My essay: thefp.com/p/the-witch-tr…

Once you lose your sense of immortality you never regain it. Life is altered forever. If you have completely accepted the fact of your death, surrendered to it, and you do not die then you feel unbalanced, open ended, unfinished. It is a strange feeling.

…like going down a flight of stairs in the dark and being jolted by reaching the bottom who you expected another step to go. That jolt always stays with you.