@ideafaktory @TomHCalver I feel we are 2 weeks from price capping the price of Prosecco
English
Browser of things
7.5K posts
@TomHCalver Milk is too obvious a staple and loss leader. No sane supermarket would gouge its price. The gouging happens on all the more discretionary items and show up in aggregate profit spikes for food companies. Studies have been done on this.
x.com/ideafaktory/st…
Steve Faktor@ideafaktory
Sudden unexpected inflation (like post-Covid supply shock) conditions consumers to higher prices. After supply normalizes, only 3 things can ⬇️prices: ⬇️demand ⬆️competition/alternatives ⬆️regulation Uncompetitive or essential categories hardest to fix. twitter.com/IMFNews/status…
English
Amid all the talk of freezing the price of groceries, I looked at what goes into the cost of a pint of milk.
Two things jump out...
1/3
English
@supertolerant This is the really key inflation of expectations. And I agree your lifestyle was not that unusual. But we should see this as a great thing that people can afford to go out to dinner some times etc.
English
I was young in the 80s/90s in the UK.
I don’t remember my parents ever going out to eat, except when we were on holiday (in the UK).
I don’t think they ever took me to a fast food restaurant, or ordered takeaway food.
People today have no clue how working people lived.
/1
Raven@raven_brah
Boomers seem to forget that fast food used to be a normal, everyday expense for them because it was affordable. You could get a burger easily on minimum wage, it wasn’t some fancy treat you had once a year as a reward for pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.
English
A quote from The Mirror about long queues at Birmingham Airport:
“Flagrant abuse of assisted lane with sunflower lanyards, multiple large family groups trailing through behind one child sporting the lanyard.”
What the f**k do you want parents of autistic children to do? “OK Michael. You head through that queue and we’ll all see you on the other side later. I know you’re only seven years old and there are two thousand other people in the terminal but you’ll be fine.”
English
@gcooney93 @DEEJAYDOO Agree. Also it's not that experienced a squad especially in midfield so he could be a calm head.. in reality a lot of the edge selections never play anyway
English
@DEEJAYDOO I believe Henderson has been deemed important for vibe/squad harmony reasons
English
For all the fall-out, this is the balanced and ego-deaf selection that I think makes Tuchel a good choice as England manager
BBC Sport@BBCSport
It's official 🏴 Thomas Tuchel's 26-man England squad for this summer's World Cup is locked in 🔒
English
@Stemack Odd comment. I just think that eg women's golf is battling to create better linkages with men's, women's golf would hugely benefit if there was a women's masters at the same time as the men's.. so why does T+F want to throw that away
English
Alexis Ohanian's women's track league is rewriting the rules of professional sports with a bold new equity model.
When Alexis Ohanian launched Athlos in 2024, he wasn't just building another track meet. He was placing a bet that women's track and field — the most-watched sport at the Olympics — deserved a permanent, thriving stage of its own.
open.substack.com/pub/stemack/p/…
English
@316simsim Problem with the new format is the level of club in it means English clubs are going to be v dominant. One possible solution. Only teams from Leagues ranked outside top 6(?) can drop down from CL to Europa etc so teams like Olympiacos can but not Juventus
English
@316simsim damned if you do... The old systems was broken, you ended by with a competitiion played until Jan/Feb where none of the participants was going to win it then new teams came in and won it.. It was the CL failures cup..
English
The Europa League imo is it feels like an extension of the Conference League Rn. This is a competition that gave us ties like Barca vs Utd
Having teams drop from CL to EL created better matchups because the teams that started in EL could still beat those underperforming CL teams
..@Enigmaa13174
Think UEFA need to change the rules otherwise English clubs are just gonna run riot in this competition. Brighton or Chelsea will win this comp next year
English
@TheFootyFeed Maybe in the 90s but not the 80s. 80s - (I think), only FA Cup Final was live, some league matches from mid 80s on, Euro club matches I think was only finals live?
English
There really was something different about growing up with football in the 80s and 90s.
Five channels on the TV and somehow you still got the FA Cup, Champions League nights, UEFA Cup, Cup Winners’ Cup, League Cup finals, World Cups… all free to air. You didn’t need three subscriptions and a fire stick just to follow football.
And voices like Brian Moore and John Motson became part of the game itself. Midweek European football under the lights genuinely felt massive because everybody was watching the same thing at the same time.
Now everything’s split across subscriptions and paywalls. Even TNT deciding not to put Champions League finals on free-to-air anymore feels like another step away from what football used to be about. Those were the nights that got kids hooked on the sport in the first place.
Then you add ticket prices, train fares, kits costing a fortune… football feels less accessible than ever despite there being more coverage than ever before.
Maybe nostalgia plays a part, but football honestly did feel more for the fans back then.
Anyone else think we took that era for granted a bit?
English
@DaleJohnsonBBC I get the idea on some L2 going in to playoff but it might make promotion from 2 to 1 a mixed blessing. i e you might get a playoff by winning an L2 pot but have to come eg 8th out of 12 in an L1 pot...
English
@DaleJohnsonBBC presumably will have a very different feel for euros as there are quite a few more places. eg Euros 24 teams (lets say 2 hosts) so 22 , you might say 15 direct (top 5) and 7 from pplayoffs? Som maybe playoff are top 4(?) from league 2 and 6th/7th from league one (14 teams for 7)
English
Few tweets on how qualifying for the 2030 World Cup, and then the 2032 Euros and subsequent tournaments, will work.
More details in the story.
Basically, games against minnows are no more, and qualifying will move to the Champions League methods.
bbc.co.uk/sport/football…
English
@RobHarris Ironically in current fifarankings the 37th ranked uefa team is .... Israel!
English
NEW at UEFA: Biggest teams won’t play the lowest ranked nations anymore in men’s European qualifiers.
New format:
League 1 - top 36 play 6 games v 6 different nations, in 3 groups of 12. Best ranked qualify for tournaments directly.
Other 18/19 in League 2 & can reach playoffs
English
@RobHarris Generally not a bad idea. Andorra are England's second most common opponent in competitive games this century which is probably not a great design
English
This from UEFA signals an end to England playing Andorra, Lichtenstein for eg at Wembley (based on current rankings) in the usual qualifiers so they’ll have matches against potentially more appealing nations in qualifying
Rob Harris@RobHarris
NEW at UEFA: Biggest teams won’t play the lowest ranked nations anymore in men’s European qualifiers. New format: League 1 - top 36 play 6 games v 6 different nations, in 3 groups of 12. Best ranked qualify for tournaments directly. Other 18/19 in League 2 & can reach playoffs
English
@blue_labourite I would agree it's a good idea but the costs then have to be paid by general tax.. there would be a push to ensure council tax goes down significantly
English
If Burnham wins, becomes leader, and immediately legislates for a National Care Service (saving most local councils 90%+ of their spending that should be on other seevices) I will vote Labour until I am dead or my hands are chopped off
Dan Bloom@danbloom1
EXCL: Andy Burnham’s team is working on a plan for his first 100 days in government in the event that he wins a crunch by-election and replaces Keir Starmer, three people tell me The plan is in its early stages but is likely to include reforms to the creaking social care system
English
English
@browser_things @danobrien20 The cheapest prices are clear without having to go around 4 supermarkets checking their prices.
English
Capping prices is almost always a bad idea. They can be appropriate in emergency situations like Covid or in highly dysfunctional, uncompetitive markets. In highly competitive markets like groceries, where the market works in an almost perfect manner, they are particularly ill-advised and likely to result in less competition and, ultimately, higher prices for consumers.
ft.com/content/857363…
English
@cuchulainn1 @danobrien20 And this helps consumers how?
English
@browser_things @danobrien20 I am trying to reduce the cost and improve the accuracy of this information. The supermarket has the data on their computer, they can transfer it in seconds without needing whole companies to collect it.
English
@cuchulainn1 @danobrien20 Do you think theres an issue that supermarket prices are secret? There are entire companies who collect supermarket price data, inflation measurement is heavily based on it. What problem are you trying to solve
English
@danobrien20 Indeed. However, the Irish and British governments should require supermarkets with market power to provide their prices to a centralised database so that there is market transparency.
English
@TomWilsonHorses What would the punishment have been if this happened in mid feb, a fine?
English
Simple fact in the Southampton spying case.
There is NO WAY that the EFL will allow a club convicted guilty of rule breaches and spying, 5 days prior. To lift a trophy at Wembley, in their showpiece event - the “most valuable” game in world football. (£200m)
From a regulatory, commercial and integrity perspective there is NO WAY this will happen.
English
@natechen10 @theawayfans What if a goalie makes a mistake that changes the game outcome should both teams surround him and start shouting in his face
English
@theawayfans What about if the referee makes an obvious error that affects the game outcome?
English
German referee Patrick Ittrich has suggested making the following changes to football's rules:
1) "For a tactical foul in midfield, a free-kick should be awarded 17 metres from goal. How often will we see such fouls then?"
2) "If the player rolls on the floor three times and needs a doctor, get him one and make him wait on the sideline for 3 minutes. How quickly do you think the player will stand up?"
3) "If a player insults the referee, send them off for 10 minutes to calm down. Go cycling to warm up before coming back in. We can learn from handball in that respect."
4) "How is a referee surrounded by 10 men after a decision? In my opinion, boom, boom, boom — three red cards. Play seven against ten now. That'd be fine by me."
English
@UKing1690 @marwood_lennox I mean even if this were true this article is about the north and the post is about the south. There was no ethnic cleansing in Cavan
English
As a Southern Irish Protestant I want to inform people here that this is completely not true.
Milan Busk@KarolusWangus
I mean yeah. Irish Protestants were ethnically cleansed out of everywhere that wasn't the six counties. Why do you think the ones up north are so hardline against reunification? Did you think they just really, really love the NHS that much?
English