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Crawley Town 3 Leeds United 0. Pathetic.
On tweet summed it up. Pathetic. There is nothing much pretty about these early giant killing matches. Brutal tactics versus free flowing football. Bielsa set up Leeds with a mix of first team and super subs. What was evident was that with Poveda, Davis and Shackleton we had a significantly shorter team than Crawley. A…
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Insurrection
Watching Vice President Mitch McConnell last night on BBC News eloquently portray how he could not stand by trump in his stubborn campaign to deny the result of the us election, instead calling it a fraud that had to be over turned – and how that was being played out by destructive elements in the…
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Whatever happened to our pluralist, liberal society?
The woke have no vision of the future by John Gray on Unherd.com Whatever happened to our pluralist, liberal society that we are now in a model whereby the only outlet for mainstream voices is the election or referendum – a private affair where we can speak freely without fear of being singled out? In…
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Tottenham Hotspur 3 Leeds United 0. Passing the time of day
It was always going to be a tough match against, like Man United, an inform team with a plan. It was clear early on Maurinho’s plan was to soak up the Leeds attack and then counter-attack in force. It produced a couple of goals with the third coming from a poorly defended corner. Alioski was…
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Hair and Beauty: how the Government decimated a £28 billion industry
Why the Beauty sector was tragically ignored by the Government during the pandemic. In the Daily Telegraph’s Lost Britain Closed BusinessesLost Britain Closed Businessesseries it features an article on the impact of the pandemic on the Beauty Sector. Having been formally involved as an co-owner of a beauty salon I have first hand experience of…
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West Brom 0 Leeds 5. Normal service resumed
Going into a second game in three days with three first choice defenders missing was always going to nerve wracking. Especially after the poor performance against Burnley. Two players a yellow card away from suspension also had an effect. How Leeds were so different – tight defending, midfield pace and flair from Rodrigo, Harrison and…
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Brexit and the return of sovereignty
The Brexit deal is the end of the beginning by Robert Tombs on Unherd Boris has succeeded where all others failed by Matthew Goodwin on Unherd The outcome of the Brexit deal is being interpreted according to where your loyalties lie. Naturally Boris Johnson is seeking to sell this as a success despite what the…
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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas everyone. It feels strange, restrictive and humbling to be made housebound by nature gone bad in this apparently modern world devoid of big ideas of how to overcome it. Yet somehow we look to technology to stay in touch with each other and sane when being social is our default. Let’s hope in…
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The Silence: Don Delillo
I have not read a novel by Don Delillo before but I was more than aware of his fame to be attracted by this apparent zeitgeist novella about what would happen if, god forbid, the wifi went down. There are so many variations of this scenarioI I am sure there will be more stories to…
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Maurice Glasman: how the fates abandoned Boris
Maurice Glasman in his article in Unherd “how the fates abandoned Boris” nails the blindspot Labour suffered from in the last election”: the Tories understood that the long-term disaffection of Labour’s heartland voters with globalisation and abandonment combined with the short-term incoherence of Jeremy Corbyn. Even under Starmer – a remainer at heart – Labour…