Jane May

Romero is the worst football player to have been our captain. He may be world class, he may be technically outstanding, but he happens to also be a complete arsehole. Good riddance i don’t want to hear about you ever again

Hope for us yet

@christopherhope @GBNEWS @willgodley I know you have to pay the bills, but do you get job satisfaction from this?

BREAKING: An estimated 83 small boat migrants have just arrived in Dover, taking today’s total to 162, according to @GBNEWS provisional figures. @willgodley is reporting live from Dover on @GBNEWS now.

@AdamCrafton_ The USA has come to the party and is bringing its lovely old tradition of only seeing something as a way to make profit.

NEW: Fox Sports exec Zac Kenworthy confirms they will use half-time interviews at World Cup & in talks with FIFA on commercial use during hydration breaks in each half of the games. Calls for “balance” between serving the viewer & evolving the sport. nytimes.com/athletic/73011…

It’s okay though because according to the PGMOL an accidental, unaware, half a second grab of the hair is more dangerous than a broken jaw… Idiots

@SibsMUFC He’s been the worst captian I’ve ever seen us have. He couldn’t give less of a shit

I think we all know Romero won’t be a Spurs player next season but still… the club captain skipping one of the most important games in their recent history is appalling. I’d be livid if that was us.

@oJaayCo @Billie_T No. It doesn’t help the players. It just makes us feel like we have some control. We’d be better off making noise in the stadium.

Do we go again👀 one last ditch attempt to show these players what this club means to the fans.

This year more than any has proven just how utterly pointless and shambolic VAR is… No one enjoys it. It gets decisions wrong every game. The game is slowed down like crazy. Just get rid of it already 👋🏼

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

Middlemarch however continues to be in the right place. It may be the only best thing that appears regularly at the top of its particular best thing list that actually is the best thing.

@drhingram Neither of them care about the country or issues they claim to believe in. It is obvious they are using these issues to get power and money.

I’m losing faith in both Lowe and Farage. Squabbling and petty vendettas between grown men and their supporters will not save this country. We need leaders who work selflessly for the future of the UK, not for one-upmanship or personal gain. The right is a bin fire right now.

Imagine getting two penalties in a decade, let alone in three days.

People retweeting images, videos of the crap just to make a snarky comment are half the problem. Stop feeding it all.

I am passionately in favour of the right to protest. And if the police think they can contain the two demonstrations in London this weekend then I support them. But my God, I wish both of these sets of demonstrators would bugger off.

The main things I learnt working with @Nigel_Farage 1. His word is not his bond. 2. He does not write emails - no paper trail. 3. He has zero ability to do any detail: 1-hour meetings turn into 56 minutes of Nigel talking about Nigel and 4 mins on the subject the meeting was about. 4. Nigel has no real friends - everyone and everything is expendable. 5. Nigel has enormous energy, but a lot of it is wasted because he drinks and parties too much. 6. Nigel is not an intellectual - he thinks Jordan Peterton is boring. 7. Nigel has spies. 8. Nigel loves money and spends it like water. 9. Nigel surrounds himself with rather facile young men like the convicted posh George. 10. Nigel does not really like working if it is not him being a showman - I cannot even imagine him reading a policy paper. 11. Nigel dictates tweets to Dan Dukes. 12. Nigel has a powerful lawyer behind the scenes who keeps files on people. 13. Nigel is vicious - the plastic sheen is a facade that cons so many people. 14. No idea if Nigel actually has any morality or values or what he believes in except fame and money. @RupertLowe10

The VAR system is shit for fans and we still get the tedious debates about decisions. So what’s the point? The current implementation of it should be scrapped, I don’t think anyone would complain.

Starmer is not the right man at this time. Fact is, whether it makes us a mad country or not, keeping him is doing a Biden. It will be different to the Tory chaos if Labour do this efficiently and end with the correct leader

Gee what could the reason be for Spurs fans paying 1.5k a season to watch the worst squad in living memory drag us to 17th place creating a tense atmosphere, indeed a mystery

Oh, and Kinsky 👏🏻

Positives: I would have taken a point at Villa and win against Leeds - It’s just switched. Maddison is back 🙏🏼 Unbeaten in 4. It’s ALL OVER IN TWO WEEKS