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Leeds United 2 Sheffield United 1: Almost
Leeds defence was assured without any evidence of being vulnerable to set pieces. Llorente was a rock in defence picking up so many balls coming into the box and filtering them out. Midfield with Harrison, Roberts and Raphinha surged into the Sheffield United box with over 20 shots reigning in goal, but finishing was missing…
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Granta 154: I’ve been away for a while – Remembering our mortality
With reportage and memoir for the industrial revolution, cholera, and coronavirus pandemic and fiction about a wandering father this was an inconsistent edition but with enough to justify it.
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Ashnaa Hair and Beauty website launch
New website for Ashnaa Hair and Beauty salon. Today I have completed the first version of the new website for our Ashnaa Hair and Beauty salon. This is a hybrid retail website for the salon that drives online bookings to a third party website – Treatwell. I have moved from a static website design to…
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Fulham 1 Leeds United 2: Beautiful Chaos
Beautiful chaos Fulham probably had more to gain from this match with their relegation battle but Leeds had a curse to break. Early on it looked like Leeds were still getting used to VAR in the Premier League with yet another goal allowed but the disallowed by VAR with a pinpoint header by Ayling. After…
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Klara and the sun by Kazuo Ishiguro: A human’s best friend
We are only at the beginning of AI in real life, but fiction is much further down the road of debate. This novel was an opportunity from an esteemed writer, Kazuo Ishiguro, attempts to bring to life the soul of an AI. In this case, Klara, an Artificial Friend with exceptional observational qualities. Can one…
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Time to support the rebirth of the hair and beauty sector
It is a moral victory for the hair and beauty sector that the government has slotted the sector in with other retail businesses for a re-opening of 12 April. It puts our sector on an equal footing with retail and an acceptance that it has a proven record in using PPE to deliver a COVID…
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Leeds United 0 Chelsea 0: A Rare Draw
Bamford makes his 100th appearance for the club. Koch makes his return to the squad by being on the bench. Finally we may play the first team we wanted to at the start of the season. Cooper has been dropped from Defence in preference for the pace of the returning Struijk – Bielsa clearly has…
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Piers Morgan isn’t helping the fifth estate
Piers Morgan fell on his own sword, or that belonging to the weather forecaster, Alex Beresford. You choose your battles and there were plenty of loopholes in the Harry and Meghan victim-fest for him to question, but instead he went for the jugular by outright calling Meghan a liar, and for the wrong subject by…
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West Ham 2 Leeds United 0: Blown away by Bubbles
It was much more like the Leeds that fight in the second half with West Ham reduced to the occasional counter attack. It is just a joy to watch Raphinha on the ball, clever swivels and caresses of the ball combined with a taunting attitude to defenders to come and get the ball if they…
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The Assault On Truth by Peter Oborne: Gaslighting the Nation
The Assault on Truth by Peter Oborne is a short rant, sometimes repetitive, but mercilous and meticulously researched with references to justify its ethical message: Johnson is corrupt and the media has colluded with him. That Johnson has more than a passing similarity with Trump in his pursuit of power at any price and his…