David Storey

Trusting that the FAI & the government know what they're doing! 🤔

'Race', space and the politics of migration @jdportes @UKandEU ukandeu.ac.uk/race-and-space…

The Bosnian kayaker who became a Singaporean footballer @blzzrd theblizzard.co.uk/sweet-stealer-…

'Tuchel’s England – like Southgate’s – is proudly multiracial. The newly announced England men's football squad for the 2026 World Cup in America is a standing rebuke to flag-waving racist demagogues' @BylineTimes bylinesupplement.com/p/tuchels-engl…

It "could open a lot of people's eyes to the double standard that we're talking about here & start looking at the US & other so-called democracies with a more critical lens that also takes their human rights problems into consideration" middleeasteye.net/explainers/fif…

"What those branding the Irish as anti-Semites need to recognise is that protests against Israel’s barbarity are motivated by humanity, not hatred. Not because we have forgotten, but because we remember" irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/0…

"The research highlights how perceptions are shaped by politics and media narratives rather than statistical reality...immigration has become a symbolic political issue detached from the reality or direction of travel" @InfoMigrants @britishfuture infomigrants.net/en/post/71530/…

Football, topophilia and nostalgia @BrianOMartin @footyheritage footballheritage.co.uk/topophilia

Bitter fruit: migrant workers in Spain @InfoMigrants infomigrants.net/en/post/71512/…

Playing games: FIFA, Palestine and the hypocrisy of the world's 'happiness provider'! @JosimarFotball josimarfootball.com/2026/05/22/fif…

Blood, sweat and oil fairsq.org/blood-sweat-an…

Worcestershire as Shakespearean tragedy! On the state of democracy and local government theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

To Morocco or not Morocco: Tourism and flight destinations as mechanisms for asserting territorial claims? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The currency of football! theguardian.com/football/2026/…

Heritage, belonging and place: ‘Mishmash of people, but there was kindness’: ‘Cockney Sikh’ on east London theguardian.com/culture/2026/m…

‘We want to play like other teams’: Afghan women’s cricket dreams remain undimmed theguardian.com/sport/2026/may…

We need to "transform our conception of HE-pivoting away from the idealization of knowledge & truth toward developing young people’s conceptual, critical, affective & practical capabilities that better equip them to nurture rather than destroy human & non-human life & the planet"

"The neoliberalization and managerialization of UK universities, where we are expected to rubber stamp top-down initiatives, have led to our infantilisation...& the erosion of the universities’ academic community and intellectual life" @_ISRF isrf.org/blog/dispatch-…