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@DexxterUtd Helping to explain why English managers do so well in the Premier league.

🚨 Wayne Rooney on Carrick's System: “You know, we get told how great all these young coaches are, and I’ve worked with some of them and a lot of it is very complicated. I know the game very well and sometimes you can over complicate the game. I think what Michael’s done is (1/3

Sorry BBC, but I think you'll find it is still a downhill challenge.

Not a fan of the hawkish poster but this is very true. Years ago I met the exec director of B'Tselem (very good human rights group) and she had four kids under six, while doing a hard job. The society encourages and enables this. Others could learn from it.

@davidyelland Doesn't he get some kind of post-PM payment to fund an office? Though of course this may be purely himself.

Gordon Brown's journalism on Andrew continues, he now says he has sent a five page document to a number of police forces about flight rosters at Stansted and other airports. Another extraordinary element of this crisis is the former PM's service here.

@PaulConnolly10 @lewis_goodall @fleetstreetfox The late Duke of Edinburgh was involved in that car crash ... but I believe no action taken and he gave up his driving licence.

@lewis_goodall @fleetstreetfox Wasnt Princess Anne arrested for not picking up her dog’s shit?

BBC reporting that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. There is no precedent for a senior member of the royal family being placed under arrest in modern British history. A seismic moment for the monarchy.

@lewis_goodall "Be you ever so high, the law is above you."

@BillyBy17 @emilyhewertson We seem to know male student victim aged 20 and male attacker aged 18. Police guidance I think encourages further detail, doesn't require it. See assets.college.police.uk/s3fs-public/20…

@emilyhewertson Let’s be honest - your desire for this to have been committed by a person of a certain colour or religion far outweighs any concern or sadness for the poor victim

Do we know what happened at De Montfort Uni yet? So little information available on what is apparently a very serious incident.

@Vortac9 @venom1s Anything other than 3-0 would have been a huge shock, given those ratings.

@venom1s Gukesh is a super GM, rated 2754. Alexandra Botez and Anna Cramling are around 2000, Andrea Botez is around 1800. That's a huge difference, Gukesh could defeat them blindfolded.

Youngest chess world champion ever Gukesh D played against three female chess influencers at the same time and defeated them while having one hand in his pocket. Women say men are better in sports because men are biologically stronger, then why can't women compete with men in mind games like chess? Why are there different criteria for the grandmaster title and the female grandmaster title if men and women are equal?

@cashflow_king94 Sold 80% when it doubled, for me. Risk averse approach.

Up 94% on my silver position. $5.3K in → now worth $10,287. Do I sell half to get my cost basis back and let the rest ride "risk-free"? Or let the full position run? Genuinely torn. What would you do?

@SandyofCthulhu Isn't it also true that in the west the arrow goes on the left of the bow, over the fingers, whilst in the east it goes to the right, over the thumb?

When I took archery in college, they taught us the English method of archery, which is generally what the West uses. In this style, you pull the string with the first two fingers of your right, drawing the arrow to your cheek before loosing. The standard method used by most continental archers was to draw the bow back only to the chest. This was generally inferior in power, but was easy and fast. Not a lot of study has been done on how American Indians used their bows, but they seem to have had bows without a lot of power - 30-50 lbs of draw weight, and got as close to their prey as possible before shooting. There are drawings from life of Sioux and Cheyenne riding horses right next to fleeing bison and shooting from less than a yard away. For the American Indians, stealth or horsemanship was more important than a bow's power. . The English who adopted the longbow had a uniquely powerful weapon, typically up to a 100 lb draw or even more. They also changed the way the bow was pulled, so much so that almost no trace remains of the older method. In light of this, it's interesting that in Asia, a different technique was developed, which is probably even better than the longbow method. 1/2

@sam_gzstrength In kg that's roughly 40/60/85/105. Suspect overhead pressing 40kg is the most difficult here.

I’ve had people ask for Standards 1.0 for women My thots Press: 85 Bench: 135 Squat: 185 Deadlift: 235 This is 1, 2, 3, 4 plates if you used 25lb plate math with a 35lb women's bar tracks well as a solid attainable baseline for most women but is far from elite

@CaryKelly11 The study concludes, "These findings may provide further support for recent guideline revisions with even lower LDL goals".

Who still thinks that people with lower LDL levels are protected from heart disease? 75% of the people who were hospitalized with heart disease in this study of 136,000 had NORMAL or LOW cholesterol. It's either the greatest assembly of anecdotes in the history of science or the war against LDL is really a war against human health.

@KevinDTweets @philippilk ONS points to issues with 2024 data, though the 2023 data looks about right ("The abortion statistics for England and Wales 2024 publication has been delayed due to several operational issues") #full-publication-update-history" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gov.uk/government/col…

Hi Philip, you had a decent source for those estimates 😎, I was just a few thousand on the conservative side, but correct in saying we have reached 300,000 and putting out there that 1-in-3 of all healthy pregnancies now end in abortion. Perhaps now that official sources have caught up, we might start to have meaningful national discussions about the serious demographic impact of abortion.

These were the birth and abortion numbers that I sent viral last year. 2023 and 2024 numbers for abortions were estimates. The actual data for 2023 is now out: it is higher than the estimate. Britain is self-euthanising as a society. 🇬🇧📉

@JenKteach @BristolUni Details here (not paywalled). archive.is/WUs84

Prof David Gordon suspended for 14+ months by @BristolUni for defending academic freedom & gender-critical views, despite clearing him of harassment, Bristol found Prof Gordon had disobeyed a reasonable management instruction (because he sent an email!) Bristol declines comment on why these laws don't seem to apply to them: Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023, Human Rights Act 1998 (Art 10), Equality Act 2010, Education (No. 2) Act 1986 (Sec 43), Employment Rights Act 1996. Support Prof Gordon, universities must uphold debate, not silence it! #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech

@dpolehn You do you, but I did wonder if your grip should be a tiny bit wider.

OHP PR yesterday. 132lbs for 3x5. Weight shifted a little forward on the second rep making it a bit of a struggle. But overall this workout felt a lot easier than the past few OHP. Thinking about progressing a bit more next time.

@Richard_Abram @redrumlisa Which is barely above the minimum wage now.

@redrumlisa In 2005 I remember seeing a graphic design job for 24k, in 2015 there was still 24k graphic design jobs, today 2026 I can guarantee it will still be 24k.

Doing the obligatory January drawer sort found a wage slip from 10 years ago when I worked at the LSE I was bringing home £2,100 a month - the same as I am now in 2026. What has been happening? Things have gone very wrong.

@Bengal_DPT Certainly most people squatting that weight aren't using a neck-pad thing.

You expect me to believe this girl squats 275 for partial reps?

10 degrees C at 10pm? what sorcery is this?

@dan_fitzp @Athens_Stranger In my view anyone treating data as plural (based on datum) should logically also regard agenda as plural (based on agendum).

@SocialPolicy @Athens_Stranger Data is normally the plural of datum. A split infinitive is not bad grammar but often bad writing style. Clarity prevails Yes, in certain contexts they can be used in the singular but always as "they are," never they is.

The best professor of philosophy I studied from was merciless in grading our essays, refusing to grade them at all if he found too many grammatical errors (often on rules of grammar we didn’t even know existed) Most students hated him for it, but he would always simply say: 1/2

@DrFrancisYoung Looking at what happened to your parents and grandparents might provide a bit of a clue.

Who was the Oxford economist who proposed (about 25 years ago) that each individual's appetite for risk is down to the fact that we all subconsciously have pre-cognitive knowledge of the date of our deaths?