Sean

Worth noting that if Wolves and West Ham do both go down, then next season will be the first in its entire 137 year history that there will be no clubs beginning with W in the English top flight. (UNLESS, of course, Watford, Wrexham or West Brom go up.)

Arsenal are the best team in the league but Tottenham fans have every right to be furious with this approach. No attacks, no shots, no ideas, no anything. Has happened time and time again this season. One of Europe's richest clubs producing these performances is lamentable.

Is this the most embarrassing result in Tottenham’s history?

How many nations do you genuinely fear as an England fan next summer?

Frankie Boyle says he has not worked in Dubai for many years, and certainly not 2025. Fair enough he would know. Has been corrected. Am glad he didn’t. I like him and it seemed jarring. I also hope pages like this can be deleted as suggests incorrectly he (and others) are there

There's quite literally no way for a left-wing party to achieve mass support without addressing people's concerns, even if they disagree with them. You can't dismiss almost the entire country, including Western Europe's only majority minority city (Leicester) as racist

One thing I got a bit of crap for in the hallways of the Abundance conference is my not infrequent mockery of trains on Twitter. I’m sorry, trains are not an abundance technology. I think many people in the abundance scene like trains because: 1. America’s inability to build HSR is the leading example of low state capacity, and we all more or less agree that state capacity is a tenet of the abundance agenda. 2. Trains have high transport efficiency, and people coming to abundance out of the climate movement can’t shake their old habits of caring about energy efficiency ahead of other considerations. Obviously if we spend billions of dollars on high-speed rail, there should at least be some high-speed rail service. But a deeper element of state capacity is not picking dumb things for the state to build in the first place. And trains are a dumb thing to build in the 21st century. A true transportation abundance agenda has to revolve around airplanes and autonomous vehicles. The goal should be able to go from any point in the country to any other point in the country in, like, two hours, door to door. We should have supersonic airplanes made out of cheap titanium and powered by electro-LCH4. An autonomous vehicle should be available to pick you up within 30 seconds and whisk you to a nearby airfield. Security should be painless and instant (another state capacity task). If your trip doesn’t require an airplane, the autonomous vehicle should get you straight there at 100+ mph since it’s good at avoiding accidents. In cities, autonomous buses with dynamic route planning based on riders’ actual needs beat subways’ 1-dimensional tracks. We should not be trying to build marginally better versions of 20th century (or 19th century!) technology. We should be more ambitious than that. Trains are unbefitting of a country as wealthy as I aspire for us to be. Please join the anti-train faction of the abundance movement.