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@lazyjoolz @SarahLudford @SarahPedersen2 @MaureenMChild1 A spoof couldn’t be more ridiculous.

@SarahPedersen2 @MaureenMChild1 Are we in some kind of 1970s time warp? I can't believe any women athletes were consulted over this and it's dismaying that a sports events organisation has decided this is appropriate. (The whole over-the-top tartanry is ridiculous too).

Can someone please explain why we are putting our female athletes in short skirts and high heels??

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@Team_Scotland What a global embarrassment this is. Utter dross.

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@Sorelle_Arduino As a Scot I am beyond mortified.

England Commonwealth outfits unveiled vs Scotland Who decided Scottish female athletes should be represented by short skirts, heels and little handbags (designed to represent men’s sporrans)? What has happened in Scotland that women are treated with so little respect? 💔

@DalgetySusan Today I am ashamed to be Scottish.

Team Scotland’s choice of footwear for its female athletes…left or right?

@David__Osland That’s not true. Southern Europeans are smaller than Brits across all ages, and the U.K. has larger Asian populations which are also smaller so bring down the average heights. Don’t just make stuff up.

British five year olds are 5cm shorter than kids of the same age in continental Europe

@WumminOrg Genuinely it has to be for laughs?

Tartan trousers are smart and would’ve keep her warm in Glasgow. Heels and a mini skirt are completely unnecessary and not functional for a sporting opening ceremony. It’s disappointing to see Scotland display this level of subliminal sexism.

@FWSSport I thought it was a spoof. Probably designed by larps for themselves?

Seriously…short skirts and stilettos??? Have they so little respect for our female athletes that this unveiling is just sexist stereotypes? What a terrible message to send to our young girls.

@AndyTFE The means? Theoretical option to do.

For the gen pop golf fans, every golfer who qualifies is allowed to practice at Augusta National in the lead up to the Masters. Rory did what every other competitor had the option to do but did not.

@doctor_oxford Well there’s a path for NHS reform right there! @wesstreeting

As a doctor, I would simply like to observe that we do not, routinely, conduct ward rounds with a flock of attending bald eagles, nor assess patients with bolts of light emanating from our palms, nor have satanic angels rising from our toupees. Other than that, the AI pic of Dr Trump was spot on.

@MrsEmmaWebber You are an extraordinary human, and an even more extraordinary parent. Generations of young people will be safer because of your bravery in speaking so fully and frankly about your family’s private tragedy. I can’t applaud you enough. Sadly that is all I can do. Sending love.

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@etaknipsa @AllForProgress_ Nor should it be. But it is mis-sold as such to many young people, at great expense.

@KatCongleton @AllForProgress_ HE is not a pipeline for jobs.

The University of Leicester has pulled nearly three hundred UCAS offers for students who were expecting to start Modern Languages and Film Studies this September. The departments are being shut down. The students, many of whom will have turned down other universities and planned their year around going to Leicester, have been told to naff off and find somewhere else. Leicester's UCU co-chair called it a "language-learning desert in the East Midlands." Nottingham has already suspended intake for over forty courses. Essex is closing its entire Southend campus this summer; eight hundred students told to commute to Colchester, four hundred staff let go, international enrolments down fifty-two per cent since 2021. Thirty thousand university jobs have gone across the sector in three years. And the instinct, naturally, is to call this a crisis. I think it's something different. There is no more transformative force for good in all of civilisation than education; and nothing better explains the straits we find ourselves in in 2026 than to consider how much better we were educating people in 1926 than we are now. Nevertheless, an education industry is not the same as a culture of education. And I think what's happening across the tertiary education sector might be something closer to a long-overdue correction of a model that was, at bottom, a racket. The British university sector spent thirty years expanding on the following proposition: charge every eighteen-year-old nine thousand two hundred and fifty pounds a year, regardless of aptitude, regardless of whether the degree has any labour-market value whatsoever. It's great business. You are nominally giving the appearance of investing in your young by building a credential pipeline whose main output, as Rachel Reeves all but admitted earlier this year, is the never-ending interest payments on student loans that allow government to continue spending money on black-hole entitlement schemes, while keeping your brand new confected middle class in debt slavery forever after. Once you've got the domestic student body enlarging at a sufficient clip, you start to really bolster the institutional funds with a parallel stream of international students paying three times what the locals pay for the privilege of a British institutional stamp on their CV. You take the money, build a vanity campus in a satellite town, pay the vice-chancellor £666,000 a year (Oxford, since you ask, though perhaps they've earned the right), and then act stunned when the international pipeline dries up and the sums stop working. These institutions were not, in the main, parsing the frontiers of human knowledge. They were running a fee-collection operation with a graduation ceremony bolted on. The students were the revenue line; the degree was the packaging; and now that the customers are thinning out, the factories are closing, and the people who ran them would like the taxpayer to treat this as a tragedy rather than a consequence. If they cannot serve to demand, if they do not have a service worth providing, if they are in excess to the demand that would sustain them, then we must them close. Let the ones that are genuinely excellent survive on merit, and for those that do not, let something be built in their place that fills in the gaping craters in our economic firmament by teaching people to do things the country actually needs done. Britain managed to produce Newton, Darwin, and the entire Industrial Revolution - managed to establish a system that spread more intelligence throughout the world than any other nation before or since - before anyone decided that fifty per cent of school leavers needed a three-year residential degree whose value as a credential has been utterly annihilated by academic inflation, and economically voided by a lack of graduate jobs.

@MrBonMot Every wine. You’re welcome.

Can anyone recommend a wine that compliments a Greggs Steak Bake?

@cmclymer @Jgs_x Or indeed the Constitution. Or indeed America. Or indeed anyone at all, beyond themselves, their bank balances, and sometimes their fragile, power-hungry egos.

If it wasn't already clear, you can definitively mark today, the morning after Donald Trump depicted himself as Jesus Christ, that congressional Republicans fully revealed themselves to not actually care at all about Christian values. It was always primarily a grift.

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@JamesEsses And not just any delusional patient: a delusional patient (actually, probably making it up) who was also a convict who was racially abusive to her and who had tried (succeeded?) to physically assault her… Where did common sense go?

Today, the NHS has had to pay out an unknown settlement fee (from taxpayer funds) to nurse, Jennifer Melle, because she was suspended after refusing to use the ‘preferred pronouns’ of a delusional male patient. Gender ideology must be eradicated from the NHS once and for all.

Okay, who did this? 😂

@Regenerate_SOT @RosieKayK2CO I grew up a few miles away and drove through Barlaston weekly. I don’t understand this at all.

Wedgwood Memorial building Barlaston. This breaks my heart it really does